Low sugar gluten free muesli, granola and cereals

Bacman

Exercise is fine for keeping supple but not for losing weight; you have to do considerable exercise just for a few lousy calories, best not to eat them than exercise! 

Rosa_Damascena

Bacman said:

Exercise is fine for keeping supple but not for losing weight; you have to do considerable exercise just for a few lousy calories, best not to eat them than exercise! 

The activity benefit is sucking glucose out of your blood cells and into your muscles - hence blood sugar regulation.

soolin

A lot of gluten free foods are very high in sugar as it is often used to replace the action of gluten, reading some of the packaged foods nutritional information is quite scary. I gave up a lot of stuff as I suddenly started putting on weight and certain foods directly affect me, for Instance if I eat a GF Bowl of cornflakes my weight will have gone up next day, a grilled bacon sandwich on un buttered bread , and GF bread tends to be smaller than normal bread, does not affect me anywhere near as much. I can’t eat much fruit either , which is a shame. Luckily I quite like veg and salad so get my fix that way. 

I’m a coeliac BTW and cereals are always a problem anyway as so many normal ones contain barley, and the specific GF ones are high in sugar. 

Bacman

@soolin - I have made several types of keto bread and most taste eggy or pretty bad, however this one works and is quite acceptable. You need to be accurate with your measuring. Using Psyllium husk with almond flour might make the roll look grey or alternatively purple however is only appearance and doesn't affect it's quality or taste. One way to stop such bread ending up purple apparently is to add half the amount of citrus acid powder that you have used for Psyllium husk powder, not tried that yet, have some on order to try.

https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/the-keto-bread

starving_artist

MrsStepford said:

I did a search and no-one seems to have been looking for cereals. muesli and granola which are lower in sugars and carbs before. Any brand, or own-brand from ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose would be fine. Anyone know of anything like this ? It doesn't have to be specifically gluten-free, as long as it doesn't list gluten or wheat or wheat flour in the ingredients, that will do. 

M&S Low sugar Make It Your Own Granola doesn’t mention gluten or wheat. sugars are 3.6%. £2.

MrsStepford

Firstly, my heartfelt thanks to so many MSE forum members who took the time to reply. I really appreciate it. 

My husband doesn't have diabetes, but his mother had Type 2, so this supposedly puts him more at risk. His dad was really skinny and he takes after him. He's just now developing a bit of a beer belly, because he has been drinking a bottle or two every night since lockdown. When he was getting up early and driving hundreds of miles, he often skipped breakfast, whereas now he has the time to eat it. 

It's only the breakfast and beer which are putting him over the 130g carbs per day. A low carb gluten free cereal would hopefully knock it down. At weekends a cooked breakfast would be fine, he sometimes does that. But Monday - Friday, he doesn't want to be getting up earlier than 7.30

I bought an exercise bike, but he hasn't used it yet. He switched from cigarettes to vaping and gave up coffee, all by himself. I have labelled food with use-by day and amount of carbs and that enables him to make his own choices for lunch. I want to try to nip the beer belly in the bud, so to speak before he gets fat. 

He has started making his own bread, instead of buying gluten free and he's enjoying it. He's not an advanced baker yet, but he's doing OK. Purple bread sounds a blast, btw.

TimSynths that's awesome progress, well done you !

Husband hates honey and almonds. I will investigate bran and ask him about that. Everyone who suggested a product, suggested one that I didn't know about. I'm not near a M&S and after the way Ocado dumped me during lockdown (despite being SmartPass customer since 2012) I won't go back there. But maybe my mum can get some as she lives near a big M&S. 

Thank you all again. If you have any more suggestions, please post x

rachsecret

I've tried a lot of Keto bread recipes and this one is the best by a long mile. It uses yeast which makes it taste like real bread. Where it states gluten flour, this is Vital Wheat gluten which you can buy from Holland and Barrett. I use honey to get the yeast going but this does not affect the carb count as it gets burned off (eaten) by the yeast. I don't add Xanthanum gum and it makes no difference to the recipe. https://madcreationshub.com/recipe/low-carb-bread-recipe/

QuackQuackOops

MrsStepford said:

Husband needs to cut down on his carbs as he's developing a beer belly. He has NCGS so no wheat or gluten. Today he informs me, that he's run out of muesli, cereals and granola. I've ordered gluten-free non-GM oat Cheerios (American) and gluten-free sorghum Weet-bix (Australian) from Amazon as a stop gap, but I really need some low sugar (under 5g per 100g), lower carb (under 20g carbs per 100g if poss), gluten-free breakfast stuff. 

I did a search and no-one seems to have been looking for cereals. muesli and granola which are lower in sugars and carbs before. Any brand, or own-brand from ASDA, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose would be fine. Anyone know of anything like this ? It doesn't have to be specifically gluten-free, as long as it doesn't list gluten or wheat or wheat flour in the ingredients, that will do. 

Thank you in advance x

Cereal is the very definition of carbs!
Your husband ought to eat bacon and eggs..or other such delicious food, which is healthy and nutritious  (fry in lard, not oil)  and ditch the very bad for us cereal.

MrsStepford

I eat eggs every day. When fried, usually whatever needs using up next so could be lard, dripping, ghee, duck fat, goose fat.

Diet elimination thingy showed husband OK with barley extracts but nothing remotely wheat-y. He's now only eating cereals at weekends, which is a start. He says he would swap granola with his yogurt for fruit, but that's high in fructose unless he sticks to lower carb berries. 

Working mostly from home is doing him good because he gets a solid 8 hrs sleep now and the suitcases under his eyes have gone. He doesn't want to be getting up earlier to do Full English every day. I asked if he has something against eggs and he said no, so I'm going to look for egg boilers. 

He said he'll finish up cereal he has and will try not eating it, but he wants fruit or granola with his yogurt. So that narrows the search down to gluten-free granola only, as low carb as I can find. 

He bought himself a yogurt maker last week and says he will try making some this weekend.