Pre diabetic / Leon rice?

[MarianneAdams]

Looking to make changes drastically as im now pre diabetic. Usual meals are curries/white rice, orzo and chicken etc. I want to swap the rice for something healthier and remembered Leon do a lovely rice. Anyone know what this is?

No but heck out Glucose Goddess on instagram, also pre diabetic last year and completely reversed with very handy hints from her

@GintyM thank you, I'm clueless with this stuff and have been doing OMAD yet not losing weight, and now my sugar is up. Scary stuff. Is the book any good?

I was amazed at how good cauliflower rice is – and so easy / cheap to make.

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last year. The advice I was given was to swop white bread/ rice etc to wholegrain. (And I would add look at your portion sizes....)

My brother also has T2D but more severe and medicated etc. He finally gave up sugar in coffee and swopped to wholemeal bread (something we have been trying to get him to do his entire life...). His blood sugar went from 100 to 66 - still too high obviously but what a difference!

Plain boiled brown/whole rice would be best and make sure you make the curry using spices you fry yourself - avoid sauces ( some spice pastes may be ok) and ditch the chutneys

my guess is that things won’t taste great for a few months as your tastebuds adjust

orzo and chicken - really small handful of dried whilemeal pasta - a tomatoe and garlic sauce might be ok ( gently fry onion till soft , fry the chicken chunks for colour add garlic dash of salt and tin tomatoes and leave for ages , stir in sone frozen spinach chunks and other frozen veg

or ditch the pasta and have some butter beans on the side instead

you need to watch all your meals and snacks though and

I think that the Leon rice is made with brown rice although you’d obviously have to check the pack for sugars.

Have you watched the Glucose Goddess on TV? I think it was Channel 4?

Basmati rice is better than ordinary rice if you are pre-diabetic.

Brown basmati rice is delicious and filling. I have an 80g portion of it cooked, alongside meat & veg curry. As pp says cauliflower rice is a good alternative, or you can mix the two to make your rice portion look bigger.

Swap to brown basmati rice - it’s the best for this.

You can cook it in a microwave or a rice cooker to avoid burning, portion it up and stick it in the freezer. Just make sure it’s fully reheated.

Cauli rice isn’t offensive (if you stir fry it) but it doesn’t remotely resemble rice so you’ll get fed up with it. It’s faddy.

(dunno why I quoted someone there, sorry, but can’t remove it)

I've changed white rice to brown basmati rice, all pasta to wholemeal, risotto rice to spelt. But actually I just don't use a lot of any of them anymore and have switched to bean/lentil based meals.

For examples for curries I just don't bother with the rice at all - add some sort of pulses to the curry and no need for rice separately.

It's definitely easier to cut out the rice than change it. I find rice is particularly bad for spiking my blood sugar. But wholemeal and longer grain forms like basmati are the way to go if you can't face giving it up.

White rice is white rice, doesn’t matter if it’s the posh stuff from Leon. Switch to brown rice, the proper stuff not the quick cook ones, or whole grain chapati flour and make chapatis instead.

While it’s a bit of a shift from the traditional, I often just have curries in a bowl like a soup with a fresh chopped salad and plain yogurt, no carbs. Top with lots of chat masala and it’s delicious. I don’t miss the carbs.