What can I eat?

[WendyB61]

I am just so hungry all the time and so moody and miserable I don’t like onions, garlic makes me heave, I don’t like spices or any foreign food, I just don’t know what to eat ☹️

 

[Drummer]

Any meat or seafood, cheese, eggs, dairy, salad stuff, anything low carb.

 

[Kaylz]

I assume your looking for lower carb things? So nuts, cheese, cold meats, cucumber, celery, peanut butter or other nut butters, eggs, a couple of squares of dark chocolate, the higher the cocoa % the less carbs, that just a few things snack wise, if referring to meals then omelette's, mince, stuffed chicken breast, sausages and a whole lot more available things xx

 

[WendyB61]

Any meat or seafood, cheese, eggs, dairy, salad stuff, anything low carb.

Can you eat any amount or do you have to weigh?

 

[Drummer]

I do a rough calculation from the amounts in the packs, or by having had them before - a single beetroot, one sweet pepper, and so on.
I have been eating low carb for a long time now so I know, having also tested since diagnosis that what I could eat when doing Atkins is almost exactly what I can eat now.
Protein and fats I just use what seems right. As I don't need any medication eating this way, eating what makes me feel right seem to be the perfect solution.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I am just so hungry all the time and so moody and miserable I don’t like onions, garlic makes me heave, I don’t like spices or any foreign food, I just don’t know what to eat ☹️

It depends on you really.
Without knowing any more details, such as what type of diabetes you have, 1 or 2 , or if you are trying to lose weight, or just trying to diet, or personal circumstances, it's hard to say.
Can you provide any information on your lifestyle, or what you have been diagnosed as?
Or as the previous posters say, with no information, "just go low carb for life"?

 

[Drummer]

It depends on you really.
Without knowing any more details, such as what type of diabetes you have, 1 or 2 , or if you are trying to lose weight, or just trying to diet, or personal circumstances, it's hard to say.
Can you provide any information on your lifestyle, or what you have been diagnosed as?
Or as the previous posters say, with no information, "just go low carb for life"?

WendB61 is a type two according to the information in her signature, so the information given should be perfect for her situation - wanting to know what she can eat, as she is hungry moody and miserable.
It is hard to be miserable when faced with satisfying meals which leave you content, well nourished, but with normal blood glucose levels.
Where did anyone write 'go low carb for life' by the way? I don't seem to have that come up anywhere in this thread.

 

[Ljc]

Hi Wendy. As a diabetic Ayou really don’t need to feel hungry, so it sounds like you are not eating enough.
Here goes.
Protein in all it’s forms are good and providing you don’t have a medical condition that means you need to limit fat intake a normal amount of good fats are fine, in other words don’t need to go for the low fat options offered in many foods . Their are a couple of reasons for this
1. They can contain more carbohydrates than the normal versions, to make them taste better and to improve there texture
2. Fats can keep us feeling fuller for longer.
It’s really only carbohydrates we can no longer handle too well, though how many and which ones varies with all of us , this is where self testing with a glucose meter comes into its own.

If you eat meat, things like high meat content sausages and burgers are fine ( the higher the meat content the better as the fillers they add to the lower meat content ones are added)carbs) it’s just the potato products and baked beans etc that often go with them that can be a problem.
Eggs cooked any way you like are fine too.

Their are substitutes for mashed potatoes, some here use cauli mash , it’s also useful for rice, youcan buy cauli rice in supermarkets

Why not head over to these two threads , I am pretty sure you will find plenty of thing suitable for you or to give you some good ideas.
What did you eat yesterday

We have some great innovative cooks too, it’s amazing what they can do with a bit of imagination Recipe section

 

[Kaylz]

Or as the previous posters say, with no information, "just go low carb for life"?

Don't take a dig at folk, I'm not a promoter of low carb but the things I have mentioned would keep the OP feeling fuller for longer whereas carbs wouldn't and just make you want more

 

[Cherrelle DUK]

Hi WendyB61,

Choosing the right food can be a right minefield! One thing that works really well is looking at the healthy foods or ingredients that you already enjoy and seeing whether you can make a meal out of that. Then you could look at your fav meals and see if there's any way to make them healthier, i.e. not spike your BS.

The links the Ljc so kindly provided above to the forum threads are super helpful. We also have some info on our main site including a 'What can I eat' section that may be useful for you https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes.

