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Keethb

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
I was fussy for a while when I moved in on my own my brother introduced me to m&s meals and food warehouse at Iceland recently he's got me on to soup he makes it for his grandchildren and he give me a recipe that I enjoyed he's introduced to tinned soup I know I won't like them all he's give me six to like I now have it with chips a cheap meal next to chips and eggs for those who cannot afford a meal it's a great meal
 
Hi Keethb. I see you're T2 with diet control. The meals you describe have a lot of carbs and for somebody like me (and i'd guess a lot of people on this forum) they would be raising my blood sugar way too much. What effect do they have on yours?
 
My blood sugar's are alright at the moment I look at the traffic light system and the meals I have are a lot of green symbols
 
I went to a diabetes education arranged by my nurse soups was classed as alright for diabetics I didn't like soup but my brother gave me his own recipe it was home made and lovely
 
I had MC Cain chips with soup and they was classed as alright the only red alarm I had and was shocked was kippers which as oily fish inlike
 
Your nurse is wrong.
Please, have a read of our low carb diet forum.
Unless you make a low carb soup or broth, tinned souls are full of industrial sugars.
Try and eat fresh low carb food.
For some, potatoes are bad for T2s. Especially if you have insulin dysregulation. Insulin resistance.

Continuous spikes from carbs and sugars all day, will only cause your overall blood glucose levels and your hba1c levels to go higher.

Do be careful of what you eat, diabetes is so individual, what your nurse is telling you is so one size fits all, it is only a guide but it might not be healthy for you!

Keep safe and educate yourself what is happening to you.
 
Keethb said:
My blood sugar's are alright at the moment I look at the traffic light system and the meals I have are a lot of green symbols
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If you don't mind, what are the actual figures? Are you testing using a glucose meter, and recording the results and what you ate? Are the readings changing at all? The "green symbols" on packets are no good for diabetics and not much use for anyone else.
 
And this is why type 2 is considered progressive. Because of terrible advice from nurses like this

@Keethb if you do no other research at all please take a read of these links in red

Intro to T2 and low carb. https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html
All the things I wish I’d been told earlier https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/th...ish-i’d-been-told-at-type-2-diagnosis.173817/

as others have said the traffic light system has nothing whatsoever to do with diabetes management and is not much use for anyone else.
 
@Keethb ive just realised you are possibly feeling deflated and possibly told off by us all. I’m so sorry if that is the case. We are frustrated and mad at the outdated and damaging advice still being given out by dinosaurs like your nurse. We are not trying to shoot your efforts down in flames as they were made with the best of intentions. Please take our comments in that light and that they come from many many years between us of walking the walk and getting good and bad results and knowing what actions give what results.

So I take it your goal is cheap and very easy meals you can prepare yourself? Hopefully the links I gave you above give you an idea of what type of foods work well for us type 2. Have you got ideas? Do you need more help?

And how do you keep an eye on your levels? A meter? The annual test at the drs?
 
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