Replacement for baked beans?

[belugalad]

Jodee
I am going to get some beans now. I have been wondering whether I can give him beans, thanks for sharing. 😉 Also need to get Burgen bread, that seems to be very popular, reading everyones threads.

I think the Burgen tastes nice you do get some lower carb loaves but to be honest a lot of those other breads it's a tiny sized slice so you would expect them to be lower anyway,but Burgen is a good regular size

 

[grovesy]

Burgen did come in 2 sizes a small and larger slice but my Sainsbury's has not had the smaller one for a while.

 

[zuludog]

How about sautéing chunky chopped onions, courgettes and aubergine with the mushrooms in olive oil.... include some peppers if you like, They all absorb the oil nicely and make a moist gooey consistency. Add the tinned tomatoes as well and some herbs if you like for a ratatouille or just enjoy them without. I used to be afraid of aubergine because I wasn't sure how to cook it but you just slice it into 1cm thick slices quarter the slices or leave whole and fry in oil or fat just like mushrooms and courgettes. Years ago, recipes used to instruct you to slice them and scatter salt on them and press them, but modern varieties you just chop up and fry. I have them in omelettes as well as sautéed with other Mediterranean veg as described above and a scattering of grated cheese on top never goes wrong after they are cooked.

I live on my own, and the problem with buying any veg is that if you buy reasonable quantities, even though that quantity might be fairly small, you still end up having the same meals & food for the next three weeks, or so it seems; that is if they don't dry up or go mouldy before you can eat them all
The alternative is to buy one carrot, two tomatoes, and so on, which is a bit pathetic

So I often eat frozen veg
Most supermarkets have frozen ratatouille or Mediterranean veg mix, and that's very handy

 

[Docb]

Good point zuludog.

Buying one or two items is not pathetic! Its very a very sensible way of avoiding food waste. Problem is finding somewhere that does not sell "fresh" things in big prepackaged quantities and then buying frozen is sensible.

The alternative, and not available to all, is to grow your own. Just picked a courgette, some runner beans and pulled some carrots for my tea tonight delighting in the knowledge that of what I left, nothing is spoiling.

 

[zuludog]

I live in a flat, but sometimes I do sprouted seeds

Only very recently I've tried freezing any surplus veg - trim & prepare them; blanch in boiling water for a couple of minutes; cool them; store in the freezer in bags
But I've yet to see what they're like when I've thawed & cooked them

 

[grovesy]

I find even growing your own you can have too many at once,

 

[Jodee]

Jodee
I am going to get some beans now. I have been wondering whether I can give him beans, thanks for sharing. 😉 Also need to get Burgen bread, that seems to be very popular, reading everyones threads.

Yes good idea to test before and then 2 hours after, to get an idea how his body responds.


@belugalad yes I seem ok on 1 3rd of a tin at a time 5.3 before 7.8 after 2 hours.

 

[Granny72]

Picked up quite a few tips from this thread, thank you. I am knew to all this and not really getting my head around it all.
I too loved baked beans and had them daily. Have missed them but will try a few now.
About the cheese....... I never have much of that although I love it due to needing to lose weight.
How can we eat all that lovely cheese and not put weight on?
I have never had a sugar crave (cake, sweets etc) but since starting this new way of eating, I am craving a slice of cake
quite a few times a day? I have none so don't have any, but really need it. Is this the metformin causing this?

 

[belugalad]

Picked up quite a few tips from this thread, thank you. I am knew to all this and not really getting my head around it all.
I too loved baked beans and had them daily. Have missed them but will try a few now.
About the cheese....... I never have much of that although I love it due to needing to lose weight.
How can we eat all that lovely cheese and not put weight on?
I have never had a sugar crave (cake, sweets etc) but since starting this new way of eating, I am craving a slice of cake
quite a few times a day? I have none so don't have any, but really need it. Is this the metformin causing this?

I'm losing weight and do have cheese,I don't go mad with it though a few slices with a salad and look forward to it as a treat,I grate some in to my scrambled eggs too,I'm not sure about the sugar cravings but I think that can occur when you adapt to a low carb diet as those high carb foods that you were previously eating were breaking down in to glucose and so I think your body may have those cravings whlie your body adjusts itself to your new regime

 

[welshy1]

I'm losing weight and do have cheese,I don't go mad with it though a few slices with a salad and look forward to it as a treat,I grate some in to my scrambled eggs too,I'm not sure about the sugar cravings but I think that can occur when you adapt to a low carb diet as those high carb foods that you were previously eating were breaking down in to glucose and so I think your body may have those cravings whlie your body adjusts itself to your new regime

So is bacon ok to eat.

 

[zuludog]

GRANNY 72, WELSHY 1, and anyone else - Search YouTube for freezing vegetables. There are several videos

 

[rebrascora]

Yes, in moderation, bacon is OK. Obviously if you have a family history of heart disease then the fat and salt is not ideal but otherwise it should be fine to incorporate into your/his weekly diet, but not every day. Same with sausages, but get good quality high meat content ones as the cheaper ones have quite a lot of rusk added which is carbohydrate and don't make a butty with them obviously. A full English breakfast is one of the indulgences diabetics can get away with as long as you omit any bread, toast or hash browns or perhaps a single slice of low carb bread, depending upon how high your BG levels are to start with.

 

[welshy1]

Thanks Rebrascoa.
We both have family history of heart disease. Both our parents. I buy chicken sausages, because they are the lowest of carbs I can find.

 

[welshy1]

OOps spelt your name wrong. 😱

 

[rebrascora]

Thanks Rebrascoa.
We both have family history of heart disease. Both our parents. I buy chicken sausages, because they are the lowest of carbs I can find.

That does make things a little more difficult.
Are you sure you are reading carbs and not calories or fat? Chicken products tend to be more highly processed and have more additives in them because it is a cheaper meat. I got very confused about what I was reading on labels at one stage because I had been given conflicting advice from different sources about what I needed to be avoiding and I was buying things thinking they were good and then when I got home and did more reading, I found they were not good choices. I am not familiar with chicken sausages to be sure that they are not a good choice but important to check the nutritional info on the back and the ingredients list.
High quality pork sausages are usually about 95% meat. Even the expensive lean turkey breast sausages are only 80% meat and 9% carbs from the quick research I have done.

 

[welshy1]

I don't think I have any in freezer at moment. But I will definitely check on them, I will look on supermarket website to see what is says, I will get back to you. Thanks.

 

[welshy1]

Just checked. 100g grilled = 14g carb
2 sausages grilled 13g carbs. Ingredients 52% chicken.
I would not know whether that is good or not. What do you think.

 

[rebrascora]

Well lets say that a good 95% pork sausage will have less than 5g of carbs per 100g sausage, so less than half the carbs in your chicken sausages. At 52% chicken, those are pretty poor quality sausages. I dread to think what other ingredients are added to them to make up that other 48% but quite a bit will be wheat products.

 

[welshy1]

That is a good name as well, Richmond. I think I will be looking for a better alternative in the future I think. 😱

 

[rebrascora]

Richmond are a well known brand but I would not say they produce high quality sausages.