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LCHF

Curly604

Curly604

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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I am just looking at starting LCHF - strictly.

Any helpful tips or good snacks etc?

Breakfast seems to be the hardest part
 
Well eggs are quite versatile - you can stick a lot of different things in an omelette or mix in with scrambled eggs for a bit of variety.

Berries, full fat yoghurts, cheeses, ham. (I'm not suggesting you put these in an omelette by the way.)
 
As urbanracer suggests I usually have eggs for breakfast. Often an omelette which I vary by putting different veg in - a good way of getting some veg in early in the day. Otherwise scrambled with maybe some mushrooms.

Snacking: nuts, olives, cheese, celery with cream cheese or peanut butter.
 
I'm a big egg lover but currently experimenting by wrapping a teaspoon of soft cheese in a small wrap of ham.
It's delicious!
 
Boil eggs up the night before and stick em in the fridge. Mind you stay away from folk when you peel them. Cold sausages are nice. Better still bacon wrapped sausage (make sure its a proper sausage). Carton of full fat yogurt and take some berries and walnuts to pop on top.
 
I make a hefty meat based salad the night before with cherry tomatoes and nice salad drizzles.
If really pushed for time you can buy prepared meat for £2 and a bag of salad for 50p. Then add in what you want.
Takes 2-3 minutes.

I've lost 3 stone doing this.

When I have no time I buy this from Subway.
 
I'm not really a breakfast fan so I have a flaxseed/psyllium 'muffin' for breakfast most days - easy to make, filling & convenient :) flaxseed/psyllium toast with peanut butter is another good one. Both of these are very high in fibre so you need to have a big glass of water with them but they easily keep me going until lunch time & can both be made in advance. You could also try the 'phoopsie rolls' & make a breakfast sandwich - another high fibre option so again you'll need a good glass of water.

For snacks I tend to stick with nuts, cheese or a little bit of 85% chocolate. A cool trick I learned is to break a slice of cheese into bits (about 6 bits for a sandwich sized cheese slice), place it on a piece of micro-proof baking paper & microwave for a minute & ten seconds or so - you get these fabulous cheese crispy thingies :)
 
Breakfast ideas via Brunneria

LC chai with pumpkin puree
Greek Yog
Yog and berries
Yog and cinnamon
Yog and chia seeds
Yog and ground flax seeds
Yog, paprika, spring onion or chives
Coconut or soya yog (I prefer this to cows yog)
Green smoothies (infinite variety!)
Ham
Ham and cheese
Other cold meats
And/or cheese
E.g. That perrennial favourite, sliced meat and cream cheese roll ups
Liver sausage
Salami
Chorizo
High meat content sausages
Peanut butter on sliced apple
Any other nut butter
Cream cheese on celery
Baked or raw pointy peppers stuffed with cream cheese
LC flapjacks
LC nutty seed bars
LC cake (this is awesome! And guilt free)
Cheesy almond bread
LC scones
9bars (about 10 varieties)
Anything LC on LC bread (e.g. Liv Life)
Kippers
Smoked salmon (and cream cheese, LC bread or...)
Caviar on LC crackers
Kedgeree (with cauliflower rice)
Avocado with lemon juice
Baked avocado with cream cheese
Baked avocado with whatever you fancy
LC Breakfast balls
Fat bombs
Nutty fat bombs
Mushrooms in butter
Mushrooms with cheese
Barley pancakes
Buckwheat pancakes
Pumpkin pancakes
Almond and/or coconut pancakes
- with cream, lemon, berries, LC choc sauce, cinnamon or savoury fillings
Corned beef in tomato, spinach or aubergine (or all 3)
 
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I think I'd rather get up earlier and have breakfast at home, than be eating it at a desk, especially if it's just yogurt. If I had to take breakfast with me I'd probably opt for cold sausages.
 
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