What did you eat yesterday?

[ConfusedCraig]

I had a bacon sandwich, fairly large one, first time in my life (never eaten bacon before this week). Was okay. Huge sandwich and blood sugar 2 hours after was 6.1 (forgot to measure before). I also tried a bit of green and blacks white chocolate (18g) because it is fantastic. Blood sugar 30m beforehand was 6.1 (which is where I know the bacon sandwich from). Blood sugar an hour after was 5.6

I now have an excuse to binge on white chocolate! Admittedly it's not as nice as a ginger cake but still.

 

[Kaylz]

@NotWorriedAtAll send me some ginger cake! It's my birthday in a couple of weeks too and that looks real tasty! lol xx

 

[rebrascora]

Happy Birthday! @NotWorriedAtAll I don't blame you for having a slice of birthday cake early. It looks delicious. Hope you have had a lovely day.
And thanks so much for the info on Xanthan Gum and also the Spanish Almonds.... will look into those products. Cheers!

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

That cake looks fabulous. Yum. They have tinned chicken curry, my son loves it. I'm gonna try it then. 🙂

Be careful which brand and which style curry Ditto.

Morrisons Chicken Jalfrezi (which you can get delivered from Amazon's same day delivery or Prime Now) has only 1.9g carbs per 100 so that is great - but have it with cauliflower rice or konjac rice and not real rice.

Morrisons chicken korma - is 4.0g per 100.

Tesco tinned chicken curry is 1.8g per 100g

Tesco beef curry is 4.3g per 100

Tesco tinned chicken jalfrezi is 4.1 g per 100 which is a big difference from the morrisons jalfrezi having only 1.9g per 100.

Tesco chicken tikka masala is 4.6 per 100.

but i think all of them are not too bad compared with what you sometimes end up eating - so a possible way to have something you like which makes you feel full and like you are being naughty but without it being naughty at all. xxx

casting an eye over the Asda ones they look similar too. I'm quite surprised I was expecting some scary carb counts but as long as it is just a meat in a sauce (and no potato chunks or starchy lentils etc ) it looks like tinned curry is not a bad choice generally. I have to be more careful because I am trying to keep my carbs under 20g a day - but for someone on a low carb rather than keto diet and if you can be firm about not having nan bread/poppadum/chapatis/rice and have it either on its own or with something like green beans or cabbage you'd be okay.

 

[Kaylz]

B - porridge and crunchy peanut butter and a mug of coffee
D - wholemeal sandwich with sliced tikka chicken from Morrisons, was really nice! 🙂 and a raspberry cake bar, pint of water
cup of coffee
T - smoked gammon steak, roasted broccoli, baby potatoes, wee bit of gravy and 1 square Lidl 95%, pint of water from a bottle of water as taps were running dirty water earlier in the afternoon
mug of coffee
xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

My wife found another fish recipe on the BBC Good Food website so for our tea yesterday we had Haddock & Spinach Cheese Melt. Only 5g carb per portion, so even with the cauli mash I had with mine I doubt that carbs reached double figures. Was going to test 2 hours later but I completely forgot!

Martin

Oo that sounds nice.

I stayed up all night last night - I've been trying to get my studio/living room tidied and organised and I suddenly got into a roll with it so I just kept on until it was mostly done. So I slept from 6 in the morning to 12.30 in the afternoon.

Then I had a delivery of sweets!! I haven't had boiled sweets for longer than I can remember - at least two years and I finally decided to try some sugar free ones and bought a kilo tub of pineapple fizz sweets. They can't be zero carb because they are over 200 calories for a kilo. But I checked my blood sugars after eating some and an hour later and two hours on and no change in my levels - so I'm counting that a win.

I had ham slices with boursin as wraps for brunch and a slice of keto flaxseed bread and decaff green tea to drink.

Then I had some sweets during the afternoon.

Then I made keto coconut fries with more ham, a fried egg and a squirt of Skinny Syrup Co Chip Shop Curry Sauce - which is zero carbs and zero calories.

I have bought a selection of sauces and syrups from their range (paid over the odds because I bought from Amazon before finding out I can get them much cheaper direct from the Nottingham firm that makes them) and I have got a link that gives people a 20% discount on their products and gives me some sort of commission or discount or something (I can't work it out exactly) as well.

