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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2625421" data-attributes="member: 150927">Ah! [USER=208503]@cdpm[/USER]. The cost of food! Argh! And - yes. My country also has had an enormous hike in food prices, and boy oh boy does it hurt. But if you are going the treating your T2D with diet route, and it sounds like you are doing that?And well done you. And, I had a gander at the Fasting sub section and see you are doing an intermittent fast as well - good things to treat your diabetes outside of medications. So, as you are on insulin you definitely need to be monitored by medical professionals indeed, and you will-  always? - be in this bind between spending on food, and spending on the doctors? (Different countries do things differently of course, and I don't know what your region's conditions are....)But reading you in Fasting, and reading you in here - I do think you might be letting the numbers get on top of you, if you don't mind me saying. And I really feel for you on this one - I started on a whole thread on getting fed up with all the counting having to be done with T2D (for me, it was what was being asked of me from the outside, rather than coming from me, but there is all that counting as well at the beginning at least). And the really horrible thing about the huge hike in the cost of food is - a tight food budget means a lot more counting! As in with a calculator in the supermarket or store. But, this is my 'ra ra'. Food is soooooo important if you have a dietary disease, and T2D is, then food, and as quality as you can afford, has to be prioritised, because, well, it's just so important. I know - easier said than done. This is my own attitude at any rate.I have never heard of a meat intolerance - but are you saying you are a vegetarian who eats eggs? Plenty of low-carbing type twos out there on that way of eating. There's even a word for it isn't there but I can't think of it - an ova vegetarian? So you are going the beans, lentils and tofu way? At least lentils are a really good budget food for vegetarians, and soft foods.... And don't worry about the no milk - plenty of us don't drink it or use dairy milk in cooking as it can be too high natural sugars - it certainly is for me. Yeah, I hope you are thinking about kicking the calorie counting, and going for being full when you are eating those couple of meals a day. Reading the carb levels on food labels is enough counting from my pov!</blockquote>

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