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There are several recipes for low carb bread - some complicated some simple. My favourite when I want a sandwich is 90 second bread. I prefer it made with a teaspoon of full fat cream cheese as that reduces the eggy taste. Let it cool, split in half and toast it, then use for cheese sandwiches, BLT, etc.

 

[Sunnysky]

There are several recipes for low carb bread - some complicated some simple. My favourite when I want a sandwich is 90 second bread. I prefer it made with a teaspoon of full fat cream cheese as that reduces the eggy taste. Let it cool, split in half and toast it, then use for cheese sandwiches, BLT, etc.

Ooh that sounds good - I'll have to try it thanks

 

[Sunnysky]

There are some pretty decent low carb bread alternatives (but none as good as real, fresh, fluffy bread, alas), and even those taste great with a thick layer of butter. Butter is a great comfort food for being filling, creamy, and diabetes is perfectly fine with butter

Cereals like weetabix are a hard one, but would you by any chance like full fat Greek yoghurt with strawberries instead? Or double cream with grated dark chocolate? (Or both together of course. )

Cheese is great, and so are cheese crisps. They're easily made by microwaving thinly sliced or grated cheese for a couple of minutes on a baking sheet.

There are many recipes for low carb cakes as well, so making your own could be an option?


Would your cravings be satisfied with the stilton without the bicuits and the yoghurt without the pear? Or just part of the pear?

I love Greek yoghurt so that with strawberries definitely sounds doable. Fresh cream and chocolate also sound good. I'm not sure about stilton without the biscuits though but I can try it!
I don't particularly like weetabix but will eat it when there's nothing else! I suppose it comes down to meal planning and making sure there are suitable snacks in.
I also like the sound of cheese crisps.
Thankyou for all the suggestions, they're great.

 

[Sunnysky]

I live in Aotearoa/New Zealand, a big food producing country. But our food costs us a bomb,as we have a mafia like grip thing going from two supermarket companies.

Same here re low-carb food being really expensive, especially compared to a cheap sugary food item like weetbix, sadly.

One is in the diabetes zone at an HBA1c of 50 and above here.

My country's target HBA1c's - 48 and less for those under 40 years old, an HBA1c of 53 and under “appropriate for most people”, and an HBA1c of 54-70 if “Hypoglycaemic risk outweighs benefits of lower target”.

I have a friend who lives and works near Helensville, she moved out there about 40 years ago. I think her mother was from there originally.
I didn't realise food was so expensive in NZ as well. I grow a few vegetables here and have broccoli, broad beans, tomatoes and chard on the go atm. We have quite a few supermarket chains here and also lots of food banks as a lot of people can't afford it!
Interesting about the differences in defining diabetes.

 

[ajbod]

Here's the thread where the bread i make is contained.
It is very good, and great for sandwiches, bread and cheese etc.

Low Carb Diet

Hello I've just started a low carbs diet and wondered if anyone could recommend any low carb breads and low carb cheese biscuits. Many thanks John

www.diabetes.co.uk

 

[Sunnysky]

Here's the thread where the bread i make is contained.
It is very good, and great for sandwiches, bread and cheese etc.

Low Carb Diet

Hello I've just started a low carbs diet and wondered if anyone could recommend any low carb breads and low carb cheese biscuits. Many thanks John

www.diabetes.co.uk

Thankyou, thats really kind of you x

 

[CatsFive]

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Hi Tricia
I've started testing just before eating and then 2 hours later. So far I've had some quite good results - my blood sugar was 6.7 before and 6.7 two hours after eating fried bacon, mushrooms, eggs and 1 slice of toast.
I'm not counting carbs atm but just reducing starchy carbs and measuring the effect. My main problem is dealing with the comfort eating which I do a lot of unfortunately. I'm trying to change my mindset completely about how I eat and what.
Helen x

I'm happy to eat cheese, nuts, berries with yoghurt for comfort eating, but the comfort eating is probably what has stalled my weight lose.

 

[AloeSvea]

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I'm happy to eat cheese, nuts, berries with yoghurt for comfort eating, but the comfort eating is probably what has stalled my weight lose.

CatsFive - my understanding of comfort eating is it's usually high-carb food like pastas and baking, pies and so on, and high-carb as in sugary sweets and desserts and what I used to call 'fun food' to my kids back in the day. Ice cream is a classic of course.

And comfort drinking is a definite 'thing' for us too.

If cheese, sugar free yoghurt, nuts and berries was where we go when we want food to soothe and give us pleasure - our species would look very different right now! (And I am including me in there absolutely, before I was diagnosed and what I ate became my new front line.)

My understanding of weight loss stalls is that that is a very natural process for our bodies - to find a point in our metabolism where our body works to keep it there. There needs to be some kind of 'shake up' to get past those weight points. And eating healthy nutritious low-carb food isn't going to be the problem? Not imho at any rate.

So when I say 'substitute' I'm not talking about sugary yoghurt getting replaced with greek yoghurt (a great replacement of course), but when you liked to munch on candy corn and kettle corn pre diagnosis days, on a Saturday night watching movies, you find the small portioned buttery popcorn, and coat it in a yummy stevia sweetened melted chocolate out of the microwave and a sprinkling of coconut! That's what I mean by a comfort substitute .

 

[Sunnysky]

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I'm happy to eat cheese, nuts, berries with yoghurt for comfort eating, but the comfort eating is probably what has stalled my weight lose.

Same here, its always been the hardest thing to deal with for me but hoping low carb will help me to control it more.

 

[CatsFive]

CatsFive - my understanding of comfort eating is it's usually high-carb food like pastas and baking, pies and so on, and high-carb as in sugary sweets and desserts and what I used to call 'fun food' to my kids back in the day. Ice cream is a classic of course.

And comfort drinking is a definite 'thing' for us too.

If cheese, sugar free yoghurt, nuts and berries was where we go when we want food to soothe and give us pleasure - our species would look very different right now! (And I am including me in there absolutely, before I was diagnosed and what I ate became my new front line.)

My understanding of weight loss stalls is that that is a very natural process for our bodies - to find a point in our metabolism where our body works to keep it there. There needs to be some kind of 'shake up' to get past those weight points. And eating healthy nutritious low-carb food isn't going to be the problem? Not imho at any rate.

So when I say 'substitute' I'm not talking about sugary yoghurt getting replaced with greek yoghurt (a great replacement of course), but when you liked to munch on candy corn and kettle corn pre diagnosis days, on a Saturday night watching movies, you find the small portioned buttery popcorn, and coat it in a yummy stevia sweetened melted chocolate out of the microwave and a sprinkling of coconut! That's what I mean by a comfort substitute .

The definition of comfort eating I found doesn't specify what type of food is eaten, though I agree that it's often starchy and/or sugary foods, and in general I don't eat sugary foods.

Yes weight loss does naturally stall, but mine has stalled leaving me still overweight - 10kg more than I was in my early - mid 20s. Losing even some of that 10kg would make hill-walking easier!

 

[AloeSvea]

@CatsFive - you are probably a rare person (thinking about my own not unusual love of kettle corn, macaroni cheese - and oh yes - ice cream, oh and licorice allsorts which I now must close my eyes to on the supermarket ailse, and choccy biccies, and...) (milk shakes, smoothies, bananas!) (ohhhhh and cocktails! Miss those cocktails...) whose idea of comfort-food is cheese, nuts, sugar-free yoghurt and berries! But how marvellous for you.