Hello I am Gail 53 year old , new to type two ,my blood tests were 50 then 48 waiting for results of third blood test.I am to manage it with diet.Finding daytimes are fine, but nights I'm like a crazed animal looking for food.My usual snacks would be crisps, bread or potatoes.I am finding it difficult to find something to snack on that is satisfying and healthy.Any suggestions?
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Hi Gail, welcome to the forum.
Snacking can be tricky as for many, having bread and potatoes can cause spikes, especially over night. It's worth having a look on the forum as there are plenty of meal examples that may help.
We've got some info on our site that may also be of use https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-t...h-diabetes/healthy-swaps/healthy-swaps-snacks.
Snacking can be tricky as for many, having bread and potatoes can cause spikes, especially over night. It's worth having a look on the forum as there are plenty of meal examples that may help.
We've got some info on our site that may also be of use https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-t...h-diabetes/healthy-swaps/healthy-swaps-snacks.
Hi Paul I'm finding i can manage breakfast usually porridge,bran flakes or whetabix.Lunch either soup or 2 rice cakes with 2 eggs or similar.Evening meals fish or chicken with lots of veg and have cut down on potatoes. Its when I'm sitting at night I agree Greek yogurt with fruit is great but then I am Iooking for something else .☹
I know your pain. Im prob going too far away from sugar and carbs at mo but afraid if i start ill not stop.
Love bit of very dark chocolate 85% cacao or walnuts or babybel cheese. Happy to see what other dadvice comes through please god.
PAUL
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I am an evening forager too.
I decided to go with my nature and now I make my evening meals to fit in with that.
So I make myself things like buffalo wings with hot sauce and I make celeriac crisps with no added sugar sweet chilli dip and I make myself keto recipe pizza.
I love things like salami and olives and cheese and I will make a platter up of these things and because I know for me that having something sweet signals my brain that mealtime is over - I make myself a small chocolate mousse with whipped double cream, no calorie syrup or sweetener, and a small amount fo 100% cocoa powder or I have a pot of Hartleys no added sugar jelly or 10 cal jelly with a drizzle of cream, or a few berries (I keep them frozen so I can use a couple at a time)
The link to my Facebook page where I collect recipes and tips and wrinkles for very low carb food ideas is in my signature below.
I also recommend looking up Heavenly Fan on Youtube - she has some amazingly good recipes for very low carb fries made from almond or coconut flour.
I recommend deciding how many carbs you will allow yourself a day and then factoring in 'naughty food' into that allowance and then you can have them without doing yourself any harm.
Celeriac crisps.
Just use a peeler to get very thin slices of celeriac and then shallow fry in extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
Hot buffalo wings.
Cook wings in fan oven for twenty minutes then dip in Franks Buffalo Wings sauce and return to oven for another ten - fifteen minutes. I served mine with greek yoghurt mixed with a little mayonnaise and some garlic powder and grated cucumber.
I decided to go with my nature and now I make my evening meals to fit in with that.
So I make myself things like buffalo wings with hot sauce and I make celeriac crisps with no added sugar sweet chilli dip and I make myself keto recipe pizza.
I love things like salami and olives and cheese and I will make a platter up of these things and because I know for me that having something sweet signals my brain that mealtime is over - I make myself a small chocolate mousse with whipped double cream, no calorie syrup or sweetener, and a small amount fo 100% cocoa powder or I have a pot of Hartleys no added sugar jelly or 10 cal jelly with a drizzle of cream, or a few berries (I keep them frozen so I can use a couple at a time)
The link to my Facebook page where I collect recipes and tips and wrinkles for very low carb food ideas is in my signature below.
I also recommend looking up Heavenly Fan on Youtube - she has some amazingly good recipes for very low carb fries made from almond or coconut flour.
I recommend deciding how many carbs you will allow yourself a day and then factoring in 'naughty food' into that allowance and then you can have them without doing yourself any harm.
Celeriac crisps.
Just use a peeler to get very thin slices of celeriac and then shallow fry in extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle with salt.
Hot buffalo wings.
Cook wings in fan oven for twenty minutes then dip in Franks Buffalo Wings sauce and return to oven for another ten - fifteen minutes. I served mine with greek yoghurt mixed with a little mayonnaise and some garlic powder and grated cucumber.
In new enuf to things usually do awaking one and two hrs after breakfast but not fine tuned it yet.
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Ah - those high carb foods are not going to be helping. Twice a day you eat high carbs and your pancreas sends out insulin to cope, hopefully. In the evening it might do exactly the same thing but then your blood glucose levels drop and trigger the hunger.
Many type twos over produce insulin, so cutting down on the carbs will probably help as your response to eating changes.
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Those wings would be even better if they were thighs! But no idea where to get Franks sauce from. I'm guessing that it's sugar free?
I'm going to whip up a batch of chocolate mousses and pop some in the freezer. I might chuck an egg white in the mix to lighten them though.
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I get Franks hot sauces from Tesco online. They have between 1.8 - 3.0 g carbs per 100g depending on which one you get - there is no sugar or sweetener in the recipe and they have around 0.3g naturally occurring sugars from the peppers they are made with. They are the same company that make French's yellow mustard in a squeezy yellow plastic bottle which is 1.6g carb per 100g
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I go old school with my mustard and use colemans powder or Dijon. Can't abide the "american" type yellow mustard!
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I like it on my hotdogs with low sugar ketchup and keto hotdog buns and it is much lower carb than Colemans and Dijon.
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Welcome to the forum @Goggy
Sounds like your metabolism is coping well with your diet and keeping your BGs low in the diabetes range (and HbA1c of 48 is just at the point where a diagnosis would be made)
Sorry to hear about your snacking urges in the evenings. Over the years I have found my evening nibbles to ebb and flow. But I am aware that there is certainly an element of habit for me. If I get into the habit of eating something late evening for a few weeks, then I gradually develop hunger pangs at/just before that time. And that snacking becomes self-sustaining, both mentally and physically
Sometimes I intentionally break the cycle for a few weeks, which really helps.
My go-to nibble has generally been nuts and seeds, but I know that chunks of cheese can help squash hunger pangs too if the calorie load isn’t too much for you. 🙂
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