Breakfast

[Lee7]

Am new to this, My Test Readings in the afternoon and evening are very good 115. I excerise every day and feel a lot stronger my weight is only 2 kg over 74 kg. My test reading when I get up is 100, then I have oats with zero fat milk and test after 2 hours reading 204, so dropped the milk for water, test 178. Today stopped oats, Reading before Breakfast 104, Had 1 boiled egg, 1 slice of whole wheat bread and quarter piece of orange test 154 I am at a loss now, as I am hungry in the morning, I live in Thailand so might not be able to buy some products. Thanks for your time.

 

[forge]

Hello @Lee7 it is raining here so I am stuck at home fiddling on the internet and I was going to play bowls.

You could have bacon and eggs and a Ryvita biscuit/crispbread that will end up low. Or you can make something out of nut flour and eggs, you might even get away with canned baked beans and anything cheesey should not be too bad.

I get away with 1/2 diet jelly and some Kellogs albran with milk but it might push you up. You could go up market with a bubble and squeak without potato.Any of the tree nuts should be fine.

But try this
Breakfast Roll


Ingredients

3 eggs lightly whisked

1 cup almond flour

3 tbsp coconut flour

1 tsp baking powder

4 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp tomato sauce

4 rashes of bacon finely chopped

2 handfuls of grated cheese chopped

½ onion finely chopped

Pepper to taste


Step 1

• Mix together, eggs, flours, baking powder, oil and sauce
• When mixed, combine remaining ingredients

Step 2

• Grease a coffee mug
• Half fill with mixture
• Microwave for 3 minutes
• Rest a couple of minutes before removing
• DONE

(Can be thickly sliced and grilled or eaten as is)

 

[Avocado Sevenfold]

Hi @Lee7 I have a two egg omelette most mornings for breakfast. It does not spike me and is filling and nutritious.

For variety, you can add things such as cheese, tomatoes, spring onions, mushrooms or whatever you have available.

 

[Lee7]

Hi @Lee7 I have a two egg omelette most mornings for breakfast. It does not spike me and is filling and nutritious.

For variety, you can add things such as cheese, tomatoes, spring onions, mushrooms or whatever you have available.

Thanks to you both for the info, I would love to have Bacon and eggs , but I also have high cholesterol and need to get it down, it recommends no more than 3 eggs a week and avoid all processed meats. not sure if cheese is ok will check. but an egg and tomato omelette, with mushrooms one day a week could well be ok. I bought a Diabetic muesli today so will try tomorrow. The trouble is I have been used to a good or not so good fry in the morning and I love bread. well will let you know how I get on, Thanks again to you both for taking the time.

 

[cold ethyl]

I think the eggs and cholesterol link has been discredited - eating cholesterol high foods like eggs and shellfish do not raise blood cholesterol levels according to the NHS dietitian that ran my DESMOND course. Lean bacon should be ok and good quality sausages. The jury is out on whether high fat leads to cholesterol but processed meats get a bad press from lots of angles including cancer so I do try and alternate them with things like turkey rashers and more mushrooms and tomatoes.

 

[Andy12345]

have you tried natural greek yogurt and mixed berries for brekkie? its brilliant, its like having desert for breakfast lol (for me anyway)

 

[Daibell]

Hi. Eggs have nothing to do with blood cholesterol. Similarly fats are only loosely connected to blood cholesterol. As diabetics we are much better having proteins and fats to fill us up rather than carbs. Don't take too much notice of dieticians as many/most don't understand the true science behind the body's metabolism; crazy but true.

 

[forge]

I too am not impressed with excessive eggs or fat and not because of any science just common sense.

Life's dramas, health or otherwise all come back to excesses, so I try to avoid excesses where I can.

Late last year I had a pacemaker inserted and that was quite traumatic. Not only the op but also the lead up to the op. I was going private surgery and hospital but then I found out my insurance did not cover it so I went public surgery and hospital. This meant I did a double up of the assessment etc. so if I was not sure what heart stuff was after the first assessment I did understand it after the second assessment and then the surgery and recovery and talking to other patience in the recovery ward.

For all things heart, the 3 main things to definitely not have excesses of are alcohol, cheese, and processed meat.

So if anyone says to me eat excessive anything, my reaction is why should I if I do not have to." But eggs or bananas or whatever are good for you". Maybe so, but the excesses may not work out fine, especially with combinations. Excessive bananas plus excessive coconut and I might grow a tail and swing through the trees or get dandruff or die from high potassium.

Which brings me to my current quest which is finding out how to cook with nut flour without EXCESSIVE eggs. I have been using a 3 flour mix (to avoid excesses) but it lacks GLUE (gluten) to hold it together but I have just tracked down Xanthan Gum so I have some experimental cooking to do.

