I am 68 years old and have just been diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes, I am struggling to work out what to have for my breakast. I dont like yoghurt or avocado's and have been advised to steer clear of cereals. I would love some other ideas please?
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Advice needed re breakfast
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rebrascora
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Do you like eggs?
They are very versatile and quick and easy to cook in a variety of ways. How about scrambled on a nice thick slice of ham with mushrooms and a sliced tomato or I love an omelette with whatever filling I fancy or things that need using up in the fridge, but usually contains mushrooms and onion and cheese and perhaps peppers and chicken or ham and I often have it with a big side salad and a dollop of full fat coleslaw. Very very low carb and very tasty and filling and will usually keep me going until tea time without having to think about lunch. Or you could have steak for breakfast or chops or curry for that matter. There is no reason why you have to have traditional "breakfast" meals for breakfast. We have one member who advocates chops and mushrooms for breakfast. If I have made curry the night before, I really love leftover curry for breakfast.
You could also have a standard full English breakfast with bacon, high meat content sausages (cheap sausages contain rusk which is carbs), eggs, mushroom and tomato but skip the baked beans, toast or hash browns. I occasionally have black pudding although like sausages it contains carbs so just a small portion with mushrooms and egg but served on a bed of cooked savoy cabbage. The cabbage helps to soak up the runny yolk of the egg. The more veg like cabbage and broccoli and kale and cauliflower and salad you can fit into your diet the better, so don't let the time of day stop you from having veggies for breakfast.
They are very versatile and quick and easy to cook in a variety of ways. How about scrambled on a nice thick slice of ham with mushrooms and a sliced tomato or I love an omelette with whatever filling I fancy or things that need using up in the fridge, but usually contains mushrooms and onion and cheese and perhaps peppers and chicken or ham and I often have it with a big side salad and a dollop of full fat coleslaw. Very very low carb and very tasty and filling and will usually keep me going until tea time without having to think about lunch. Or you could have steak for breakfast or chops or curry for that matter. There is no reason why you have to have traditional "breakfast" meals for breakfast. We have one member who advocates chops and mushrooms for breakfast. If I have made curry the night before, I really love leftover curry for breakfast.
You could also have a standard full English breakfast with bacon, high meat content sausages (cheap sausages contain rusk which is carbs), eggs, mushroom and tomato but skip the baked beans, toast or hash browns. I occasionally have black pudding although like sausages it contains carbs so just a small portion with mushrooms and egg but served on a bed of cooked savoy cabbage. The cabbage helps to soak up the runny yolk of the egg. The more veg like cabbage and broccoli and kale and cauliflower and salad you can fit into your diet the better, so don't let the time of day stop you from having veggies for breakfast.
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Welcome to the forum @BillyM
Breakfast can be a tricky one for T2s, because it’s often a time of day when insulin resistance can be higher, so any carbs included in the meal are battling against that.
Some people get on well with porridge. Some find a slice of seedy toast (particularly if the loaf has been frozen and defrosted as this can create a proportion of resistant starch in the carbs). Still others are OK with a smaller portion of a high fibre cereal like weetabix - but you do have to be cautious as some cereals are faster to hit the average blood stream than a bowl of table sugar, according to their GI 😱
Eggs are a popular breakfast staple among our low carbers. Or you can think outside the box and have casserole, stew, or any other low carb leftovers you have in the fridge.
One way to avoid doubt and double-thinking is to get an affordable glucose meter such as the Spirit Tee 2. Then you check your own individual response to different options by taking a reading immediately before eating, and again 2hrs after the first bite. Ideally you’s want to see a rise of less than 3mmol/L by the 2hr mark.
That way you’ll know it’s your own gut’s response, rather than having to rely on something’s reputation - which may not apply to you. Absorption of the same food can vary a lot from person to person.
Breakfast can be a tricky one for T2s, because it’s often a time of day when insulin resistance can be higher, so any carbs included in the meal are battling against that.
Some people get on well with porridge. Some find a slice of seedy toast (particularly if the loaf has been frozen and defrosted as this can create a proportion of resistant starch in the carbs). Still others are OK with a smaller portion of a high fibre cereal like weetabix - but you do have to be cautious as some cereals are faster to hit the average blood stream than a bowl of table sugar, according to their GI 😱
Eggs are a popular breakfast staple among our low carbers. Or you can think outside the box and have casserole, stew, or any other low carb leftovers you have in the fridge.
