Yes, carbs at breakfast will raise my blood glucose more than the same food later in the day. That's why I switched to bacon and eggs for breakfast a long time ago.
No, bacon isn't bad for you. I have 3 or 4 rashers with 3 or 4 eggs every morning for breakfast. It's much healthier than muesli or any other cereal.I don't really want to eat bacon a lot cos that's bad for you, I tend to have bacon once a month. What else could be replaced with bacon? Am quite happy to have an egg every morning for breakfast but I'd want something with it.
I agree. Though I don't eat bacon often I'd sure choose it over grains any time of day. I don't eat it because I don't think of it. I eat loads of avocado and eggs, beef, lamb, poultry, fish.No, bacon isn't bad for you. I have 3 or 4 rashers with 3 or 4 eggs every morning for breakfast. It's much healthier than muesli or any other cereal.
Muesli - my BG level is probably rising jus thinking about it, I just can't cope with grain and dried fruits have such highly concentrated sugar content.
If it raises your BG reading then it is best avoided - but what is so bad about bacon?
I do boil bacon for a minute or so to reduce the salt content and remove soluble preserving substances, then sieve it out and put it back into the frying pan to crisp up, something all my family tend to do, and we are a rather long lived and healthy lot.
If you can get the Lidl protein rolls then eggs and toast are a possibility - I like kippers, but have been known to have a chop with cauliflower or mushrooms or courgette for breakfast.
I love muesli and add nuts to it like a couple of Brazil nuts and a few walnuts but I may have to give it up as it raises my BS levels. My last bought muesli was from Holland & Barrett and was a low sugar high fibre sort. Does anyone else find it raises their BS levels?
Salt and nitrates are very soluble, even in cold water, but much more so in hot. Putting the bacon rashers into water one at a time, bring it to a simmer and leaving it for a minute will remove a lot of the chemicals. Sieve it out and tip it back into the frying pan and it should be innocuous. Salt and nitre used to be the only way to keep meat and fish fit to eat, so it if was so bad for us, we'd not be here - but it was soaked or simmered before cooking.With bacon it's one of the processed foods linked to cancer and all the nitrates cancer causing preservatives that puts me off eating it on a regular basis, I only tend to have bacon say once a month. If there is bacon out there that I can buy which doesn't have all the nitrates in them then I would appreciate any suggestions. Also, just thought, maybe the Quorn bacon slices could be an alternative for me.
I love muesli and add nuts to it like a couple of Brazil nuts and a few walnuts but I may have to give it up as it raises my BS levels. My last bought muesli was from Holland & Barrett and was a low sugar high fibre sort. Does anyone else find it raises their BS levels?
Meusli is not good - far too high carb.I love muesli and add nuts to it like a couple of Brazil nuts and a few walnuts but I may have to give it up as it raises my BS levels. My last bought muesli was from Holland & Barrett and was a low sugar high fibre sort. Does anyone else find it raises their BS levels?
Have you thought of skipping breakfast completely to see how you go on? It gives your pancreas and digestive system a long rest from finishing your evening meal until the following lunch time. I stopped eating anything in the morning some time ago, but I do have a coffee with double cream as soon as I get up and maybe a cup of tea with a dash of milk mid morning. What I have found is my pre-lunch levels have decreased significantly, and the cream fills me up so I am not hungry at all. I usually start my last meal of the day around 7pm and start lunch about 1-15pm. That gives me a fast of over 18 hours every day, and I just eat in the remaining 6 hours. This is known as an 18/6 fast. It works for me. It may not work for you, but is always worth a try.
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