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Low Carb Breakfast Ideas Needed

danziger said:
Unlike some others on low carb, I’m always hungry on waking and get a blood glucose surge if I go too long without eating. I tend to stick to eggs at breakfast (they are more filling than you might think, but you might need 3 or 4) but sometimes jazz them up with cheese or peppers or bacon, ham, or sausage (good quality ones like Heck). Occasionally I’ve had some leftover Diet Doctor pizza (made from mozzarella and eggs) which also hit the spot — are there any leftovers you might fancy in the morning?
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I am thinking of taking leftovers like various salads for lunch at work when I return in September but I have been given some great ideas for breakfasts in other replies.
 
The plain yohurt/seeds/berries combo can be great for busy workers as it can be made days in advance
500g yoghurt (greek style 10%fat for preference, or use coconut milk or other liquids such as almond milk)
5 tablespoons milled seeds
5 tablespoon berries ( I use frozen) or cocoa powder or coffee
All mixed together Sunday night
Gives 5 good breakfasts. Seems to get thicker as week goes on.
Cam adjust all quantity to suit, just be careful of the berries, too much can be too carby
 
Yes, I am munching on my leftover Fathead pizza for breakfast as I read and key on a beautiful spring morning.

I too need to eat to stop my fasting blood sugar from going higher and higher, and, I love breakfast. Life is hard enough, methinks, without being hungry of a morning. But we are all different as you can tell from this thread, and you will know if your life is made better with brekkie, or you can skip it to increase your fasting period before breaking it.

For me it is indeed eggs, homemade almond flour based low-carb/keto baking for toast or warm rolls straight out of the oven. I recently found a genuinely low-carb stevia sweetened marmalade and I went into seventh heaven, having been marmalade-free since diagnosis. (I tested and tested to make sure and became delerious with joy on finding no discernble rise or spike after it repeatedly.) (If you are new to diagnosis, you will find which natural no-sugar sweeteners , or artificial if needs be, work in best with your body.) (the marmalade is really unsweet - you couldn't offer it to guests for instance, without a warning! A true sign of something being my-BG-friendly if there ever was one.)

Bacon, dietdoctor's wonderful coconut flour 'porridge', greek yoghurt when in the mood, and berries when in season. Liberal lashings of cream on and in just about everything. And yes - if I am full enough, and breakfast was at first signs of the sun being up, I can happily have only one more meal, preferably mid afternoon. (I work from home these days so I can do this.) But home-baking, especially in the cold season, is a delight, for breakfast rolls and toasting non-wheat bread. (Dietdoctor recipes are my faves for almond flour based home baking.)

I have another piece of leftover fathead pizza in front of me, but I am going to return it to the fridge, as I discovered the writing of this that I am no longer hungry, and a cup of coffee will do me fine. (I love breakfast! And coffee.)

 
Angela17376 said:
Hello, I am trying to reduce my carb intake. I feel that I am mastering low carb lunches and dinners but breakfast is an issue. My fasting blood sugar this morning was 5.3 but two hours after a bowl of Malt Wheats and milk my reading was 12.5. I know eggs are an obvious choice but I worry about not feeling satiated and don't want to eat them for every breakfast. Please can you suggest some breakfast ideas that will keep me going until lunch without resorting to snacking if possible.
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If you are active threw out your day you have a lot options, eggs, bacon, chicken/turkey sausages, cottage cheese, almonds yoghurt, avocado, berries, i love humous, so since change in eating i mixed avocado and natural yoghurt to have with carrot sticks cucumber, salmon tuna mackerel cooked in olive oil with eggs scrambled, or grab omelette i love brown bread toasted with peanut butter, i really didn`t think i would be able to have peanut butter, but it gives me the fats i need as i was feeling cold alot with no energy
 
I love hummus too, but do be aware it is not a low-carb food. Absolutely eat and meter it and see how it affects you.

