What did you eat yesterday?

[Docb]

Agree totally with @everydayupsanddowns an @Eddy Edson

T2 diabetes is a broader church than the label implies and what works for one might work for a lot more but is unlikely to work for everybody. In contrast to @Eddy Edson @travellor, I have got my blood glucose under control by a combination of eating a moderate/low carb diet, a small weight loss and low level medication, and I am pretty sure that control would disappear very quickly if I went back to a "healthy" diet. Everybody needs to find their own way. Other peoples experience is invaluable in finding that way.

Yesterday I had:

B. Home made nutty/seedy (no fruit) granola, a slice of low carb toast with a scrape of marmalade and large brew - estimate 25g carb

L Croque monsieur with salad - estimate carbs 25g

T A mash up of veg and chicken in a white wine and creme fraise sauce with a tiny portion of spaghetti. Estimate 30g carb.

Later Couple of crackers with some Brie. Estimate 10 carb. Also had a Galaxy whilst out on my walk in the afternoon, Estimate another 20g carb.

Went to bed on 6.4, bit higher than average but still within the bounds I might expect to see.

 

[Kaylz]

B - 45g porridge, 5g cocoa powder, 35g smooth peanut butter, 175ml unsweetened almond milk and a mug of coffee - 30g carbs, 3 units of novorapid
D - 80g wholemeal bread, 10 kings prawns and a squeeze of garlic mayo dip, milky way cake bar and a pint of water - 45g carbs, 4.5 units novorapid
T - mince with mushrooms and an egg, 150ml(ish) oxo, 100g broccoli, 150g baby potatoes, knob of butter, 1 square Lindt 90% and a pint of blackberry & blueberry diluting - 30g carbs, 1.5 units of novorapid
mug of coffee
1 and a half digestives - 13.5g carbs, no novorapid as was to stop me dipping during the night or waking up hypo
19 units Tresiba
xx

 

[bakebeans]

Breakfast: eat natural granola and yogurt
Break: peperami and babybel
Lunch: cauliflower cheese soup 2 slices of livlife bread and a packet of Cheetos

checked bg at 2.30 after work and it was 4.1 so ate a bar of Aldi chocolate and 2 slices of ham before the school run

dinner: stuffed chicken breast, garlic butter mushrooms and salad with homemade coleslaw
After: handful of peanuts

 

[Toucan]

Breakfast: Scrambled egg and tomato
Lunch: Ham and salad sandwich (Livelife bread)
Supper: Pork steak with green salad and grilled tomatoes.

A fairly good day BUT - I did deviate from my 'no snacks' plan!
I usually shop on line, but had to do a 'pop' in shop. Bought strawberries and yoghurt - then there it was on the shelf staring at me - a pot of clotted cream! I grew up on a Devon farm and have always loved this stuff so couldn't resist.
So instead of saving the strawberries for breakfast I ate a large bowl of strawberries and cream as soon as the shopping was unpacked and they were delicious! Hopefully not too much harm done for a once in a while treat.

@Ditto - so good to hear that you have go some pain relief for the gum infection, and ham and philly is one of my favourites as well.
Have you tried the various tricks mentioned on the forum for finger pricks. Painless Pricks, by Alan S lists a few of them.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Breakfast - bacon roll, (in danger of being sucked back into fried food, must make more effort to get the porridge on!)
Lunch - cheese salad roll
Diner - dry roast ham joint, home made sweet potato wedges, green beans, with a cheese sauce
Ice cream and grapes and blueberries.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Diet #2 today - ie same old-same old + sashimi.

B: Bowl with 5 strawberries + 10 walnut halves + 30g pumpernickel + juice of half a lemon. Extra big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

L: Salmon sashimi + shredded carrot + wasabi + a little bit of soy sauce.

A: Big soy flat white + 30g chia seeds.

D: Bowl with 60g edamame + greens + one avocado + snow peas + dates + half a pear sliced + juice of one lemon.

Munching: Almonds; 2 ryvitas.

Walking: 13,500 steps.

Multivatamin.

~2,200 calories. 130g "net" carbs, 72g fibre, 12.5g satfat, 850mg sodium, 110g protein.

Waking BG 4.7, pre-lunch 5.5, late evening 4.9.

 

[Kaylz]

B - same as every other day
D - same as previous day
T - king prawn, mozzarella and spring onion omelette, baby potatoes, steamed broccoli and a bar of moser roth 85%, pint of blueberry & blackberry diluting
mug of coffee
bedtime - 1 digestive biscuit
About 115g carbs in total
xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

@Snoopyj
I've been tweaking my bread recipe and I've found a better sweetener for making bread. 100% dried stevia leaves tea!!
I omit the powdered seeteners (erythritol and a small amount of inulin) and instead steep a teaspoonful of stevia leaves in boiled water (I have one of those metal thingies you can put tea leaves in and then leave it in a cup or small pot of very hot water) and then make up the cup of water to go in the bread machine with half stevia 'tea' and half just water.

I still use the treacle for the yeast to eat as apart from leaving out the sweeteners the recipe stays the same.

The loaf came out even better - less plasticky in texture. It tastes amazing.


It is only 100g of leaves in the packet but that is a lot because it hardly weighs anything. So I think it will save money as well as being better because of less processing.

It didn't rise so wildly but the resultant loaf is perfect for my tastes.
I got the stevia leaves from Amazon. There are a few brands -this one was Almitas and £6.99 for 100g.

Oh and what I ate yesterday:

Brunch: smoked bacon rashers grilled with mushrooms and a poached egg.

Lea: Roast lamb and broccoli

Evening something: chocolate dessert made with double cream, high fat greek yoghurt, chia seeds, 100% cocoa powder and a teaspoon of erythritol/stevia powder all mixed together.

