I have just been diagnosed with diabetes type 2. I also need to loose weight. I was just wondering what sort of basic stock of ingredients people keep in their store cupboards at home. Any advice would be very welcome till I get to grips with my diet. Thank you. :?
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Diabetic store cupboard
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I keep some canned veggies, canned fruits in juice and some canned tuna in the store cupboard. In the fridges (2) are ordinary vegetables, salad vegetables, cheese, cold meats and punnets of berries and a big tub of extra thick cream. In the freezer freshly frozen meats and fish. Kippers, veggies and profiteroles for a treat as well as some frozen yoghurt dessert and a few slices of bread. I keep eggs in one of those cutesy chickens on the worktop and some small bottles of Lucozade for T1 husband's hypo supply, in a cupboard. There is some bread, most of it frozen in case we have a guest who wants it and some lower carb crackers.
We eat mainly freshly cooked foods. There may be a ready meal lurking at the bottom of the freezer, because I occasionally buy one if my husband goes away on business, because I couldn't be bothered to cook for one. Then it gets left there, because I don't fancy it and just have a boiled egg and a tomato.
I run a low-carb kitchen, so don't have potatoes, ( except a few baby new ones)rice, Pasta or much flour.
We eat mainly freshly cooked foods. There may be a ready meal lurking at the bottom of the freezer, because I occasionally buy one if my husband goes away on business, because I couldn't be bothered to cook for one. Then it gets left there, because I don't fancy it and just have a boiled egg and a tomato.
I run a low-carb kitchen, so don't have potatoes, ( except a few baby new ones)rice, Pasta or much flour.
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I tend to buy and eat mostly fresh food.
Let's see now, I use quinoa to substitute for rice and other carbs (worth trying but test afterwards). Tinned salmon tuna and crab, smoked salmon, various forms of nuts and cheese, and dried fruit for those times I need to put my BG up a bit. And did I mention the coffee? Oatcakes and ryebread, sunflower seeds, olive and groundnut oils and a few more exotic ones like sesame oil for flavouring. And red wine, strictly for medicinal purposes you understand.
Herbs spices 85% chocolate and streaky bacon are some of my other staples, and some more oddball stuff like xanthan gum, psyllium husk, ground flaxseed, coconut powder which don't get used much.
Let's see now, I use quinoa to substitute for rice and other carbs (worth trying but test afterwards). Tinned salmon tuna and crab, smoked salmon, various forms of nuts and cheese, and dried fruit for those times I need to put my BG up a bit. And did I mention the coffee? Oatcakes and ryebread, sunflower seeds, olive and groundnut oils and a few more exotic ones like sesame oil for flavouring. And red wine, strictly for medicinal purposes you understand.
Herbs spices 85% chocolate and streaky bacon are some of my other staples, and some more oddball stuff like xanthan gum, psyllium husk, ground flaxseed, coconut powder which don't get used much.
