Ready made meals from supermarkets?

[Annette&Bert]

Welcome back!
For many years I could eat a small amount of rice or pasta, have you tried having just a small portion? With regards to tomatoes I find some times different types of tomatoes can have more impact, than others.

Thank you! To be honest, in my cupboard I do have wholegrain rice, which I like. I probably only have it once a week, a small amount. I only occasionally have a small amount of potato, most nights or lunches, I don’t have that kind of carb. I actually have the “Carbs and Cals” book which arrived a couple of days ago, so I shall look at it. As everyone is aware most books have a section on various things like, lamb, pork, beef etc. which in a million years would never enter my mouth, in fact as I mentioned in a previous post way back, I have never tasted. Lamb, beef, pork and mamy more, so we are still after all these years chicken and seafood. Before I was diabetic, life was different because I didn’t have to be so aware of what I added to these dishes to make them tasty, but now I do.

Perhaps, with the help of the book, I will once more enjoy cooking!

 

[grovesy]

Hope it helps, you find ways to find suitable options, to get back to tasty dishes. I think it is more difficult for none meat eaters to adapt a Low Carb option. I personally eat on the upper end of low carb.

 

[Browser]

Sugar free jellies are available in most supermarkets, they are basically just water though. There isn’t really any such thing as a diabetic friendly dessert, because it's not just sugar you have to avoid, but all carbohydrates, because they all turn to sugar in your stomach. Rice pudding contains rice, which is carbohydrate, so it isn’t any good for you whether it has sugar added or not. Which is why nothing can be labelled “diabetic” any more because apart from meat, cheese, eggs and green veg there isn’t anything which has no carbohydrate in it at all. (And even the veggies have a tiny bit!) So I’m afraid the only way you can have a healthy diabetic diet is by putting a bit of effort in.

A while ago I remember Drummer mentioning a dessert mixture he makes with sugar free jelly, mixed with plain yoghurt. He occasionally adds berries and some chia seeds. I’ve tried it and have it with berries, fresh fruit or home-made sugar free banana loaf. It’s very tasty and (for me) BG friendly. I hope Drummer doesn’t mind me mentioning this.

 

[Paulbreen]

Not saying don't eat tomatoes (I still do), but just be aware that they contain carbs too and bear that in mind when you are doing post prandial tests... or struggling to reduce your HbA1c. Particularly if you use a lot of cherry tomatoes or passata in your meals. As with all foods, it is finding the portion size that your body can cope with.

I had a tin of “Mutti brand fillet tomatoes” this morning with my bacon and eggs very luxurious and tasty and wait only 3g of carbs per 100g

 

[Annette&Bert]

I've disliked raw tomatoes and even ketchup since I was a kid and still don't eat them but I'm OK with tomatoes in a sauce like a Bolognese. My wife also has a chicken escalope recipe (Chicken Parmigiana) that uses passata and we often have that too. I was also OK with pizza, though that's something I don't eat any more . Luckily I haven't found tinned tomatoes or even a Dolmio or Lloyd Grossman sauce to be a problem so far.

Martin

You have done very well in a relatively short time. LC/HF is good but not if you need to lose weight, of course Martin I don’t know if you need to.

 

[Annette&Bert]

I lost weight before I was diagnosed, however, that wasn’t unusual for me as I was on diets all the time over the years. What amazed me was that, here was I eating whatever I liked, yet I said to my friend “this is great never in my life did I lose weight eating what I wanted”, the following week the reason was that it was a sign of diabetes, and my numbers were very high. I still maintain now that I was diabetic about a year beforehand. I had a series of what was for me, very unusual falling into a deep sleep about 20 minutes after food, in fact so unusual was it for me that this was the reason I went to my GP.