Struggling with breakfast ideas and lunch

[Taffyboyslim]

I am doing OK with main meals

I have salads or pan fried chicken or fish with non starchy veg like sprouts , cabbage , green beans etc and just leave out the potatoes and rice ?

But breakfast I am struggling

My basic one is low sugar granola , yoghurt, apple and berries ?

I am clueless as to what else to try

Can you get low sugar crumpets or baps etc ?

 

[Leadinglights]

I am doing OK with main meals

I have salads or pan fried chicken or fish with non starchy veg like sprouts , cabbage , green beans etc and just leave out the potatoes and rice ?

But breakfast I am struggling

My basic one is low sugar granola , yoghurt, apple and berries ?

I am clueless as to what else to try

Can you get low sugar crumpets or baps etc ?

Are you able to do eggs for breakfast, scrambled, poached, boiled, omelettes, high meat content sausages, bacon mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese on toast.
I buy Hana Keto granola (which is a bit pricy) and mix 50/50 with Lizi's low sugar granola as it is then about 30g carbs per 100g so a generous portion is still only 15g carbs and have that with full fat Greek yoghurt and berries.
I am always surprised that a crumpet with is full of holes is so high carb.
You could make some low carb muffins, I think there is a recipe on the website sugarfreelondoner

 

[bulkbiker]

I hardly ever have breakfast.. just coffee with double cream over the morning (about 3 large mugs). First solids at about 3 pm then dinner at 7 ish.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I hardly ever have breakfast.. just coffee with double cream over the morning (about 3 large mugs). First solids at about 3 pm then dinner at 7 ish.

So a regular routine of four hours a day on solid food?

 

[Dragonheart]

Does it have to be modern breakfast foods? Many places and through much of history it was just the first meal of the day rather than have its own special food. So left overs, meat, cheese, fish, eggs a million different ways? Or Google low carb granola. It’s just a mix of seeds and nuts and a bit of shredded coconut mostly. Maybe a few extras. There’s a low carb versions of porridge out there too. Or make some breakfast “muffins” at the resend and keep them in the fridge (bacon eggs cheese and maybe peppers etc) baked in an oven in one of those muffin mini/cake trays.

 

[Niori]

I fast 16-8 so rarely eat breakfast. If I do, I enjoy cottage cheese with berries and seeds, porridge made with jumbo oats, avocado with minced egg filling (i add mayo or salad cream to my partners egg, mine is either just egg or with a little cottage cheese), omelette and very occasionally bacon sausage egg and tomato

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Does anybody else do @bulkbiker on a four hour window of eating?

 

[bulkbiker]

Does anybody else do @bulkbiker on a four hour window of eating?

It's more like a 5 hour window.

 

[Dragonheart]

Does anybody else do @bulkbiker on a four hour window of eating?

I have but not regularly. Usually eating window is 6 or 7 hrs. Sometimes less sometimes more depending on hunger. Occasionally it’s 2 12hr periods. Can’t remember the last time I had 3 meals though.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

It's more like a 5 hour window.

So, your eating is just a 5 hour window?
24/7
Everyday?
Every month?
Every year?

 

[Niori]

It's not as hard as you think to be honest.

I have my evening meal at 7pm say. I then skip breakfast, get home from work around 2pm. (Thats 17 hours right there) Go straight onto my exercise...eat lunch at 3pm. I got used to not eating breakfast and I feel more energized as a result. If I feel hungry on waking I do eat but that's a rarity now. I do calorie count to make sure I am not too low on cals.

I say I do 16 - 8 but I am more interested in at least 16 hours fasting than I am an extended eating window. Looking at my general day I have a five hour eating window roughly. So long as I get the calories/nutrition it works well.

Fasting has a fair few health benefits🙂

 

[Taffyboyslim]

Are you able to do eggs for breakfast, scrambled, poached, boiled, omelettes, high meat content sausages, bacon mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese on toast.
I buy Hana Keto granola (which is a bit pricy) and mix 50/50 with Lizi's low sugar granola as it is then about 30g carbs per 100g so a generous portion is still only 15g carbs and have that with full fat Greek yoghurt and berries.
I am always surprised that a crumpet with is full of holes is so high carb.
You could make some low carb muffins, I think there is a recipe on the website sugarfreelondoner

It's so much easier to throw together granola , milk , yoghurt and berries than rustling up eggs

 

[42istheanswer]

It's so much easier to throw together granola , milk , yoghurt and berries than rustling up eggs

Scrambled eggs in a microwave takes about a minute including whisking the eggs with a fork beforehand

 

[bulkbiker]

So, your eating is just a 5 hour window?
24/7
Everyday?
Every month?
Every year?

Since 2015 diagnosis pretty much.. might have contracted a bit from 8 hours to 5 hours.. why?
There may be a few occasions when I have a morning meal then usually skip lunch and just have dinner.

 

[bulkbiker]

It's not as hard as you think to be honest.

I have my evening meal at 7pm say. I then skip breakfast, get home from work around 2pm. (Thats 17 hours right there) Go straight onto my exercise...eat lunch at 3pm. I got used to not eating breakfast and I feel more energized as a result. If I feel hungry on waking I do eat but that's a rarity now. I do calorie count to make sure I am not too low on cals.

I say I do 16 - 8 but I am more interested in at least 16 hours fasting than I am an extended eating window. Looking at my general day I have a five hour eating window roughly. So long as I get the calories/nutrition it works well.

Fasting has a fair few health benefits🙂

@travellor Here's one other who follows a similar pattern to me..

 

[bulkbiker]

It's so much easier to throw together granola , milk , yoghurt and berries than rustling up eggs

But what does that do to your blood sugar levels?

 

[Deleted member 21371]

It's not as hard as you think to be honest.

I have my evening meal at 7pm say. I then skip breakfast, get home from work around 2pm. (Thats 17 hours right there) Go straight onto my exercise...eat lunch at 3pm. I got used to not eating breakfast and I feel more energized as a result. If I feel hungry on waking I do eat but that's a rarity now. I do calorie count to make sure I am not too low on cals.

I say I do 16 - 8 but I am more interested in at least 16 hours fasting than I am an extended eating window. Looking at my general day I have a five hour eating window roughly. So long as I get the calories/nutrition it works well.

Fasting has a fair few health benefits🙂

Yes, I did think it could be calorie restricted if you aren't careful.

 

[Leadinglights]

It's so much easier to throw together granola , milk , yoghurt and berries than rustling up eggs

You could keep some boiled eggs in the fridge, there is cooked meats and cheese. Your options are a bit limited if you don't want to cook anything. Nobody said finding the right foods was easy.

 

[Taffyboyslim]

You could keep some boiled eggs in the fridge, there is cooked meats and cheese. Your options are a bit limited if you don't want to cook anything. Nobody said finding the right foods was easy.

 

[Taffyboyslim]

I tried frozen berries with my granola , I find that a bit of a chore