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Type 2 Low carb breakfast

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imperp

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Type of diabetes
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Hello looking for ideas please other than things revolving around eggs - in all formats or bacon & sausages. It’s the meal I struggle with most. Thanks in advance for any suggestions
 
Oh I couldn't imagine life without eggs and bacon!

I used to have a full fat Greek yogurt and flaxseed with 2 large cut up strawberries or half a dozen raspberries but had to give this up as it was keeping my levels up until lunch time (interfering with a liver dump). I stopped and now just have a coffee with double cream. That keeps my levels in the 5s all morning and no more liver dumps, and no hunger. You could try the yogurt and use a meter to see how it affects your levels.
 
imperp said:
Hello looking for ideas please other than things revolving around eggs - in all formats or bacon & sausages. It’s the meal I struggle with most. Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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I quite liked double cream on nuts when I tried it. Nothing like as sickly as I thought. A sort of high fat, low carb muesli. I did sometimes add 2-3 raisins chopped up for a more muesli-like effect but they weren't necessary.
 
One option is just to cook a bit more for your evening meal, then reheat it.
 
You can eat anything you would eat at any other time for breakfast - most of the world does, it's just (??) our anglo-saxon / American influenced societies where we think we have to eat bits of stuff that looks like torn up cardboard out of a cardboard box or bacon and egg. How about a bit of left over last night's dinner, a bowl of soup, cold meats and a tomato, some cheese and a stick of celery.
Sally
 
Food. It’s a new mindset not to associate certain foods with certain meals but try it.
 
@imperp I use some of my carbs to have raspberries or blackberries with either yoghurt or cream. I can't face cooking first thing.
 
It depends on how hungry I might be - if I am I'll eat or drink whatever takes my fancy or is convenient or ready to hand, but often a mug of coffee with cream or just a drink of water is all i want, but I've never been a great breakfast eater.

While a bacon & egg, etc breakfast is possibly the UK norm, as already mentioned other countries break their fasts with different food: e.g. cold meat and/or cheeses, pastries, or cake - I ate yummy honey cake for breakfast years ago on holiday in Greece, and mouth puckering yoghurt from little bottles in Yugoslavia. But often just a coffee with cream ( or added butter &cocnut oil - that infamous Bulletproof Coffee) can actually keep you satisfied until lunch time - or possibly even longer. Low carb higher fat should keep you well satisfied, so it's not always necessary to start eating early in the day.

Robbity
 
I just have a boiled egg at 9:30 on break, then a pulled pork Barritto for lunch and I'm good all day
 
Aldi paleo muesli.
5.5g carbs per 35g portion
Nothing like ‘normal’ muesli - not an oat in sight!
 
I had grape tomatoes, radishes, black olives, sweet red peppers, half an avocado and a coconut dark chocolate square. All was delish and quite filling. As I've said before, food is food.
 
kippers and chopped cooked cauliflower, and mayonnaise - or other fish, even other veges, sometimes salad - or a stir fry of courgette mushroom and sweet peppers, maybe leftover chicken thighs from dinner - even a chop or steak - sometimes even a toasted Lidl protein roll with lots of red Leicester cheese.
 
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