Enjoyable meals!

[lucy123]

Trying to make sure I have a grip on what I am eating but also feeling quite bored with food.
I thought you may all be able to help by suggesting meals you really like (that are of course diabetes friendly) if you could help and state whether you have for Breakfast Lunch Dinner or snack that would be lovely.

Hope you don't mind me asking.

Also is there any recipe books you like? I have been following a clean eating recipe book for a while but got bored now and need something new but simple.

 

[Mark Parrott]

My food diary is not exactly exciting, but here goes. Im LCHF which i find keeps my blood levels low & im losing weight too.🙂

Breakfast: Greek natural yoghurt & berries or 1 slice of Burgen toast & butter. Weekends usually a fry up without the beans, fried bread or hash browns.

Lunch: If im out i usually take a Lidl high protein roll with ham or cheese or tuna. If im at home i usually have an omelette.

Dinner: Cottage pie with celeriac/sweet potato mash, Sausages (high meat content) with veg & celeriac gratin, stir fry with courgetti instead of noodles, indian curry with 1 poppadom & smallish portion of bulgar wheat (great lower carb rice alternative.

I dont skimp on puddings either. I make a lime cheescake with a base of ground almonds & coconut & sweetened with Stevia. Also sugar free jelly or a couple of squares of 85% dark choc.

If im peckish during the day, i munch on peanuts.🙂

 

[SB2015]

Do you have a spare space at your table Mark?

My meals are
Breakfast porridge with a spoon dipped in honey

Lunch: Lidl roll with ham with Spiraliser salad of courgette, carrot, cabbage, ...

Evenings: we alternate week on week off cooking and aim for carb total of 30 g
(New to this as I got away without cooking for 30 years. I marked and prepared lessons whilst my husband cooked so ewe could then eat together)
I tend to pick a cook book and then do swaps to get the carbs down if necessary.
Favourite at present is Hemsley and Hemsley
Courgetti spaghetti is a big hit but cauliflower rice not so good.
Celeriac mash very good.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Im still experimenting with cauli rice. Been too wet so far.

 

[lucy123]

Thank you -some interesting ideas here - what are Lidl protein rolls?

I am looking for quick fixes as found I was getting stuck in the kitchen for hours when I tried to be really good.
Need to get back on yogurt and berries for breakfast. Cottage Pie with sweet potato mash is always good as it lasts a few days.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Lidl high protein rolls are dark brown rolls with lots of seeds. They are easy to spot as they are triangular in shape. Most people on here find they dont affect blood sugar much. They are also quite big & very filling so some just have half at a time. Im greedy though & stuff a whole one down me.

 

[Alan.tnh]

Hi Lucy, this was yesterday, dinner was those ingredient's put together in a "pie" recipe on the food section, (chicken, tomato, basil pie)
The ingredient's in snack section are a cheesecake, minus the Brazils, and Walnuts. Hope this helps Al

 

[Mark Parrott]

Ive made a pizza using a similar base. Tastes great but you cant pick it up. Needs a knife & Fork.🙂

 

[Alan.tnh]

yeah I blind bake the cauli before adding the layers not sure I could pick it up tho. Also drys it a bit, and when I have cauli rice as a side I fry it off which also helps dry it.

 

[DeusXM]

Breakfast - omelettes, fritatas etc. Chuck in some veg if you're trying to get some more vitamins in. A dash of soy sauce and fish sauce added while beating the egg infinitely improves any omelette or scrambled egg dish.

Lunch - salad's good - nice big handful of leaves, add in ham, chicken, salami, bacon, cheese, whatever

Tea - Roasted, grilled or seasoned meats with steamed veg - think steak and broccoli, bunless burgers, pork belly and chicken in dry-rub. You can also bulk stuff out using sweet potatoes in place of regular potatoes, or using cauliflower as mash or rice.

None of this stuff takes long - most dinner meats can be seasoned in less than a minute and simply popped in the oven for however long it needs with no further input. Plus, if you're steaming veg, keep some for the next day and then you can chuck it in an omelette, which only takes a minute to cook.

