Carb Free Breakfast

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meltow DAFNE Graduate
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
78 posts

Karaway, don't get carried away!
The sausage, no matter how premium, will have carbs. The filler in sausages is usually iderived from bread or breadcrumbs.
I can smell the bacon cooking, from here! ; )

JayBee DAFNE Graduate
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
587 posts

Sausages will have carbs? I've never had any problems with sausages!

Are we talking about meat sausages right? Or a special kind? :/ Usually it's the meat proteins that stop the carbs in the meat from affecting your sugar levels - this applies to all meats - and fish I suppose...

Sam DAFNE Graduate
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
64 posts

Well Guys

I had sausage, bacon and eggs from the delightful NHS canteen! As much as I enjoy a cooked breakfast I enjoy it more at the weekend, I felt as though I forced myself to eat it and washed it down with diet irn bru lol! Just hope it fills me up until lunchtime. Thanks for all the replies I guess when you're so used to eating a carb breakfast you forget what you can eat carb free!

Sam

JayBee DAFNE Graduate
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
587 posts

Ooooo sounds lovely! I hope you get the results you're hoping for! ^0^

karaway DAFNE Graduate
Ballarat Community Health Centre, Victoria
7 posts

The filling in sausage is a higher percentage fat then anything else and should not be counted as carbs

Alan 49 DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
284 posts

The bread content in sausages depends on how much you pay for them: the cheaper sausages will have a higher percentage of bread - that's why they are cheap. The more you pay the more meat you get and therefore the less bread. It's always worth checking the package to get the carb content.

Alan

ThunderBolt DAFNE Graduate
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - Salford Royal Hospital
28 posts

Chuckie eggs without the soldiers...

A full English, without sausage...

A bowl of cereal without milk? And cereal?!?

Sometime Diabetes, you can be a real pain in the... Saying without an end!

JayBee DAFNE Graduate
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
587 posts

It doesnt really work too well to say "check the carbohydrates" for sausages, because its the proteins that counteract the carbs, so carbs will always be present on the labelling. Similiar goes for heinz tinned baked beans - you dont count the beans but there is sugar in the sauce. The best way around this is to only count the sugar content - Im doubtful the same method applies to sausages, so is there any other way of identifying? Im so glad Ive clearly only eaten meaty sausages, even when eating out!

PNThompson DAFNE Graduate
North East London NHS Foundation Trust (Havering and Redbridge)
57 posts

Careful guys, as sausages do have carbohydrates. Despite Eggs and Bacon not having Carbohydrates, I would be carefule and consider that there may a few carbs in that.

Alan 49 DAFNE Graduate
Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
284 posts

Yes, I was a bit doubtful about "proteins counteracting carbs". Surely, if a meal contains carbohydrates, you have to count them to calculate your QA dosage, regardless of what you're having with them.