What to add it to

[Kaylz]

Hmm thinking about having a wee bit of ground cinnamon tomorrow - dilemma - what do I add it to, do I sprinkle some on top of my granola or do I put some in my breakfast cuppy x

 

[Mark Parrott]

I suppose you can add it to almost anything. I have some on my yoghurt & berries.🙂

 

[Kaylz]

I've added it to my coffee many times but never had it with granola and yoghurt so may have to try that tomoorrow, scrap that I WILL be trying it tomorrow lol 🙂 x

 

[weecee]

I always add it to top of my porridge. Yummy

 

[Sara W]

Apples and pears - I slice then bake, pref covered, in a little butter with a mere sprinkling of water. Cinnamon and ginger are both lovely with these fruits, no need to add sugar.

Like any spice, cinnamon is supposed to be cooked, not used raw. If putting on yoghurt or cereal, I'd still flash fry it a moment in some butter first.

 

[Carolg]

Apples and pears - I slice then bake, pref covered, in a little butter with a mere sprinkling of water. Cinnamon and ginger are both lovely with these fruits, no need to add sugar.

Like any spice, cinnamon is supposed to be cooked, not used raw. If putting on yoghurt or cereal, I'd still flash fry it a moment in some butter first.

Sounds lovely. Might try that tonight

 

[Sara W]

I'm addicted to fruit crumbles, so I'm going to have to experiment a bit with the crumble topping, to get rid of sugar and 'bad carbs'; I always put a quite a bit of oats in anyway to make it crunchy... I'm going to try a topping with butter, oats and oat meal, and chia and/or flax seeds with a little truvia (I used to use demerara sugar, or even soft brown, and might when my readings are down use the Tate & Lyle Truvia and Dem mix, of which I bought a packet last night).

I've usually added mixed spice or just cinnamon - or just nutmeg! - to the crumble topping, while putting a clove and a pinch of ginger in the fruit at the bottom. Mostly I put a couple of good spoonfuls of my homemade jam in the bottom of the bowl - I put very little sugar in my jams anyway, so they are more like a 'coulis', a bit runny, esp the wild plum (there are trees everywhere round here, inc small greengages, mirabelles etc - also wild cherry and of course blackberries). Then I put the apple or pear (or both) on top of the jam, then the spices, then the topping. No two are ever quite the same...

I hope I can get this to a stage I can still eat fruit crumbles!

 

[Robin]

I hope I can get this to a stage I can still eat fruit crumbles!

I manage a crumble occasionally. I tend not to sweeten the fruit, and berries have a lower GI than something like stewed apple. I tend to look at a meal as a whole, so if I have meat or fish, and veg, but no carb for my first course, I find I can fit in some carb in the form of a pudding!

 

[Mark Parrott]

I've used ground almonds as a crumble. Works very well.

 

[Kaylz]

I added cocoa powder to my greek yoghurt this morning 🙂 x

 

[Jeandp]

I added cocoa powder to my greek yoghurt this morning 🙂 x

Was it nice?

 

[Kaylz]

Was it nice?

It was absolutely blumming delicious haha, you should give it a try 🙂 x

 

[Sara W]

That's what I'm working on with the crumble - ground almond, a little Truvia, and slow release carbs like oatflakes. I did weaken and have a smallish bowl of Jordan's muesli quite late last night, I was so craving it... I'd also tried some hot Robinson's blackberry squash, supposedly 'no extra sugar'. Then I had a shock reading this morning of 18.2!!

Breakfast/brunch was one chorizo, two mushrooms, one hash brown and a fried egg.
Lunch was one slice of Vogel 'ancient seeds' toasted, with some Waitrose taramasalata (the real thing, not that dyed pink stuff!), and four organic cherry tomatoes. I had a handful of grapes when I got in from the dog walk as I was feeling light headed - that worked.

This evening c8pm I had lamb's liver (sautéd with fresh thyme and garlic in an olive oil and butter mix) with spinach, and sprouting broccoli - no carbs. I did think of having a crumble but couldn't easily get at the box of crumble mix I made a couple of weeks ago at the back of the fridge! - so I had a decent sized bowl of creamy yoghurt with some of my home made wild plum jam, which isn't very sweet. That was an hour after the main/meat course.

My glucose reading was 5.8 after the dog walk and before supper - before the grapes in fact - that's my lowest yet 🙂 which surprised me after the high reading on getting up. I think I'll go and do a 'bedtime reading' now... Hmmmmmmmm 15.2

Up and down like the proverbial whore's drawers!

 

[Sara W]

PS Sorry Kaylz didn't mean to highjack your thread - I came to this via my emails and thought it was my own introductory thread, which I wanted to use as a kind of early 'diary'!

Now I'm wondering if I can move my previous comment over there... Edit cut and paste maybe?

 

[Kaylz]

Highjack all you want @Sara W I don't mind at all 🙂 I don't want to criticize what you did but I wouldn't have had the grapes if I were you, if you look around on the site they act like sugar bombs in many people, I know you say you felt a little light headed etc but I'm afraid you shouldn't have really treated it that way, as your body has been used to high sugar levels and your reading was 5.8 you were probably having a slight 'false hypo', trust me when your body gets used to running on normal levels sitting in the 5's won't make you feel like that anymore but until our bodies get used to these numbers we just have to put up with it and ride it out I'm afraid, I still strongly suggest if you feel funny though to test and make sure your numbers are normal of course 🙂 x

 

[Carolg]

Sounds lovely. Might try that tonight

Tried the apples the other night but had to use ground ginger. Used natural yogurt with it, and was lovely