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sueywong

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I'm just starting out on this venture so could really do with peoples recommendations of their "can't do without products". I do try and avoid large carb portions of pasta, rice and bread and tend to cook from scratch for myself and family rather than buy ready made products and snacks.Any tips from people on cooking meals for whole family? Also, with dairy should i just choose the highest fat content? Are some nuts much better then others? Is it just berries or are other fruit ok?
Thanks.
T1 wit a tingling toe!
 
I make sure I have a ton of salad in the fridge at all times and I also stock up on sliced meats. My partcular favourite is pastrami, but I keep thin sliced ham and salami too.
I love raw vegetables as snacks: Carrot batons and cauliflower florets. I buy macadamia nuts if I'm feeling like indulging myself and a few dried apricots too.
If I were to select one thing I can't do without, It's carrots.
 
Thanks for that - it sounds as if most people aren't going as extreme as Dr Bernstein as I think he doesn't allow root veg. My family wont know whats hit them if i start serving up large meat portions rather than stretching 1lb of mince fourways!
 
I think it depends on the individual. Bernstein is a T1, I'm T2, so I'm still making insulin and I appear to have a good second phase insulin response. What is in my shopping trolley is different to what is in Bernstiens shopping cart.

If you really want to know what to eat, you need to test, test, test! Even a microscopically small portion of pasta sends my BS up to high levels for hours. However, if I'm planning to do some heavy exericse after eating it, I might risk that small portion, once in a while. We are all different.

My can't do without things are now probably eggs and blueberries and almonds and Lid's greek yoghurt. My fridge almost always has lots of lemons and limes for salad dressing, along with nice olive oil. But I really couldn't do without hummus - higher in carbs than some people tolerate but chickpeas don't make me spike, thank goodness.
 
I checked with David Mendosa, who is a friend of Bernstein's and apparently it's fructose in tomatoes and sucrose in carrotts that Bernsein doesn't approve of. In addition, we in the Uk count carbohydrates as Usable carbs, The Us does total carbs, which includes cellulose, which we list separately as fibre. thus carrots are high carb on US lists.
It's becoming better known now that raw carrots are pretty indigestible, so if you eat them raw, as I do, You get a little sugar, a crunch and nothing else. That's why they taste sweeter when cooked.
 
Thanks again for all this info - chick peas would be good so I'll check them out. Also I normally have quite alot of milk so am going to try soya drink - it looks very low in carbs on the carton so am hoping it wont taste too vile.
 
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