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Hi everyone, I am looking for some quick hot lunch ideas. I usually have a salad with some protein (tuna, chicken, bacon or anything left over) but on the colder days I want something warm.....is soup the easiest option? I was going to look at the carb content of pot noodles and other 'pot' c**p - very easy to boil the kettle and fill with water!
There must be other options out there that are better tasting AND better nutritionally....ideas warmly received....
I do a lot of soups, I end up with leftover salad bags and vegetables from supermarket food waste collections for Olio and they are an easy way to use them! I make a batch then put it in individual portion size tubs to take to work.
If you have a microwave to heat soup then you can also make scrambled eggs quickly as well
I make a soup on day before my shopping day .I try to have some celeriac and leek left this is the base and then I add what ever low carb veg I have left over chopped fairly small depending on how much veg there is add water I use marmite to season .I use a pressure cooker but dont cook too long I prefer my soup roughly chopped rather than whizzed but it depends what you prefer .I freeze what is left over from one meal in batches which can be quickly defrosted and heated to take in a flask ,or a tasty supper dish with a splash of red wine
Carol
Hi everyone, I am looking for some quick hot lunch ideas. I usually have a salad with some protein (tuna, chicken, bacon or anything left over) but on the colder days I want something warm.....is soup the easiest option? I was going to look at the carb content of pot noodles and other 'pot' c**p - very easy to boil the kettle and fill with water!
There must be other options out there that are better tasting AND better nutritionally....ideas warmly received....
I'm looking for lunch and breakfast ideas, too. For breakfast I have no fat, no sugar (Fage) yogurt with xylitol, (I find it really sour), cinnamon, almond butter, and some kind of fruit. One day a week I have a boiled egg with LiveLife low carb bread. Lunch is soup one day, salad the next, repeat. I could do with some more meal ideas but bread spikes my BG levels and I don't like fish, shellfish, beans, pulses, chickpeas, grains, most seeds, low fat spreads. I should think Pot Noodles are pretty horrific on the carb scale and taste fairly bad, too! I've scoured the internet but haven't come up with much. I hope you find something.
I'm looking for lunch and breakfast ideas, too. For breakfast I have no fat, no sugar (Fage) yogurt with xylitol, (I find it really sour), cinnamon, almond butter, and some kind of fruit. One day a week I have a boiled egg with LiveLife low carb bread. Lunch is soup one day, salad the next, repeat. I could do with some more meal ideas but bread spikes my BG levels and I don't like fish, shellfish, beans, pulses, chickpeas, grains, most seeds, low fat spreads. I should think Pot Noodles are pretty horrific on the carb scale and taste fairly bad, too! I've scoured the internet but haven't come up with much. I hope you find something.
You probably wouldn't need to add the xylitol of you have full fat Greek yoghurt as it is nice and creamy, not sour at all. you could add some berries or a small portion of a low sugar granola.
You could have eggs a bit more often. Mushrooms, tomato or Avocado on toast, cooked meat, cheese, coleslaw.
There may be some ideas in this link with foods you like. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Just a question.. Are bagels really bad? I had a bagel twice last week and after eating my blood sugar reading was up to 12.1 is this a normal reading for after eating?
@Lumpipdip
Bagels are usually made with white flour, so just like bread, they will push your glucose levels up. Some people might get away with one occasionally, or maybe half of one and then the other half the next day, but they are quite a carb rich food.
What was your premeal reading and was the 12.1 2 hours after eating?
If it was something like a cinnamon and raisin bagel, that that will probably cause more of a problem with your levels and of course what you have on it could possibly also impact your BG levels.
Clearly your body struggled to deal with a bagel then..... Not really surprising as I think many diabetics would.... they are quite dense.....
A quick internet search suggests about 50g for a medium bagel so that is quite a lot to have at one go. 2 medium slices of brown wholemeal bread would be a better choice at about 30g carbs. One slice with more filling ie an open sandwich.... or with a soup would be just 15g (plus whatever was in the soup.
I'm looking for lunch and breakfast ideas, too. For breakfast I have no fat, no sugar (Fage) yogurt with xylitol, (I find it really sour), cinnamon, almond butter, and some kind of fruit. One day a week I have a boiled egg with LiveLife low carb bread. Lunch is soup one day, salad the next, repeat. I could do with some more meal ideas but bread spikes my BG levels and I don't like fish, shellfish, beans, pulses, chickpeas, grains, most seeds, low fat spreads. I should think Pot Noodles are pretty horrific on the carb scale and taste fairly bad, too! I've scoured the internet but haven't come up with much. I hope you find something.
5%fat Fage is a totally different animal & sooo much nicer. Some fruit with that and a sprinkle of homemade granola is heaven! Don’t be tempted to go for the 2.5% Fage -
It’s still ghastly!
