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Porridge loves me!

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Stitch147

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And I love my porridge!
Most mornings I will have porridge for breakfast, nothing fancy, just good old Oat so simple. I usually have breakfast when I get to the office, and its quick and easy to do.
This morning my BG levels was at 7.3 before brekkie, I was feeling hungry this morning and knew I had a couple of morning meetings to get through so decided to have 2 sachets rather than just the one to fill me up a bit. 2 hours later tested my levels again and a very happy 6.1.
Porridge is definately my breakfast friend.
 
Lucky you! Sends me into stratosphere:(
 
Its crazy how foods affect people in different ways.
 
One sachet would do for me, let alone two! 😱 Might be worth doing a test after one hour, just to make sure it's not spiking you up and then dropping back down quickly (hoping not, of course!)
 
I'll try that tomorrow.
If Im having a day of not many meetings one will do me, but with meetings my lunch will be slightly later than normal, so no snacks etc before then. 2 gets me through.
 
Northerner said:
One sachet would do for me, let alone two! 😱 Might be worth doing a test after one hour, just to make sure it's not spiking you up and then dropping back down quickly (hoping not, of course!)
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Ooh, enjoy it, Stitch! I also loved Oats so simple or Quaker Oats and had it most days until I did the hour test and found out it didn't love me! But then I discovered plain old Tesco oats (as posted on another thread) and it seems much better for me 🙂. Weird, isn't it?
 
Stitch147 said:
And I love my porridge!
Most mornings I will have porridge for breakfast, nothing fancy, just good old Oat so simple. I usually have breakfast when I get to the office, and its quick and easy to do.
This morning my BG levels was at 7.3 before brekkie, I was feeling hungry this morning and knew I had a couple of morning meetings to get through so decided to have 2 sachets rather than just the one to fill me up a bit. 2 hours later tested my levels again and a very happy 6.1.
Porridge is definately my breakfast friend.
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Stitch - Was your commute, including your walk (train to office?) within that 2 hours? If so, are your reactions different on non-working days?

Nice result though. 🙂
 
I eat my breakfast when I get to the office. Test my blood before I eat then 2 hours after. Of a weekend same routine. I tested this morning 1 hour after eating my porridge and only had a raise of 1.3.
 
In which case, that's an excellent result. 🙂
 
This morning while shopping in Waitrose I found proper jumbo rolled oats, so I'll try that tomorrow and see if it's as good as/better than the plain Tesco porridge I found. I do like a leisurely breakfast...:D
 
I use the jumbo rolledn oats to make overnight oats.
 
Do you know, I had to google overnight oats, as I didn't know what it was...o_O😳....anyway, the jumbo oats affected me about the same as the Tesco oat porridge, so I have a nice choice of brekkie now 🙂
 
Overnight oats are yummy. I sometimes use unsweetened almond milk to make mine.
 
Is overnight oats like Bircher muesli? As in you soak the oats in yoghurt or milk, or whatever's liquid you fancy (Apple juice for some with Bircher)? Yum :D. I've never tried it with almond milk if it's the same concept but might now!
 
Thanks stitch. I got some almond milk on Saturday and used it in my porridge yesterday, and promptly had a hypo after breakfast, I hadn't actually thought about the carb in the milk. I tolerate oats well, but porridge can be a stormy affair for me, I'd long suspected it was the hot milk, because hot milk in coffee sends my blood sugar bonkers, so that might be the key 🙂. My overnight oats and currently soaking so we'll see what happens there 🙂
 
I too love my porridge ! I have a bit of a manual job & I am pretty much perfect till dinner time. Being on a pump I delay the dose & suits me good as it is slow release of carbs. No peeks at all 😎😎
 
KookyCat said:
Thanks stitch. I got some almond milk on Saturday and used it in my porridge yesterday, and promptly had a hypo after breakfast, I hadn't actually thought about the carb in the milk. I tolerate oats well, but porridge can be a stormy affair for me, I'd long suspected it was the hot milk, because hot milk in coffee sends my blood sugar bonkers, so that might be the key 🙂. My overnight oats and currently soaking so we'll see what happens there 🙂
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Was it the unsweetend almond milk? Virtually carb free. I love it and don't have to worry about how much I slosh on
 
khskel said:
Was it the unsweetend almond milk? Virtually carb free. I love it and don't have to worry about how much I slosh on
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Yes unsweetened. I usually have a carton in the fridge because I like to drink it, and I use it to make iced cocoa because with a tiny splash of maple syrup and some good unsweetened cocoa powder it tastes very decadent all blended with ice and for very special occasions blended with avocado (it's nice honest!). I just zoned out when making the porridge and forgot it had less carb than milk, roomy error!
 
Yep, the unsweetened one. Its delicious.
 
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