BG Friendly Breakfast Ideas?

[everydayupsanddowns]

I was just thinking, while responding to a new member, about the tricky meal that is breakfast.

Most of the ’normal‘ world’s default choices seem to revolve around a hefty whack of carbs... And breakfast is quite often the time of day when insulin resistance is highest, and when the liver may be gleefully dumping glucose to ‘help’ get you ready for the day.

What are your BG friendly breakfast choices?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ll start.

I recognise that it’s fairly easy for me, with the benefit of rapid acting insulin, but even so I find it easier to keep the carb load at breakfast relatively modest on the whole.

I have also found consistency to be a helpful strategy, so that if my mid-morning readings go nuts, I know that I’m doing exactly the same thing food-wise, so it will be my insulin needs that have changed. I tend to let my insulin dose steep for a good 20-30 minutes to level off the rise too.

So Mon-Fri I tend to have one slice of seedy toast (seedy bread is kinder on my BG than non seedy, and while I used to often go for Burgen, I‘ve more recently switched to a type that doesn’t have ‘mono and diglycerides...’ in it).

Weekends are more relaxed, with a chance to walk the dog after breakfast so I can go for croissant with a little home-made jam. I think the butter in the dough helps keep the BG spike under control (well... at least half the time anyway!)

What do you go for?

 

[Kaylz]

45g oats, 180ml unsweetened almond milk and around 30g smooth peanut butter for me xx

 

[Vonny]

Well @everydayupsanddowns, my usual breks is omelette. Sometimes it's with mushrooms (my personal fave) but can also be cheese, or tomato and oregano or, as a special treat, all 3! At weekends I treat self to bacon, eggs and tomatoes, or boiled eggs with one slice of wholemeal toast soldiers. If I'm in a rush during the week, it's a bit of cheese and ham, or nuts.

I actually have less trouble with breakfast than with dinner, as I only have to worry about myself. Dinner times include catering for non-diabetics who expect a good dollop of carbs in the shape of potatoes, rice or pasta! I just have whatever they are having but without the carbs.

Will follow this thread with interest as I'm sure I'll pick up some good brekkie alternatives from other members x

 

[Drummer]

On these warm mornings I tend to start with coffee, that is a couple of teaspoons of very thick cream, cold water, stir to get it smooth and then percolated coffee. I take a large bowl to the fridge and put in meat from the previous day, a bag of mixed salad beetroot radish tomato cucumber celery coleslaw and a slosh of olive oil and vinegar dressing.
If I am rushing off somewhere I tend to go for scrambled egg with cheese and tomato.

 

[Toucan]

I try to eat breakfast as late as I can, as I think as a T2 it is good to have as long an overnight fasting time as possible.
..but about 9.30am is as late as I can usually go and am quite hungry by then.

Most often it is out with the frying pan, in goes some oil and some selection of turkey rasher, egg, mushrooms, and sometime a tomato.
Or other days its Greek yoghurt, blueberries, seeds and cinnamon and occasionally a few chopped walnuts.
Then some times there is a yearning for egg on toast using a slice of LiveLife bread and a gently poached large fresh egg..

But all-time favourite breakfast, usually as a weekend special treat is scrambled egg with plenty of butter. chopped smoked salmon and a sprinkle of fresh parsley.

 

[Robin]

I certainly try not to add a heavy carb load to my already rising BGs first thing, So;-
If I’m straight out of bed and out of the house, a Nature valley protein bar.
If I need to get up and get on with things reasonably quickly, scrambled eggs or half an avocado and some cottage cheese.
If I’ve got 45 mins to spare between insulin and eating, Lidl or co-op no added sugar Muesli, with some mixed seeds sprinkled on, with full fat greek yogurt.

 

[nonethewiser]

60g jumbo oats teaspoon chia seeds cooked in full fat milk, 2 dessert spoons of Greek yogurt mixed in then devoured.

Healthy breakfast been eating it for years, insulin in 30 mins before stops spike, sometimes full english or boiled eggs & toast other times, away for 2 days next week so full english it will be.

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Breakfast 1. 2 slices of bacon and a couple of eggs - fried, boiled or scrambled and some fried mushrooms and a cup of black coffee no sweetener.

Breakfast 2. omelette made with cheese and spring onions and three eggs and butter - decaff coffee to frink.

Breakfast 3. slices of saucisson and two slices of home made keto yeast bread (look for Diedres Bread on Youtube) and butter and coffee
this was today's breakfast. The bread is about 1.5g carbs per slice as it is nearly all fibre. My blood sugars don't budge after eating this. I've tested immediately afterwards, and hourly for three hours after and they don't budge at all. I kept testing because I couldn't believe I'd actually found a bread recipe that tasted exactly like bread but was keto friendly. bad news is it isn't great for anyone with low blood pressure or for men because the flax seeds in it lower blood pressure and can have an oestrogenic effect because they lower testosterone levels. But for ladies of a certain age who have things like PCOS (like me) it is bread from heaven!!
Breakfast 4. Breakfast muffins made with eggs, cheese, tomato (chopped up pieces of the flesh probably about a quarter of a tomato) and spring onion and oregano - coffee to drink

Breakfast 5. spinach or laverbread mixed with wheat bran and psyllium husk and herbs then fried and served with bacon and fried egg.

Breakfast 6. Toast made from home made keto yeast flax seed bread (look for Diedres Bread on Youtube) with butter and eggs.

