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Much as others have said, keep going as it takes time, just don't get disheartened with the morning FBG, it's some crazy stuff that doesn't make sense, going on 10 yrs T2 and still can't sort my FBG out, hopefully you will sort it soon,good luck on your journey!!
 
B - flack 9bar with a cuppa
S - mini packet of pork scratchings
L - salad with home made bacon crustless quiche
D - chicken rogan josh with cauliflower mmmmmmmmmm
Sugar free jelly and cream later if I need it
 
Breakfast - Greek yoghurt with fresh pomegranate seeds, flaked almonds and flax seed. +2 = 6.1
Lunch - 1 slice of buttered Hovis seed sensations toast (thanks @Bluetit1802!) with tin of mackerel fillets in olive oil, lettuce and baby tomatoes on the vine . +2 = 7.3
Supper - slices of left-over home-roasted chicken, 1 Paul Rankin outdoor bred sausage, Mediterranean roasted vegetables and Jerusalem artichokes fried in garlic butter. Sugar-free jelly with cream. + 2 = 6.4. Yay ! to Jerusalem artichokes!
 
B: breakfast slab and coffeencream
L: 11g bag salted popcorn (6g carbs) and 500ml green smoothie, crustless quiche
D: jerk chicken in butter, 500ml green smoothie

The smoothie effect is kicking in.
I feel great.
And Mr B has asked if I'm making one tomorrow? - for 3 days in a row.
 

Can I ask what you put in your green smoothies?? Do these have any carbs in at all?
 
Can I ask what you put in your green smoothies?? Do these have any carbs in at all?


Hope this helps
 
Hope this helps
Thanks!
Saved me ferreting Rose's post out

There is also a link in my forum sig to a webpage giving lots of green smoothie recipes suitable for type2s.

My usual default smoothie (60% veg, 40% fruit) is this:

Half a big bag spinach or kale
A huge courgette
Maybe some cucumber
1/3 punnett of frozen pineapple chunks or a couple of apples
1/3 punnett frozen berries (blue, straw or rasp)
Half an avocado or a few macadamias or cashews
Cold water to give the right consistency

Makes about 1.5 litres (3-4 portions) at a milk shake consistency.
Raises my blood glucose less than 2 mmol/l at 1 hr.

But please test your reaction to ANY of these recipes, and reduce the sweet fruit, as necessary.
 

I will say only one thing,.......................... Mango
 
B... Watermelon, strawberry, spinach, kale, courgette smoothie
L.. 9bar, pear
D.. Brocilli, cauliflower, leek, creamy cheese bake .... Could only eat a small portion, it's sooo filling. Ooh I sprinkled some toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds on top, after baking.
 
Even if you swap it for the pineapple?





(Frozen Mango Daquiri,..............)

Almost certainly. And wot if I tried it, and it did spike me???
I'd still have half a mango staring back at me, DARING me to eat it.

I'm too much of a wimp to try...
 
I've been drinking green smoothies and juices for just over 1 year and I choose fruit ingredients that I've tested and tested and I know they don't spike my blood sugars.

But I'm just being cautious here and would say if anyone's going to try any new food, it's so important to choose fruits that you know either dont spike you ... But I'd still test.. And if you're experimenting with new fruits, it's even more important to test, which I'm sure you do anyway.

Ideally a diabetic friendly green smoothie should have an abundance of veggies and only a minimum amount of fruit


@Brunneria Would you agree on the above? Is there Anything I've missed out?
 
Almost certainly. And wot if I tried it, and it did spike me???
I'd still have half a mango staring back at me, DARING me to eat it.

I'm too much of a wimp to try...

I have frozen mango in my freezer (From ASDA or Tesco). Just sayin'. Does Mr B not like mango?
 

Total agreement.

@AndBreathe , You are determined to torture me, aren't you? It's me that can't be trusted.
The evils of mango (puréed with cream, a dash of lemon, and frozen into icecream... ) are well nigh irrisistable. Only by not buying can I maintain my holier-than-thou-my-body-is-mango-free-temple-santimoniosity
 
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B: Edam omelette
L: veg soup, Meyer lemon
D: two Quorn sausages and two fried eggs
Snacks: creamy decaf, bag of sour cream and pepper popcorn, an avocado

I hope @cold ethyl is ok this evening. She is braver than I am!
 
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