what to eat when hungry

[123jo123]

Hi me again with another question

im trying to eat and wait for my 2 hour reading before eating again. Aiming for 6 food stops. Breckkie. snack lunch snack dinner snack. However im feeling starving so can i eat protein inbetween. Chicken or something. will that affect my blood sugars.

Still learning - and it feels like a steep curve

 

[Northerner]

Yes - meat, nuts (small amount of carbs in some, but OK as long as it's just a small amount), cheese etc. 🙂 Also, a favourite of a lot of people here, sugar-free jelly 🙂 I get the pwdered stuff in sachets that you make up with hot and cold water and set in the fridge, works out very cheap!

 

[trophywench]

You can do worse than an egg.

You can go a long way on an egg, normally! Omelettes are mega filling, even though we all think of em as consisting of air.

You can even make a mega omelette aka a frittata with at least 3 or 4 eggs, and fill it with mixed veg, bits of chopped up ham, whatever you fancy. Even fruit! - chopped up strawberries, yummy. It's supposed to be about half an inch thick when its cooked. If it stays runny on top when it's cooked underneath you invert a large plate over the pan and then (with oven gloves, obviously, invert the thing onto the plate, then slide it back in the pan to cook the other side (same as you do with a Spanish omelette)

Let it go cold, then cut into wedges. A slice is your snack or you can put salad with it and make it lunch. If it's fruit, you can have a drop of cream with it, and it's either a snack or your pudding! Put the wedges in a plastic box in the fridge and you have several days' supply of instant carb-free eats!

 

[Caroline]

Many people like celery and dips and one friend loves celery and pineapple together. I find a stick of celery with a little smmoth peanut butter quite filling.

If you need a mess free snack while you are working try slicing up a variety of fruit and veggies, some veggies like carrotts lend themselves very well to being eaten raw.

I would add a few words of caution. While fruit is the healthier option to biscuits cakes and sweets, it does have naturlly occuring sugar, some more than others.

The odd mars bar or slice of cake is a treat so don't deprive yourself, especially now it is begining to get colder.

 

[Austin Mini]

trophywench your omelette has me drooling. Theres six eggs in our fridge too and an odd tomato mmmm

 

[Mark T]

...If it stays runny on top when it's cooked underneath you invert a large plate over the pan and then (with oven gloves, obviously, invert the thing onto the plate, then slide it back in the pan to cook the other side (same as you do with a Spanish omelette)...

My technique here is to pop it under the grill for 5 minutes to finish off rather then turn over - but either technique is good.

I like to pre-cook some chopped mushrooms, onion and courgette first in a little sunflower oil and then put the egg mix on top to cook the omelet together. If you do the grill technique then a little chopped smoked or cured ham and some grated cheese thrown on top for the finish works well.

In Spanish omelet they do potato mixed in with the egg. I wonder how well something a bit lower in carb, such as aubergine or cauli might do instead. Anyone tried that?

 

[trophywench]

Yup - myself and our Chinese take away used to do a mean Span Om ! - all the things they put in Yung Chow fried Rice - only without any rice!

So bits of meat, peas, peppers, other veg, onions, chopped up prawns - you name it, if it was savoury it was in there!

A proper Span Om is far worse than just spuds - it's caramelised onions (ie fried till they are really brown which increases the natural sugar content even more!) plus fried garlic, plus fried chopped up pre-boiled spuds, and then lob the beaten eggs in. Should not be anything else in it to be authentic.

Bloomin lovely - but not low carb !

 

[StephenM]

As a change from a nibble of cheese with celery stick or two a pickled egg with a few peanuts.

 

[Northerner]

As a change from a nibble of cheese with celery stick or two a pickled egg with a few peanuts.

Oh yuk! Pickled eggs! 😱 When I was a student we used to go in a pub and there was a jar of pickled eggs behind the bar. One night we challenged each other to eat one in one go - probably the most revolting thing I have ever eaten 😱 Just shows how tastes can differ!

 

[Medusa]

i have a protein shake mid morning, usually starving way too early for lunch and bg is stable after breakfast so i have a shake, stops me feeling hungry just long enough to last til lunch time and does not have any effect on my blood sugar 🙂 result

 

[Austin Mini]

Pickled eggs, a favourite Army NAAFI delicacy of the sixties.

 

[Nicky1970]

Seafood (crab) sticks make filling snack.

 

[Copepod]

Can't beat eggs from your own garden ducks, made into omelette with chives, beans, tomatoes etc also from garden. Ducks convert calcium from snail shells to egg shells, thus removing plant eating pests.

 

[StephenM]

Oh yuk! Pickled eggs! 😱 When I was a student we used to go in a pub and there was a jar of pickled eggs behind the bar. One night we challenged each other to eat one in one go - probably the most revolting thing I have ever eaten 😱 Just shows how tastes can differ!

Have you tried pickled eggs since then? Our taste buds tend to change as we age. Often people find beer quite unpleasant on first encounter (hence the sales of sweeter alchopops) and most people are well into their twenties before they really start to appreciate wine. When I was in the States I saw pickled pigs trotters - even the thought of eating them was off-putting...

 

[Northerner]

Have you tried pickled eggs since then? Our taste buds tend to change as we age. Often people find beer quite unpleasant on first encounter (hence the sales of sweeter alchopops) and most people are well into their twenties before they really start to appreciate wine. When I was in the States I saw pickled pigs trotters - even the thought of eating them was off-putting...

Actually it's not so much the pickling - that just made them a bit more disgusting! It's the texture of hard-boiled eggs I dislike, the way that the yolk sticks to your teeth and the cold white has no intrinsic flavour. 😱

 

[Austin Mini]

Actually it's not so much the pickling - that just made them a bit more disgusting! It's the texture of hard-boiled eggs I dislike, the way that the yolk sticks to your teeth and the cold white has no intrinsic flavour. 😱

Your supposed to eat the pickled egg with a packet of salted crisp's and a pint of bitter or two.