[Diabetes-talk] Cereals and snacks I can eat?

Mon Oct 17 19:57:18 UTC 2016

Oatmeal has carbs itself. It's not just the sugar adding carbs to oatmeal.
If you mix a package of plain oatmeal with flavored, it will add carbs. You
would need to be aware of this to calculate carbs.

Just to give you an idea, Quaker Oats plain oatmeal has 27 grams of carbs
for half a cup or one packet. A maple and brown sugar packet has 32 grams of
carbs. So if you combined the two, you would be eating 59 grams of carbs.
That's quite a lot of carbs. If you cut the plain portion in half, you still
end up with about 13-1/2 carbs, so mixing it with a packet of flavored with
put you at about 45-1/2 carbs.

Bridgit

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One of my favorite drinks are "Ice" which is a flavor water that comes in
plastic bottles.[I think they are 16 oz.]  I get a 18 pack case or just last
week they offered a 
 24 bottle case at our wholesale store[BJ;s].    They have it at the grocery
stores and put it on sale occasionally, but it is the cheapest at the
wholesale store.  Most expensive at those quick walk in type of stores if
they carry it.  Lots of flavors and 0 cals, 0 sugars, 0 salts, etc.  I use
to be a diet Coke person, you know one of those who had a can of diet Coke
with an IV running into my arm.  I still drink diet Coke, but drink the ICE
more.

I like to eat  grapes and keep them in the refrigerator.  Yes I do calculate
and cover, but they are great to tie you over before you eat.

Now for your oatmeal.  I would suggest you take 1 package of your apple
cinnamon and 1 package of regular plain oatmeal.  That way you have cut the
high sugar count lower, but you are eating the same amount of oatmeal and
then possibly cutting or reducing the amounts of cereal you eat totally.
Maybe get a goal set that won't frustrate you.  Like in 1 month doing this
try cutting back to half a envelope of the 2 oatmeals and then cut to one
envelope.  Do it gradual    

It took you your life to get you where you are now and taking each step
going in this direction will help you and your diabetes out.

Joyce

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Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Cereals and snacks I can eat?

Hello once more everybody,

This will be the last post for me for a while. But I just had some more
questions, and I figured you all would have some ideas. OK, I need to start
eating better. I know this. But I'm stubborn, and I don't like it, and it
makes me frustrated! Plus, if I don't get enough to eat I feel like I am
literally starving! Then I'm not a very nice person. LOL!

So I am trying to get better at eating lean ground beef, I like a lot of
chicken so that is good, and I don't eat it fried. I want to try to eat fish
more. I drink 2% milk, because I cannot stand skim milk. I do drink soda,
quite a bit. But for several years now I have drink diet soda. Sometimes I
will drink power aid zero. But after a while, they almost taste too sweet to
me. I will drink only bottled water, and I am trying to drink at least a
couple of bottles a day. I know that's not much. But at least it's better
than nothing. Are used to never drink water. My weakness is red diamond
sweet tea. I love that stuff! I try to only drink a glass a day, if I can be
good. But sometimes I do have two glasses.
No for my big question!
I enjoy eating cereal sometimes, and oatmeal sometimes. I usually get apple
and cinnamon oatmeal, because that is my favorite. I was eating two packages
at a time. But I have started to try to only eat one package at a time.
If I eat one package of the apple and cinnamon oatmeal, are there other
things I can eat with it to help me feel full? Also, I enjoy cereal.
However, I like mostly the bad stuff, such as fruit loops! I even smell
yummy!
Anyway, what are some cereals I can enjoy, that would taste really good, but
be better for me?
If I eat the good cereals, again, are there things I can eat with it that
will help me feel full? I do like the regular Cheerios also, and I know that
is all right to eat. And I was told once a long time ago that I could eat
honey nut Cheerios, but in small doses.

Also I was wondering, what are some good healthy snacks I can eat and enjoy,
but that will also taste good?
I like some of the bad stuff, such as potato chips, cookies, popcorn, and
just whatever else sounds good.

Now, I do enjoy white yogurt. Although I haven't had any for a while. I love
oranges! But I hear they really aren't good for me to eat.
So are their fruit that I can have, in moderation? That was supposed to be,
light yogurt. I can't eat apples, because I have dentures. So some fruits
are just impossible to eat! Heck, some foods are difficult to eat.

Anyway, if someone can give me some ideas as to what kind of snacks and
cereals, and fruits, and maybe even some more drinks that I don't know about
that I could get, I would really, greatly appreciate the help. I'm making a
grocery list tonight, and I would like to start off doing better. With that
said, I don't want to buy things that are really expensive, because it's
just not in my budget. I don't want to buy anything organic, even though I
know it might be better for me. I would appreciate any help possible.

Thank you so much!

Terri
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