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fumanchu

fumanchu

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Location
Scotland
Type of diabetes
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Diet only
It's got to the stage that shopping for food and cooking is really stressing me out and causing rows in this house :banghead: I need some advice please!
Hubby is type 2 diabetic, I have gallstones. He does well on LC so do I. But he needs some fats and I can't tolerate any. I am at wits end trying to think of what to eat.. we have HM soups, we have eggs, we have stews/chicken/meat and veg sorted. But I'm always hungry and so is he. I hate cooking and hate recipes and the whole thing has just got to me so that the minute he says he's hungry or what's for dinner, I feel my BP rising :eek: Please help before we get divorced or one of us starves to death!
 
The only advice I can offer is to prepare separate meals, thats what happens in my household - I eat low carb high fat and mrs bear eats as few calories as she can get away with (so no fat). Its a pain I know.

i suppose you could possibly cook something low carb low fat for both of you then add a side dish for your husband with some extra fats so he gets what he needs. i'm afraid low carb low fat is always going to leave you hungry, it certainly does with me.


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fumanchu said:
It's got to the stage that shopping for food and cooking is really stressing me out and causing rows in this house :banghead: I need some advice please!
Hubby is type 2 diabetic, I have gallstones. He does well on LC so do I. But he needs some fats and I can't tolerate any. I am at wits end trying to think of what to eat.. we have HM soups, we have eggs, we have stews/chicken/meat and veg sorted. But I'm always hungry and so is he. I hate cooking and hate recipes and the whole thing has just got to me so that the minute he says he's hungry or what's for dinner, I feel my BP rising :eek: Please help before we get divorced or one of us starves to death!
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We have a similar incompatility as well. Me with low carb; hubby high carb, low fat and a migraine sufferer.

The solution: Inspired by the male chefs on the telly he decided to shop and cook. I eat what he cooks but without the high carb foods. I can add fat with butter or oil. I can add cream to my butter cooked mushroom omelette. For himself, hubby will virtually dry fry the mushroom and omelette. He makes his own bread and will quite happily tuck in to bread and jam.

If we are planning a walk into town then I need the carbs with insulin to take the sugars to the cells. I have tried walking after a low carb meal but the amount of insulin to cover the low carb meal does not provide me with enough energy for the return journey and I literally run out of energy.
 
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