[Diabetes-Talk] Healthy Breakfasts for Diabetics

Jane Ferguson jfmnw1ld at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 21:34:39 UTC 2024


Breakfast can be the meal that causes the most BG  difficulty. It can be
helpful to exercise afterwards.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 3:26 PM Patricia Maddix via Diabetes-Talk <
diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Traditional breakfast meals include a lot of carbohydrate, such as cereal,
> toast, fruit, milk, etc. Some people with diabetes get by with these usual
> things for breakfast just fine, but others find that the blood sugars will
> spike too high after the meal. Including some protein and fat can blunt the
> effect of the carbohydrate foods and, make for better after meal blood
> sugars. Such proteins could include eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, peanut
> butter, avocados,  a few nuts, lean meet. or even poultry or fish if that
> sounds good to you at breakfast time. Meal examples could include veggie
> omelette made with one or two eggs  or egg substitute, cottage cheese, and
> fruit plus whole-grain toast, cottage cheese or ricotta cheese spread on
> toast, Greek yogurt with fruit and toast, peanut butter or almond butter on
> toast, oatmeal with peanut butter and a bit of fruit, a sandwich, toast
> spread with avocado and tomato. Multigrain breads generally cause  less of
> a rise and blood sugar after the meal than those made from white flower.
> Greek yogurt is higher in protein and lower in carbs than regular yogurts
> and is very nutritious.There is no rule that says you have to have
> breakfast type food at breakfast time so you could even have a half
> sandwich and piece  of fruit or  cup of soup, or leftovers from dinner.
> there have been many times over the years that I have had to suddenly put
> together a quick unexpected meal and I usually revert to cheese, crackers,
> and fruit. I can easily assemble this, throw it in a backpack or purse, and
> be on my way in an instant.
> Hope this helps.
> Patricia
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Dec 6, 2024, at 9:35 AM, Haas Marianne via Diabetes-Talk <
> diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > I am struggling with meals, especially breakfasts.  Does anyone have
> recipes
> > of healthy breakfasts for Diabetics?
> >
> >
> >
> > M. Haas
> >
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