Drinks all day - decaff green tea, decaff coffee, a couple of glasses of fizzy orange made with sparkling water and a splash of no sugar orange squash.

 

[freesia]

Yesterday
B - avocado with poached egg on slice seeded wholemeal toast, sprinkled with salt, pepper and chilli flakes
L - cheddars crackers with cheese, a pepperami, 3 chilli cornichons and 150g Skyr yoghurt with cacao nibs and walnuts
D - chicken stuffed with soft cheese and mushrooms fried off in soy sauce then stuffed in chicken, new potatoes and veg
Snack - peanuts with a nice chilled glass of Sauvignon Blanc

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

That bread looks delicous, holey with air, nice. Just needs some Anchor on it. 🙂

Exactly what I did Ditto! 😛

 

[Snoopyj]

@NotWorriedAtAll
Thank you. Will give it a go and let you know

 

[BigPickers]

Recently diagnosed with type 2, so new to looking what I eat, finding this useful to see what others eat....LOL in some cases..

breakfast: 2 Wheatbix with fresh blueberries, also elevens 1 white toast home made bread.
lunch: Spanish Omlete with pepper salmon slide
dinner: fried chicken breast with peas and rice, Nando’s sauce
supper : wheatbix with more blueberries

ps. Is burgen bread the thing to have if you have diabetes?

 

[Kaylz]

@BigPickers Hi and welcome to the forum 🙂

Are you testing your blood glucose at all? I only ask as generally Wheatbix, bread and rice are just some of the things diabetics bgl don't tolerate too well

Regarding burgen, yes some find they can tolerate it and others don't tolerate any bread made with normal flour, its all about testing before eating and then again 2 hours after to see if you as the individual you are can tolerate things
xx

 

[KerryC]

B - 45g porridge, 5g cocoa powder, 35g smooth peanut butter, 175ml unsweetened almond milk and a mug of coffee - 30g carbs, 3 units of novorapid

Hi Kaylz,

Just a quick couple of questions. After seeing your breakfast I was so excited to try it as it sounded delicious 🙂

However, I actually didn't see this particular post and I think I added too much cocoa powder as I used 10g. The porridge tasted so bitter and I wonder was it because I added too much cocoa powder.

This is the first time I've made porridge on the stove and also with almond milk, how do you normally cook yours? The Peanut butter made it a bit more manageable but I only ate half of it as I couldn't stand the bitterness. I would like to try it again some day though 🙂

 

[grovesy]

Hi Kaylz,

Just a quick couple of questions. After seeing your breakfast I was so excited to try it as it sounded delicious 🙂

However, I actually didn't see this particular post and I think I added too much cocoa powder as I used 10g. The porridge tasted so bitter and I wonder was it because I added too much cocoa powder.

This is the first time I've made porridge on the stove and also with almond milk, how do you normally cook yours? The Peanut butter made it a bit more manageable but I only ate half of it as I couldn't stand the bitterness. I would like to try it again some day though 🙂

Just be aware @Kaylz is Type 1 and takes Insulin, many Type 2 find porridge spikes them.

 

[Kaylz]

Hi @KerryC it may be that you used too much cocoa powder as the taste varies widely on quality too, what cocoa powder are you using?

I mix my oats, almond milk and cocoa together in a sistema breakfast to go pot at 8am the previous day and put that pot in the fridge until 6:30am just before breakfast, I zap it in the microwave for 1 minute 50 seconds and that's it at the consistency I like it to be

Do you like dark chocolate? It would be slightly higher carb but you could always try a square of good quality dark chocolate instead of cocoa powder, I've done it with Lindt 90% chocolate
xx

 

[KerryC]

Just be aware @Kaylz is Type 1 and takes Insulin, many Type 2 find porridge spikes them.

Thanks for the advice 🙂 it's the first time I've eaten porridge since diagnosis but I have made my own granola with the same Oats previous to today 🙂

 

[grovesy]

Thanks for the advice 🙂 it's the first time I've eaten porridge since diagnosis but I have made my own granola with the same Oats previous to today 🙂

Granola is another that some find problematic too! They only way to know for you is test before and 2 hours later and compare the results .

 

[KerryC]

Hi @KerryC it may be that you used too much cocoa powder as the taste varies widely on quality too, what cocoa powder are you using?

I mix my oats, almond milk and cocoa together in a sistema breakfast to go pot at 8am the previous day and put that pot in the fridge until 6:30am just before breakfast, I zap it in the microwave for 1 minute 50 seconds and that's it at the consistency I like it to be

Do you like dark chocolate? It would be slightly higher carb but you could always try a square of good quality dark chocolate instead of cocoa powder, I've done it with Lindt 90% chocolate
xx

The cocoa powder was one that I already had and it was just a tesco own brand one so probably not the best quality?

I think I will try it again, previous to diagnosis I would have used the quick Oats that you just microwaved, although I read that they aren't so good and can cause spikes.

I'm not really a dark chocolate fan and thought maybe I'm just not used to the bitterness of the cocoa but I've found my tastes have changed recently so it's something I might get to like 🙂

Thanks for all your help 🙂

 

[KerryC]

Granola is another that some find problematic too! They only way to know for you is test before and 2 hours later and compare the results .

I did previously test after my homemade granola and seemed to tolerate it, although I used a smaller portion size than what was recommended in the recipe.

I haven't done a lot of post meal testing so it's something I'm working on at the minute 🙂

I know it's probably for another thread but when you say testing 2 hours post meals, do you test 2 hours after you start eating or 2 hours after you finish your meals. I have seen people who do both, so I'm interested to see what people do? 🙂