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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2498641" data-attributes="member: 238814">Fbg 6.3My food experiment.It included me eating different foods, just things I fancied eating that I haven't eaten for awhile, instead of thinking 'what is the absolute best food to eat to control diabetes.'But it included the addition of one new vital food.To start from the beginning. A couple of weeks ago, or so, a particular seeded bread I bought online had gone up in price. The 'bread' is literally nothing but seeds (a lot of people gave it bad reviews because of the solidness of it, idiots -of course it is going to be a solid bread). It had been £3.99 for 4 small slices. And I had been prepared to pay that because it did not raise my blood sugars at all. It has now gone up to £9.99 for the same 4 small slices. That is just not viable (not on my state pensioner's income).Years ago, pre diabetes diagnosis, I used to buy an intensely seeded bread in Nantwich market. Two loaves would last me a fortnight. This was when J was alive and we went all over the place. But when he was gone, obviously I am not going to drive a day's trip just to get a loaf of seeded bread from the market.I did experiment with a loose seed mix for awhile (14 years ago) and that helped lower the glycemic index of the foods I was eating. But time and stuff got in the way, and like all things we stray off the good path for a bit!So I went to get some loose seed mix. Not as easy to obtain any more. It wasn't in my regular shops. Finally found some when I met my friend in England. But it wasn't going to last long. I did find some in a supermarket near here. But it was a quarter of the size for 6 times the price. Absolutely not!More searching. Ended up at the local Polish shop. Found different seeds there. With the aid of Google translate I identified (!) and bought several packets of seeds. I need to go back and ID more of them.So my experiment was this.Adding about 3 to 4 teaspoons of mixed seeds to whatever my meal is that day. Even to eggs, to bacon, to meat etc  as I am cooking them. My cooking is grilling and so they might get roasted a bit on there.I eat one meal a day.Prior to my seed experiment I was adding a cup of miso soup to my diet. Especially if I felt like a little something mid afternoon. But no solid stuff with it as I get bad heartburn at night if I eat late. And that miso soup drink also lowered my in the day blood glucose readings.But I still got one spike in the day. I alway have got one high reading at some point of the day, or in the night of over 10, maybe even 12.1 for no apparent reason at all to me. It didn't appear directly related to food.However, having the miso drink once a day, did reduce that spike to under 10. And so the spike would be 9.something. But that still wasn't good enough for me. So, hence the mixed seeds experiment.I started the daily miso drink about a month ago. And then the mixed seeds on my once a day meal about a fortnight ago. I am eating a little more carbs now, maybe about 30 grams, but always I am eating those carbs with seeds on them.Although my fasting blood glucose is still in the 6's, I do not get those horrible over the 10's spikes at some other random point in the day. I can feel them when they happen.And my blood glucose readings in the day, with this new regime is mixed seeds and a miso drink, can now go as low as 5.something, but never over 8. This is the most even keel I have ever managed to get my readings in a 24 hour period.So, that is my recent diabetic food and blood glucose readings journey.Creative today...a kaleidoscope of the approach to Flint Castle...I can see evil faces in this![ATTACH=full]53903[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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