Breakfast Cereals

[Phil65]

Hi all,

just thought Id' give you an update on my current cereal de choix....Weetabix Crunchy Bran. Mike you said you'd be interested in hearing what that does to bG levels, well, I can proudly confirm my readings this morning were as follows:

6.45 - 5.2 (had 35g Crunchy Bran, 170ml skimmed milk and a sliced banana)
7.45 - 6.5
9.15 - 4.9

so it looks as though for me, CB is the perfect cereal...although this being diabetes, this might not work for others.

But what I would say is that if you're lookngi for a good brekkie cereal and like CB, give it a go. 🙂

Mmmmmm might have to try these.......Cheerios and proper porridge are the only cereals I can eat without a spike!

 

[Dory]

good luck Phil - let us know whether they work for you! 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Well my fallback brekkie is ONE Weetabix and hot milk and although it does indeed raise my BG it isn't all that fast really (about 90 mins) or more than 2, so that's ok. 18g with the milk.

Or one slice of toast with a smear of marmlade, call that 20, but that goes up 3 within the hour.

Of course if you want it to fill you up for a lon time, you should always choose protein above carb, cos that does it. Cook a frittata, cut it into portions, fridge it and have a slice for brekkie.

Or cheese on Ryvita.

You should always always eat breakfast - eldest daughter has just lost 5 stone by eating brekkie! Didn't change anything else cos there wasn't owt to change. She added the brekkie first cos she assumed she'd need to cut down on summat else and voila! Dropped off her.

Doesn't need to be much - but it must be enough to kick your metabolism up the backside. You could always have a larger portion of fruit and yoghurt, but esp if you put the fruit in yourself and therefore have more fruit as well as yog - try a full fat one not a low fat whatever the dietitian says - cos the fat will then slow down the sugar in the fruit!

 

[trophywench]

slightly off subject but I looked up DAFNE courses as I was interested in seeing how it differed (if at all) from the scant advice I was given from my DSN. the website said that unless you were registered at the surgery or hospital etc where the clinic was run from, you couldn't get a place!

Is that right? Shame if so.....

Well all hospitals are sposed to offer carb counting courses Dory, they may not actually be DAFNE but there are many courses which also meet all the NHS guidelines these days - a lot of them are firmly based on BERTIE, and the people at Bournemouth train the HCPs delivering it.

With either course once the HCPs are signed off as being competent (and yes, BDEC or DAFNE staff come to the hospital and witness the staff delivering a course or two to real live patients before they sign em off) they are on their own to a large degree, the difference being the BDEC courses are cheaper because the hospital have to produce all their own written materials and call their course something else, not BERTIE - whereas all the DAFNE material is branded and you have to use it - the hospital/PCT have to pay for it too! (dunno how true this is but yonks ago I was told that a blank DAFNE flipchart costs over ?250)

If you want to do it but there isn't one convenient in your area, then do the BDEC one online. I did that first then the local offering, and the one I attended has much more in it than the online one, it has to be said - a lot more anatomy for starters - but it is most certainly a lot better than nowt. You do get lots of 1 to 1 and also learn things from what other people do that works for them (or doesn't) in whatever circs - like on here but in person LOL

 

[Dory]

thanks TW. i think from the sounds of it my hospital runs the BDEC/DIY course - they did briefly show me non TM'd pics of plates to eyeball food, but that was it. 3 or 4 pics from memory, which took about 10 minutes, then i was given a 10(ish) page A5 booklet with 'common' foods in it (it didn't have things like aubergine so that sat on my shelf for a few weeks then went in the bin as I went onlnie to build my own glossary).

But have now got Carbs and Cals and this site so am armed and ready to tackle whatever D throws at me 🙂

 

[Laura davies]

I like the new oat bix about 30g carb for 2 no wheat in it. I like 1 in the morning 🙂

 

[Bloden]

Probably never tried 90% of the cereals on sale, tend to stick with scotch porridge oats or all bran, failing that 2 slices of toast with peanut butter or marmite smothered all over.

Which peanut butter does everyone eat? I can't find one that doesn't make my bg spike, even the sugar-free ones.😛

 

[KookyCat]

Which peanut butter does everyone eat? I can't find one that doesn't make my bg spike, even the sugar-free ones.😛

Meridian whole peanut butter, no added salt or sugar and has extra fibre because they include the husk, I also buy their hazelnut butter, cashew butter and pumpkin seed butter (love a nut butter!). None of these do bad things to my blood sugar, but if I eat a lot of cashew butter it does tip up slightly. Peanut butter on oat biscuits (Nairn's) is my snack of choice...hmm. Blimey might need one right now.

 

[Bloden]

Cheers, Kookycat. Will check them out when I'm in UK in July. Mmmmm...cashew sounds lu-ush. 🙂

 

[KookyCat]

Cheers, Kookycat. Will check them out when I'm in UK in July. Mmmmm...cashew sounds lu-ush. 🙂

The cashew is my favourite nom, nom! Holland and Barrett is the only place I know sells it, but they do some of them in buckets for the super keeno (aka me!).

 

[Bloden]

Buckets?! It's a good thing I'm going in the car!

 

[KookyCat]

Yes, actual buckets, more like a sandcastle bucket than a milk pale but a bucket nonetheless