Burgen Bread is loathsome

[Madeline]

I see I’m not the only one struggling with the NHS dietary advice.

 

[Ljc]

I see I’m not the only one struggling with the NHS dietary advice.

Nope your definitely not alone.

 

[Ljc]

I got the low fat, plenty of ‘healthy’ carbs char too, plus a booklet to back up all the nonsense she spouted. I filed it in the recycling, someone will be wiping with it soon

She’s going to have kittens when she sees my food diary, but I’m only slightly overweight, and have abnormally low cholesterol, so I figure fat is my friend.

Working up to the hard stuff, it’s a bit of a shock after being a lifelong Galaxy lover.

Use you good BG control and cholesterol levels as defence

 

[Sharron1]

She went off on one and you’d only had half a choc eclair 😱.
After lots of disagreements with my nurse about my diet , we have come to a compromise, we just don’t mention it

We haven't arrived at that relationship yet but no doubt we will - god knows what she will say when she learns that I have been self testing...😱😱

 

[Ljc]

We haven't arrived at that relationship yet but no doubt we will - god knows what she will say when she learns that I have been self testing...😱😱

Practice your 1st aid as she’ll probably have a canary fit lol.
But don’t worry you’ll soon get her trained up lol.

When you joined here, did you know what a bunch of rebels you were joining

 

[JMyrtle]

Oh how I agree, the stuff is totally disgusting! Thought I was the only one!

 

[Amigo]

I take a totally different view to this. The nurse (not a DSN), I see annually, has no interest in what I’m eating and never asks. She just says, ‘it’s your diabetes, do what works for you’.
I certainly wouldn’t be eating only half a chocolate eclair as they’re quite low carb relatively speaking.
If someone questioned me for testing, I’d be asking them what it had to do with them!

It’s our body, our condition and our consequences so never accept medical tyranny! 😎

 

[Madeline]

I’ll be gritting my teeth and trying cloud bread at this rate.

The single most disgusting thing I have ever tried was a Slimming World orange ‘cake’. I use the term cake in the loosest possible way, because when it was cooked and tried it turned out that I’d basically made an orange flavoured oven baked washing up sponge. It was absolutely rank.

I debated throwing it out for the birds, but I like birds so I didn’t. I then thought about washing the windows with it, but who wants windows with a light covering of orange scented egg? So into the bin it went. What a waste of eggs and oranges. That’s why SW works, 90% of their stuff is inedible, so you starve.

 

[Karsten]

Indeed. Apart from those people who like celery or radishes, I don't think they actually have taste buds 😱 😉

Heinz Tomato soup.. special ingredient -- Celery !!

I put two sticks of celery in all my own home made soups.
Don't like veg but you gotta eat it to keep sugars low so make I soup.. cabbage, leek, kale, spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers and chill flakes
add Quorn or chicken mushrooms after with the broccoli or cauliflower. Often add some cream or corn flower..
just blend it all , cook in bottom of steamer and steam broccoli or cauliflower on top.
Use stock from bones, skin of a Sainsbury grilled chicken plus a stock cube
makes 3+ meals and keeps my sugars in single digits.. (just;-)

Celery is a food that takes more calories to digest than it contains.. and is a good probiotic as is leek

Budgen bread isn't the tastiest but lasts forever and isn't too bad toasted.
I buy it on offer freeze and then I know I have some bread if I get a bread urge..
Mostly avoid bread now.. along with potatoes and most carbs.. except chocolate..

ASDA sell a Polish Rye bread with no additives. That is also a great probiotic too and tastes rather nice toasted.
The small slice is just big enough to have a sliced boiled egg on top.

 

[Madeline]

Has anyone else tried flaxseed powder with any success?

 

[Dave W]

I can't stand Burgen bread, but I guess it's a case of 'horses for courses.' and a matter of personal taste and choice.
Going off at a slight tangent, there's an amusing diaglogue between Boswell and Samuel Johnson regarding oats.

• Samuel Johnson: In England we wouldn't think of eating oats. We only feed them to Horses.
  Boswell: "Well, maybe that's why in England you have better horses, and in Scotland we have better men".
  • Conversation in response to Johnson criticising Boswell for the latter's Scottish habit of eating oats for breakfast.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I got the low fat, plenty of ‘healthy’ carbs char too, plus a booklet to back up all the nonsense she spouted. I filed it in the recycling, someone will be wiping with it soon She’s going to have kittens when she sees my food diary, but I’m only slightly overweight, and have abnormally low cholesterol, so I figure fat is my friend.

Working up to the hard stuff, it’s a bit of a shock after being a lifelong Galaxy lover.

Why? you're a grown up.
The nurse sees thousands of diabetics.
She'll help the ones she can, she'll still get paid for the ones she can't.
If you ignore her advice, she simply marks it on your record that she told you, and what your response was.
Then moves onto the next patient (early, so it actually helps her out to be honest).

 

[Madeline]

I’m not so sure, it’s at our GP surgery - she’s just one of the nurses there, and where I live it’s still very rural, 1950’s-ish. It’s all very personal, everyone knows everyone, etc. Give you an example, when I felt lightheaded, which tripped this all off, my GP popped round three times that day.

And she’s so in your face.

 

[robert@fm]

Celery is a food that takes more calories to digest than it contains

I suspect that this is an urban myth. Anyone up for debunking it?

 

[Madeline]

I suspect that this is an urban myth. Anyone up for debunking it?

Me, it’s the devil’s food, I can’t imagine he’d be so dumb as to make it negative calorie.

 

[robert@fm]

Auntie says, no such thing as negative-calorie food. 😱😛😉

 

[Eddy Edson]

Has anyone else tried flaxseed powder with any success?

I just figure you get the same kind of thing with chia seeds, and you don't have to grind them.

 

[Madeline]

Auntie must be right. Auntie would never lie to us

 

[Madeline]

I just figure you get the same kind of thing with chia seeds, and you don't have to grind them.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122190/

 

[mikeyB]

Linseed oil goes on cricket bats as far as I’m concerned. And soya is cow food, and destroying rain forests. And I’m not a bloody budgie so I don’t eat seeds. I am at one with Eddy’s sentiments. Just because something looks like food, doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

Most seeds don’t get digested. That’s how the plants have evolved. So most pass through undisturbed, and get pooped out in a nutritious growth medium.