One way to avoid doubt and double-thinking is to get an affordable glucose meter such as the Spirit Tee 2. Then you check your own individual response to different options by taking a reading immediately before eating, and again 2hrs after the first bite. Ideally you’s want to see a rise of less than 3mmol/L by the 2hr mark.
That way you’ll know it’s your own gut’s response, rather than having to rely on something’s reputation - which may not apply to you. Absorption of the same food can vary a lot from person to person.
Dave_Z1a
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Try the Kvarg high protein yoghurt type things available in supermarkets, about 6 carbs or less in a whole pot, vanilla and raspberry are nice, use it as a 'double cream' to go with a few strawberries or raspberries. Get some low carb bread from seriously low carb company, seeded one is nice, couple of carbs a slice, toast and spread with peanut butter or marmite maybe? Shame you dont like avocados, I nave them every other day with toast, poached eggs on toast on other days usually. How about a nice omelet with cheese or mushrooms? You can get keto low carb muesli, and porridge top with fruit and double cream? Sadly breakfast is a bit limited for us, would love a croissant or cereal, have a look at going continental? Meats, cheeses ?
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I struggle with breakfast too, so I feel your pain. I'm totally sick of eggs!!! I have Greek yoghurt and berries but I am starving within the hour!! Lol I'm going to try overnight oats. Lots of recipes on here. I admire people who can eat cooked breakfast and anyone who can eat cabbage, cauliflower, make and spinach at all, all power to your elbow
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I have the full fat Greek yoghurt with berries and about 20g of a home made 50/50 mixture of Lizi's low sugar granola and Keto Hana granola which adds about 5g carbs whatever the yoghurt and berries are but that is filling enough and I am not hungry for about 5 hours.
Drummer
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Maybe see how steak and mushrooms works?
Perhaps pork chop and stir fry?
I have tinned fish and salad stuff in warm weather but its a bit brisk for that at the minute.
When in a hurry I do scrambled eggs, mix in grated cheese at the end of cooking and them put a finely sliced tomato on top and cover the pan for a little while so the tomato is warmed up.
Perhaps pork chop and stir fry?
I have tinned fish and salad stuff in warm weather but its a bit brisk for that at the minute.
When in a hurry I do scrambled eggs, mix in grated cheese at the end of cooking and them put a finely sliced tomato on top and cover the pan for a little while so the tomato is warmed up.
Taighnamona
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I used to have cereals and porridge and toast etc until I discovered how they were spiking my glucose ( via finger pricks and then a self funded CGM)
I can’t face eggs, cheese, meats etc at 7 am so I have resorted to low carb/ keto bars to have with a cup of tea.
This works for me and then I can have eggs etc later.
I’ve tried various brands such as KIND THINS, NAKD and KETO. It’s a growing market. Most are nut based so you would need to be careful about allergies. I get mine from Amazon but most big supermarkets stock a limited selection and it would be a matter of personal taste. For me the NAKD bars are too sweet.
Lots of good ideas from other responses here. Good luck
Lucyr
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Which nakd bars are you having? Most of them are just dried fruit which is why they’re so sweet, I find them very spiky on blood sugars.
Taighnamona
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I’ve tried a few flavours, cocoa, lemon drizzle etc and yes they are too sweet for me but maybe not for everyone. I’m low carb around 60 per day so at 15-18 carbs one of these is doable but as I said they are too sweet for me. I do get a rise but not too high with them, certainly not as high as I did with toast or porridge. There are other keto bars and I’m slowly working my way through them for taste and lack of spiking.
RichardA
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I have one egg scrambled or fried on toast, the toast (home made) is 12cm round as it is the same size as my small frying pan for my egg and with this I have one of the following -
Mushrooms, one sausage, one black pudding, home made corn fritter, 66gms of baked beans (small tin divided in to 3 portions) or one tomato sliced and nuked in the microwave, so far so good.
Mushrooms, one sausage, one black pudding, home made corn fritter, 66gms of baked beans (small tin divided in to 3 portions) or one tomato sliced and nuked in the microwave, so far so good.
Leadinglights
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The Nature Valley Protein nut bars are only about 12g carb each.
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