Oddest food combinations to have made their way on to your plate...

[TheClockworkDodo]

Not keeping carbs down, but I often eat strawberry jam and cheese sandwiches. And I eat raw carrots for lunch every day with whatever sandwich I happen to have, including jam, or chocolate spread. I used to eat choc spread with cottage cheese too - only stopped because I can't eat cottage cheese any more.

 

[Ljc]

Pre diabetes I used to treat myself occasionally and have a peanut butter, banana and honey sarnie.
I too love strawberry jam and cheese sarnies, now I just have the cheese it's not the same though is it, sigh.

 

[Northerner]

Not keeping carbs down, but I often eat strawberry jam and cheese sandwiches. And I eat raw carrots for lunch every day with whatever sandwich I happen to have, including jam, or chocolate spread. I used to eat choc spread with cottage cheese too - only stopped because I can't eat cottage cheese any more.

One of the finest snacks ever - toast some bread, spread with butter and jam, slice a banana over it, then grate cheese over the top and grill 🙂 Mmmmmm....!!! 🙂

 

[khskel]

Cheese on toast with marmalade. Ice cream and mustard wasn't the success I hoped it would be.

 

[stephknits]

Last night we had left over courgetti which had aubergine and leek in a cream cheese sauce, a sausage, a bit of left over naan bread from daughters guides round the world evening and some Piri piri sauce. Not really a winning combination, but filled a hole 🙂

 

[Superheavy]

That's my kind of combination! I've started eating my salads with a habanero hot sauce....and then I can almost forget I'm eating salad! 🙂

 

[Bloden]

Before diabetes I would quite happily munch peanut butter and cucumber sandwiches!

Oooh yeah, peanut butter and salad, or pnb and banana, or pnb and cheese - to say I like pnb would be an understatement!😛

 

[Copepod]

Some of my oddest combinations haven't involved plates, just packets or veg bought from supermarkets and market stalks, particularly in central & eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Latin America, then eaten on park benches or walking trails, in hiking huts, hostel common rooms etc.

 

[Northerner]

Some of my oddest combinations haven't involved plates, just packets or veg bought from supermarkets and market stalks, particularly in central & eastern Europe, Scandinavia and Latin America, then eaten on park benches or walking trails, in hiking huts, hostel common rooms etc.

A favourite of ours when in France was to buy a baguette and some bananas, split the baguette lengthwise, liberally spread with butter, insert banana and eat...slurp! Goodness knows what it would do to my levels these days though 😱

 

[Stitch147]

Oooh yeah, peanut butter and salad, or pnb and banana, or pnb and cheese - to say I like pnb would be an understatement!😛

I love peanut butter too. I always have a peanut butter sarnie with me when I do my marathon distance walks, ready for an energy boost.

 

[Bloden]

I love peanut butter too. I always have a peanut butter sarnie with me when I do my marathon distance walks, ready for an energy boost.

Have you tried almond butter? Less carb and just as lush - try Meridian's organic. Drooool.....🙄

 

[Matt Cycle]

Have you tried almond butter? Less carb and just as lush - try Meridian's organic. Drooool.....🙄

I have the Meridian crunchy peanut butter - delicious. 99% peanuts and 1% sea salt. No palm oil, sugar or anything else. It does mean giving it a stir as the oil from the peanuts rises to the top. Bit more pricey than the regular stuff and I have to get it from the health food shop. Always have it on toast along with my porridge before going out on the bike.

 

[Bloden]

I have the Meridian crunchy peanut butter - delicious. 99% peanuts and 1% sea salt. No palm oil, sugar or anything else. It does mean giving it a stir as the oil from the peanuts rises to the top. Bit more pricey than the regular stuff and I have to get it from the health food shop. Always have it on toast along with my porridge before going out on the bike.

Mmmmmmmm......crunchy pnb.😛

I find peanuts pop up later as a high BG, so that's why I swapped to almond butter (and I can make it at home when my Meridian runs out, boo hoo).

 

[Northerner]

I had a strange experience with peanuts - for the first 5 years after diagnosis they were my low carb snack of choice, and I would get through a small packet a day. However, I noticed that I started developing a mouth ulcer. It would be there for a couple of days, then go completely, then reappear in exactly the same place, a bit worrying but at that time didn't connect it to the peanuts at all. Then I was extremely ill and couldn't eat or drink anything for nearly 3 weeks (really! I didn't think you could live that long without at least water, but I couldn't keep anything down 😱). The ulcer went and didn't return. I started wondering about peanuts and stopped eating them after I recovered - the ulcer has never come back, so it's either coincidence or related! I do miss them now though! I told my dentist about it and it was a new one on him.

 

[Diabeticliberty]

There used to be a farm shop around the corner from my works office. They did a line in quite thickly sliced wholemeal bread with large flakes and grain in it. My favourite filling was bananas with raisins. People at work used to look at me as if I had sprouted a third nose when I sat there munching away on them

 

[Northerner]

There used to be a farm shop around the corner from my works office. They did a line in quite thickly sliced wholemeal bread with large flakes and grain in it. My favourite filling was bananas with raisins. People at work used to look at me as if I had sprouted a third nose when I sat there munching away on them

A THIRD nose? 😱

 

[Diabeticliberty]

A THIRD nose? 😱

Yeah mad isn't it? My face is cramped up quite enough already with the two noses I already have

 

[Ljc]

Not an odd combination but I love cod roe and chips cold.

 

[Northerner]

Not an odd combination but I love cod roe and chips cold.

Yeeuch!

 

[AndBreathe]

I have to confess that plain yoghurt with a very generous addition of Garam Masala wasn't by best berkkers ever!

In my defence, the pots of Garam Masala and Asian Five Spice were adjacent to each other on the rack. At first I thought my spoon hadn't been properly washed, but by the forth or fifth spoonful, I went investigating.

Yog + 5 Spice or Cinnamon = Thumbs up
Yog + Garam Masala = Thumbs definitely down!

(This was only about 10 days ago.)