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Diet
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Welcome to the forum.
This link has lots of good suggestions for modifying meals. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Making substitutions for the high carb foods, butternut squash, swede or celeriac instead of potatoes, edamame bean or black bean pasta instead of normal pasta, cauliflower rice or add lots of veg to bulk out meals.
It rather depends on what you like and what you have at the moment.
Thanks for this.
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If you shop in Lidl they have some useful frozen items, the stir fry is quite tasty, there are three types and there is a vegetable medley without sweetcorn which is handy for stews and soups, and frozen berries - they have a fair selection of fresh stuff too, but I have been buying frozen as the weather is so bad at the moment and I don't want to use the car.
My advice is:
1. Get yourself a Blood Glucose meter and 3 pots of test strips (= 150 strips), a lancer and some lancets (just a few since no need to change them every day or even week). Make a food iary so you know which carbs you eat and roughly how much, measure Bg spike from meal by testing just before and then 2hrs after first bite. Aim for up ti a 2.0 mmol rise, certainly a 3.0 rise or over means too many carbs in that meal. Two popular cheap (test strip) meters are SD Gluco Navii & the Spirit TEE2+
2., Either use DietDoctor web site (or just Google) to find carbs per 100gms of produce you like. Anything above 20gms per 100 is considered high under 5gms per 100 is low. I eat between 20gms and 40 gms carbs per day, most eat more than that, but some need to be on even less than me. You can google supermarket products before you go to get a good idea of what you want. Unprocessed meat & fish have 0 carbs; eggs a minute amount, animal fats and fruit fates (olive, avocado, coconut) are good, many of us thing seed oils (wrongly called 'vegetable oils') are not so good for us.
1. Get yourself a Blood Glucose meter and 3 pots of test strips (= 150 strips), a lancer and some lancets (just a few since no need to change them every day or even week). Make a food iary so you know which carbs you eat and roughly how much, measure Bg spike from meal by testing just before and then 2hrs after first bite. Aim for up ti a 2.0 mmol rise, certainly a 3.0 rise or over means too many carbs in that meal. Two popular cheap (test strip) meters are SD Gluco Navii & the Spirit TEE2+
2., Either use DietDoctor web site (or just Google) to find carbs per 100gms of produce you like. Anything above 20gms per 100 is considered high under 5gms per 100 is low. I eat between 20gms and 40 gms carbs per day, most eat more than that, but some need to be on even less than me. You can google supermarket products before you go to get a good idea of what you want. Unprocessed meat & fish have 0 carbs; eggs a minute amount, animal fats and fruit fates (olive, avocado, coconut) are good, many of us thing seed oils (wrongly called 'vegetable oils') are not so good for us.
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Welcome to the forum @Jax60
There’s a meal planner and some helpful information here
Low-carb diet and meal plan
Eating a low-carb diet means cutting down on the amount of carbohydrates (carbs) you eat to less than 130g a day. But low-carb eating shouldn’t be no-carb eating. Some carbohydrate foods contain essential vitamins, minerals and fibre, which form an important part of a healthy diet.
Anything under 130g of total carbohydrate intake per day is considered low carb. The idea of keeping a food diary is a good one. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content (not just ‘of which sugars’) in your meals and snacks - it doesn’t have to be gram-perfect, the nearest 5-10g is fine. It might sound like a bit of a faff, and will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu.
Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the diary might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
If you like the idea of using a BG meter to check your response to different meals, you will probably need to self fund your BG meter. The most affordable meters members here have found are the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Tee2 - which both have test strips at around £8 for 50
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