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Is my menu O.K.?

wiseowl_123

wiseowl_123

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Location
North Kent
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
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Bullies & Cauliflower cheese
Good morning everyone I am newly diagnosed and I have a poached egg on one slice of wholemeal bread every morning for my breakfast is this OK,I would like some porridge for a change is this advisable,I have cut out all sugar including cakes ,crisps,pastry,squash,and no sugar in my tea,

average day meals
Vitalite spread

Breakfast/poached egg on 1 slice of wholemeal hovis bread.

11am snack apple,few grapes,1 slice bread wit sardines.half a cup of tea no sugar

4pm fresh salmon 2 new boiled potatoes,Broccoli,cauliflower,carrots ,glass of water just a slight dash of squash

7pm 1 orange 1 slice of bread with with half a triangle of cream cheese
 
The only way to know if those meals are OK for you or not is to test your BG to see how high those foods raise it. I personally cannot eat porridge or bread or potatoes because all spike my BG higher than I want it to be.
 
That menu MAY be fine for you - but as Indy says, you need to test in order to be sure.

It really all depends on how your body handles carbs, and particularly bread (since you are eating it several times a day).
Some people are fine with bread and porridge, but a lot of us aren't, so test test test until you have fine tuned your intake, and then you can be confident that you have found the right diet for you.
 
Without testing there is no way you can know.
Personally I would skip the bread (replace with bacon). Or even skip breakfast entirely possibly better.. Cut the fruit for the snack just have the sardines and a small salad perhaps. Ditch the potatoes and maybe the carrots and just have the water plain (fizzy ok). Just have a chunk of cheese for the evening meal. I've followed an extremely low carb high fat, with some fasting, way of eating since diagnosis with some success and it works for me. May not be right for you but without testing you won't know.
 
I can't add much to what has been said already. People react differently to different foods so you need to "eat to your meter".
For me, personally, I could not eat all that fruit, especially grapes and oranges. Perhaps you could try berries instead? (raspberries, strawberries etc.) The golden rule with fruit is to eat it as part of a meal, not as a snack, and have it with cream or full fat unsweetened yogurt.
 
I have one of those pots of porridge where you add water and find I am ok with that
You need to test to see how it affects you
 
I am on with bran flakes, granola, porridge and seeded breads but, as the others have said, you need to check your bs pre and after eating them to see what effect they have.
 
Looks like a weight loss diet to me! If it is making you lose weight it is probably going to improve your Blood Glucose numbers. No law says low carb is the only way to go for weight loss.
When you get tired of this (and we all get tired of slimming diets) get the blood glucose meter out, and test, test, test.
In the long run you will probably be more comfortable increasing the fats and lowering the fruits, ditching bread, potatoes, and porridge.
 
Ditto to what's already been suggested about what to avoid!

As I eat a low carb higher fat diet, the only things I would consider eating from your menu are the egg, sardines, salmon. broccoli, cauliflower and cheese, and I'd be eating more fats and oils in place of all your carbs.

But you have to test to find out what works for you, and most importantly you need to find a way of eating that is both healthy and sustainable long term.

Robbity
 
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As a type 2 for the last couple of years I'm finding sticking to what you can eat a struggle , In the morning I have granola ( Lizzies cereal ) with a banana cut up into small strips , lunch time I have a ham sarnie on granary bread for dinner I sometime have chicken with rice other times I have pasta with a sauce but as times gone on I am
M struggling to stick to what has worked and find now I stray like on weekends I have fish n chips tea or a Chinese or Indian 1 day a week not regular or breakfast I will have toast as well as my granola, do others find it hard to stick to what you should eat?
 
Yes I struggle with the bread and potatoes. This is all new to me, they are changing my insulin tomorrow again.i am on lantus and it's not bringing sugars down enough.
 
My goodness @b34 blues that is one heck of a lot of starchy carbohydrate you are eating, even without your weekend take-a-ways. Granola, bananas, bread (including granary), rice, pasta, sauce. Does this really work for you? What sort of levels do you see? I know I would be well in double figures after those meals. What diabetes meds are you on?
 
Capture.JPG Thank you every one my wife got me some Jacobs choice grain crackers his morning are these OK for a snack.thank you
 
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wiseowl_123 said:
View attachment 20923 Thank you every one my wife got me some Jacobs choice grain crackers his morning are these OK for a snack.thank you
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Yes, Unfortunately that isn't the info you need, because it only lists the sugars.
You want the info in the Nutritional Info box (usually on the back of the packet).
There you will find the amount of Carbohydrate, of which some is sugars.
It is the total carbohydrate figure that you need, since all carbs turn to blood glucose, whether they start off as sugar or other carbs.

Hope that helps.
 
Yes, I agree. All carbs, not just sugary ones, convert to glucose once inside our bodies, and that includes the more healthy varieties such as wholemeal bread, brown rice etc. From the Tesco website I found these crackers are 63.7% carbohydrate, although if you only eat one it would work out at 4.7grams of carb per cracker.
 
I don't have all them every day I should have said , I have granola with a banana for breakfast , some lunch time I can skip the sandwich and just have a rice cake a snack a jacks one and Sumer time I will have chicken breast with salad ,
 
An odd cracker or 2 occasionally won't do you any harm, but granola and a banana almost certainly will, and I suspect the Snack-a-Jacks rice cakes will be high in carbs, too. Have you read the labels? A meter will tell you better than any of us on here can.
 
I've had Lizzies low sugar cereal since I've been diabetic and it's worked ok for me , yeah I have always looked at the sugar content on packs whatever I buy now and this cereal is the lowest I have found which I like
 
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I've had Lizzies low sugar cereal since I've been diabetic and it's worked ok for me , yeah I have always looked at the sugar content on packs whatever I buy now and this cereal is the lowest I have found which I like
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If it works for you then no need to stop having it we are all different and what one can eat another can't
 
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