I had a soup-a-thon yesterday, and ended up with 15 portions, and a much reduced fridge - just the 5 tubs in the freezer. When I was working I used one of those thermos for soups and stews.
5%fat Fage is a totally different animal & sooo much nicer. Some fruit with that and a sprinkle of homemade granola is heaven! Don’t be tempted to go for the 2.5% Fage -
It’s still ghastly!
Thank you. I was told to have low fat everything to control my cholesterol levels. I made 'granola' from a keto recipe site but it was just seeds and nuts bound together with egg white and sweetened with erythritol. Not a bit like granola!
Thank you. I was told to have low fat everything to control my cholesterol levels. I made 'granola' from a keto recipe site but it was just seeds and nuts bound together with egg white and sweetened with erythritol. Not a bit like granola!
One thing that people often forget or don't realise is that "low fat" (at least in terms of food labels) means 5% fat or under. So full fat milk at 4% and Fage 5% fat yoghurt are low fat foods. 5% fat mince is the lowest you can really get.
If buying a yoghurt that is 5% fat means you don't feel the need to sweeten it, whereas for fat free you to, then imo the 5% is a better option. I will admit to being much more anti-sweeteners than most forum members though
Just a question.. Are bagels really bad? I had a bagel twice last week and after eating my blood sugar reading was up to 12.1 is this a normal reading for after eating?
Yes, bagels are highly processed, so not only high in carbs but very easily release them. I found a full bagel raised my BG too much even eaten with a small piece of cheese, but half a bagel with a slice of bacon and an egg wasn't so bad. If you really want to have bagels sometimes you could always experiment with only having half, and having something with fat and protein with it to try to slow the release of the carbs into glucose
One thing that people often forget or don't realise is that "low fat" (at least in terms of food labels) means 5% fat or under. So full fat milk at 4% and Fage 5% fat yoghurt are low fat foods. 5% fat mince is the lowest you can really get.
If buying a yoghurt that is 5% fat means you don't feel the need to sweeten it, whereas for fat free you to, then imo the 5% is a better option. I will admit to being much more anti-sweeteners than most forum members though
I'm so confused by the full fat yogurts. I was told by my nurse to buy full fat Greek plain yogurt as the low fat versions have so much more sugars. I have been buying full fat Greek yogurt and I have high cholesterol.
I just had left overs today. Last night I made a big pot of Hairy Dieters vegetable dal . Last night I had it with brown riche but for lunch I had it with no rice to avoid carbs. There is a small amount of sweet potato in it but thats one small sweet potato between 3 portions. I absolutely love that recipe!
I just had left overs today. Last night I made a big pot of Hairy Dieters vegetable dal . Last night I had it with brown riche but for lunch I had it with no rice to avoid carbs. There is a small amount of sweet potato in it but thats one small sweet potato between 3 portions. I absolutely love that recipe!
I am assuming by dahl you mean that it is made with lentils? For me, lentils release more glucose than the carbs they are supposed to contain and much as I love them, they don't love my diabetes, so for me the rice or sweet potato would be secondary problems to the lentils themselves in the dahl. You, however, might manage lentils better than me, but just to be aware that lentils contain a fair amount of carbs too and test how you react.
I'm so confused by the full fat yogurts. I was told by my nurse to buy full fat Greek plain yogurt as the low fat versions have so much more sugars. I have been buying full fat Greek yogurt and I have high cholesterol.
I don't worry about the cholesterol in food - even saturated fat - most people (though there are exceptions) make cholesterol in response to eating carbs. The fuss about eggs and meat etc was all engendered by the assumption that cholesterol is absorbed from the gut - but no one checked.
When tests were done with marked cholesterol what went in, mostly came out.
Just goes to show you what can be touted as gospel truth and have millions of people acting on it, and it is just what someone thought might possibly be their claim to fame and possibly fortune.
Just a question.. Are bagels really bad? I had a bagel twice last week and after eating my blood sugar reading was up to 12.1 is this a normal reading for after eating?
Absolutely normal - eat carbs and spike glucose levels are par for the course if you are type 2 diabetic.
I can't help with hot lunches as I have not eaten in the middle of the day for ages.
I am gradually reducing down to one meal a day - not on purpose, I'm just not hungry even though the weather is really wet and dull. Maybe the warmth and my wearing extra clothes - I brought them out for the Winter which is not yet arrived - has altered my appetite.
I have been avoiding low fat for 5 years now. My cholesterol reduced as soon as I stopped the crazy high carb diet I had been on for almost 2 years - to reduce cholesterol - the nurse said it was a delayed reaction.
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