Quick lunch time food

[Al29085]

Hi,
I have type 2 diabetes and need some help.

Can anyone suggest something quick and easy for lunch. I do like a sandwich but trying to find something that is lower in carbs and is easy to make, with minimal preparation🙂

I have also seen online that Huel do quick ready meals, but not sure this would be good for low carb lunch.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

 

[MrPixels]

A few things here... https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/recipes/recipe-search-results?search=lunch

 

[Leadinglights]

Hi,
I have type 2 diabetes and need some help.

Can anyone suggest something quick and easy for lunch. I do like a sandwich but trying to find something that is lower in carbs and is easy to make, with minimal preparation🙂

I have also seen online that Huel do quick ready meals, but not sure this would be good for low carb lunch.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Partly depends on whether you are eating at home or need stuff to take to work.
Salads which can be a whole variety of things not just boring lettuce, tomato and cucumber. There are some good ideas for those in the food/recipes forum with cooked meat, cheese, eggs.
Omelette or home made soup, scrambled egg or cheese on toast.
Fish like tuna or mackerel.
You could have an open sandwich with just 1 slice of bread. Danish open sandwiches were a big thing in the 1960ies (yes I am that old to remember those at a super little cafe in Bowness on Windermere)
Alternatives to bread Ryvitas, Kvarg's crispbread.

 

[Vonny]

Carr's Melts are just 2.5g carb per biscuit. I often have 4 of those for lunch with a liberal amount of brie followed by strawberries, chopped nuts and double cream. Minimal prep either eating at home or at work. Sometimes just take cubed cheese in, though my partner favours hard boiled eggs to take into work (yes he too has succumbed to low carb even though he isn't diabetic!)

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I made a great salad the other day with a hard boiled egg, nuts, seeds, cherry toms, cucumber, grated carrot, and some slightly tired cabbage that I shredded (which is what I was trying to use up.

Not something I would generally make, but it was cracking!

If I was trying to keep carb count down at lunch more generally I can imagine making a big tub of the base of it at the beginning of the week and taking some every day. Some with eggs, some with cubes of cheese. maybe even some tuna or mackerel?

Yum!

 

[Lucyr]

Salad, soup, open sandwich (just make your sandwich and don’t put the lid on and you’ve halved the carbs)

 

[Felinia]

Wraps, using lettuce leaves or a thin omelette

 

[Sharron1]

Hard boiled egg, avocado and a couple of oat crackers does the job.