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omg just started having porridge and blood sugars rocketed

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Sailorj said - '30g of porridge'. Is that porridge made with 30g of oats, or 30g of made porridge?

Sorry - my brain cells are having an off day. :lol:

Viv 8)
 
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viviennem said:
Sailorj said - '30g of porridge'. Is that porridge made with 30g of oats, or 30g of made porridge?

Sorry - my brain cells are having an off day. :lol:

Viv 8)
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It will be 30g of oats Viv weighed out before adding water or milk.

Nigel
 
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I have found a perfect muesli, oatmeal of alford, oats, strawberries, pumpkin seed, low in sugar, nothing added (Advertising link removed.) this is the one I buy, got it from asda, think they stock it in waitrose, not sure where else, and you can buy it online, doesn't have the stats for this muesli but does have for a lot of others in the range under the health tab on their site
 
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I cut the carbs in my museli by adding ground almonds and chopped nuts, then I top it with cinnamon.
 
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Just to confirm - yes I have 30g porridge dry weight made with half milk & half water.

Love the nuts but the touble with is that when I roast them I eat too many while they are still hot!!
 
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Love the nuts but the touble with is that when I roast them I eat too many while they are still hot!!
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I'm looking to start roasting my own nuts (ooh, er...!)

Got any tips? I'd like to roast Pecans, hazelnuts and Walnuts. Can they all be roasted at the same time? Do you know if any of em burn more easily than the rest?
 
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sailorj said:
Just to confirm - yes I have 30g porridge dry weight made with half milk & half water.
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I find the half milk and half water works well, not just for the overall carb count but for the texture of the porridge.

Nigel
 
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I do hazel nuts, almonds, cashews & walnuts mostly.
I have to watch them as they can burn very quickly.
Also try pumpkin, sesame & sunflower seeds - great nutty flavours when roasted.
 
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i have shredded wheat with maple syrup on seams to work ok nigel jol
 
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Hi,
I have Kellogs All Bran with soya milk and this doesn't affect my BS. I used to have weetabix minis , thinking i was being very healthy until i started testing last month and found my BS spiking to 12-14.
 
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Blitz some flax seed (linseed) in the food processor until it's a flour. Mix with soy milk and microwave.

Result is porridge, it's not porridge as we know it, Jim, but porridge nontheless. Low carb and high fibre.

H
 
I concur with your comments. I have been a chef most my working life and consider myself educated in the realms of food technology, but blow me down! Since being diagnosed with type 2, I have been on a roller coaster of sorts. Most of the advice from my DM has been inappropriate to my personal needs. Carbs have left the building (for me), Flour - forget it, Porridge argghhhhhh! I have always enjoyed my porridge, but first time I tested, I almost cried.... 21?

Here some quick food substitutes I have found that may help

  • For flour substitute Ground Almonds or better still Coconut Flour (means pancakes are back on the menu)
  • Eggs are fine, ignore the doomsayers. ,Fried, Boiled, Baked, Poached, Scrambled, (hard boiled Kedgeree with wild rice, night before)
  • Make a pumpkin and bacon fritatta bound with egg whites, (save yolks for hollandaise, or welsh rarebit)
  • Chinese style veges bound with one egg to make a continental omelette. All prepared night before
  • Pumpkin pancakes using coconut flour, shredded poached chicken
  • My all time life saver - Chick peas. Sounds like Bub off Forrest Gump (boiled, fried, flambey, lol) These are great as a standby for eating on their own or in soups, stews, salads, as they tke on the flavour of what they are cooked in.
I agree with most others comments, that your blood type will not suit someone else's (can and cannot eat) list. Just RECORD the level and make a note of it. I have a great XL spreadsheet, for recording stats and outcomes, am happy to pass it on.

But as for PORRIDGE, I canny eat it nay more man!
 
due to my culture, many old folk believe porridge is good for health. so the diabetics have porridge 3 times a day, the wife will insist that porridge is good and cook porridge all three meals.

i have a college who are diabetics, when i told him that porridge is not good for diabetics, i was brush off. even having meals with my dad, he would say that porridge is good, as we eats less. but in fact he does not realise that its causing more harm than good.

i saw a show on diabetes on television. the specialist on the show insist that diabetes cannot be cured, but he also mention that we could live without carb, which we thought we couldnt.

so here in asia, diabetic thought porridge and congee could do good for their health, but it did the opposite.
 
i used to have porridge (4 table spoons - cooked in microwave for 4 min with 4 sweeteners and a splash of water and milk) as i was told it was slow releasing carbs!

Then after testing many times i found it seemed to rocket my sugars in minutes!! ( 5 - 20 in an hour)

I tried many variations; water, on its own and different milks) but just decided to inject more fast acting longer before i ate.

I have not tried almond milk yet...any good?
 
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I am much better with raw oats rather than cooked porridge. You probably think that sounds awful, but a couple of tablespoons of rolled oats with the same amount of Greek yoghurt and a few berries. Delicious! And far less likely to spike my BG since it is lower gi than cooked.

Not that I am eating grains at the moment (in theory) but I will be, if I ever ease off on the really strict low carb thing.
 
I'll take that spreadsheet from you Tony if you don't mind. Cheers!
 

A lot depends on how you make porridge. If you do it the Scots way with water, salt, and cream, then it would def be better.
 
Gosh; who resurrected this thread? I haven't seen it before.

In many ways porridge makes a handy breakfast for me: it's relatively easy to prepare first thing in the morning and because it's slow release, it keeps me feeling full through the morning, which lots of other things don't. I make it with 25 g of porridge oats (no special brand, just Mr Aldi's finest and cheapest), made with water, salt and a teaspoon of stevia. I tried adding berries but it seemed to spike my BG quite a lot, so didn't persevere. I haven't tried making the porridge with milk, because I suspect it would also adversely effect my BG, but a breakfast of the porridge/salt/water/stevia combo (together with a cup of coffee with semi skimmed goat's milk) seems to raise my levels by anything between 1 and 1.5, but very seldom beyond these parameters. That's acceptable to me, so I stick with it, much though I'd like to make the porridge with milk and then add clotted cream and golden syrup...
 
Special K porridge ,2 1/2 mins microwave , lots of different flavours , measured portion , lowest carb one I've found and very good
 
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