Mid morning food suggestions

[SOTR]

I work in a shared office space which has a fridge and microwaves. There are plenty of high street bakery and sandwich shops nearby. Also a Waitrose.
I really like having some food at 10 or 11am. Using a Libre meter, bacon rolls etc. cause high blood sugar spikes. Surprisingly croissants cause a spike for me.
Any ideas on what I can have instead?
I want to avoid the easy option of a pasty or a bacon roll with white bread.

Yesterday I bough as carton of cream and some raspberries which went down well.

 

[lovinglife]

Great idea on the raspberries & cream, I’m aware you are on Gliclizide so it depends on how your BG is at around that time, I never snacked if I could avoid it when I was on Gliclizide (and I don’t snack now) but I can understand the temptation when everyone around is eating something.

If you’re looking for low carb snacks, cheese, hard boiled eggs, packs of meat, small handful of nuts, a few berries with either cream or Greek full fat yoghurt. You can get some low carb snack bars but they’re not the cheapest thing and some people find they raise their BG, a couple of squares of 85% chocolate, bacon on its own, if where they get there bacon rolls from maybe do egg & bacon on their own, if you have a microwave - leftovers from dinner the night before

 

[HSSS]

Is there a reason you want to eat mid morning? Hungry, everyone eating around you, habit or hypos? The thing is each and every time we eat we raise blood glucose and insulin levels, and that ultimately more frequent high levels of both gradually add to insulin resistance (the fundamental problem almost all correctly diagnosed type 2 have). It’s widely experienced in here that eating fewer but decent filling meals less often is better long term than grazing constantly for this reason.

Hungry is easily solved with a breakfast or bigger/more filling choice think eggs a million ways, bacon, dinner left overs, meats and cheeses etc etc As you have a cgm it’s easy to see what works for you. It’s unlikely to be any cereal or oat based choice if it’s big enough to keep you full til lunch

Everyone else eating is harder to cope with. Having the sort of snacks suggested by loving life helps damage limitation here. Croissants don’t surprise me. They are grains and grains (of any colour or type) rise a lot of us too much. The raspberries and bream are a much better choice imo.

Habit again is trickier than hunger. Distraction, change the routines around the food at that point in time or make swaps for a really nice coffee/tea perhaps instead of food.

If the gliclazide is making you go low, thus you eat to avoid hypos, then talk to your nurse about checking the dose is right for you