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Fruit. Enemy or Freind?

...and enjoy eating all of them, in small quantities. This morning I picked a ripe fig, and ate it, warm from the tree. Out of curiosity, I tested my BGL after an hour - normally between 4-6 ish, and it was 10. I am in shock. Eating ripe figs off the tree ( if one can get them before the birds do) is one of life's little pleasures. Now I feel as though I am foraging through a minefield. Although I do not eat the berry jams I make, others in the family enjoy them. Now I wonder how much harm I may be doing.
 
Merrylizard1314 said:
...and enjoy eating all of them, in small quantities. This morning I picked a ripe fig, and ate it, warm from the tree. Out of curiosity, I tested my BGL after an hour - normally between 4-6 ish, and it was 10. I am in shock. Eating ripe figs off the tree ( if one can get them before the birds do) is one of life's little pleasures. Now I feel as though I am foraging through a minefield. Although I do not eat the berry jams I make, others in the family enjoy them. Now I wonder how much harm I may be doing.
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I am the only person with T2 in my family. I love to bake but now I don't have the breads and cakes and pies that the family enjoy. I worry about their carb intake and have taken steps to educate them and find alternatives. I agonised over what harm I had possibly done to them in the past before I found out about the dangers of the western diet but I had to stop thinking about that because it was just getting me nowhere.

I grow blackberries and had planned to grow more fruit but have decided against it. We cannot blame ourselves for possible harm when we have had over forty years of dietary advice like '5 A Day' and 'Low Fat'.
 
Thanks M.
Same with us we have apple trees, sour cherries,plus my wife picked over 20 kg. Of rasberries , all organic.its a pity
That can eat so little,

Much is given to our neighbors . makes for good neighbors.
 
That is comforting to know,@Guzzler, as I have often felt that I should be secretly adapting my family recipes to reflect my newer knowledge of carbohydrates. But on birthdays, no one wants a birthday cake - they prefer an enormous apple pie instead. But I have found that they all enjoy more ketogenic foods so long as they are not aware that that is what they are eating. Otherwise the sledging is incessant.
 
Kristin251 said:
I wish WI was conducive to avocado trees. That would be heaven on earth
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You would have liked my grandmother's farm in Jamaica. Whenever we visited in the 70s and 80s, my mum would get a big pole and knock about 5 avocados down to eat that day!
 
Kristin251 said:
I wish WI was conducive to avocado trees. That would be heaven on earth
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Hmm.. Is it possible to have an avocado addiction? But you've reminded me I forget to get some today. I did get a pile of radishes to snack on though :p
 
A thing that I miss most is fruit I was never one for lots of cakes puddings biscuits and chocolate but I loved the sweet fresh taste of fruit nothing replaces it nothing else like it. I do eat berries but still miss all other fruit especially the tropical ones
 
I still have the odd small satsuma as they are not hugely high in carbs and don't spike my sugars by much.
 
I too miss fruit - in my case it is pears (my one weakness). I found eliminating breads, (except the occasional Lidl roll), buns, starches, and such-like quite painless, but eliminating pears is a constant battle. If anyone had seen me in Asda today they might have thought I was some kind of mad-woman. Definitely indecisive! I stood for ages pondering over a bag of smallish pears, picked them up, debated pros and cons, then put them back - 3 times - before I was able to force myself to walk away - sans pears!

Now I have to deal with my "beggar, wish I'd bought 'em" over the next few days ........ :bigtears:

Pears don't put up my bs too much, if eaten with cream and/or yoghurt, but at 11g carbs, they increase my overall carbs for that day beyond my limit.
 
Alison Campbell said:
You would have liked my grandmother's farm in Jamaica. Whenever we visited in the 70s and 80s, my mum would get a big pole and knock about 5 avocados down to eat that day!
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So jealous! Heaven !!! Not sure what it is about those b****rs but I can treat enough.

Generally I don’t like them cooked, baked etc but I fried some slices in a hot pan with butter and they were a little crispy and the taste resembled French toast !

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Salvia said:
I too miss fruit - in my case it is pears (my one weakness). I found eliminating breads, (except the occasional Lidl roll), buns, starches, and such-like quite painless, but eliminating pears is a constant battle. If anyone had seen me in Asda today they might have thought I was some kind of mad-woman. Definitely indecisive! I stood for ages pondering over a bag of smallish pears, picked them up, debated pros and cons, then put them back - 3 times - before I was able to force myself to walk away - sans pears!

Now I have to deal with my "beggar, wish I'd bought 'em" over the next few days ........ :bigtears:

Pears don't put up my bs too much, if eaten with cream and/or yoghurt, but at 11g carbs, they increase my overall carbs for that day beyond my limit.
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I do that ALL the time tomthe point I want to cry and think ‘ what’s wrong with me. ‘ I loveD all fruit but a perfect apple or tart cherries were on the top of my list. Done with that of course
 
Kristin251 said:
I do that ALL the time tomthe point I want to cry and think ‘ what’s wrong with me. ‘ I loveD all fruit but a perfect apple or tart cherries were on the top of my list. Done with that of course
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Know the feeling - sad, isn't it. Glad you managed to subdue your demons; as you see, I'm still fighting mine. Though of course we do have the lovely avos to compensate.
 
In the early days, I tested everything and found that an Apple spikes me but I can eat copious amounts of pineapple with not much of a blip.

The odd thing is that I was never really a fruit eater and I must have eaten more fruit in the first few months than I did in the previous few years. I don’t bother now apart from the odd berry occasionally.
 
Salvia said:
I too miss fruit - in my case it is pears (my one weakness). I found eliminating breads, (except the occasional Lidl roll), buns, starches, and such-like quite painless, but eliminating pears is a constant battle. If anyone had seen me in Asda today they might have thought I was some kind of mad-woman. Definitely indecisive! I stood for ages pondering over a bag of smallish pears, picked them up, debated pros and cons, then put them back - 3 times - before I was able to force myself to walk away - sans pears!

Now I have to deal with my "beggar, wish I'd bought 'em" over the next few days ........ :bigtears:

Pears don't put up my bs too much, if eaten with cream and/or yoghurt, but at 11g carbs, they increase my overall carbs for that day beyond my limit.
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I have to admit that a cool ripe blush pear is lovely on a hot day.
 
In the very old days it was Jaffa oranges for me. Unpeeled, cut in half, upturn half in a saucer of sugar and eat (not the peel of course!)
Or a banana, mashed in a dish with milk and sugar.
 
wiflib said:
In the early days, I tested everything and found that an Apple spikes me but I can eat copious amounts of pineapple with not much of a blip.

The odd thing is that I was never really a fruit eater and I must have eaten more fruit in the first few months than I did in the previous few years. I don’t bother now apart from the odd berry occasionally.
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I dont bother either until our strawberry fesival. Strawberry brars shortcakes, smoothies , coffees and on and on. One choco strawberry split with hubs fits the bill. Done
 
Salvia said:
Know the feeling - sad, isn't it. Glad you managed to subdue your demons; as you see, I'm still fighting mine. Though of course we do have the lovely avos to compensate.
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Yup. Scoop of avo always helps. And good to bs. I just get angry sometimes. And frustrated. Crying I’ve ran Apple? Shouldn’t be this hard.
 
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