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Porridge Oats

Some of the receipe Brooks on the website have receipe with oats


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I have porridge (the on CVes with the Scotsman in his kilt on the front!) almost every time morning with 1 per cent fat. It keeps me going until lunchtime. I have been having this since I was diagnosed in March and I am doing very well! I think you have to test before and after my BG levels were high to start but then dropped and have been fine. Keep testing it, it's gets better with time!

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The only way to know if porridge suits you is to test before and 2 hours after and see if it spikes your blood glucose.

We get posters to who do this and are HORRIFIED at how high their blood glucose goes, yet others manage porridge daily, with steady bg.

I'm one of the ones who can't tolerate oats in any form. Used to LOVE porridge.
 
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Husband takes porridge every morning, made Scots way with water and a slug of cream on top. His readings never go too high on it. If he takes potatoes he goes sky high.
 
It's hardly a low carb food, but as @Brunneria said, you need to test to find out for yourself if you can manage it. But adding cream cream to it is less likely to cause problems than the porridge itself and may slow down any spikes.

Alicki said:
Some of the receipe Brooks on the website have receipe with oats
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And some of the recipes are very far from being suitable for diabetics on low carb diets.

Robbity
 
I wondered whether it was spelled porage or porridge and set about finding out. It's called porridge unless you have the one with the kilted man on it when it is called porage. It's a sort of trade mark you see.

Notalot of people know that.
 
fumanchu said:
Husband takes porridge every morning, made Scots way with water and a slug of cream on top. His readings never go too high on it. If he takes potatoes he goes sky high.
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That could well be due to the slug of cream. I think he has hit on a winning formula there. I hope it's extra thick double cream.
 
Brunneria said:
The only way to know if porridge suits you is to test before and 2 hours after and see if it spikes your blood glucose.

We get posters to who do this and are HORRIFIED at how high their blood glucose goes, yet others manage porridge daily, with steady bg.

I'm one of the ones who can't tolerate oats in any form. Used to LOVE porridge.
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Me too, just a small bowl of porridge, even with loads of double cream in it, sends me above 10.0 every time, whether morning or evening. But everyone is different, so as Brunneria says, you must test to find out.
 
it depends on why you are low carbing: if it's just to control your blood sugar then test before and after eating them and see if your body copes ok.

However, if you're on a low carb diet to lose weight, then it could quite possibly throw you out of ketosis and stop the weight loss
 
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