There's never anything to eat.

[Jamison]

Whenever it is time for breakfast/lunch/dinner, there is never anything to eat. I always eat the same boring things time and time again for breakfast lunch or dinner. Can somebody name some fairly easy-to-make meals that take about 30 minutes or less to make and have less that 75 carbs?

My usual meals are as follows:

Breakfast
Eggs (with some kind of animal in them) and a ton of fruit.
Special K cereal, its pretty good but I am bored of it.

Lunch
Turkey sandwich with low carb bread and yogurt
Tuna Fish sandwich

Dinner
Brisket
Steak
Salmon/other fish
Turkey Burgers
Meatloaf


Any other suggestions would be helpful but please include the amount of carbohydrates, without them, It doesn't do much.

[morrisma]

Lots of options with recipes have been posted recently.

Some really interesting, lower carb pancakes topped my breakfast list. Oatmeal is a staple for me when I eat breakfast at work.

Soups for lunch - lots of choices too.

[notme]

Breakfast:

granola, vanilla yogurt and berries mixed together

smoothie made with frozen yogurt or vanilla yogurt, frozen peaches, frozen berries.

egg salad sandwich on low carb bread

Lunch:

low carb bread, avacado, tomato and alfalfa sprouts with mayo

homemade vegetable soup (made ahead of time) crackers

chicken salad sandwich (made with leftover chicken from dinner)


Dinner:

Baked lemon chicken (top boneless chicken breast/with skin removed after cooking) with fresh lemon juice, onion salt and pat of butter. Bake 350 for 45 minutes until browned

BBQ tri tip BBQ'd 1/2 corn cob

Shrimp skewered with sirloin steak, peppers and mushrooms (white potatoes) marinated in teriaki sauce and hoisin sauce.


Make enough for dinner so you have leftovers for lunch the next day.

[freo]

I often have a smoothy for breakfast (41g)

165g blueberries (20g carb)
1 lite pot yougart (11g carb)
250ml milk (10g carb)

total 41g carb
Blend for 30sec

This makes 2 whole parfait glasses.

[kgm0612]

I'm a boring eater myself, but here's some of the items I eat:

Breakfast:

A Thomas's Light Wheat English Muffin or 2 slices of my store's brand Light Wheat bread with spray butter or peanut butter. Scrambled eggs or an omelet. Special K Protein Plus or Cheerios Crunch Cereal with Hood's Calorie Countdown Milk (3g) and one packet of Equal. Dannon Light & Fit Carb/Sugar Control Yogurt. An apple or a pear.

Lunch:

Any lean deli meat (turkey, ham, chicken breast) or tuna/egg or chicken salad sandwich on light wheat bread or in a low carb pita pocket; A garden salad, sometimes with grilled chicken; Leftovers from last night's dinner; small fruit salad.

Dinner:

Lean meat.........usually chicken cooked different ways with green beans and sometimes a baked sweet potatoe; A large garden salad; Once a week I cook Whole Grain Pasta or Spaghetti and indulge in one or two slices of Italian or French bread; T-bone or Porterhouse steak with veggies.

Karen

[owlyn]

You're a type 1- eat whatever the heck you want. Take some insulin and do some exercise. Saturdays, I have eggs, home fries, chocolate chip pancakes, coffee, 6 units of Humalog, and a three mile walk.

Remember, when you take insulin, it's about the same as your pancreas making insulin, and the same rules apply. Eat too much and don't exercise, and you will gain weight. The key to happy eating is to eat well (a lot of good-for-you-stuff as well as a little bad-for-you stuff) and exercise.

[Schlep]

When I want something different I make these for breakfast.

-Low carb toast with creamed cheese and smoked salmon
-Low carb toast, eggs with shredded cheese mixed in
-Low carb toast eggs with salsa mixed in
-Low carb banana muffins listed on this site

[Scrabblechick]

Kroger has a CarbMaster yogurt with 4 carbs that is pretty good. Wish it came in other flavors besides vanilla, strawberry and peach. I also like their Lite yougurt. About 11 carbs per serving, I believe, and the lemon is very tasty.

If I were a Type 1, I'd have pizza three times a week. LOL.

[Cyborg]

Homemade chicken vegetable soup and homemade chili are a large part of my diet. The soup (without noodles or potatoes) is always low carb, about 25g per bowl, barley included. The chili has lots of fiber with the beans, and comes to about 40g carbs per bowl. Yummm!

[Jamison]

I never really thought of eating a little more and taking a little less insulin and then working off the carbs. Believe me, my concerns do not have to do with gaining weight. I have been putting on muscle like crazy and when I grow up, I could be a bodybuilder (diabetic bodybuilder). Thanks for all the suggestions, keep em' coming!!! :D

[Eddy]

I never really thought of eating a little more and taking a little less insulin and then working off the carbs. Believe me, my concerns do not have to do with gaining weight.


:)

I found that the 75g/meal recommendation got old quickly... really quickly. If you're not fully grown, as your post indicates, I (not an expert!) should think the 1800 Cal/day diet would be foolish.

[Jamison]

:)

I found that the 75g/meal recommendation got old quickly... really quickly. If you're not fully grown, as your post indicates, I (not an expert!) should think the 1800 Cal/day diet would be foolish.

What do you recommend in that case?

[gleny]

Hi , I found that slim fast low carbs drinks has 4 grams carbs and 1 sugar I add a bannana or other fruit in am and make a shake in blender its good..Gl Gleny,,,,, new here

[Eddy]

What do you recommend in that case?


Whatever your body needs to grow properly. Eat as if you were not diabetic provided that you can keep your blood sugar under control. i.e., eat enough, but don't live on pizza and soda.

BlueSky has posted some about his experience on a high-fat diet -- using "good" fats. My own experience: Pre-DX, I ate insane amounts of cheese; a few months post-DX my HDL was 48, my LDL was 62, and my triglycerides were 26.

Don't take this as a license to eat tons of grease, but consider using olive oil for some of your caloric intake. I add the stuff to spaghetti, and use a little extra when I make pancakes. Each tablespoon is worth 120 Calories, mostly from unsaturated fat.

Speaking of spaghetti, which I ate just tonight:


1 pkg. Tinkyada whole-grain brown rice spaghetti
1 jar Kroger ("Private Selection") pasta sauce
1 lb. ground buffalo
olive oil
sunflower oil
balsamic vinegar


I generally split that into three servings, with about 110 g CHO per serving. The oil and buffalo (and parmesan and/or romano and/or asiago cheeses, if I add them) give additional calories from protein and fat. For me, a portion that size releases about 22 g glucose per hour over a five-hour period.

Whole foods are your friend. Processed foods are bad.