Diabetic high fat low carb cheap meals

Slinky

Just noticed you've mentioned oranges and bio yogurt with fruit. I'd suggest cutting these out, the bio yogurt is almost certainly full of sugar as I've yet to find a full fat one and when they take out fat, they add in sugar. The oranges will spike your blood sugar levels also. Tesco full fat Greek yogurt is lovely and only 90p-£1 a large pot.

I do drink a little cordial in the summer, but literally just a splash to take the edge off the taste of the tap water. IIRC Tesco is 99p as opposed to the branded stuff being about £3.50.

MortgageMamma

Hi Slinky, I buy the bio yoghurt for the dog and my husband mainly and I don't eat any fruit at all normally, just the odd avocado and in summer I like a bit of watermelon. I have an oral allergy to most fruit so I just don't bother with it. I'm also lactose intolerant and can't cope with wheat as I have IBS. I don't go bonkers about lactose I still have high fat cream cheese in meals and full cream in my coffee.

Its really bizzare and heartening that I'm eating all this high fat stuff and the pounds are just falling off me. I have fibromyalgia and a knackered spine (arthrisis, nerve compression and slipped discs) and yesterday for the first time in years I walked for 6 miles and didn't feel it. I'm also swimming twice a week. Cutting out carbs, sugars, sweeteners and milk has done wonders for my health - this time last year I couldn't walk 500m to my daughters school

Sorry a bit off topic! as well as saving money I am little getting a bit bored with what I am eating so need to learn new recipes.

Regarding my dog, there is a specialist raw feeding place just 5 miles from me, but she won't eat the minced mixed food she is really fussy. That said she loves lung meat, sprats, heart, chicken feet and turkey trachea. She has way too much bone in her diet most weeks but she's healthy despite it.

Slinky

MortgageMamma wrote: »

Its really bizzare and heartening that I'm eating all this high fat stuff and the pounds are just falling off me. I have fibromyalgia and a knackered spine (arthrisis, nerve compression and slipped discs) and yesterday for the first time in years I walked for 6 miles and didn't feel it. I'm also swimming twice a week. Cutting out carbs, sugars, sweeteners and milk has done wonders for my health - this time last year I couldn't walk 500m to my daughters school

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I too found it odd that all the stuff I'd been told for years about low fat was a load of rubbish. A friend pointed me in the direction of "Escape the Diet Trap" by Dr John Briffa who is a British nutrition expert, read it and have never looked back.


Part of my job involves a lot of walking one week a month (about 50 miles) and I used to ache a lot, I started taking turmeric regularly and feel a lot less achy.

ciderwithrosie_2

MortgageMamma wrote: »

Sorry a bit off topic! as well as saving money I am little getting a bit bored with what I am eating so need to learn new recipes.

I did low-carb a long time ago but I found this site good for inspiration ..... http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html

I know it's American but the basic foods are the same.

If you eat later could you combine breakfast and lunch, maybe just have a snack in the afternoon. If you're still hungry after dinner, perhaps just have a handful of nuts and a piece of cheese. Low-carb doesn't have to be meat with every meal.

Also, are you really still getting hypoglycaemic if you don't eat little and often - your blood sugars should be more stable now so you avoid the crashes?

purpleivy

I'm following 'Always Hungry?' David Ludwig. It's more or less High Fat Low carb. But no potatoes, anything with any sugar. I'm totally 'no grain' for other health reasons, but this starts out like that for the first 2 weeks. It seems to me a sustainable way of eating. There are quite a lot of recipes with pulses and a vegetarian programme as well, so these may be worth looking at. He has a website with menus etc, but precise recipes aren't there, I gather copyright issues with the book. If you are home a lot you would be able to cook beans from scratch, which would save you more. There's a kind of fake mashed potatoes using a can of cannellini beans and cauliflower.

mardatha

We eat sugar-free jelly and double cream with greek yoghurt and a few raspberries.

prosaver

farmfoods is the cheapest for meats and eggs
http://www.farmfoods.co.uk/

TiredTrophy

Are you able to cut the meat with chickpeas, lentils or beans? They have slow release carbs. Some folks get a spike..others don't.
Otherwise try more offal. Chicken livers are very inexpensive....delicious as pate with honemade flax crackers or make spicy chicken livers with peppers and chilli.....Start every meal with soup or salad...
If you make the meals very flavourful, you might be satisfied with less.

Congratulations to you for your success so far.

MortgageMamma

Hi All

thanks for the words of encouragement and the great ideas. I've bought chicken livers for the dog so I'll cook some up and see if I like them but I generally don't like offal that much despite liking pate (its more of a texture issue)

Regarding the hypos, when I don't eat carbs I get headaches - I have been plague with really bad ones this past month, even high strength co codamols don't shift them. Usually if I have a bit of sugar or carbs they correct themselves within an hour or so. Its a far cry from 2 months ago when I used to physically shake, sweat and feel faint if I had a low. A low to me is blood sugar below 6 at present but it used to be anything below 8, so I know I've had some benefits. But once I get to 6.5 the head ache really kicks in, I'm wondering if its some sort of withdrawal from carbs that's doing it as opposed to the diabetes itself. I also find my blood sugar drops rapidly when exercising, even moderate exercise so I always have to keep a bag of sweets or small can of cola with me just in case.

I didn't know I could make broccoli rice In the microwave thought it had to be fried, so I'm going to give that a try tomorrow with some chicken curry

bizzylizzy

I was very interested to read your post as my OH and I are doing the '8 week Blood Sugar Diet' by Dr Michael Moseley, and we have just started the 2nd week. The website is https://thebloodsugardiet.com/the-low-carb-plan/ and there is a book to go with it. It's very readable, and makes perfect sense. It is very low carb, high fat but only 800 calories a day, for 8 weeks. Then he recommends staying on a Mediterranean type diet to keep healthy. There is a Facebook group which is very supportive, as well as forums on the website.
Have a look and see, there are lots of ideas and help from others all working through the diet and most of them losing lots of weight and getting their blood sugar down.