BTW You only need 1 teaspoon of Xanthan gum per half cup of coconut flour which is equivalent to more than 1 cup of wheat flour (coconut flour sucks up water bigtime)

 

[Robbity]

Lee just follow all the above suggestion - in general cut down on the carby stuff for breakfast (and other meals) and concentrate more on fats and protein instead, and you should feel much less hungry and keep your glucose levels down too.

@forge I'm not an egg lover so don't like bread recipes which ask for (often) six or so eggs. I've found however that I can make a batch of muffin type "bread" with just one egg (and butter or or other fat/oils) to about 6 oz flour and it all sticks and stays together nicely.

Robbity

 

[forge]

Thanks @Robbity it is very encouraging.

I just adapted a bread recipe and I am waiting for it to rise before baking it.Hopefully it will be hot bread rolls in about an hour. I have bought bulk almond meal and coconut flour the smallest coconut flour was 25 Lb 11.3 KG so hence the coconut flour in this.

1 cup SR flour (supposed to be plain flour
1 cup coconut flour (equals 2 cups wheat flour after hdration
3 tsp of Xanthan gum
1 pkt yeast
salt
3 teasp sugar
1 cup warm milk
2 tblsp melted butter
1/2 cup warm water (to hydrate the coconut flour)

And a lot of hope it is rising I will give 45 minutes before kneading then the oven
I will try to make bread rolls.
I will try a 190C bake 20 mins to 1/2 hour.

PS Failure is not unknown to me.

 

[Lee7]

I too am not impressed with excessive eggs or fat and not because of any science just common sense.

Life's dramas, health or otherwise all come back to excesses, so I try to avoid excesses where I can.

Late last year I had a pacemaker inserted and that was quite traumatic. Not only the op but also the lead up to the op. I was going private surgery and hospital but then I found out my insurance did not cover it so I went public surgery and hospital. This meant I did a double up of the assessment etc. so if I was not sure what heart stuff was after the first assessment I did understand it after the second assessment and then the surgery and recovery and talking to other patience in the recovery ward.

For all things heart, the 3 main things to definitely not have excesses of are alcohol, cheese, and processed meat.

So if anyone says to me eat excessive anything, my reaction is why should I if I do not have to." But eggs or bananas or whatever are good for you". Maybe so, but the excesses may not work out fine, especially with combinations. Excessive bananas plus excessive coconut and I might grow a tail and swing through the trees or get dandruff or die from high potassium.

Which brings me to my current quest which is finding out how to cook with nut flour without EXCESSIVE eggs. I have been using a 3 flour mix (to avoid excesses) but it lacks GLUE (gluten) to hold it together but I have just tracked down Xanthan Gum so I have some experimental cooking to do.

BTW You only need 1 teaspoon of Xanthan gum per half cup of coconut flour which is equivalent to more than 1 cup of wheat flour (coconut flour sucks up water bigtime)

Well today tried out my Diabetic Muesli 100 before 164 after 2 hours after. I can get this yoghurt called yolida (live in Thailand)says its Natural flavour will have a look for some Berries later in town, any views on rye bread can get that. good news about the eggs thanks, but will eat in moderation.

 

[forge]

It made 6 "heavy" bread rolls they were all right but not too light and fluffy. The flour was Self raising wholemeal so it might improve with plain white.

But do not let me put you off they looked like real bread rolls and they were hot and tasted like bread rolls..

I got away with one with some left over stew for lunch and it did not send me high.

I got enthused and made some chocolate balls like rum balls. I tried the Xanthan gum in the choc balls this time.

 

[Brunneria]

I think eating too much of anything - or the same thing every day - is a bad idea, both from the point of nutritional variety and sheer boredom.

I tend to cycle through the following
Cold meat
Cheese slices
Green smoothies
Eggs, bacon, excellent local sausages (singly, together or with mushrooms and toms)
Coffee with cream

Sadly, yogurt spikes me if I eat more than a teasp, although berries do not. Go figure!
Cereals (grains) in any form are a BG disaster.

I seem to do best on a low carb, protein breakfast, with some fat. It will last for hours.
I can certainly eat berries or veg, but will be ravenous by 11am, if I don't underpin them with some protein.

We are all incredibly programmed to avoid fats, but there is so much new evidence debunking that myth, and evidence for the benefits of healthy fats. I think if we choose unprocessed fats, then eating a healthy variety of those (olive oil, coconut oil, grass fed butter and cream, hemp and fish oils) then they are as important in our diets as a range of vegetables.

My body, skin and hair are definitely feeling better since I changed to add in coconut, fish oils, and stopped stressing about butter.