Best breakfast ideas for T1

[Darion89]

Since being diagnosed in May my dietician advised to eat bran flakes for breakfast, and I have done ever since. The problem now is I'm getting bored of it and wondered what other people eat that works well with being T1? I would like to switch to Weetabix if possible but am open to alternatives.

Thanks Darion

 

[Juicyj]

Hi @Darion89 Personally I struggle in eating carbs at breakfast as my levels sky rocket at this time of day and it can take me till 11am to get back into range again, I prefer eggs, boiled, fried, scrambled or greek yoghurt with blueberries

 

[Deleted Account]

I have never been advised what to have for breakfast; I eat whatever I want.
As long as I calculate my insulin dose correctly, I have no problem with a fry up or fruit or yoghurt or muesli or cereal or even a slice of chocolate cake (but I don't make a habit of that).

If you change your breakfast, you may need to change your insulin dose.
If you carb count, this should not be a problem.
If you are on a fixed dose, you may need to talk to your diabetes team.

 

[Knikki]

I eats lots of cereal, cornflakes, muesli, shreddies, things with dried fruit, granola, Weetabix all sorts of things and if the mood takes or I have time, toast, bacon, eggs sausage and have done for years.

HOWEVER

If you eat some of the cereal I mention above and you calculate the insulin/carb ratio and inject you may well find that you suddenly drop and could possible hit a hypo before you go out, NOT recommended.

Thing is with various cereals is they are high carb and SLOW to digest. For example I had 102.9 grams of carb this morning so I injected 8.5 which will cover the morning bit, now I know from trial and error that round about 3.5-4 hours later I will start to spike so will inject again to counter it.

I have Libre which makes it easier to see the spike develop but when I don't I am blood testing at around the 3.5 hours after eating. But that just me.

It really is a case of trail and error I'm afraid

 

[Muneeb]

I have Weetabix every morning, have done all my life. No issues.

 

[O_DP_T1]

Porridge and eggs or eggs and bagel or Porridge with protein powder mixed in

 

[Bluey1]

On Weekends. I slice of toast (multigrain) half an Avocado with lemon juice, salt and pepper with 2 poached eggs on top. During summer followed up with a nice ripe mango.
During the week what's breakfast?

 

[becca59]

Raspberries/brambles with Greek yoghurt. 10 carbs worth. Used to eat Shredded Wheat/porridge. But couldn’t control my morning highs. Resisted the fruit option at first, but now look forward to it. Have the porridge at night sometimes, which I can manage ok.

 

[Dixon1995]

30 grams of bran flakes with 30 grams california walnuts and 125ml milk

You can't fall off!, my sugars never go high with that breakfast, as long as I calculate my carbs as your supposed to do

 

[1claire]

My son generally eats Cheerios/weetabix minis or crunchy bran.

 

[Nickknack]

2 Whole meal toast and jam and a low carb protein bar mid morning normally does me.

 

[smc4761]

A lot of the breakfast cereals to be honest are not that great for our bodies. Personally I find they give quite steep spikes.

Eggs however you like them are great, greek yoghurt with some berries, ( the frozen ones are fine just defrost overnight) is delicious and simple

 

[kev-w]

I eat porridge for breakfast, with eggs & wholemeal bread and can usually manage around 55g -65g complex carbs with around 5.5 -6.5u Humalog and stay under 8mmol.

 

[SamJB]

Breakfast has always been a problem for me as I've usually had to deal with the spikes from the Dawn Phenomenon. Most cereals, including most porridge have a high GI, so you will get spikes from that too. As mentioned, if you don't match your insulin spike to your carb spike, you'll could end up hypo.

I low carb nowadays, so tend to have eggs, low carb porridge or granola, yogurt

 

[kev-w]

Breakfast has always been a problem for me as I've usually had to deal with the spikes from the Dawn Phenomenon. Most cereals, including most porridge have a high GI, so you will get spikes from that too. As mentioned, if you don't match your insulin spike to your carb spike, you'll could end up hypo.

I low carb nowadays, so tend to have eggs, low carb porridge or granola, yogurt

I think I mostly get away with the porridge as I've time on a morning to inject and wait till the insulin's working which takes around 40 minutes, and once I've eaten the porridge I'll wait a while before eating the second course, seems the insulin can handle the spike better that way, which works for me whilst working for myself, if I had a boss and a set time schedule I'd have to rework breakfast.
A 'lower' carb porridge ±40g carbs is oat bran which is around 10g/100 less than rolled oats, for me the clincher is the 'beta glucan' content of the oats keeping cholesterol in check.

 

[Joe40]

Since being diagnosed in May my dietician advised to eat bran flakes for breakfast, and I have done ever since. The problem now is I'm getting bored of it and wondered what other people eat that works well with being T1? I would like to switch to Weetabix if possible but am open to alternatives.

Thanks Darion

Poached egg on toast

 

[SamJB]

I think I mostly get away with the porridge as I've time on a morning to inject and wait till the insulin's working which takes around 40 minutes, and once I've eaten the porridge I'll wait a while before eating the second course, seems the insulin can handle the spike better that way, which works for me whilst working for myself, if I had a boss and a set time schedule I'd have to rework breakfast.
A 'lower' carb porridge ±40g carbs is oat bran which is around 10g/100 less than rolled oats, for me the clincher is the 'beta glucan' content of the oats keeping cholesterol in check.

Impressive. Yes, I guess that's the practical side of matching insulin & carb peaks. I did wonder about the the lower GI porridge. I remember dietitians banging on about porridge being low GI, but most of the stuff (especially quick cook) I found to be really high GI.

 

[LooperCat]

Eggs, avocados - or more usually nothing at all until lunchtime. Which has just reminded me, I really should have some breakfast, it’s nearly 2pm

 

[DorsetJon]

My usual is fresh fruit (e.g. blueberries + strawberries or raspberries) with muesli. However, after I realised that even "no added sugar" muesli can have quite a lot of sugar from the dried fruit it contains, I make my own: whole rolled oats, sunflower seeds, crushed pecans and brazil nuts, with occasionally a few dried cranberries. Like kev-w, I inject then wait, with Actrapid (6 U) injected about 30 mins before eating breakfast. This way, with about 45 g carbs eaten I usually do not get a spike after breakfast.