What did you eat yesterday?

[Northerner]

Breakfast: Porridge, boiled eggs pumpernickel with cheese and smoked ham. (I was going for a walk in the Dales)

Packed Lunch: Home baked rye bread sandwiches with appenzeller and havarti cheeses, peppered salami and smoked ham, various pickles and fruits.

Dinner: sliced duck breast on brown rice noodles with the Holy Trinity of chinese spices ginger, garlic and chilli.

And lots of water. It seems to play an important part.

4.7 this morning!

Jealous! 🙂

 

[yorksman]

Jealous! 🙂

LOL. I got a book called Everyday Chinese from one of those discontiinued bookshops. It was only ?1.99. As you can see from the cover photo, many of the recipes are healthy, nutritious and fairly cheap. What I use them for, is to know how much of the spices to put in. They make or break the dish. Without them, I tend to overdo spices.

Or are you missing the Dales? We're off to Troller's Gill next week. Maybe we'll meet the Barghest.

 

[AlisonM]

Breakfast was a small bowl of muesli with milk and a large tea
For lunch, I had a chicken breast stuffed with black pudding in a leek sauce and mixed veg, more tea.
Dinner was a couple of Carr's Water biscuits with brie and some fresh raspberries. And guess what? Yup, more tea.

 

[ChrisOT61]

Help!!

Ive only had breakfast so far today at 13.17.
BS before 5.9
I had one slice of seeded hovis bread with marmite and a cup of tea, milk no sugar.
BS two hours after...8.9 😱

One slice of bread did this?

Help!!!!!!!!

 

[Northerner]

Ive only had breakfast so far today at 13.17.
BS before 5.9
I had one slice of seeded hovis bread with marmite and a cup of tea, milk no sugar.
BS two hours after...8.9 😱

One slice of bread did this?

Help!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's quite possible for a slice of bread to do this. It's not too bad though, but you might want to try some Burgen Soya and Linseed and see what that does to you - it's slightly lower in carbs than ordinary bread and the liberal quantity of linseed in it also helps to lower the GI 🙂

 

[jalapino]

Ive only had breakfast so far today at 13.17.
BS before 5.9
I had one slice of seeded hovis bread with marmite and a cup of tea, milk no sugar.
BS two hours after...8.9 😱

One slice of bread did this?

Help!!!!!!!!

As northerner says Burgen Soya is very good and very tasty, brown bread makes me go high. but your levels are not to bad considering 🙂

 

[yorksman]

As has been said, 8.9 from our over processed flour cum rocket fuel is not too bad. It was a major surprise for me too when I started. Our flours are milled so fine because we primarily use the 'No Time' or Chorleywood bread process. It's all about speed of production.

There are breads which are OK but most are rubbish. Even Waitrose's wholegrain bread only contains 6% wholemeal flour ( A wholegrain of truth )

Most brown bread is white bread coloured. Sometimes they throw in a few seeds to make it look 'artisan'. Quickest way to get dough to rise is to add sugar. That doesn't look good on the packaging so they add 'molasses'. Brown bread often tastes sweeter because of this.

Lidl do two breadmixes for homebaking which end up looking like this:

They use wholegrain wheat and wholegrain rye, different types and different proportions and get a rise out of the dried sourdough in the mix. You have to leave them for a long time to prove but these breads will not spike you.

 

[yorksman]

Yesterday was our 35th anniversary so we went to the Cinnamon Lounge where I had a Darren Gough Special Platter as appetiser, Masala fish, chicken ticka, sheesh kebab, lamb chop, chicken kebab and a Special Karahi as main, chicken, lamb, prawns with peas and lentils in a sauce with one wholemeal Roti, a proper freshly cooked one, thin, cripsy and very light and totally unlike those that you see in plastic bags.

BG was 5.0 after 2 hours.

It's all freshly cooked with no gloopy sauces so, no hidden carbs. Still I was very pleasantly surprised with their Roti. These, along with chappati's, nans and parathas, can contain a lot of white flour. I asked about wholemeal first, the waiter asked the kitchen and they said the roti was the only wholemeal product they did. But, they were spot on. Many will tell you anything.

 

[AlisonM]

Brekkers: Muesli again since it didn't spike me. Added a few fresh blueberries and had the usual tea.
Lunch: Three bean salad and more tea.
Dinner: A mix of chicken and veggie pakora with chilli dip and raita. Yet more tea and a large glass of water to put out the fire because I overdid the chilli.
Bit low at bedtime so treated myself to a couple of crackers and brie.

 

[PattiEvans]

Breakfast: 2 buttered sesame Ryvita

Lunch: Bought at open air Minack Theatre - 1 cheese and onion Pasty. Guessed 50g carb as it was quite large and then discovered I only had 6u insulin in my pen, so 1u less than I really needed as I had been a bit high FBG and fighting rising DP. 3 bottles mineral water throughout the afternoon.

