Trying to get this right

[Peridot]

Would some kind soul have a look at my standard weekly menu and let me know how I'm doing? I'm newly diagnosed with T2 and although I've done low-carbing before, I'm not sure whether this ticks a moderate low carb diet. I do not want to use sweeteners so please bear that in mind

Breakfast - unsweetened stewed apple with full-fat Total greek yoghurt, 2 dates chopped in (for sweetness) and a tsp of hazelnuts. Sometimes a full fat flat white
Lunch - homemade soup (current one has kidney beans for protein and a blob of sour cream on), and a piece of cheese an apple
Mid afternoon - some nuts (with my apple if I've not already eaten it)
Dinner - usually fish and veg (last night was a squid salad), 2 squares dark chocolate and a pear.

I love fruit but am trying to keep the volume down (I can easily eat 8 nectarines for example) and to cool-climate fruit. (Alas for lychees....) I am hoping fhat 2 medjool dates is okay at breakfast because I will not use sweetner and I don't want to use sugar. I figured that my body had to work a little bit harder for the chopped dates than sugar/honey.

Pointers welcome (but please be kind!) and alternative ideas also v welcome.

 

[dawnmc]

All seems good, but for me I would swap for berries, anything ending in berry is ok, but you need to test.

 

[xyzzy]

Sounds fine, like Dawn says you could try berries instead of the apples. I'm partial to a few dates they don't seem to spike my blood sugars badly. Do you test your BG's as that's the quickest way of getting to know if things are OK? If you test and say find the fruit is spiking your BG's then you can reduce the effect by eating the fruit after a meal rather than as a snack.

 

[Peridot]

Yes, I need to order a testing kit and will do - I just want to try and do the right thing and test that as sort of an educated guess.

I like berries but they're so out of season at the moment! Will check out their carbiness relative to pear/apple though. And I never eat just fruit on its own - always with a meal or protein (nuts or cheese)

Thank you both for your help.

 

[dawnmc]

You can buy packs of berries in the frozen section, they are nice warmed through and served with greek yogurt.

 

[Kat100]

I use frozen berries with melted chocolate a few squares, then I have a bit of franks ice cream or you could have cream if you want, a kind person on this site shared this it is really nice, the warm berries and melted chocolate is lovely ......Kat

 

[Robbity]

Hi, definitely try blueberries, they're usually quite sweet and supermarkets (certainly Tesco) should have them year round. I think you'll find they're much lower carb than your current apples and dates. We are still getting fresh raspberries, strawberries and cherries as well at the moment, and packs of mixed frozen berries - look for their "Summer Fruits" pack.

I'm also fairly recently diagnosed T2, and am currently doing a (very) low carb diet. I'm another anti sweeteners person, and love my fruit. It's the one thing that really miss, more even than most other sweet stuff - I had no real problem in stopping all sweets, cake, biscuits, sugar, etc, but crave most(forbidden!!) fruits still.

Have a look here at a thread on what other low carb people are eating - it may be useful?

Robbity

 

[Scandichic]

Yes, I need to order a testing kit and will do - I just want to try and do the right thing and test that as sort of an educated guess.

I like berries but they're so out of season at the moment! Will check out their carbiness relative to pear/apple though. And I never eat just fruit on its own - always with a meal or protein (nuts or cheese)

Thank you both for your help.

You can still get nice raspberries and blueberries at the mo'. If this is your first monitor and you can't have one on prescription, you can order an SD codefree on ebay and the replacement strips are only £7 as opposed to £25 for 50 strips with other brands like accu-check.
I often have poached egg and bacon or omelette or smoked fish and poached egg and this fills me up.