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Newly diagnosed suggestions for sweet swaps wanted!

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Hi everyone,
I am 57, female, and just diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I am following a Diabetes Uk SMART action plan to try to lose 5% of my bodyweight. I am spending hours upon hours trying to ensure sugars are not in foods I wish to buy because UK food and Nutrition labelling seems to allow natural sugars and other things to slip into products without being counted in grams of sugar per 100 grams/ 100mls. I am not stupid, and have a reasonable grasp of food labels already but really, isn't it an absolute nightmare. Why, oh why will the government not force food producers to provide this information as well as the G I and G L information - to help lessen the impact of the so called 'plague' of newly diagnosed diabetics which, given Covid, years of increased health demand, ageing population, etc, etc, are apparently threatenning to stretch the NHS to 'bankruptcy'! Rant over, so pleased to have found this resource, and to chat with others with diabetes. Presently, I am looking for recipes and products to satisfy my sweet tooth (!) so if anyone can help with the following in particular I would be so grateful. Is

Sainsbury's Scottish Porridge Oats With Wheatbran & Oatbran 1kg​

ok to use in a fruit crumble? Also, anyone recommend how much of the Purevia Erythrol granules to use? Any fairy cake or cheese cake recipes tried using wholewheat flour? I wonder if it is too heavy to make a decent cake? Or if so, anyone tried using half white, half wholewheat?

Thank you in advance.

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I think you are somewhat misunderstanding as the information you need to be looking at is the TOTAL carbohydrate not just sugar as it is ALL carbohydrates that convert into glucose.
Therefore things like cereals, bread, rice, pasta, pastry, potatoes, starchy veg, cakes, biscuits and tropical fruits are all high carb foods.
Erythritol is a sweetener some people do use with caution as it can cause stomach issues if used in excess.
Low carb recipes are around in the food forum on this site or put low carb or keto into Google.
You should be thinking about basing meals on meat, fish, eggs, cheese, dairy, veg and salads and fruit such as berries with only small portions of those high carb foods.
 
Thanks, yes I am looking at total Carbs. But it is all a bit confusing! I am following a low carb, low sugar healthy leafy diet with less red meat, etc. I am haing omlettes, and less potatoes, more sweet potato , berries, greek yoghurt, smaller portions.
 
@Couchie - you are having both less and more potato? That doesn't make sense. Less red meat? But meat doesn't have carbs, you can eat it freely and not see a spike.
Oh - I read it wrong - you are swapping ordinary and sweet potato - ah - it would not make any difference to me, they are about the same amount of carbs and I digest them the same - sorry - it works for some people though, it would take a glucose meter to tell if there was any benefit to you.
 
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Welcome to the forum @Couchie

Well done on your action plan. Reducing sweet and sugary things is certainly a very effective way of losing some empty carbs in your meal plan. Cutting back on sweet things often allows forum members’ taste buds to recalibrate quite quickly too - so that the level of sweetness that used to be enjoyed becomes quite unpalatable.

I‘m not sure the SMART thing is connected to the charity Diabetes UK, I think it might be to do with the red site (.co.uk) which is run by a company Diabetes Digital Media Ltd. No reason not to use it if it’s working for you though! :D

If you want some alternative or additional plans and pointers for your low carb approach, you might want to check out the Diabetes UK low carb suggestions here

Low-carb diet and meal plan

Eating a low-carb diet means cutting down on the amount of carbohydrates (carbs) you eat to less than 130g a day. But low-carb eating shouldn’t be no-carb eating. Some carbohydrate foods contain essential vitamins, minerals and fibre, which form an important part of a healthy diet.
www.diabetes.org.uk www.diabetes.org.uk

Plus there’s also the extensive ‘What did you eat yesterday’ thread where members adopting all sorts of different eating strategies share their food choices.


Feel free to keep asking questions too - on anything and everything. No questions will be considered too obvious or silly 🙂
 
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