I don't know if it is okay to share something like that on here. I've got it on my Naughty Diabetic Page on Facebook (link in my signature) if anyone fancies giving it a try.

Their Maple Syrup was excellent. I used it in my birthday ginger cake and poured it over as well.

 

[Perfect10]

B - homemade granola with almond milk
L - homemade tomato soup
T - sea bass with lemon and herb butter, with stir fried veg
Such a low carb day that I then ate a Hotel Chocolat champagne truffle, first chocolate in ages, that one chocolate lasted me about 10 mins (never managed that before) didn’t even crave a second one, it’s amazing how your taste can change?

 

[Kaylz]

@NotWorriedAtAll do you think the syrups would be good in porridge and coffee? xx

 

[Perfect10]

B - almond butter on toast, I found some Livlife bread in my local Waitrose, only 3.8g carbs per slice and £1.55 a loaf! Would cost much more to make my own with almond flour so really happy to find this
L - homemade soup
T - steak, celeriac chips, mushrooms and green beans. Mixed berries for pudding with a spoon of double cream

 

[ConfusedCraig]

Because it is my birthday, or was yesterday anyway, as a birthday meal I had a 13.5" dominoe's pizza. Ate 3/4 of it in one sitting along with one of thier packs of melt in the middle chocolate orange cookies (main reason I got the pizza, truth be told).

3/4 of a 13.5" pizza and some cookies. 4.9 an hour before, 8.0 an hour after, 5.9 two hours after.

Honestly I am beginning to wonder if I am actually diabetic. Highest spike I have seen is 9.4 and that's from a meal that had upwards of 300 grams of carbs in it. But I had a Hb1ac of 68 so I have to be diabetic... What set it off though?

That being said, I seem to be very tolerant of carbs which is a lucky stroke for a diabetic .

 

[Kaylz]

That being said, I seem to be very tolerant of carbs which is a lucky stroke for a diabetic

unfortunately most find toleracies change over the years xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

@NotWorriedAtAll do you think the syrups would be good in porridge and coffee? xx

Yes. I tried the Maple Syrup one in coffee with some extra cinnamon (I am addicted to cinnamon) and it was lovely. They sell syrups specifically for coffees in bigger glass bottles but I prefer my everyday coffee black and unsweetened so i haven't bothered with them. They have all the coffee shop style favourites.

I tried their brown sauce today.
Bad news - it tastes nothing like brown sauce.
Good news - it tastes exactly like Hoisin sauce!! Which is better for me because I love Peking duck so from now on I can have it and use their brown sauce for Hoisin. I also have a recipe for keto pancakes to have with Peking duck so that's another one of my favourites back on the menu 😛

 

[Kaylz]

Amazing thanks @NotWorriedAtAll if I get any money for my birthday in a couple of weeks I'll try a few as I'm obsessed with gingerbread atm lol xx

 

[NotWorriedAtAll]

Amazing thanks @NotWorriedAtAll if I get any money for my birthday in a couple of weeks I'll try a few as I'm obsessed with gingerbread atm lol xx

I am trying to make decent ginger biscuits/ gingerbread. That's my next goal. I made some but they were not gingery enough - I think adding grated fresh ginger may be the key to that.

Oh and I realised why the brown sauce didn't taste like brown sauce and tasted like hoisin sauce. I bought smoky barbecue sauce instead of brown sauce - which is of course incredibly like hoisin sauce.

I'm getting a free sample pack from Skinny soon so I'll have some brown sauce in that to try. I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast time 4 units of Fiasp
Glass of water with a dash of Balsamic vinegar and a cup of coffee with cream.
30g of Eat Natural Protein granola with a few defrosted frozen raspberries, mixed seeds (from Lidl), a teaspoon of psyllium husks and two good dollops of Lidl Milbona Creamy Greek Natural yoghurt (approx. 30g carbs)
.... followed by....
fried mushrooms, halloumi and an egg with a large side salad of mixed leaves with cucumber, 1 cherry tomato, a quarter of a red pepper and a big dollop of Lidl cheese coleslaw (approx. 10g carbs)

No lunch

Dinner (3 units of Fiasp)
We had a power cut so not able to cook and therefore we treated ourselves to a Chinese takeaway.
I had maybe 10 prawn crackers with a very small amount of chicken and sweetcorn soup.... none of which I have had since diagnosis. I allowed 1 unit of insulin for this which seemed to work well.... followed by....
a whole portion of chinese stir fried veg with a small amount of my partner's char sui with ginger and spring onion and 2 dessert spoons of his rice to soak up the juices. I have had this before and know it takes 2 units of insulin.

