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If it's a day when I do Aquafit, I have a slim shake made up with water/unsweetened almond milk in the ratio 2:1. Otherwise it's an egg, boiled, scrambled, poached with a selection from grilled mushrooms, tomatoes, bacon, 1 small slice toast
For me it is my own granola (toasted oats, nuts and seeds) with Aldi Greek Yoghourt. No dried fruit, that ups BG quite dramatically. Slice of whatever my current home made loaf is, toasted, with a thin spread of my own high flavour marmalade.
I have a cup of tea which I take to my desk and login here to see what all you good folks have to say, and clear out any spammers who might have been busy overnight - that's if @Alan44 has not got there first!
I have overnight oats (oats soaked in water)with mixed seeds and greek yogurt on the days I know I can wait for my insulin to kick in, scrambled eggs on days when I need breakfast straight way before heading out, and a Nature Valley protein bar on days when I need breakfast on the run.
What beats me is when I have porridge, made with my usual Soya milk my reading goes up to 10-11.
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If as I sometimes do I go into Weatherspoons and have a Freedom breakfast (£2.99) comprising of
2 Eggs
2 Slices of Bacon
2 1/2 slices of Tomato
2 Mushrooms
2 Hash Browns
Beans
No toast and drinks extra.
That also takes me up to the same 10-11
Usually start breakfast with a reading of around 7-8 which is on the rise from when I wake up onwards.
Like many others, I have a biggish bowl of Greek Yoghurt (Costco) between 150 and 200g with chopped nuts (normally almonds but currently using brazils and walnuts) and small amount of fruit and a little bit of whole psylium husk. After that I have a fat head dough roll for which I use the Freshwell app recipe, that normally comes with peanut butter although today I had bacon.
I find that this does not cause an overly large rise in BG and I am normally no more than 7.1
I stuck the Bamix with cutting blade into some left over stew and had some lovely hot broth, meat, mushrooms, tomato mixed veges, a pint of stock - it wasn't exactly breakfast, the wind was howling and it woke me up.
After the broth I went back to bed. I've got a wicked cold at the moment, but do feel a bit better.
I have porridge with some sultanas. This gives me a double peaked spike, presumably the first being the sultanas and the second being the porridge. I need to bolus 30 mins before eating it to bring the spike down into range, but it still takes around 2 hours to get back into range so probably for me porridge is too much and I should look for something less carby
I usually alternate between overnight oats with cinnamon or toast with either poached or scrambled eggs. New Year's day was a brunch. Eggs bacon black pudding grilled tomato baked beans and a slice of seeded toast.
my usual breakfast these days is
a mixture of chopped berries - about a handful of strawberries & blueberries, half a diced apple & half a diced pear (the other half I would then eat later in the day)
a few chopped walnuts, some flaked almonds & pumpkin seeds, on Greek yogurt & a splash of almond milk, sometimes topped with flax or chia seeds as long as I’ve time to sit down & eat it
for a grab and go breakfast (if I’m late)
a protein shake sometimes that’s drunk in the car if I’m really late
plus
most mornings (at breakfast time) I also have a daily greens type drink
Depends on the day. Sometimes it is yogurt with fruit and nuts, or cottage cheese with berries. Other times is toast with peanut butter or cream cheese or ham. Occasionally scrambled eggs, when I have some more time.
