What's for lunch?

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The food thing is not a big deal for me. I eat food for fuel.

My addictions are coffee and cigarettes, and daydreaming, and writing, and a certain beautiful girl in my life. So cutting carbs is not a crisis.

But.

I don't like to cook. I like fast, easy, on the go kind of food. Give me a bagal with strawberry flavored cream cheese, half a meal in a restaurant while saving the other half for lunch the next day... and I am happy. Macaroni and cheese, toast with butter and a thin slice of ham... you get the idea.

So as I was buying my el cheapo ReliOn meter and testing strips at Wal-Mart (because apparently I need a visit with the diabetes educator before my Dr. will prescribe a meter and test strips that might possibly be covered by my insurance) I browsed food.

I found a wonderful little tray by Oscar Meyer called... ummm. Well. Hang on, I have to go check that. And grab some coffee.

Okay, it's Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh Combinations. You get 8 wheat crackers, 8 little slices of two different meats, and 8 little slices of two different kinds of cheese. And a little bite of chocolate. All for 26 carbs or less.

This is a very nice little convenience food that is good to my blood sugar.

So far >30 seems to be the magic number that keeps me from spiking over 140.

Since I've been measuring, my most shocking spike was 180 after PB&J on Taystee white bread and handful of dried fruit/nut mixture. We won't be buying white bread any more.

I already love nuts and berries and fruits and such, but have I mentioned that I hate vegetables? I like broccoli. I can tolerate corn (but that's high carb, isn't it?) and canned green beans... but I hate all the chewing involved with eating salad. I've had 3 root canals in 3 months. There is an element of fear involved in chewing.

Oh... another significant pain in the ■■■ in my life is that my husband was strongly urged to go on the DASH diet for cholesterol and blood pressure. So while I'm eating all the meats and fats I want... he's staring at me with jealousy and what appears to be outright hatred. (Kidding - he loves me, really).

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I’ve grown to love salads and soups for lunch esp. chili.

might have to give up Jelly from your PBJ and move to wheat bread. sorry.

good luck

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I watched movies with my girlfriend all afternoon today. As I was getting ready to leave, she said, “Hey, you didn’t test your blood sugar while you were here.”

She was right. I didn’t. While we normally have some sort of chips and dip or tortilla chips and salsa, today I brought beef snacks and blueberries for munchies (which I basically considered to be lunch). I tested the beef snacks yesterday, and I had a small amount of blueberries in cream for breakfast today, and when I tested I got a much better blood sugar result than when I eat oatmeal.

This afternoon I had a celery stalk with peanut butter, and I will test before supper. Supper (Ranch Chicken tonight) hasn’t been tested yet, so I will test at the 1 hour and 2 hour mark. And I am going to skip the pasta side and have a small sweet potato instead. See what that does.

@Joe - no kidding. No more white bread. Funny story… I served my 6 y.o. daughter a sandwich on wheat bread yesterday and she hated it on sight (and untasted). I told her to get used to it, because there would be no more white bread coming into the house. Later I heard her give a huge sigh and say to my husband, “I have so many problems. Malachi (a boy she likes) something something something, AND I have to get used to new bread. Man, this week is terrible.”

We laughed until our sides hurt.

I have been consumed with testing for 7 days now. It was nice to have an afternoon to not worry about it, because I knew I was consuming foods that didn’t make me spike. Yay!

So I felt so long as I snacked in moderation, I didn’t have to test.

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You should join my group. Lots of support there and we all are trying to eat right, altho we are human and fail at times. We all are learning together what to eat and what not. We all write down everything we eat so we can look back and see what rose that sugar. its called …Weight loss…daily journal…Come on over!

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FWIW there iare a couple ofwheat breads that looks like white bread. it fools my kids all the time