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Fast Food.

Do you mean what do I make for myself or what is better options from fast food places?

I would suggest plain meats rather than those in breaded coatings or sauce, or fish and leave the batter. A burger without the bun or fries; a kebab and skip the pitta bread etc.


For my family it is extremely rare to have a takeaway, we make our own burgers, chicken gougons, pizza etc as its quicker and much better tasting and I know that my sons aren't getting any nasties in the food.
As the only veggie in family I often make something different anyway, my own 'pizza' or I might have a cheese feast if we have been to the farmers market :) I don't miss out I choose delicious low carb foods.
 
If it's Indian have tandoori and popadum. Check if the popadum is made from chickpea flour and fried in ghee.
 
My naughty little secret is donner kebab (meat only) or chicken kebab - both with salad AND an extra side salad. We very rarely have takeaways at home but at least once a week at work. Luckily the chippy nearest to my work does really quite nice kebabs.
 
One of the disappointments when I was diagnosed was when the nurse said I was not to have KFC. She said the clue is in the title. I now think she was saying don't eat fried food. Such a joy when I investigated their web site to find the truth.

https://www.kfc.com/nutrition/full-nutrition-guide

Warning: Watch out for their fries. Those tiny little bags of chips can spike you like nothing else.
 
ThankYou, I was thinking along the lines of some of them, thanks Squire Fulwood, the KFC cheered me up a little, not that we eat very much of it, it's a 60 mile round trip, but nice to know i can have a little!
 
In an emergency I have been known to eat ANYTHING, including nearby children and old ladies.
So it is always good to have an emergency contingency plan.

KFC - original recipe chicken pieces, no fries. Pull the coating off the chicken, if you are feeling virtuous. I rarely am.
MacDonalds - (last resort, this one!) the biggest burger they do, no ketchup, and remove as much of the bun as you can unstick. the cheesy bite things are bad, but not as bad as the fries. They do salads. Somehow a Maccies Salad seems like more of an abomination than a burger.
Burger King - as with MacDonalds, but better, nicer and less like eating recycled pap.
Indian - Tandoori, Chicken Shashlik, Butter Chicken, onion bhaji, saag paneer, brinjal bhaji, maybe a poppadom, any of the kebabby type things.
Chinese - veg/meat stir fries, ribs, no rice, noodles or batter coated anything.
Subway - a footlong, with a high meat filling (not those godawful meatball paste things) and then chuck most of the bread. Again, they do a salad, but I wasn't impressed when I saw that they only stocked low fat mayo. I mean, that is an Offence Against Nature.

99 times out of a 100 I would avoid any of the above like the plague, but when The Hunger strikes, friends and family will frogmarch me into them rather than deal with Hypo Rage. I am told I get a wee bit tetchy.
 
KFC, Chicken Kebab meat with Chilli Sauce. Chop Suey from the Chinese takeaway, ribs with salt & chilli, crispy seaweed. Tandoori or tikka from the Indian with salad
 
Squire Fulwood said:
One of the disappointments when I was diagnosed was when the nurse said I was not to have KFC. She said the clue is in the title. I now think she was saying don't eat fried food. Such a joy when I investigated their web site to find the truth.

https://www.kfc.com/nutrition/full-nutrition-guide

Warning: Watch out for their fries. Those tiny little bags of chips can spike you like nothing else.
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Never had a KFC but interestingly like a lot of foods the US version has different carb content to the UK version, don't know where OP is based

https://www.kfc.co.uk/nutrition
 
Everyone is so individual,.what affects one person's blood sugar maybe wont affect someone else..Chinese is a fav of mine, and when needing a treat..chicken and mushroom is ok with my blood sugars, also all the egg foo yungs are all fine for me too.

If only now and agai
 
Scimama said:
Never had a KFC but interestingly like a lot of foods the US version has different carb content to the UK version, don't know where OP is based

https://www.kfc.co.uk/nutrition
Click to expand...
Some of the differences will probably be the way carbs are calculated: USA net carbs (after deducting fibre) =
UK total carbs (as we count fibre separately anyway)...

Robbity
 
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