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Gestational diabetes - meal ideas

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bluechameleon · 19/11/2017 20:39

I've just been diagnosed this week. I'm finding main meals are fairly straightforward but I'm struggling a bit with quick meals

  • What can I have for breakfast that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to prepare?
  • What do you pack for lunch at work?
  • What is your go-to store cupboard hot meal? I would usually have pasta and pesto in such a situation but that obviously isn't going to work now.
Thanks very much
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Hoviscats · 19/11/2017 20:44

Eggs are your friend! they only take a couple of minutes to scramble for breakfast or you can chuck in veg, ham and cheese for a quick omelette for dinner (or breakfast).

I did get sick of egg based breakfasts though so often had full fat Greek yoghurt with a few berries and a small handful of nuts on top.

I will try and think of some more....

Hoviscats · 19/11/2017 20:47

Lunch I am afraid I had a salad (with protein, seeds and dressing) most days with either some oat cakes or a couple of ryvita. It was over the summer though so a bit easier!

If you can heat food at work then a baked sweet potato with Bolognese or chilli and cheese is a good option.

Best advice is to up protein and fat content to counteract your carbs at every meal.

Jacobandcara · 19/11/2017 20:48

Get yourself onto the gestational diabetes UK facebook group. Loads of ideas. It was there I found out about the wonders of food pairing!

Hoviscats · 19/11/2017 20:52

yes as per PP that fb group is great and they also have a great website with loads of good meal plans

Rebeccaslicker · 20/11/2017 10:54

Breakfast gets harder as you go along sadly, it's way harder than other meals. I ended up having babybels and peanuts on some days!! There is a very low carb bread that works for some people - burgen soya and linseed - that's only 11g of carbs per slice and is seedy so slower releasing. I had that with whole earth no added sugar peanut butter some mornings. Also a couple of oatcakes with houmous worked for me.

lots of shops like EAT and pret do "protein pots"; you could mimic those - e.g. a hard boiled egg and spinach or avocado and egg.

With a bit more time I would have a big omelette or massive scrambled egg stuffed full of spinach, mushrooms, cheese, peppers, onions and pesto.

Lunch is hard as anything grab n go has carbs, so many carbs!! I recommend taking soup if you can (Tesco sells a lovely cully and sully mushroom soup that's only 8g of carbs in the entire pot - garnish with loads of cheese or sour cream or something!), salad and chicken or salmon too.

If you're in London there's a place called pilpel that does wonderful falafels - hardly any breadcrumb so they are only 5g of carbs each. I can have a pot of 5 with tahini and chilli sauce and a big salad or stir fried veg pot and my blood sugar doesn't spike at all.

You can still have pesto but on veg rather than pasta sadly! However you can get low carb noodles - check out Holland and Barrett.

Basically it's really really boring and you will end up eating a lot of the same things, sadly. But it's not for long. And you can be creative at night or when you go out. I ate so much cheese and other fatty stuff but actually lost weight because I wasn't having pasta or bread or potatoes or sweets with it!

JoJoSM2 · 20/11/2017 11:08

My friends are on the paleo diet but I think their breakfast would work with GD as well. They have ‘porridge’ but instead of grains, it’s made of flaxseeds, coconut flakes nd other nuts/seeds that they mill/turn into powder and microwave with milk.

Another option would be one of DH’s fave breakfasts: smoked salmon, grilled halloumi, avocado and warmed/grilled tomatoes.

THirdEeye · 20/11/2017 11:20

I found that I was able to tolerate some carbs but not others, so it’s best to test to see. For instance I was okay with seeded/brown bread (one slice) but couldn’t eat a very small portion of whole meal pasta.

I also second pairing a carb with a protein and eating more veg/salad.

For instance I quite liked eating:

Steak with sweet potato fries

Stir fry with a small handful of brown/wholewheat rice

Salad, roasted chicken and quinoa

I don’t really like eggs, but would sometimes make an omelette and have this with one slice of whole meal/seeded bread.

My dietician said that eating cheese was fine, so I would often snack on this with ham and cucumber or sliced apple.

Spamdex · 20/11/2017 11:44

I couldn't eat any carbs really so for lunches took prawns and mayo, avocados, smoked salmon, cooked chicken, olives, salad, basically anything I could find in the M&S deli aisle. Chickpea salad and edamame a lot too. Breakfasts always eggs. If I ate out it was fish and more fish. Sashimi plates in sushi restaurants felt like a treat. Dinner would have usual thinks but without the carbs e.g. bolognaise sauce with veg. I was losing weight though so also had dollops of cream and mascarpone on everything. It was dull and I would have given my right arm for a bowl of pasta Grin.

Rebeccaslicker · 20/11/2017 11:56

God it's dull. Why can't GD be an intolerance to broccoli or something??

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Rebeccaslicker · 20/11/2017 12:09

It's a good job cheese is ok as my DD nearly came out looking like a wheel of cheddar!!Wink

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