Early evening: 2 glasses white wine in the pub.

Dinner: Sticky Sausages with Mediterranean veg (no potatoes)

Unfortunately I started high and at bedtime had to do a correction. Didn't do enough obviously as FBG was 10.1

 

[yorksman]

Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Rollmop herrings, pickles and homemade rye bread
Dinner, mixed lentil curry with lamb, chicken and king prawn and .....

my first ever home made wholewheat rotis. Bloodly wonderful. Thankyou Manjula thankyou.

 

[PattiEvans]

my first ever home made wholewheat rotis. Bloodly wonderful. Thankyou Manjula thankyou.

ooh er... recipe please!

 

[yorksman]

ooh er... recipe please!

The link I gave was to youtube where you can see her other recipes. This link is to her website, which also has a video. As you can see, there is lots on her site.

There is a mistake in No. 4, it should be divide into 4 equal parts, not 8.

They are very very simple to make and taste so much better than those things you get wrapped up in plastic. I will have a go next at her paratha which are basically the same but they are folded with a thin layer of oil before being rollered. It gives them a sort of croissant texture.

Hope you have fun!

 

[PattiEvans]

This link is to her website,

Many thanks for that!

 

[Mark_Fails]

Thanks!

What a wonderful thread. Still learning an enormous anount about this pesky condition and this threadcontinues the education. Far better than dry, thick, wordy books. Real people with real experiences.

For me and for what it's worth

B: 2 x apples
Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
L: Cheese Quiche and Pea and Ham Soup
D: Leaf salad with beetroot and about 1/3 of a 10" thin pizza.

Snacked on some grapes a little, but that doesn't count. Does it ?

A bit higher than usual 8.5 in the evening. I blame the pastry on the quiche, but early days yet.

The lesson for the day my boy is: Go and check this Burgen stuff out sharpish 😎

 

[jim3rg]

Breakfast - 1 Slice of toasted burgen with a little Flora low chol butter. Mug of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee with a dab of 1% milk and spoon on asda sweetener.

Lunch - Gammon Steak oven cooked, Scrambled egg. Mug of coffee

Teatime - 2 slices of rock hard morrisons dark rye crispbread, 2 slices of ham and grated Cheddar. Glass of Morrisons no added sugar D&B.

Snacked on Almonds.

Funnily enough, at teatime I have had the same meal before but using Aldi's rye crispbread and my blood sugar doesn't rise by much, but this time my levels went up a wee bit higher so I think it could be the morrisons crisp bread.

 

[LeeLee]

What a wonderful thread. Still learning an enormous anount about this pesky condition and this threadcontinues the education. Far better than dry, thick, wordy books. Real people with real experiences.

For me and for what it's worth

B: 2 x apples
Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
L: Cheese Quiche and Pea and Ham Soup
D: Leaf salad with beetroot and about 1/3 of a 10" thin pizza.

Snacked on some grapes a little, but that doesn't count. Does it ?

A bit higher than usual 8.5 in the evening. I blame the pastry on the quiche, but early days yet.

The lesson for the day my boy is: Go and check this Burgen stuff out sharpish 😎

Hi Mark, watch the grapes! When I was first diagnosed, I was told not to eat them at all because they're little parcels of sugar. (I didn't comply all the time, but reduced consumption a lot.) Check out my recipe for crustless quiche in the Recipes thread. I'm having some for my lunch.

 

[miguel81]

Grapes. It's a shame as my courtyard is covered in grape vines and this years crop is about 50 kilos. I suppose I could convert them into wine but then again the labour involved is out of all proportion to the fact that I can buy a litre of better wine for about 90 pence!

 

[Northerner]

Grapes. It's a shame as my courtyard is covered in grape vines and this years crop is about 50 kilos. I suppose I could convert them into wine but then again the labour involved is out of all proportion to the fact that I can buy a litre of better wine for about 90 pence!

Is there anything equivalent to a 'cave cooperative' like there are in France, that you could sell the crop onto? When I left Uni I went grape picking in France and grew heartily sick of the sight of them! We reckoned the occasional sound of gunshots were people that had been offered another week's work! 😱 (in reality, probably just hunters shooting sparrows, as the French are wont to do!)

 

[Mark_Fails]

Thanks

.... for the tip on grapes.

Damn that's another one off the list. As well as....

A good bike ride and pre dinner test gave me 6.9 (Yippee)

Post dinner test it went up to over 11.😱

Cauliflower, Broccolli, carrots and fish fingers. Followed by..........

Muller Rice with strawberry pot. I think that might have been it. Back down to 7.something this morning, so all is well. 🙄

I think I have found my first 'thats definitely not for me'.

They are really nice though.