Fancy something sweet?

KandyKat

KandyKat

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Type 2
I'm new T2 diabetic. What do people eat if you really fancy something sweet in the early days of diet adjusting? Is it just fruit?
 
KandyKat said:
I'm new T2 diabetic. What do people eat if you really fancy something sweet in the early days of diet adjusting? Is it just fruit?
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Extra Dark Chocolate (70% or more) or Cereal Bars such as Nature Valley or KIND for me. Even then I restricted myself to no more than 3 or 4 squares of chocolate a day (and not all at once), and no more than a couple of cereal bars. I still do.
 
KandyKat said:
I'm new T2 diabetic. What do people eat if you really fancy something sweet in the early days of diet adjusting? Is it just fruit?
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I would eat something sweet - if I fancied it - carbs are carbs, so it doesn't really matter a jot if you eat starch or sugar, it all ends up the same.
The only proviso is if - like me - you can resist anything but temptation, staying low carb, not eating all of the box/punnet/packet should guide you as to what particular sweet food you choose to eat.
 
KandyKat said:
I'm new T2 diabetic. What do people eat if you really fancy something sweet in the early days of diet adjusting? Is it just fruit?
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The website sugarfreelondoner has recipes for cakes, biscuits as well as savoury foods, low carb and easy to make.
Chocolate eclairs are not bad on carbs.
 
Martin.A said:
Extra Dark Chocolate (70% or more) or Cereal Bars such as Nature Valley or KIND for me. Even then I restricted myself to no more than 3 or 4 squares of chocolate a day (and not all at once), and no more than a couple of cereal bars. I still do.
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Thankyou
 
Drummer said:
I would eat something sweet - if I fancied it - carbs are carbs, so it doesn't really matter a jot if you eat starch or sugar, it all ends up the same.
The only proviso is if - like me - you can resist anything but temptation, staying low carb, not eating all of the box/punnet/packet should guide you as to what particular sweet food you choose to eat.
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Thankyou
 
A really really good dark chocolate (70 % or over) does the trick for me...although having said I will have the odd mars bar once in a while..as for cereal bars my favourite ones are KIND...they are seriously good.
 
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I tried Lindt 90% dark chocolate this weekend just gone. I have to say it wasn't especially bitter but it also was in no way sweet and didn't taste like chocolate. I don't think I'll have it again! I'll be sticking with 50g of either raspberries or blueberries, sometimes strawberries.
 
Mark72 said:
I tried Lindt 90% dark chocolate this weekend just gone. I have to say it wasn't especially bitter but it also was in no way sweet and didn't taste like chocolate. I don't think I'll have it again! I'll be sticking with 50g of either raspberries or blueberries, sometimes strawberries.
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Try the Moser Roth chocolate from Aldi that I find is very nice.
 
Mars and snickers are now doing a protein bar
 
Leadinglights said:
Snickers are better than Mars 15g carb per 57g bar as opposed to 22g per 57g bar. Snickers compares well with the Nature Valley protein bars or KIND or Graze
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Good to know because the snickers one tastes nicer as well
 
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