Confused about snacks ...

How about peanut butter on celery?

Hi barbarap, sure you will get great advice on here. Im not an expert as relatively newly diagnosed T2 myself. To be honest I try not to snack but if you do then advice seems to be things like nuts, cheese, hard boiled eggs etc. x

Snacking can be tricky if you don't balance the snack for protein, fat, carbs - since I've been eating LCHF, I find my urge to snack has mostly disappeared. I quite often go for 7+ hours between breakfast and eating again because breakfast is so satiating.

It also helps to track your BG because any snack will push it up, then it may still be on the higher side before you have your next meal - which can push it up further.

There are lots of things you can eat as snacks, just remember to balance your protein, fat and carbs. Some examples:

Egg
Avocado
Small tomatoes
Cottage cheese
Cheese (maybe Baby Bel if you are not at home)
Nuts
Dried meat
Sugarsnaps
Mackerel in tomato sauce, just scrape of some of the sauce.

Good luck!

Mija said:

There are lots of things you can eat as snacks, just remember to balance your protein, fat and carbs. Some examples:

Egg
Avocado
Small tomatoes
Cottage cheese
Cheese (maybe Baby Bel if you are not at home)
Nuts
Dried meat
Sugarsnaps
Mackerel in tomato sauce, just scrape of some of the sauce.

Good luck!

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Those are my choices too, apart from the avocado, never got the taste of that stuff. I find those tins of mackerel a perfect way to get some protein in. I scrape off most of the sauce, (shame to waste), but they are not perishable and I stock up when they are on offer, then I know I've always got them in the cupboard for emergencies.xx

You might want to try something like this...


You might also want to try that with a buckwheat pancake or wrap, but I would swap the small amount of ghee for a small amount of olive oil, and of course the maple syrup that she pours over them is obviously to be avoided.

Buckwheat is widely reputed to be very diabetic friendly and you can get it in health food shops, it also claimed to help to control cholesterol levels and of course cholesterol levels are also a factor with diabetes.


1 cup organic buckwheat flour
1.5 cups water (or a dash more if you're after an even thinner pancake
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp cardamom powder
ghee
METHOD Mix all ingredients into a batter except the ghee

Cinnamon is also claimed to have beneficial effects on type2 diabetes, in moderate amounts, but it has to be the Sri Lankan variety, not the Chinese variety, and too much can cause liver problems.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/natural-therapies/cinnamon.html

Buckwheat bread can also be made easily.


You can eat bananas and bread in moderation, the diabetes and medical organisations say so.

Some people report that their blood glucose levels increase very rapidly to unacceptably high levels if they eat bread or bananas, and the personal reports of that effect are being extrapolated to apply equally to everyone, but I wonder if that is really the case.

Diabetes isn't an either you've got it or you haven't got it illness, nor is it an if you've got it everyone has got it to the same degree illness.

Because some people have higher fasting blood glucose levels than others, and presumably that's because some people have less pancreatic functionality and or more cellular resistance to the cellular uptake of insulin and glucose, therefore isn't it logical to suppose that their bodies will be less able to cope certain foods than will people who have have a higher degree of pancreatic and cellular functionality. ?

On the other hand, isn't it therefore logical to suppose that people with a sufficiently better degree of pancreatic and cellular functionality, may be able to better cope with such foods and could therefore eat moderate amounts of such foods without raising their blood glucose levels to an unacceptably high level in too short a time period. ?

I think that the only certain way to resolve such issues for oneself is to meter ones own blood glucose levels to see how such foods effect ones own blood glucose readings.

You can try Popcorn
http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/can-diabetics-eat-popcorn-5679.html

I recommend that you have a look at www.dietdoctor.com. Under the link Videos he has one called The Food Revolution. Lots of good and solid information based on modern studies.