What's for breakfast for T2 on pills

[Barb]

What do you eat for breakfast...just checking what others like me eat for the first meal of the day
I usually have a slice of toast a small bowl of cereal and a cup of coffee..once a week I have a boiled egg

[BeadieJay]

I have 2 slices of granary bread (toasted) with margerine, and a big mug of coffee. So far my numbers have been great with the toast (rarely over 6), so I'm sticking with it for as long as I can - I'm a bread addict, just feel miserable that I can no longer eat white rolls.

I also have a bowl of Special K cereal mid morning - if I eat nothing I go hypo - and the cereal is enough to tide me over till lunch, numbers wise as well as hunger wise!

[Peter Lee]

Porridge. I swear by it :D . Sometimes with a banana sliced into it but more often with a few raisins or currents cooked with it. This gives me a slow carbohydrate release.

If I need a quick burst of energy then I use organic cornflakes where sugar is not mentioned on the ingredients or Wheatabix.

Any of these keep me going from 7.30am until lunch at noon.

[Barb]

Nice to know what others eat..gives me more ideas on food choices
I love my Oatmeal with maple flavoring and Splenda...my old stand by

[BeadieJay]

Any of these keep me going from 7.30am until lunch at noon.

I can't figure out why I can't go that long without going low. I've tried porridge, but unfortunately I can't stand it :o

I've tried having something like peanut butter on my toast, to see if that helps me last longer without going low, but all it does is make my bsl higher at the 2 hour mark, so now I just stick with margarine. I've tried simply not eating anything mid morning, but feel so awful about 11 a.m. that I have no choice but to eat.....so now I always have a bowl of cereal or a small banana as a matter of course.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them, and like Barb said, it's good to have more choices.

[Barb]

I have been high before and after breakfast for some time now..hope these **** new pills help... someone said to me that something happens to the sugars / carbs in toasted bread that non toasted is better..any one hear of this??...
I was having cottage cheese with cinnamon on it and maple flavoring but that gets dull after a while...wish I had someone cooking breakfast for me then as soon as I get up I could eat..I just cant start thinking about eating till I had my offee...I hate planning all three meals..everything gets boring after a while lol

[mg_2204]

I always have:

- 2 coffees

and will usually have :

- a small bowl of Alpen (fruits and nuts)

or

- a small portion of porridge

or

- 1 peanut butter toast

and

- a fruit (banana, 1/2 a grapefruit, an apple, whatever is available)

When I work from 8 am to 1 pm, I'll have a piece of cheese and an apple around 10h30. I'm usually low by that time (around 4.8) but my work is quite physical and I walk to work.

When I don't work I'll eat less and will skip the mid-morning snack.

[Barb]

I Love Grapefruit but with taking pills for Cholesterol I can't have it any more :mad:
I do love peanut butter toast with banana...I buy the sugar and salt free then add some splenda and some salt put it in the blenda then re-jar it...

Lots of great ideas for breakfast :thumbsup:

[Peter Lee]

I can't figure out why I can't go that long without going low. I've tried porridge, but unfortunately I can't stand it :o

I do occasionally have to eat mid-morning. The other thing is that I have weight to lose so maybe I am able to live on my reserves.

I certainly can't do without breakfast. I can't give a fasting blood sample at my doctor's surgery because they don't start early enough for me to give the sample and then eat before I flake out :whistling !

[liz32]

This has helped me even though I didn't ask the question...I've always wondered what people eat for breakfast. I'm a typical penut butter and banana sandwich on carb wise bread (2 slice for 14g carb) of boiled eggs and toaste. I haven't had oatmeal in a while because I really like the instant type with all the flavours. I seem to be only able to find cereals that are quite high in carbs. I tried the Kashi...I could tolerate it but it wasn't really that appetizing. I'm learning that for me I really need protien with every meal other wise my b/s will be higher than they need to be. Like wise I like hearing what works for other people.

[Barb]

Liz I always find breakfast the most frustrating meal for me there is never enough choices...some how fish just don't tickle my taste buds in the AM lol...I started this thread to find out what others eat for the AM meal..now I seem to have more choices yippee lol

[BeadieJay]

I do occasionally have to eat mid-morning. The other thing is that I have weight to lose so maybe I am able to live on my reserves.

I certainly can't do without breakfast. I can't give a fasting blood sample at my doctor's surgery because they don't start early enough for me to give the sample and then eat before I flake out :whistling !

Hi Peter

that's so wierd, cos I have lots of weight to lose, but still can't go from breakfast to lunch without going really low. I suffered from hypoglycemia in my 20's and I wonder if that has something to do with it :confused:

But......I can do a fasting blood sample - I usually have a 9:00 a.m. appointment, and my doctor is always running late, but I can still do the occasional fasting test without any problems. But as soon as I put food in my stomach, the countdown begins on me going low. I really don't understand it. It's only in the morning that I go low, I never have that problem in the afternoon or evening (though I was going low after lunch when I tried cutting out bread...but I needed the carbs, and so don't go low anymore).

[Barb]

WOW i have never ever been low after breakfast...even when I was about 5 to 7 in the AM I would always shoot right up after breakfast..i snack on nothing between meals don't dare

[SVanderkolff]

I ussually have jyust a bowl of grain cereal, no sweeteners and just skim milk. This seems to be the best of the cereals for me to hold the sugars. I am usually hungrry by 11 am but then drink a couple bottles of water to last me to lunch.
Steve

[Lynpenny]

I like to just eat a carton of carb wise yogurt. You have to look hard to find it but it is there.

[Barb]

Hi Lyn..I must look for that I do like yogurt..who puts out the carb wise yogurt

[Peter Lee]

But......I can do a fasting blood sample - I usually have a 9:00 a.m. appointment, and my doctor is always running late, but I can still do the occasional fasting test without any problems. But as soon as I put food in my stomach, the countdown begins on me going low. I really don't understand it. It's only in the morning that I go low, I never have that problem in the afternoon or evening (though I was going low after lunch when I tried cutting out bread...but I needed the carbs, and so don't go low anymore).
I think this conversation is proving yet again that we are all so different. The only other thing I would comment is that I find that if I eat complex carbohydrates (such as porridge + raisins) then my blood sugar doesn't vary much. If I eat something less complex such as cornflakes, then it goes up for a while after I eat.

The only times I get lows is if I go too long (more than 4 hours) without food and then I go down to below 4 mmole/l (72 mg/dl) and I don't feel well if I drop below about 4.5.

After 6 months of struggling and putting up with many side effects I now feel very lucky because everything suddenly calmed down and I stabilised - almost overnight at the beginning of May. Now, my system behaves much more like a normal person's in that when I eat (sensibly, in diabetic terms) the sugar goes up to about 7.2 (129.6) and then gradually goes down to about 5.6 (100.8) over the next couple of hours -- and -- I feel well, at long last :king:

[Barb]

Peter I agree we are all the same but all so very different
When my BS were normal not high as they are now I could eat a good size slice of Chocolate cake w/o icing and it would not effect my reading at all but the same size yellow or white cake would rise my BS like crazy...nice knowing tho that we are all here helping one another..so happy hearing your doing so much better now

[HypnoToad]

i usually do penut butter and sugar free jam on the carbwise bread, sometimes a vegitable omlette (mmmm i think ill have one of those in the morning) and if course coffee