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ForbiddenForever

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Hi all,
I have been newly diagnosed T2 and wanted some quick grab and go food ideas. I tend to skip breakfast and eat a light lunch at work and low carb dinner at home. I have come across canned mixed taco beans in spicy tomato sauce in Aldi and Asda and would like your advice on whether this would be a good lunch option for work.. here are the contents per half can:
148cal
0.8gfat
0.2g saturates
6.8g sugars
0.93g salt
21.9g carb
I have read that beans are full of carb but slowly digested and wanted to know if anyone else has had blood spikes eating beans (or even heinz baked beans) i just find them to be a filling lunch with can of tuna.
 
I spike with beans so would not eat that. But you might be OK?

Try cooked chicken legs, hardboiled eggs or a few nuts, and green salads, to go with your tinned tuna.
I found some of the brands of tinned chicken in white sauce fairly low carb. If you have access to a microwave take some cauliflower rice to have with it.

When travelling I make peanut butter fat bombs or take a pack of Cheesies as they keep better on hot trains and hotel rooms.
 
ForbiddenForever said:
Hi all,
I have been newly diagnosed T2 and wanted some quick grab and go food ideas. I tend to skip breakfast and eat a light lunch at work and low carb dinner at home. I have come across canned mixed taco beans in spicy tomato sauce in Aldi and Asda and would like your advice on whether this would be a good lunch option for work.. here are the contents per half can:
148cal
0.8gfat
0.2g saturates
6.8g sugars
0.93g salt
21.9g carb
I have read that beans are full of carb but slowly digested and wanted to know if anyone else has had blood spikes eating beans (or even heinz baked beans) i just find them to be a filling lunch with can of tuna.
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Hi, and welcome to the forums.

I avoided beans/legumes for a long time simply because they are high in carbs. I've more recently found through testing that they don't do a lot to my BG at all. However - I don't use ready prepared things like the taco beans you mention - I'd cook anything like that from scratch. I really don't trust processed "ready-mades". The amount of carb in the half-can you mention is over my normal total daily intake. I don't eat baked beans for the same reason

Couple of points - I always wash off the excess starch from beans before and after cooking. This might have something to do with them not pushimng my BG up. Secondly, you can only really find out what happens by trying and testing. If the result is acceptable to you, it's your decision.
 
For quick light lunches I'd always go for eggs, hard-boiled or made into omelette to be eaten as a wrap, cheeses, cold meats. Olives, nuts.
Wrapping meats round cheeses gives the cheap equivalent of expensive "rollitos" and in many more variations.
 
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