Commercial ice cream

Richram said:

Hi

My daughter is allergic to many foods inc dairy soya sesame eggs etc etc

She loves booja booja ice cream

There is also lots of recipes for using bananas to make ice cream

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Interesting! Thanks. All these suggestions are great.

I'm surprised double cream is in any way allowable!! I must look it up in my carbs book. Having bern given the off the bottom of the diabetic scale after 11 years, in no way do I want to upset the apple cart. I've only ever been diet controlled, so you see ehy I'm being really strict with myself.

Because of the introduction of 'light' cream substitutes. I have as little milk and cream as posdible, partly to be healthy, but I have found too much milk doesn't do me any favours: it may be why my daughter has a problem. (Her son has it via his paternal fsmily, poor mite!)

Calorie counting. 1tbs double cream equals 74 calories. But it doesn't look at all 'forbidden' at one tbs for 8g of fat I'll agree. I was also told only one piece of fruit a day, keeping even natural sugar to the absolute minimum, but I find two or three fun sized suits my digestion better if I can. To be fair my GP said that as I was very young to be T2 in my mid-50s, she was going tough on me, she is proving right in getting the numbers down. It's a bit boring as spices can become too dominant when one prefers herbs to spice!

The low fat is because my weight is a bit too high, and I'm not getting it as low as it should be. Fat has probably been my bete noire since I left school, that and being very short in height in today's terms. I don't generally get hunger pains between meals, but I do eat at close to the same tines every day or I'm very bear with a sore head, I've managed mostly without snacks for years, having not worked as employed for over 30 years. But this was also me decades before diabetes. I've got to see nursie next week so will get my blood results and number. That'll tell me if I've blown it by a tiny over indulgence. Unlike 95% of T2s, I've been totally non medication since day one, 11 years. Some might say I'm pre diabetic, but as some say you can't be a little bit diabetic, its like being 'a little bit pregnant!' I've read many many stories over 11 years on all the diet choices, plus a refresher diabetes course over six weeks with the husband last year where we cane from different GPs, different cultures, different diets culturally and diabetically, and all ages. I don't seem to fit any profike!

Wow!! I've not eaten butter for *decades*. I've almost cut out bread, potatoes, pasta. My bread is home made brown flour, husband hasn't acquired a taste for brown rice or pasta so I only eat potato a couple of times a seek, rice and pasta maybe a couple of times a month, home made museli maybe once or twice a week, but that would've been porridge made with water till now (but will be reverting again now we've lost the heat). I lose about half a pound a year on this diet, in fact I'm now only a stone heavier than I was 33 years having been as much as 11st at my heaviest (very pleased women today are allowed to 'eat for two' in pregnancy', took me 20 years to get back to where I am now). Have used olive oil spreads since butter was labelled 'bad', long before T2 arrived in my life. Does it work? Well, it does if you wwnt eeight loss by the gram, but not in measurable amounts, no. But way back as an an active young mum with no car (still no car) walking what felt like hours a week and I lost no weight whether I ate salad all summer or casseroles and roasts all winter and still lost no weight nor put it on, I'm not sure what works. Husband would love to eat butter, he doesn't like cream, and he refuses low fst cheese, but he has been obese since a small boy as has his brother and one sister. Their dad was obese post war but his war position suggests as a young man he must've been standard weight, though broad. Husband has shed 20kg in 18 months, more to go, that's on how we eat post gis diagnosis. Only something like amounts of milk and cheese is individual. Main meals are cooked as shared. Its working for him. And he definitely needed to shift his weight: he has since aged *nine*!! No, I didn't know him then but we were at identical school types with some mutual friends (in hindsight), our diets were pretty much the same for the 1950s/60s.

Thanks. I will.