Porridge

[Brando77]

Holy Cow, woke up to a 7.1, had a cup size bowl of porridge, 2 hrs later before work I was 11.8! I also had a black tea, no milk, no nothing for travel.
I hardly ever test after breakfast so I was shocked. Better bin it.
Edited to add I had a double espresso as well, sure that's ok.

 

[Mark Parrott]

I have to be careful with porridge. I follow these set rules & don't get much of a spike. I use 30g unprocessed jumbo oats. I soak them overnight in the fridge in unsweetened almond milk. In the morning I add a dollop of double cream & stick it in the microwave. Once cooked I bulk it out with some mixed nuts & seeds & a few berries. The cream & the fats & fibre from the nuts help slow down any spike.🙂

 

[Brando77]

I have to be careful with porridge. I follow these set rules & don't get much of a spike. I use 30g unprocessed jumbo oats. I soak them overnight in the fridge in unsweetened almond milk. In the morning I add a dollop of double cream & stick it in the microwave. Once cooked I bulk it out with some mixed nuts & seeds & a few berries. The cream & the fats & fibre from the nuts help slow down any spike.🙂

Sounds like a plan, thanks, I need my porridge plus that sounds scrummosaurus unlike mine with added skimmed milk!

 

[Kaylz]

Ah see you had the carbs of the skimmed milk too! lol
As I'm type 1 I'm different to you guys but when I had a cold I was getting bad spikes after my porridge, I use more jumbo oats than Mark, but I also leave them in the fridge in unsweetened almond milk all night (I use Alpro brand with the fresh carton being on offer at £1 a carton at Tesco at the moment if you want to try it 🙂) rather than cream I use a blob of salted butter and then top with raspberries 🙂 x

 

[Vince_UK]

Holy Cow, woke up to a 7.1, had a cup size bowl of porridge, 2 hrs later before work I was 11.8! I also had a black tea, no milk, no nothing for travel.
I hardly ever test after breakfast so I was shocked. Better bin it.
Edited to add I had a double espresso as well, sure that's ok.

Double espressos should be fine I drink them every day when I am in he UK.

 

[Kaylz]

Double espressos should be fine I drink them every day when I am in he UK.

That depends, some unlucky folk find that caffeine does in fact effect them x

 

[Vince_UK]

That depends, some unlucky folk find that caffeine does in fact effect them x

OK OK OK lol
Point taken.
I cannot live without it

 

[Brando77]

OK OK OK lol
Point taken.
I cannot live without it

Nor me, I dare you....I double dare you to take away my morning Java.
Disclaimer *part of quote from Pulp Fiction*

 

[Vince_UK]

Nor me, I dare you....I double dare you to take away my morning Java.
Disclaimer *part of quote from Pulp Fiction*

I would KILL seriously lol 😡
I just cannot hack it without my morning fix and topup fixes through out the day.

 

[Pine Marten]

I have to be careful too, @Brando77, and have jumbo oats only now and again. I did yesterday in fact, as my waking number was 5.1, so I added some flaxseed and a few raspberries to the oats, had a slice of toasted Burgen with peanut butter after, plus a large coffee with skimmed milk. Two hours result was 6.6, so I was pretty happy with that.

I have found that as time goes by I can tolerate things better that I couldn't tolerate before, so like most things to do with D it's a matter of trial and error.

 

[Mark Parrott]

When I first had porridge when first diagnosed, I shot up by nearly 10 mmols! Now even if I have normal processed oats with milk I only shoot up by around 4 mmols.

 

[PURPLESALLY]

I have to be careful with porridge. I follow these set rules & don't get much of a spike. I use 30g unprocessed jumbo oats. I soak them overnight in the fridge in unsweetened almond milk. In the morning I add a dollop of double cream & stick it in the microwave. Once cooked I bulk it out with some mixed nuts & seeds & a few berries. The cream & the fats & fibre from the nuts help slow down any spike.🙂

I do something similar - put 30g oats in cream, put it in the fridge overnight and add hot water next morning, quick and easy