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Breakfast????

lindiloo62

lindiloo62

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Location
Newcastle upon Tyne
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Insulin
Hello I am looking for breakfast ideas?? I have tried and tried a cooked breakfast but find it really hard ... is there any other suggestions please
 
Is it the time making a cooked breakfast you don't like or actually eating that sort of food in the morning?
 
Not sure whats hard about cooked breakfast. If its the time factor, you could boil eggs and keep them in the fridge for when you need them. Stop thinking breakfast as cereal only, have "lunch" food for breakfast. I like tuna mayonaise for breakfast.
 
I used to have a few berries and a full fat yogurt but realised this was keeping my levels raised all morning. I changed to a soft boiled egg and a mug of tea. This solved the problem, and I shifted my yogurt and berries to after lunch or after tea. It became clear to me that I cannot cope with fruit or indeed any carbs at all in the mornings.
 
I tend to have low carb crackers with soft cheese, a muffin in a minute, vertically grilled egg on a stick or omelette cooked in sandwich maker.
 
V posh full fat Greek yogurt with no more than ten blueberries, one tablespoon of psyllium seed husks and one tablespoon of linseeds, washed down with a tiny glass of orange juice. That keeps me ticking over until lunchtime. It doesn't take much time to prepare or eat, but be careful you don't leave it a while before you eat it - the psyllium seed husks act like quick-setting concrete and you'll have to take a hack-saw to that bad boy!
 
guacamole (smashed avocado with sea salt) and celery or just avocado

I agree about carbs in the morning messing me up all day
 
If you like toast have some toasted buttered Burgen Soya & Linseed bread or a toasted buttered LIDL High Protein roll.
With peanut butter, or any low carb spread (cheese?) if you want.
 
lindiloo62 said:
It's not the time factor it's just I can't face a cooked breakfast in the morning
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It can be quite a shock to the system and your routine having to drastically change your eating habits and breakfast seems to be the hardest meal as it's more difficult to face food at that time of day and breakfasts tend to be traditionally carb-heavy.

What I would suggest is to make the changes gradually and allow yourself to adapt. Start by changing one aspect of your old breakfast to something more suitable and work towards a better overall package in stages. For example, I decided that Greek yogurt would be good at breakfast to fill me up, but couldn't really face it initially, so I added chopped up fruit for a few days, then less fruit and a few seeds and chopped nuts, then dropped the fruit and just had seeds and nuts, then lowered the amount of those and now I really love it just plain with nothing at all added.

You might find working up to it in small steps to be more palatable.
 
BooJewels said:
It can be quite a shock to the system and your routine having to drastically change your eating habits and breakfast seems to be the hardest meal as it's more difficult to face food at that time of day and breakfasts tend to be traditionally carb-heavy.

What I would suggest is to make the changes gradually and allow yourself to adapt. Start by changing one aspect of your old breakfast to something more suitable and work towards a better overall package in stages. For example, I decided that Greek yogurt would be good at breakfast to fill me up, but couldn't really face it initially, so I added chopped up fruit for a few days, then less fruit and a few seeds and chopped nuts, then dropped the fruit and just had seeds and nuts, then lowered the amount of those and now I really love it just plain with nothing at all added.

You might find working up to it in small steps to be more palatable.
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Thank you so much for your reply .. much appreciated
 
It perhaps also helps to stop thinking about traditional breakfast foods - you can have anything at all at breakfast that you fancy that has less carbs than what you had before.
 
Be Icelandic and have Skyr - I love it. Another favourite is poached egg wrapped in parma or similar ham
 
Full fat yogurt with ground flax seeds is my typical work day breakfast, its quick and easy and doesn't raise my BG levels. BUT check the carb levels in the yogurt they vary massively, I get mine from Lidl as its one of the lowest carbs (about 3g/100g from memory)

Other ideas - but obviously you'd need to test the effect on your BG levels:

pre-make breakfast muffins - basically an omelette made in a deep muffin tin, then just re-heat in the morning or take to work and reheat.

almond flour pancakes

Sliced meat, cheese and nuts

Lidl protein roll with no added sugar nut butter

Linwoods flax seed with coco mix, add boiling water to make a sort of 'porridge' (add water to give consistency you want)

use almond flour or flax seed to make a breakfast pudding (lots of 1 min mug cakes on the forum)

oopsie roll with nut butter or cheese - add spinach to the oopsie mix for added goodness :-)

almond bread - toasts nicely
 
Breakfast Pudding - Almond Flour


Ingredients:

1/3 cup almond meal

2 Tablespoons water

1 egg

1/4 cup blueberries - frozen or otherwise


Preparation:

Mix almond meal, egg, and water in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for about 45 seconds. Move the cooked part of the pudding towards the center of the bowl and add blueberries and/or any mix-ins you want. Microwave for about 45-60 more seconds, depending on mix-ins (frozen fruit will need even longer cooking, as it will cool down the pudding). Stir and eat.
 
Pancakes (these are based on @ewelina recipe)


(small scotch pancake style)


Ingredients

10 (5 in brackets) small pancakes:


• 60 g (30g) full fat cream cheese/ Philadelphia

• 75 g (37.5g) ground almond

• 1 tsp. (1/2 tsp) baking powder

• 2 (1) eggs

• 1 tsp. (1/2 tsp) vanilla essence



Method:


Put all the ingredients in a bowl and blend until smooth (stick blender or hand mix). Let the mixture rest for about 10 minutes

Pour 2 tbsp. of the mixture on a quite hot (but not too hot!), greased pan and fry until golden. Flip the pancake and cook on the other side.


These are really nice!!! Made sweet and savoury ones, added grated cheese and herbs for savoury and cinnamon to the mix too for sweet pancakes.
 
Scimama said:
Pancakes (these are based on @ewelina recipe)


(small scotch pancake style)


Ingredients

10 (5 in brackets) small pancakes:


• 60 g (30g) full fat cream cheese/ Philadelphia

• 75 g (37.5g) ground almond

• 1 tsp. (1/2 tsp) baking powder

• 2 (1) eggs

• 1 tsp. (1/2 tsp) vanilla essence



Method:


Put all the ingredients in a bowl and blend until smooth (stick blender or hand mix). Let the mixture rest for about 10 minutes

Pour 2 tbsp. of the mixture on a quite hot (but not too hot!), greased pan and fry until golden. Flip the pancake and cook on the other side.


These are really nice!!! Made sweet and savoury ones, added grated cheese and herbs for savoury and cinnamon to the mix too for sweet pancakes.
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OOH! sounds good definitely trying these
 
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