Breakfast 7. Full fat Greek yoghurt with keto lemon curd mixed in and some chia seeds followed by some ham with cucumber and a cup of coffee

Breakfast 8. Keto quiche made with pastry of almond meal mixed with vital wheat gluten and a tiny bit of xanthan gum and herbs and salt to taste - filling made of eggs and double cream and cheese and tomato and more herbs. Coffee to drink

 

[Docb]

My own granola - toasted oats loaded with nuts and seeds only - with full fat yoghourt followed by a slice of low carb toast with a thin smear of decent marmalade. Adds +3 in an hour on a good day, +5 in an hour on a bad day which settles back to good numbers after a half hours walk for papers and any shopping.

 

[MarkGeordie]

I’ve started eating a handful of raspberries with about 4 grapes thrown in and a cup of tea.

 

[HenryBennett]

From testing I’ve built up a list of ingredients that I can perm from.

Seeded wholemeal toast - one slice only
Sourdough toast - one slice only
Avocado - half a medium fruit, seasoned and mashed
Two eggs - done any way
Ingredients that I can add to scrambled eggs - smoked salmon, diced bacon, a sliced frankfurter, diced tomatoes
Bacon
Sausages
Gammon steak - excellent carrier for eggs instead of toast
Yogurt with blueberries
Home made low carb bread for bacon sarnies
Mushrooms, sautéed
Low carb granola
Coffee, coffee, coffee

I‘m never bored by breakfast, and neither is my wife. She’s not diabetic but eats the same as I do so as to support me. She feels better and is losing weight too. Win/win.

 

[eggyg]

1. Two slices of seeded toast with grilled bacon and tomatoes, that keeps me full until lunch when I’ll just have some Carr’s Water biscuits and cheese. Very low carb.
2.Two eggs on one slice of toast.
3.My latest discovery is Warburtons thin bagels, 25 grams of carbs, I toast one and top with smoked salmon and cream cheese ( full fat). Unfortunately, I’m quite often hungry after 2/3 two hours!
4.Two slices of seeded toast and Whole Earth crunchy peanut butter.
5.And on a Sunday, one small piece of Cumberland sausage, one slice bacon, one fried egg, one hash brown and half a slice of haggis. Two slices of toast. I don’t eat lunch on a Sunday!
I never eat cereal, especially porridge, just can’t tolerate it.
I wait up to one hour after injecting my fast acting before I eat.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

These are all really interesting folks. Thank you!

 

[Inka]

I think consistency is key. I eat the same breakfast most of the time, weigh the ingredients, and bolus the same amount of time in advance. That’s what works for me.

My breakfast is a mix of cereals - a seedy muesli or a lower sugar quality seeded granola with a bran-based cereal, eaten with coconut milk.

I bolus at least 30 mins in advance - and it’s that that means my blood sugar stays in range. Some years ago, I eat pretty much the same breakfast but couldn’t get my spike down. The answer was an earlier bolus - sorted 🙂

I also find eating as soon as I get up helps.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I bolus at least 30 mins in advance - and it’s that that means my blood sugar stays in range. Some years ago, I eat pretty much the same breakfast but couldn’t get my spike down. The answer was an earlier bolus - sorted 🙂

Prebolusing certainly helps me. But I can’t rely on it entirely, as it very much depends on what my liver decides to do that day.

Quite often recently I’ve needed to keep a close eye on my prebolus timing (it always used to be 30 minutes minimum). In recent months, any longer than 20 minutes and I risked a BG crash before the toast started raising things.

Not so this morning... *sigh* I noted that my Libre trace was rising after 20 minutes so waited an extra 15-20 minutes, then had my perfectly normal single slice of toast... which proceeded to hit my BG like a train and I leapt to 11.2 within about 30 minutes. Yet on other days I’d get barely a wobble from the same food choice (yesterday I went from 7.1 to 6.0 over the same time period).

It’s a silly game sometimes.

 

[PhoebeC]

I think consistency is key. I eat the same breakfast most of the time, weigh the ingredients, and bolus the same amount of time in advance. That’s what works for me.

My breakfast is a mix of cereals - a seedy muesli or a lower sugar quality seeded granola with a bran-based cereal, eaten with coconut milk.

I bolus at least 30 mins in advance - and it’s that that means my blood sugar stays in range. Some years ago, I eat pretty much the same breakfast but couldn’t get my spike down. The answer was an earlier bolus - sorted 🙂

I also find eating as soon as I get up helps.

I am the same I bolus well in advance and I can cope with most things in the morning.

I normally have a small bowl of porridge and a slice of toast (full thick white, I am naughty but with two other fussy pants in the house it's easier) or a crumpet.

Weekends I might branch out into another cereal, but it is mainly the same.

 

[mikeyB]

The best low carb brekkie is a Full English, hold the beans and fried bread. No brown sauce or ketchup.

(Personally, I prefer the full Scottish, cos then you get Lorne sausage)

 

[Inka]

Not so this morning... *sigh* I noted that my Libre trace was rising after 20 minutes so waited an extra 15-20 minutes, then had my perfectly normal single slice of toast... which proceeded to hit my BG like a train and I leapt to 11.2 within about 30 minutes. Yet on other days I’d get barely a wobble from the same food choice (yesterday I went from 7.1 to 6.0 over the same time period).

So annoying! That’s the thing that always gets to me with diabetes: you can do everything right and still the silly diabetes will throw in random highs 😡 Or sometimes the ‘diabetes world’ will reset itself and something that’s worked fine for ages will suddenly be totally inadequate. Then, just when you adapt, it can all go back to how it was before.🙄

Never a dull moment with diabetes! 🙄

 

[trophywench]

I'm with Mike on the croissant front - however! if buying bags of them in a supermarket either here in the UK or in France - they have less fat in them than those from a bakery - which are A Lot more expensive. You get what you pay for and I'm well worth it! Apricot jam obviously.