Snack ideas please???

[Dottybagpuss]

Hi All

I am Type 2, diagnosed around 6 years ago, and until now treated on medication (including the last year on Victoza). However, have just begun using insulin and now really buckling down to keeping track of blood sugar levels and behaving better where diet is concerned. My big downfall has always been a total love of chocolate and butter!!

My problem right now is that my evenings are spent on my own, my partner being a night worker and leaving for his job at 7.30pm. This is the DANGER TIME, as I'm sure lots of you can relate to. My eating regime is fairly good through the day until we hit mid to late evening, when both hunger and boredom hit me like a sucker punch, and before I know it, I am searching the cupboards and fridge for something, anything, to munch.

Oh yes, I can happily have an apple, or banana, or 2 tea biscuits, BUT I just cannot seem to get rid of the URGE to have something sweet and sugary. So any suggestions for snacks which would help to satisfy me without being naughty would be most gratefully received. I am also trying to lose weight as well as control my diabetes. I am 59yrs old, and have been fighting the flab almost all my life. I am also a severe osteoarthritis sufferer, about to have a knee replacement, and therefore have been unable to exercise for quite some time.

Don't you just sometimes feel that everything is against you!!!

Thanks for listening
Dotty

 

[cteld]

One of my favorite snacks is fresh coconut, eaten in chunks. It's surprisingly satisfying, nice and crunchy and a bit sweet too, and has lots of good fat that carries me over, either when I want a bit of dessert or for a "munchies" snack.

To minimize the work of opening the darn things, I waste all the coconut water and simply smash the coconuts within plastic bags against the concrete ground. Then I rinse the coconut pieces off, pat them dry, and pop them in the oven uncovered at 250 F (sorry, too lazy to do a proper UK conversion) for 20-30 minutes. Then I pry the pieces of coconut meat off of the thick outer shell (this is easy after toasting them as described), and store them, thin fibrous skin and all, in a plastic bag. I freeze most of them, leaving about 3 day's worth in the fridge.

Just be sure to keep the whole coconut in the fridge until you crack it open (it'll mold really quickly) and take a quick taste after they're open to make sure they're still good - the meat should taste sweet, not acrid.

To eat them, break off a piece and just munch. If you leave the fibrous skin on, be a little cautious about eating too much until you know what's comfy for your tummy.

You can do other awesome things with fresh coconut to make low carb snacks. It really is MUCH better than the dried stuff.

 

[mbudzi]

I know the feeling. The urge to munch something. for me it's when I pick up a book ... that always used to signal cup of coffee and bar of chocolate. I'm hard wired to NEEEEEED it now.

So I peel a load of carrots, celery, red pepper and keep them in the fridge, in a bag with a splash of water. Then I get a tub of phillidelphia cheese or humus and dip away.

 

[Grazer]

Bags of pork crackling! Zero carbs and yum! And cold hard boiled eggs with salt! And walnuts! (some carbs but good and don't seem to have much effect on BG for me)

 

[lucylocket61]

I have TMJ and neuralgia

any ideas for snacking which dont involve any hard food like carrots or nuts please?

 

[dawnmc]

Shame on you cteld wasting coconut water think it costs over £3 a litre in tesco

 

[Dottybagpuss]

I have TMJ and neuralgia

any ideas for snacking which dont involve any hard food like carrots or nuts please?

Hello Lucylocket61. I am trying to figure out what TMJ stands for, and I just know that when you tell me, I am going to kick myself for not thinking of it!! :shock:

Cheers
Dotty

 

[Dottybagpuss]

Thank you all for your helpful replies and ideas. The coconut one sounds good, but sadly, the only coconut I like is covered in milk chocolate and called "Bounty"....

I certainly could do the chopped up veg with philly for dipping, and I love the idea of the hard boiled egg with salt.

So thanks everyone. You have given me "snack food" for thought!!

Dotty

 

[Patch]

If you like Bounty, you'll want to google that old low-carb favourite "Coconut Bark".

Might just fill the void left by Bounty Bars! :thumbup:

 

[Paul1976]

I carry Mini Peperami's and Mini-babybell cheese round when I'm out and about and the fresh air makes me peckish-No hardship either as I loved cheese and Salami for years before diagnosis. 8)

 

[lucylocket61]

TMJ is this: http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Temporomandibular-Joint-Disorders.htm

in my case cause by an injury.

 

[cteld]

Shame on you cteld wasting coconut water think it costs over £3 a litre in tesco

Hi Dawnmc,

Ha! If it's anything like what's available in the U.S., that's probably a different sort of coconut water - the water from young coconuts. This stuff, while yummy, is from grown-up coconuts who have (so I've heard, anyway) lost most of their healthful zip. It's yummy stuff, but far as I know has no magical properties. Saving the stuff means spending ages penetrating the shell and then draining the water. When I'm not up to that, but I'm desperate for the snacky food, I sacrifice the water.

 

[Dottybagpuss]

Lucylocket61
Re question about TMJ

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Sorry to hear that you suffer from this, and I hope that you find ways to cope.
I wish you well with your management of the condition.

Dotty

 

[Dottybagpuss]

If you like Bounty, you'll want to google that old low-carb favourite "Coconut Bark".

Might just fill the void left by Bounty Bars! :thumbup:

Hi Patch
Just googled coconut bark, which I have to admit I had never heard of, and I must say it sounds delicious in all its varying recipes. I might just try to make it, and I will let you know how it goes! :wave:

Mind you, I don't think ANYTHING is ever going to fill my "real chocolate bar" void!!! :crazy:

Dotty

 

[Defren]

Turkey or ordinary ham with a little dollop of philly cheese wrapped up. Sugar free jellies with a splash of single cream, I also snack on a few strawberry's.

 

[Dottybagpuss]

Turkey or ordinary ham with a little dollop of philly cheese wrapped up. Sugar free jellies with a splash of single cream, I also snack on a few strawberry's.

Mmmm all sounding good to me. Shopping day tomorrow, so I now have some ideas of what to add to my trolley.

Dotty

 

[claymic]

i am becoming a big fan of sugar free jelly. its carb free - minimal calories. i made a big batch and now i can have a few tablespoons when i feel hungry...

 

[Defren]

i am becoming a big fan of sugar free jelly. its carb free - minimal calories. i made a big batch and now i can have a few tablespoons when i feel hungry...

I buy the little individual ones, strip off the top, little sploosh of single cream, bye bye snack attack. The ham and philly is the same, just four little rolls works wonders.

 

[Anonymous]

Today I made the jelly with half a pint of boiling water. Let it cool, added 100ml of double cream and blitz it a couple of times. I now have one and a half pints of sort of mousse in the fridge. I might just go and get the bowl I promised myself when I made it.