When you, @Win71, say "brown bread toasted" - do you mean low-carb alternatives to traditional grain breads? As grain breads are not low-carb either. Absolutely not! I can recommend low-carb almond-flour based breads I make regularly, and have made over the years. And do beware and be aware of the fact that commerically made 'low carb' breads are often not low enough for many of us with type 2 diabetes, and just as bad in my opinion, are made with low quality omega-6 heavy processed vege oils, and, other low-quality ingredients. I do buy some so-called keto brands when I am staying away from home, but I don't like to partake more than once a month, due to the bad-for-us-processed oils in them. (And not as low-carb as I would like.) Just a warning from a fellow carb-intolerant toast lover.
 
I go for a full fat Babybel, 3 Ryvita crisp breads (?), about 3 carbs each, and a load of peanut butter on top. Don't go for the cheap type, get 100% peanut, the naturally 'oilier' ones don't tend to make you feel like you have just walked across the Sahara!
 
AloeSvea said:
I love hummus too, but do be aware it is not a low-carb food. Absolutely eat and meter it and see how it affects you.

When you, @Win71, say "brown bread toasted" - do you mean low-carb alternatives to traditional grain breads? As grain breads are not low-carb either. Absolutely not! I can recommend low-carb almond-flour based breads I make regularly, and have made over the years. And do beware and be aware of the fact that commerically made 'low carb' breads are often not low enough for many of us with type 2 diabetes, and just as bad in my opinion, are made with low quality omega-6 heavy processed vege oils, and, other low-quality ingredients. I do buy some so-called keto brands when I am staying away from home, but I don't like to partake more than once a month, due to the bad-for-us-processed oils in them. (And not as low-carb as I would like.) Just a warning from a fellow carb-intolerant toast lover.
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I use
The Polish Bakery Sunflower Seed Bread
Ingredients
Wheat Flour, Rye Flour, Water, Sunflower Seeds (11%), Rye Sourdough, Roasted Barley Malt, Fresh Yeast, Sea Salt, Rye Sourdough consists of Rye Flour (67%)
Each slice (40g) contains
Energy
440 kJ 105 kcal 5%of the reference intake
Fat 2.8g Medium
4%of the reference intake
Saturates
0.4g
Low
2%of the reference intake
Sugars
0.6g
Low
1%of the reference intake
Salt
0.4g
Medium
7%
 
Win71 said:
I use
The Polish Bakery Sunflower Seed Bread
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The carb count is missing (total carbs is what matters not sugars, all carbs turn to sugar) looked it up and carbs per slice are almost 18g - that’s quite a lot of carbs for most people. In fact it’s almost my total carbs for the whole day. Do you test after eating this? If you do and your happy with the numbers then that’s fine, lucky you :) There are lower carb breads, I don’t eat them so can’t point you towards them, others may be able name them, I think one is livelife but I don’t know the nutrition for it
 
lovinglife said:
The carb count is missing (total carbs is what matters not sugars, all carbs turn to sugar) looked it up and carbs per slice are almost 18g - that’s quite a lot of carbs for most people. In fact it’s almost my total carbs for the whole day. Do you test after eating this? If you do and your happy with the numbers then that’s fine, lucky you :) There are lower carb breads, I don’t eat them so can’t point you towards them, others may be able name them, I think one is livelife but I don’t know the nutrition for it
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I`v not checked after eating, as i now on fasting 18 hours eat within 6 hours so i no longer have breakfast or lunch, just 1 meal a day and water threw out day,
 
I would have loved that bread too, @Win71 , back in those dizzy pre-diagnosis days. Yeah, those reference percents are a bit misleading, and I'm very pleased for @lovinglife to point out the carb count.

I'm a type two who had a very big belly issue, and I loved bread (like many human types), so when I saw the book, "Wheat Belly" by Doc William Davis, I read it. (Along with Pertmuller's 'Grain Brain') and I have recommended both many times. I had also done a Paleo month fairly early on, and saw what an incredible difference going wheat free did for my belly, as in, I discovered I had had bloating from wheat for an eternity, so my body didn't respond well to wheat products, and I have never looked back. Anyway, that's a wheat bread digression.