It was a real treat! Went to bed with a nice steady reading of 7.4.

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast (4 units of Fiasp)
Glass of water with a sash of balsamic and a cup of coffee with double cream
30g Eat Natural Protein Granola, a few defrosted frozen raspberries, mixed seeds, a teaspoon of psyllium husk and 2 good dollops of Lidl Milbona creamy Greek Natural yoghurt
followed by...
Fried halloumi, mushrooms and an egg with salad leaves, a large cherry tomato, an inch of cucmber and a quarter of a red pepper with a large dollop of cheese coleslaw

No lunch

Dinner (4 units of Fiasp)
Sea bass marinaded in lemon juice and pan fried in butter with aubergine and courgette and served with steamed broccoli and 3 small pieces of sweet potato followed by a Lidl Raspberry Trifle (23g) (Total approx 40g carbs)
Cup of tea with milk
Had a Lidl dark chocolate Leberkuchen (ginger bread) heart filled with apricot jam (6g if I remember rightly) to bring my levels up a bit as I was too low to go to bed.

Had several glasses of tap water with an inch of Lidl Mexican lime and elderflower water throughout the day.

 

[Kaylz]

Today
B - porridge made with almond milk and a load of almond butter, mug of coffee
D - wholemeal german peppered salami sandwich and a raspberry cake bar, pint of water
T - smoked gammon steak, baby potatoes, roasted broccoli and brussel sprouts, wee drop of gravy then 1 square Lidl 95%
mug of cafetiere coffee
(this stuff is bloody amazing, got 4 bars in the cupboard now and have more on the way for my birthday ) pint of water
mug of coffee
xx

 

[rebrascora]

Breakfast (4 units o Fiasp)
Glass of water with a dash of balsamic vinegar and a cup of coffee with cream.
30g Eat Natural Protein Granola with a few raspberries, mixed seeds, a teaspoon of psyllium husk, and 2 good dessert spoon dollops of Lidl Milbona Creamy Greek Natural Yoghurt
followed by
4xrashers of streaky bacon fried with mushrooms and an egg with a large side salad of salad leaves, a large cherry tomato, an inch of cucumber, a quarter of a red pepper and a good dollop of cheese coleslaw

No lunch
Glass of water with an inch of Lidl Mexican Lime and Elderflower sparkling flavoured water

Evening meal. (3 units of Fiasp)
Glass of rum and diet coke and a glass of water
Roast chicken with roasted swede, carrot and two pieces of roast potato, with cabbage and cauliflower cheese.
Lidl Chocolate marzipan gingerbread(22g carbs ... to counteract an impending hypo) and some stewed cooking apple and cream before bed..

 

[grovesy]

Yet another regime due to finishing 'Breakfast Is A Dangerous Meal' by Terence Kealy ... the blurb reads "Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it. Since Victorian times, we have been told to breakfast like kings and dine like paupers. In the wake of his own type 2 diabetes diagnosis, Professor Terence Kealey was given the same advice..."

I'll try anything once...

Weight: 14stones 11.8pounds Tum: 50 1/2inches

Breakfast: 7.8 @ 5.56am / Pint water with fibre / 1 Nescafe with dash milk
Lunch @ noon: 2 Poached Eggs, 1 slice white Toast with too much Anchor butter, 1 Red Onion, tons Garlic, tons Baby Tomatoes, 2 rashers Bacon (olive oil) / Pint water with meds.
Dinner @ 6ish: Pint water / White fish steamed, pile Cauli mashed with Anchor, lots Broccoli / Pint water

It's hard trying to eat within an 8 hour window... I was ravenous by noon!

Who is he i have not heard of him?

 

[Annemarie]

Wow I’m amazed at what some people can eat - almost a normal diet. Yesterday I had a slice of multi seed toast (husband doesn’t like Burgen) with butter and marmite and several milky coffees - sent me to 12.2. Lunch was toast again with home made soup and dinner was tuna pasta with blueberries and Greek yoghurt