 

[WendyB61]

Hi Wendy. As a diabetic Ayou really don’t need to feel hungry, so it sounds like you are not eating enough.
Here goes.
Protein in all it’s forms are good and providing you don’t have a medical condition that means you need to limit fat intake a normal amount of good fats are fine, in other words don’t need to go for the low fat options offered in many foods . Their are a couple of reasons for this
1. They can contain more carbohydrates than the normal versions, to make them taste better and to improve there texture
2. Fats can keep us feeling fuller for longer.
It’s really only carbohydrates we can no longer handle too well, though how many and which ones varies with all of us , this is where self testing with a glucose meter comes into its own.

If you eat meat, things like high meat content sausages and burgers are fine ( the higher the meat content the better as the fillers they add to the lower meat content ones are added)carbs) it’s just the potato products and baked beans etc that often go with them that can be a problem.
Eggs cooked any way you like are fine too.

Their are substitutes for mashed potatoes, some here use mash , it’s also useful for rice, youcan buy cauli rice in supermarkets

Why not head over to these two threads , I am pretty sure you will find plenty of thing suitable for you or to give you some good ideas.
What did you eat yesterday

We have some great innovative cooks too, it’s amazing what they can do with a bit of imagination Recipe section

Is smash ok then? I quite like smash not had it for years

 

[Kaylz]

Is smash ok then? I quite like smash not had it for years

only you can tell if its suitable for you by testing, do you test at home? The only way to tell if you as the individual you are can tolerate something is by testing before eating and then again 2 hours after looking for no more than a 2-3mmol rise, people tend to find highly processed carbs hit the system quicker so in real potatoes mash will hit the BG quicker than baby potatoes boiled with skins on for instance xx

 

[WendyB61]

only you can tell if its suitable for you by testing, do you test at home? The only way to tell if you as the individual you are can tolerate something is by testing before eating and then again 2 hours after looking for no more than a 2-3mmol rise, people tend to find highly processed carbs hit the system quicker so in real potatoes mash will hit the BG quicker than baby potatoes boiled with skins on for instance xx

My monitor has just arrived got to just study how to use it, thanks for the advice

 

[silentsquirrel]

Is smash ok then? I quite like smash not had it for years

Very unlikely - I think @Ljc meant to type cauli mash, but missed out the word cauli!!🙂

 

[Ljc]

Very unlikely - I think @Ljc meant to type cauli mash, but missed out the word cauli!!🙂

@silentsquirrel Oops Thank you.

@WendyB61 , yes I meant cauli mash . My iPad has a mind of it own lol

 

[trophywench]

User Error more likely! LOL

You know a normal dinner - meat, spuds, veg and gravy - just have less spud and more veg. Frozen veg is not expensive and eg actually frozen peas are better nutritionally than 'fresh' peas for the simple reason they're frozen pdq after picking them, so unless you pick em yourself outside your kitchen door, fresher when they get to the saucepan.

I'd spuds with that, as I'm catering for my husband too, but I have far les bits of spud on my plate than he has. Let's say 2 large spuds, each cut into 4. I have 2 and he 6, or 3 & 5. But I'd rather have one and he 3, plus 2 other veg.

Not an onion or a clove of garlic involved. Have enough other veg with the dinner and you won't have room for spud in the finish.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Is smash ok then? I quite like smash not had it for years

Cauli mash is very tasty, depending on what you mix in (cream cheese is popular).

As an additional note, as a general rule of thumb (and there are no rules really... so actually you’d have to check to know for sure but still...) the more processed a food is, the faster it is likely to hit your bloodstream. So Smash (powdered potato) is likely to be spikier than made-from-actual-potatoes-with-a-masher mash. And mash has a bit of a spiky reputation on the forum.

If mash is something you really fancy, and cauli mash doesn’t quite cut it, you may find celeriac mash worth a shot.

Or you might have a blend with only a small proportion of potato, and therefore a much lower carb count 🙂

 

[silentsquirrel]

I am not that keen on pure cauli mash - texture rather than taste probably, so I do a mixture of potato and cauli, roughly 30% potato to 70% cauli, and I only have a small amount and not that frequently. However, bear in mind I am on insulin which helps mitigate the rise a bit!
Worth experimenting with different veg, different amounts until you find a solution that works reasonably well for you, and most importantly, you enjoy!

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Sweet potato, swede, turnip, carrots, parsnips.
I've put them all into mash.
Results are completely variable for anyone, so this is somewhere you need a meter to find out how they affect you.