All the power to you for going one meal a day! And only drinking water? Wo ho! You should surely see some good blood glucose results from that.
 
Win71 said:
I`v not checked after eating, as i now on fasting 18 hours eat within 6 hours so i no longer have breakfast or lunch, just 1 meal a day and water threw out day,
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One meal a day is fine, lots here do it’s not me though I’m like my food too much lol. Do you count your macros for the meal you eat? e.g.) carbs, protein, fat etc. it’s very important to know that you are getting enough nutrients from your meal also if your carbs are still low enough to not affect your blood sugar. Even in one meal if your carbs are higher than you can cope with it’s going to push your numbers up. I see in another post you are getting a meter so that’s good, test right before you eat and then 2hrs after, I would also personally test at 3hrs too for a while until you are happy your blood sugars are under control.

I lost over 11st and still losing, but it took me a lot, lot, lot longer than you, I did low carb then keto 1200 calories a day I am very curious in how you are doing it, if I’m honest I think if it was me that would be my biggest concern right now and would be pushing my GP to find out why

edited to add: meant to say you can use a site such as MyFitnessPal to track everything you eat, you can put in your own meals or use the database, just make sure that the carb count for things are net and not gross. I use the free part of it and find it sufficient to track all my macros, calories and weight loss. You can pay for a premium membership but I don’t think it’s worth it. There are other sites but I’ve never used them, maybe others members have and they can advise on those
 
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lovinglife said:
One meal a day is fine, lots here do it’s not me though I’m like my food too much lol. Do you count your macros for the meal you eat? e.g.) carbs, protein, fat etc. it’s very important to know that you are getting enough nutrients from your meal also if your carbs are still low enough to not affect your blood sugar. Even in one meal if your carbs are higher than you can cope with it’s going to push your numbers up. I see in another post you are getting a meter so that’s good, test right before you eat and then 2hrs after, I would also personally test at 3hrs too for a while until you are happy your blood sugars are under control.

I lost over 11st and still losing, but it took me a lot, lot, lot longer than you, I did low carb then keto 1200 calories a day I am very curious in how you are doing it, if I’m honest I think if it was me that would be my biggest concern right now and would be pushing my GP to find out why

edited to add: meant to say you can use a site such as MyFitnessPal to track everything you eat, you can put in your own meals or use the database, just make sure that the carb count for things are net and not gross. I use the free part of it and find it sufficient to track all my macros, calories and weight loss. You can pay for a premium membership but I don’t think it’s worth it. There are other sites but I’ve never used them, maybe others members have and they can advise on those
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I do have app on phone for checking diet, i am concerned on weight lose, dr was not concerned, DN is and putting note to dr to further investigate reason, i have underactive thyroid, last bloods on Friday shows back to normal range but still have to take the medication for that
 
Goonergal said:
I almost invariably end up eating more overall if I have breakfast.

However, some good options would be eggs anyway you wish, and if time is an issue, making up a crustless frittata is good as it re heats well.

Or bacon and eggs, or leftovers from yesterday’s lunch/dinner or cold cuts.
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I like cold frittata out of the fridge. :-)
 
I had scotch egg this morning 15 carbs, usually I’ll eat a handful of nuts sometimes with Greek yoghurt or cooked breakfast
 
Yep, skipping breakfast altogether is certainly the best. Stay away from all sugars, starches and grains. I have a nice coffee, from pure ground Arabic coffee, with some liquid Stevia and MCT powder. That does me just fine, and I only eat one meal a day! Once you are in ketosis, the cravings usually disappear, so that's the key.
 
I've often made scotch eggs without bread crumbs.
Skinny Pig sausages are about 6g carbs an egg is 0.6g

Squeeze sausage meat out of skin.
Flatten, wrap round boiled egg.
Bake for about 20 mins until golden brown.
Yum!
 
Bacon wrapped scotch eggs! Just use a good low carb sausage, wrap round the boiled egg then make a cross of 2 or 3 streaky rashers, wrap up, then bake or fry or air fryer
 
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