 

[lucy123]

Thanks guys - these are excellent. When you read ingredients on packs of food what carb and carbs of which sugar values do you look for?

 

[khskel]

Don't look at the sugar values on their own it's the carbohydrate values you want. The sugar is just a subset of this.

 

[DeusXM]

When you read ingredients on packs of food what carb and carbs of which sugar values do you look for?

It really depends on what your personal limits are. As a T2, you need to work out how many carbs per meal you can safely eat without spiking your blood sugar and work from there.

The figure you need to look at is whichever one is most directly relevant to the amount you are eating. There is no point arbitrarily deciding that you're going to refuse to eat anything with more than 10g of carbs per 100g, for example - as you might not be eating anywhere near 100g of whatever it is! So go with the 'per portion' amount (if you're eating a 'portion'), and use the 'per 100g' figure to calculate the content if you're eating something other than a portion (which means knowing the weight of what you're eating first!).

As a general rule, I suspect most T2s will start to run into problems beyond 30-40g per meal, which for comparison is less than one sandwich. I personally aim for less than 50g a day in total. Remember, ALL carbs are effectively 'sugar' and your body doesn't differentiate between 'natural' or 'artificial'. The 25g of carbs in a banana are, biologically speaking, exactly the same as eating 5 teaspoons of sugar out of a bag.

 

[robert@fm]

Hi Lucy, you might like to use the forum search to look for the previous discussions of LiDL Protein Rolls. I've never tried them myself as I'm housebound and I doubt that it would be practical to get my carer to buy some (and LiDL don't deliver), but from what I've read they're great. The only problem is that not all branches make them, and if your local one does you have to get there sharpish as they are hugely popular! 🙂

 

[lucy123]

Thank you - and Robert thank you for the further info on Lidl rolls. I will have to take a look and see if they do them locally.

 

[AndBreathe]

Im still experimenting with cauli rice. Been too wet so far.

Have you tried stir frying the cauli rice (with or without a small amount of oil, and/or spices? Alternatively, grating it, via the food processor for me, then oven cook for a short while? It's been a while since I did cauli rice as a cauli is over £6 here, unless frozen, which isn't my preference.

 

[lucy123]

Yes I do have cauli rice quite often. I grate, tsp water and micro. 😉

 

[lucy123]

My food diary is not exactly exciting, but here goes. Im LCHF which i find keeps my blood levels low & im losing weight too.🙂

Breakfast: Greek natural yoghurt & berries or 1 slice of Burgen toast & butter. Weekends usually a fry up without the beans, fried bread or hash browns.

Lunch: If im out i usually take a Lidl high protein roll with ham or cheese or tuna. If im at home i usually have an omelette.

Dinner: Cottage pie with celeriac/sweet potato mash, Sausages (high meat content) with veg & celeriac gratin, stir fry with courgetti instead of noodles, indian curry with 1 poppadom & smallish portion of bulgar wheat (great lower carb rice alternative.

I dont skimp on puddings either. I make a lime cheescake with a base of ground almonds & coconut & sweetened with Stevia. Also sugar free jelly or a couple of squares of 85% dark choc.

If im peckish during the day, i munch on peanuts.🙂

Hi Mark, which yogurt do you buy - have you found one low in sugar?

 

[Mark Parrott]

I always go for the full fat versions as these are lower in sugar. Lidl's do a great Greek yoghurt thats very thick as thats how i like it. Currently got Onken which tastes ok but is very runny.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Have you tried stir frying the cauli rice (with or without a small amount of oil, and/or spices? Alternatively, grating it, via the food processor for me, then oven cook for a short while? It's been a while since I did cauli rice as a cauli is over £6 here, unless frozen, which isn't my preference.

Haven't tried frying it yet, but will do next time. Wife hated it so much It's hard to get her to try it again. She low carbs with me. Except for chocolate & crisps.🙄