"Janet" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> I guess I am in a rut. I don't necessarily eat breakfast foods for
>> breakfast and I usually don't eat my breakfast until noon or 1:00. I
>> find I keep putting it off until later and later because I just don't
>> have the desire to eat. Yes, I am usually hungry. But nothing
>> sounds good to eat.
>> For a while I ate toast. But I don't really like toast. Never did. Then
>> I switched to Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but since it is high in
>> carbs the amount I could eat of it was very small. I actually got
>> pretty sick of it. I never really liked cereal but for some reason I
>> found I could eat it and it didn't bother me. Then I switched to
>> polenta with tomato sauce. But I guess I got burned out on that.
>>
>> A couple of times a week I will have cottage cheese but that doesn't
>> seem to work so well for me. The problem? I need some carbs. Yes
>> there are carbs in that but seemingly not enough. I try to add a few
>> pretzels or corn chips but I can never seem to get the right carb
>> count. If I don't get enough carbs, I spike just as I would with too
>> many carbs. Grrr...
>> I might eat bacon every once in a while but for the most part I don't
>> like meat. I don't digest vegetables very well. I can do beans. I
>> have a case of canned kidney beans. Maybe I'll try eating those. I
>> do digest mashed potatoes very well but I am getting sick of those
>> because I have them for dinner or a bedtime snack fairly often.
>>
>> Ever get into a rut where you just don't want to eat? I know not
>> eating would be the worst thing for me to do. I do have to take
>> insulin and pills when I get up.
>
> I have a similar problem with breakfast, in that what I really like to
> have is mostly verboten. It's 9:30 and I haven't eaten breakfast yet.
> (Luckily my BG was 85 when I got up, and I don't seem to suffer from dawn
> phenomenon these days...) Have you considered adding some fruit to either
> cottage cheese or yogurt? I like cottage cheese with an apple diced into
> it, and half a cup with a 100gm apple is about 20 gms of carb. (Which
> means I can't have it for breakfast, but oh well, lunch is okay.) Greek
> yogurt with some thawed frozen blueberries or strawberries and sweetener
> of your choice might also work.

I've tried canned pears with cottage cheese. Didn't work. I can't stand
most other fruits. Don't like yogurt at all. And the problem with dairy is
I can have it only twice a week.