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Hi everyone. I'm newly diagnosed as type 2. Runs in family . I'm stuck on different recipes. What to replace spuds with ,pasta ,ect
I've have few recipes. But cant fet to grips . I have changed my milk to unsweetened soya. Avoid all sweet stuff chocolate. Cakes biscuits ect.
I'm stuck with things to change like spaghetti bolognese. Shepherds pie ect. Can I still eat mince. Would be grateful for advice please .
 
Any meat, fish, eggs, green veg, salad, cream, butter is fine.
Cheese of course too.
Avoid starchy stuff and sugars.
It gets easier.
Mince makes great dishes, burgers, chilli.
Check out www.dietdoctor.com for great low carb/ketogenic recipes and watch that T2 reverse itself!
 
You can have cream in your coffee, eat meat, fish, sea food, eggs, cheese, salad stuff and low carb veges.
There are quite a few low carb breads around now, I get one from ASDA which looks like a brown brick and is called protein bread - it is 4 gm of carbs per slice, but there are others
Cauliflower is a low carb option, as is celeriac.
I get high cocoa chocolate once in a while, though as time goes on I am buying less and less or it and going for longer intervals between purchases.
 
tried to reply but doing strange things - replace your carbs with various veg; try free from range of pastas too; lentils, other pulses are great. watch out for sweet fruit as can spike sugar; avoid ordinary bread learn to like rye bread or make things with alternative flour. Also bulgur wheat, quinoa and brown rice are good. It can be fun even if a little challenging - I was diagnosed 7 weeks ago. Good luck.
 
marzak said:
tried to reply but doing strange things - replace your carbs with various veg; try free from range of pastas too; lentils, other pulses are great. watch out for sweet fruit as can spike sugar; avoid ordinary bread learn to like rye bread or make things with alternative flour. Also bulgur wheat, quinoa and brown rice are good. It can be fun even if a little challenging - I was diagnosed 7 weeks ago. Good luck.
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Still quite a lot of carbs in your diet by the sounds of it...
Pulses, wheat , quinoa, brown rice are all things I would advise avoiding.
Are you testing your blood sugars when you eat that stuff?
 
Slm said:
Hi everyone. I'm newly diagnosed as type 2. Runs in family . I'm stuck on different recipes. What to replace spuds with ,pasta ,ect
I've have few recipes. But cant fet to grips . I have changed my milk to unsweetened soya. Avoid all sweet stuff chocolate. Cakes biscuits ect.
I'm stuck with things to change like spaghetti bolognese. Shepherds pie ect. Can I still eat mince. Would be grateful for advice please .
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Cauliflower rice can replace regular rice or spuds quite easily. I never tried celeriac but I hear it's good. You could spiralise a courgette to replace spaghetti, or get konjac noodles instead of regular ones. (Bit rubbery, but it works fine in a wok dish). Avoid any chocolate that's not 85% or over. (So yeah, extra dark chocolate is still on the table! I have a bucket of drops in the fridge. :)). It's a learning curve, but you'll get there. No worries. You could also, if you want certain dishes, google them alongside the word "keto". That way you get low carb versions of just about anything under the sun.

Check dietdoctor.com for meal ideas, or this forum's website. https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/ might help too.

Good luck!
Jo
 
marzak said:
tried to reply but doing strange things - replace your carbs with various veg; try free from range of pastas too; lentils, other pulses are great. watch out for sweet fruit as can spike sugar; avoid ordinary bread learn to like rye bread or make things with alternative flour. Also bulgur wheat, quinoa and brown rice are good. It can be fun even if a little challenging - I was diagnosed 7 weeks ago. Good luck.
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@Slm - The free from/ gluten free pasta is still very carb heavy. 100g is 78g carbs which is around what many of us consume in 4 days! Even the whole meal in is that carb heavy. Personally I can’t touch brown rice, quinoa or bulgur wheat as my BG shoots up. Celeriac is worth a try and over time you will forget about all the beige stuff you probably shouldn’t have. It’s all about retraining your tastebuds. It is all an addiction. Good luck.
 
Flora123 said:
@Slm - The free from/ gluten free pasta is still very carb heavy. 100g is 78g carbs which is around what many of us consume in 4 days! Even the whole meal in is that carb heavy. Personally I can’t touch brown rice, quinoa or bulgur wheat as my BG shoots up. Celeriac is worth a try and over time you will forget about all the beige stuff you probably shouldn’t have. It’s all about retraining your tastebuds. It is all an addiction. Good luck.
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Bare naked noodles contain 0.9gm carb in 100 grams. Expensive and don't taste too bad either.
 
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