Pre diabetic cereals

spurdog1

Am recommended to eat low carb, but the labelling is confusing.
I hav dropped kellogs due to high sugar, are shreddies shredded wheat and  alpen ok?

Emmia

spurdog1 said:

Am recommended to eat low carb, but the labelling is confusing.
I hav dropped kellogs due to high sugar, are shreddies shredded wheat and  alpen ok?

Shreddies are also high in sugar, really you need to look at the labels. Weetabix protein isn't too bad.

If you're eating low carb, I probably wouldn't be having cereals for breakfast, I'd be having eggs.

maman

Emmia said:

spurdog1 said:

Am recommended to eat low carb, but the labelling is confusing.
I hav dropped kellogs due to high sugar, are shreddies shredded wheat and  alpen ok?

Shreddies are also high in sugar, really you need to look at the labels. Weetabix protein isn't too bad.

If you're eating low carb, I probably wouldn't be having cereals for breakfast, I'd be having eggs.

Puffed Wheat or porridge are other sugar free options but they're not low carb.

As @Emmia says if you want low carb you could have eggs or fruit with sugar free yoghurt or anything without the carbs.

But low carb doesn't mean no carb so if you choose to have cereal (as above) for breakfast then you shouldn't have carbs at other meals. 

Personally, I'd prefer to have a slice of bread or some potatoes later in the day than use up the carbs on cereal for breakfast. 🤔

lr1277

Regular Alpen is high in sugar. If memory serves there is a low sugar Alpen but I don't remember having that.

When I was first diagnosed, the mantra of the day was low fat. Which in my view is no good for diabetics. So I would have a pretzel and a fruit salad for breakfast. My sugars went through the roof. This puzzled me as I was following the healthy eating mantra. I then realised too many carbs were not good for me.

I don't know how much time you have for breakfast (and its preparation) nor if you have any other health goals. Some things you can make the night before and heat up on the day.

There is a video on youtube called something like 'Diabetes Nuts and Bolts'. It is by Dr David Unwin, a GP and intended for a medical audience but you should be able to follow it.

This is associated with a website called the 'low carb program'. I am not into this yet properly but it seems to offer good advice and money saving offers.

The 'author' of the video says he has yoghurt and fruit for breakfast and that keeps him going till dinner.

For dinner he had stir fried lamb with some cooked beans thrown in. This way you get some carbohydrates plus fibre which is required for your digestive system.

For breakfast you could have the protein parts of a full English plus baked beans (depending on your other health goals). Avoid the bread/toast, hash browns etc. Remember some commercial baked beans have a lot of sugar in the tomato sauce. Or a simplified version might be lentils and eggs. You could make the lentils the night before and the eggs in the morning. This meal gives you protein (in the eggs and lentils), carbs and fibre.

Some years ago I met with the diabetic nurses and they persuaded me to only have 140g of carbs a day. Whilst I was on this my sugars were good and I lost weight. For various reasons I went off it and the weight came back on. Did require (at the time)  a book which listed the carb contents of various different foods by portion size. Now these types of books are still available but the information is also on various apps.

A word of warning: There is one specific example where the 'healthy option' has approx double the amount of carbs as opposed to the 'unhealthy option' for 100g of this foodstuff.  Based on the nutrition figures shown on the Waitrose website, a mixture of brown, red and wild rice has about 60g of carbs per 100g whereas white Basmati rice has about 32g per 100g (if memory serves). Yes the former rice has a little more fibre (and is meant to be better for you) but please remember the carb content of this rice.

Hope this helps. I wish you well in your journey.

Edited to add: lentils, beans and to some extent fruits and vegetables make me very uncomfortable in the gut. Let's just say I have diarrhoea type symptoms. The only way I found to reduce but not eliminate this is to have a spoon of bio-live yoghurt when a meal has any of these items. Also cooking garlic with these items and eating the garlic  also helps a little bit).
2nd edit: just incase you are not aware, when looking at the nutritional information for a product, you need to look at the carbohydrate content and not the sugar content.

Emmia

maman said:

Emmia said:

spurdog1 said:

Am recommended to eat low carb, but the labelling is confusing.
I hav dropped kellogs due to high sugar, are shreddies shredded wheat and  alpen ok?

Shreddies are also high in sugar, really you need to look at the labels. Weetabix protein isn't too bad.

If you're eating low carb, I probably wouldn't be having cereals for breakfast, I'd be having eggs.

Puffed Wheat or porridge are other sugar free options but they're not low carb.

As @Emmia says if you want low carb you could have eggs or fruit with sugar free yoghurt or anything without the carbs.

But low carb doesn't mean no carb so if you choose to have cereal (as above) for breakfast then you shouldn't have carbs at other meals. 

Personally, I'd prefer to have a slice of bread or some potatoes later in the day than use up the carbs on cereal for breakfast. 🤔

I'd also consider plain full fat greek (or Greek style) yoghurt over sweetener loaded "sugar free" fruit yoghurt.

Personally I find full fat versions more satisfying than low fat, low sugar options... Plus if you really want to put honey or jam in them to create a sweet/fruit yoghurt, you're in control of exactly how much you add.

The other area of carb danger is alcohol.

jackieblack

All cereals are carbs so there are no low carb breakfast cereal options
As others have suggested, anything you’d generally find in a Full English breakfast is fine, apart from baked beans or fried bread/toast, omelettes, in fact eggs in any form, or greek yogurt with berries are all good options 

YBR

I've been diagnosed diabetic and am slim. I've found that the only advice I get is smaller portions of "healthy food". My own research says that "Low fat" often has extra carbs or sweeteners in to improve taste but do not be afraid of fat.

The latest research does not seem to have got into the treatment pathways yet.

My breakfasts are usually full-fat natural yoghurt with some berries (usually blueberries but whatever you fancy) and nuts and seeds. Lunches I generally have salad with cheese/ham - the contents of a sandwich without the bread!

You might find a lot more options (not necessarily MSE) on thebloodsugardiet.com

WalshSall

Sounds like you like a sweet breakfast, like me! How about making chia seed pots the night before? I was a big cereal/porridge eater and have recently started making them, they are so easy and nice!

springmagpie

Surreal - High protein low sugar cereal is lovely 

jackieblack

Remember also that most milks contain a lot of sugar

FlorayG

If you have been recommended a low carb diet they really, really should have given you more information.
'Low Carb' usually means less than 100g of carbs per day.
So basically you need to strictly limit anything made of cereal or starchy veg like potatoes and anything sweet like fruit. Until you get your head around it you need to read every single label and get a carb counter for things like vegetables that are not labelled with their carbs. It's quite amazing just HOW low in carbs a low carb diet is. I've been low carb for years and I eat mostly meat and green vegetables and nuts as a snack
Also I hope they told you that a real low carb diet includes a LOT of fat and you shouldn't be worried about that?