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Young's Gastro frozen fish

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Mark Parrott

Mark Parrott

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Hi,
I always go over my brothers for dinner on a Thursday. I specifically told him that he must do a low carb meal, but despite the fact that he is also type 2, he doesn't know what low carb is! Anyway, he served up Young's Gastro fish (black pepper coating), brocolli spears (cooked to buggery!) and new potatoes in skins. I haven't touch potatoes since being diagnosed. Anyway, ate it all, but only had 2 potatoes. I told him not to bother with pudding, but he did anyway. It was a sugar free jelly with fruit, angel delight (found out later this wasn't sugar free) and topped with squirty cream & a fan wafer. Anyway, I ate it as an experiment. BS before dinner was 7.2, my lowest ever reading! 2 hours after it was 14.7. That's a big jump but to tell the truth thought it would be worse. 1 hour after that, 10.8. I have come to the conclusion that it was the angel delight, seeing as it dropped quite quick. Was the fish a good idea? May try that again.
 
I think you are probably right about the Angel Delight - quick spike then quick drop. With diabetes your pancreas can lag behind a bit so the sugar rush provided by the AD would prompt extra insulin from your pancreas, which would them drop you fairly quickly. Worth repeating the meal without the AD to see what the impact is 🙂
 
Youngs sea salt and black pepper coated fish seems to contain 12 grams of carb per 100 grams, and the next ingredient after fish (75%) is wheat flour, so that's where the carbs in that are! It would be better to buy plain fish and put your own salt and pepper on, or the slightest dusting of flour to keep the carbs down.
 
Or get the packs of marinated salmon from Aldi they are yummmmmm :D
 
Got fish again tonight, but it will be steamed with a Mediterranean topping. It's in the Daily Mail pull-out that a friend sent me. An 8 week plan to reverse diabetes, apparently.
 
Look on the bright side then - you can have both pieces!😎:D

Just had a look at the Daily Fail website - spotted No Carb Bircher (whatever a bircher may be?) Its got Apple Juice, yogurt, raisins. Since when have those ingredients been no carb!!

Raisins? Little sugar bombs 🙄

Some nice looking recipes though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-Type-2-diabetes-best-s-tasty-way-health.html

Just googled Bircher - seems we are back to 'bird food'!
 
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