Type 2 diagnosis

Hi and welcome to the forum @teggers88 . Yes it's always a shock when you are told you have diabetes. It always seems to come out of the blue, usually when you are having unrelated tests. If you don't mind me asking what were your HbA1c results ? The HbA1c test is the standard test for diabetes. HbA1c test is used to measure your blood glucose. Simply put the test shows average blood levels over a 3 month period. As for dietary advice I'm going to tag a couple of members @KennyA and @ianf0ster. They both do very low carb diets and may have some dietary suggestions for you.

teggers88 said:

I haven't got time to do the early morning eggs

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Do you like hard boiled eggs?

Just because it’s “breakfast” you don’t need to have breakfast associated foods. Try just thinking about it as another meal. I often have leftovers from the day before, either heated up in the microwave or cold. If your pushed for time in the mornings try making a pack up the night before. Hard boiled eggs, meats, cheese, cold veggies, I love my cold veggies the next day with some mayo to dip in. Good cooked cold veggies are broccoli, Brussel sprouts (I know you either love or hate these) asparagus, cauliflower, roasted celeriac.

You can cook bacon the day before and heat it in the microwave. I sometimes make a big frittata with eggs cheese, ham a few chopped peppers, mushrooms & onions and portion it up, will keep a good 4 or 5 days in the fridge - great hot or cold. If you like omelettes you can make a batch of those, roll them and they keep in the fridge too, again great hot or cold, and a great food to run around with in your hand if you’re pushed for time.

A bit more expensive but if you get it when it’s on offer salmon can be cooked the day before & eaten the next day cold. Anything you’ve had the day before can be heated up.

teggers88 said:

Hi all I've just been told I'm type 2 diabetic but I have other health conditions which mean I'm struggling to find nutritional meals I can eat. I have to avoid wholemeal items, all nuts and peanuts. I'm bad with spicy food. I've always snacked throughout the day with my job being on the road and having sandwich meal deals from supermarkets. I'm lazy when it comes to cooking but will start scratch cooking if that's what will make me better in the long run. Please help me

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I am impressed that you've been told to avoid cereals. They're all really carb-heavy to begin with and many have huge amounts of added sugar. I often think that the ones shouting loudest about how "healthy" they are are the ones that most need to be avoided.

One thing - if you can, try to forget everything you think you know about "healthy eating" and particularly the stuff that regularly appears in the media, daytime TV, Facebook, all that. The low-fat system introduced in the 1980s has resulted in a huge and continuing rise in obesity and T2 diabetes.

I'd strongly recommend eating substantial fresh-cooked meals and eating as much as you need, providing it ain't carby. That means eating proteins and fats instead. I've been doing that for getting on six years now. Results below.

For me snacks - especially snacks bought out - are a nightmare. Almost all are based heavily on carbs. Because they're cheap and bulky, and have a huge profit margin, they seem to be the only things available. So when I'm travelling I make up a couple of ration boxes (I use military surplus plastic food boxes) and they get filled with things like salamis and ham, bacon and gammon, hard boiled eggs, olives, tomatoes, chicken, that sort of thing. If I need to look for a meal, there's almost always somewhere doing bacon and eggs. I've found that when I say I don't want the toast/fried bread/ hash brown/ beans/ chips I'll often get extra eggs.

This DietDoctor website is great at giving you basic info on which foods are high in carb and which foods aren't.


This forum itself is also an excellent resource. We've all been through it and you can ask as many questions as you like.

best of luck

Hi @teggers88 You say that you don't have time to cook eggs. My solution to that was to batch cook hard boiled eggs and keep them in the fridge. Back before I got 'fat adapted' (hence no longer hungry for breakfast) I used to eat 2 or 3 large hard-boiled eggs for breakfast each day. I would boil 6 to 8 of them at a time and once cooled keep in the fridge ready for use. I found them quite palatable cold (like a Scotch Egg without the outside casing). I found that salt & Pepper, or ground chilli or soy sauce or balsamic vinegar would flavour them nicely so I never got bored with them.