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Laura davies

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I've started eating yoghurt Greek low fat i add pumpkin seeds or berries. Was thinking a sprinkling of honey but is that a no no?
 
I add honey to Greek yoghurt sometimes, but it is basically very concentrated sugar so it might make you peak. I have full fat yoghurt and when I use honey I have flaked almonds and a half teaspoon of honey, I don't get a BG pop from that but it might be the fat in the yoghurt so probably best to check and see. There's nothing wrong with honey in fact proper raw honey has lots of micronutrients, and it's scrummy. If you struggle with honey I find Apple puree is nice to sweeten yoghurt, I basicall chop a couple of apples into small pieces add some water, a cinnamon stick and some nutmeg and boil until it goes mushy. Tesco also do unsweetened Apple sauce which is easier 🙂
 
Hello Laura. Unfortunately as Kooky Cat says honey is basically sugar and some bees are actually fed sugar water. Why not try a small amount and test to see what effect it has. I have learnt since joining the forum that we are all individual in our sugar tolerance. I cannot eat oats without spiking my BS. (DN finds this "hard to believe".) The apple puree sounds nice too, thanks for the tip Kooky. 🙂
 
Honey is low GI so you wont get a spike like you do with sugar. It's about 4 carbs a spoonful though.
 
As long as you are matching it with insulin, there's no reason why you can't add some honey 🙂

My son was eating honey from a local beekeeper at breakfast time all through spring and summer, because we'd heard it might help with his hayfever to eat honey made from the local pollens! Commercially produced honey is strained and put through spinning machine to keep it smooth, but natural honey very quickly crystallises into solid sugar crystals, so he was eating a layer of sugar on his toast. Didn't mess up his BGs though, as he took extra insulin and gave it a few minutes earlier too. 🙂
 
Hello Laura. Unfortunately as Kooky Cat says honey is basically sugar and some bees are actually fed sugar water. Why not try a small amount and test to see what effect it has. I have learnt since joining the forum that we are all individual in our sugar tolerance. I cannot eat oats without spiking my BS. (DN finds this "hard to believe".) The apple puree sounds nice too, thanks for the tip Kooky. 🙂

My dietician is also very sceptical of my reaction to porridge oats, I can tolerate them just but they push my two hour post meal reading to the upper limit. Oat cakes, flapjacks and the like don't though, so I assume it's the magic combination of milk and oats for me. I love apple sauce, you don't need much to sweeten things and you can bake with it instead of sugar or oil/fat. I make apple cheesecakes that are popular with strained yoghurt, a digestive biscuit and spicy apples and flaked almonds. Since they're in a ramekin they are small and rather tasty but on the "healthier" side for a pud. Ooh might have to make some for later 🙂

Incidentally if I make a Bircher muesli type breakfast with yoghurt, oats and sultanas with almonds it doesn't spike me at all :confused:
 
Ooh! You do make some yummy sounding things Kooky. You will have to write a recipe book. 🙂
 
If I have a cold, I make myself a hot toddy last thing at night; one sachet of cold remedy, a teaspoon of honey for sweetness and as a natural antibiotic, a shot of whatever booze I have handy (usually rum these days), topped up with hot water. 🙂
 
I bought local honey and matched with insulin. It made my Greek yoghurt with nuts more tasty. I love your ideas for cheesecake kookycat sounds yummy Redkite i had heard that local honey is good for hayfever sufferers especially locally sourced. The hot toddy is the one Robert
 
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