what is a good, easy to make,inexpensive ,low carb breakfast ?
Scrambled eggs sausage ?
I am Type 2 diabetic ,right now 13 A1c and blood sugar levels 200-300
Billy, Consider - Bacon, eggs (fried in butter perhaps), sausage, big mug of black coffee (or add cream - not milk) - and while that's cooking, have a handful of pecans, walnuts .... (not peanuts).
I like bacon or sausage and eggs...so maybe 3 eggs will help you feel better. I have to make sure there is no sugar in the sausage. Be sure to fry them in butter or cocoanut oil and you will find that fat will make you feel fuller for longer.
Often people will greatly reduce quantity in an attempt to bring blood sugar down. But the best way is to reduce carbs, and then fill up on fats (which won't raise BG). If you follow low-cart with high-fat (LCHF), you won't be hungry.
(You will also need less insulin, so approach the changeover slowly so you can keep up with your reduced insulin needs and not go low.)
Thanks everyone for the information
By substituting fats for carbs will that affect my heart?
I had a heart attack about 9 years ago and had a stint put in my heart.
I also still have blockage of about 80 %
I take Ramipiril fro blood pressure,simivastin for cholesterol and a 81mg baby aspirin every day.
My DCI recommends 30-45 carbs per meal. I would make that a START goal unless you are prepared to go LCHF right off the bat (and maybe you are). You can always go lower. The biggest difference in my cholesterol came from not eating beef (which was due to cost rather than a healthy effort).
Here was today's lowish carb breakfast: 3 eggs, 2 tablespoons (about) whipping cream, scrambled in 2T of olive oil. 1 (14 carb) toast with butter. Just under 1/2 cup blueberries. Total Carbs: 26. If you include healthy fats, you won't be starving 3 hours later.
For LCHF, you could do the same but take out the toast OR blueberries and include mushrooms, green pepper, celery - basically a cup of vegetables. You'd have a meal of about 17 carbs. Adding Bacon - no carbs. Check sausage package for carbs. Varies tremendously depending on ingredients. Note: 1 cup of green pepper is about 7 gr carbs).
I have to take my pills, so need to have some kind of bread or cereal, but found smaller loaves of NORMAL bread that are only 14 carbs per slice rather than 21-23. These are not those thin slices either. Just normal slices. You might instead have bacon, sausage or sliced Spam instead of the 3rd egg. Both the DCE and my oncologist prefer that I use olive oil, butter and canola oil. If you call your heart doctor's office, I'm sure they can make recommendations more specific for you.
Fish is another option for breakfast. I have cod, cooked in plenty of olive oil with some pepper. You could add some lemon juice if you want. What you pair that with for carbs depends on what you like. I like to cube and fry a small amount of potato (1 oz. fingerling potatoes = 5 g. carbs). I don't peel them. It's not much potato for the carbs, but I also don't have to totally give them up. They don't fit into a LCHF diet however.
Breakfast is my main meal so I'm very consistent with it.
4 tablespoons cold pressed virgin coconut oil
3 organic eggs cooked usually as an omelette stuffed with shredded meat or chicken
2 glasses of a concoction of coconut milk, coconut water, fresh cream, a dash of coffee powder for flavour, mildly sweetened with stevia
A few almonds.
Eating high fat will absolutely NOT affect your cardiac health. This 'bad fats' business was a hoax to begin with and the lies continue to haunt us. The whole unsavory story is explained here: Ending the War on Fat
LCHF is the best possible thing you can do for your heart, because it lowers your high blood sugar and reduces inflammation which is the real root of the plaques which block arteries. After a year on LCHF, my husband and I both found our cholesterol levels remarkably reduced, just by increasing the natural saturated and unsaturated fats in our meals.
I eat a 2 egg mushroom and cheese (Colby-Jack) omelette and 2 strips of thick bacon daily topped off with a few good splashes of Tabasco sauce.
I can't see me ever getting tired of it.
My usual breakfast is Bacon and fried Eggs with coffee with Heavy Whipping Cream added...
If not that I eat some slices of Salami with pieces of green peppers, and slices of hard sharp cheese....and coffee as above.
If I am traveling I eat hard boiled eggs and dried meats with some slices of lettuce or peppers.....and coffee as above..
I am 66 weighing 270lbs (down from 320 before I started LCHF) my blood pressure is now 120/75, down from last year, and my Cholesterol is also on target down from before I started following LCHF....my health has dramatically improved since I started eating LCHF.....my A1c was 7.9 went down to 5.8! All thanks to eating low carb and lots of high fat....!
An omelette is one of the best low carb breakfasts you can make. You need two pans - one to saute ingredients, and one (preferably nonstick) to make your omelette. I prefer a 3 egg omelet.
You can put all sorts of things into omelettes, but my summer omelette is usually sauteed onions, mushrooms, green pepper. Add fresh chopped chives and cheese at the end, so that the cheese melts. A variation includes adding chopped tomatoes and italian spices.
You can also use spinach and add meat products such as ham, bacon, pepperoni. Depending on what you use, your omelette can be between 5 and 10 gr. carbs. Just leave out potatoes!!
My breakfast always includes eggs in some form - fried, scrambled, omelet, etc. and bacon or sausage.
For a while when trying to do IF and not eating breakfast, I would still have the bacon or sausage to be able to take morning pills with something in my stomach.
Leftovers from a good LCHF supper the night before.
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