What to have for Breakfast?

Hi Angela I have the same breakfast every morning. I have Total greek yoghurt with a few chopped nuts, flax, sunflower and pumpkin seeds mixed in and a sprinkling of cinnamon. Don't feel hungry until lunchtime and it's very low carb.

It woudldn't suit me as I can't process carbs at all in the morning, teh oats or the banana and especially the dried fuit would send me high.

I find dried fruit gives me a big spike.

every morning for the last 2 yrs a bit boring i know but i can rely on it and it keeps you full with no bg spikes or big rises. 25g of lizis granola(tesco £3.49) tablespoon of flaxseed, 10g of mixed sunflower and pumpkin seeds, small hanfull of alsorted nuts (walnuts brazils and hazel) and strawberrys or rasberrys with milk and coffee. i get about 0.5 rise with steady bgs for about 3 hrs

Hi Angela,

Wow! Your doctor is advising you to eat an awful lot of carbs for breakfast :shock: Banana is a complete no-no for me (unless baked into low-carb chocolate and banana muffins, but that's another story - although I do have one of those for breakfast sometimes ) Oats are also terrible for spiking my BG - and I haven't been brave enough to try dried fruit! If I were you, I would not touch that combination of food for breakfast (or at any other time!) I was given similar advice and ate porridge with an apple cut into it - the highest I measured two hours after that was 26! Haven't done it since and haven't listened to HCP dietary advice since either! As for not testing - you must! If doctor won't provide you a kit, try to find the money to buy one - that's what I did - and as soon as you show unacceptable BG, go back to you doctor with the evidence - they stopped arguing and wrote me a prescription as soon as I rang them with a 22 BG complaining of inadequate care!

So, what to eat? Well, you could bake yourself a batch of muffins and keep them in the freezer - they make a nice change and are very quick to grab when in a hurry - a couple of minutes defrosting in the microwave and a quick 10 second blast on full seems to sort them :lol: I posted a recipe for low-carb ham and cheese muffins on here a while ago - you'll probably find it if you do a search. They only have about 3.5 to 4g carb in them. Once you've got the hang of baking them, you can adapt the recipe for all sorts of flavours.

How about half an avacado sliced with 2 slices of ham cut into strips (or nice crispy bacon), some walnuts and a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds? I wouldn't want it every day, but it's very filling, tasty and doesn't do much to your BG (although it is obviously high in fat).

Smidge

2 Weetabix every morning, with semi skimmed and sweetener, for the last 2 years or more, suits me just fine

Hi, you mention having low carb breakfasts. My daughter is nine, diagnosed last sept, struggles to eat high carb at breakfast which we assumed she needs as she is low when she wakes (3-4) and low at lunch time (3-4). She refuses to eat a mid morning snack at school of any sort (too embarrassing having to eat when others don't, and have insulin, she doesn't want to be different). We just try to get her to eat at least 20g carb of cereal and toast, avoiding sweet cereal. Should she be eating less carbs? I thought now she is on a pump, she could eat absolutely anything. Although that definitely is not true ... should she eat more breakfast?

Hi ginx

Adding some protein would help. I've seen several newspaper reports recently showing that adding an egg to a child's breakfast seems to give them more energy and helps them to be more alert in the morning. Perhaps a boiled egg with the toast.

Cheers
Ailz

Smidge....

Do you have a low carb recipe for chocolate and banana muffins you could share with us please???

I had a flax cracker this morning crisped for 30 seconds in the microwave (worked a treat!) with a little bit of blue cheese

followed by one of my flaxseed muffins and cream cheese.

Strange but true... and
YUM!!!

Sparkles.