The six meal rule how does it work out

I usually just have rolled oats or fruit and nuts for breakfast, and I will make a salad for lunch and for supper, pasta with some meat or chicken. I will eat a rye crisp or some fruit in between. My husband is disabled, cannot use his hands so I am feeding him as well so sometimes I do not get time for the inbetween meals.

That would work if I did have a big breakfast. Most of the time it is either oatmeal porridge with juice and coffee, yogurt with nuts and berries, toast and peanut butter, and the only time we have a big breakfast is maybe Saturdays or Sundays when I cannot get to church on account no one comes to look after him in the am as he is severely disabled. And then it takes quite a while to make it. I also do not want to eat the same thing twice a day. I could cut up some veggies and have them.
I am like you in that I cannot have that much rice and I love pasta, and I also love sweet potatoes, but whereas I can get dry pasta and cook it, when I buy a sweet potato and store it downstairs it does not last that long. The sweet potatoes or yams as they call them here are way to big for one person and my husband does not like them that much.

I can try that. I usually make enough for leftovers, and sometimes there is not enough for one meal, but enough for half. Then if I can make more then enough for several meals I can spread them out over time. I do not want to have the same thing too often. It is just that I do not want to go over my budget by doing so. I was able to buy a bit more because I go shopping on Monday and this Monday, I used my own money, but when I use the joint account I have to keep the budget under $80 for two.

I can try that. It might make it easier for me, since I do a lot of snacking, and if they are fruits and veggies, it would work out well.

I think that would work for me. I will eat eggs, but do not like toast with it. I will eat eggs with tostadas, but it is usually just one egg and I cannot see having half an egg unless it is scrambled. But the other meals, I could just halve them and put the others in the freezer and see if that will work.

Sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately carbs are the cheapest. It costs more to eat proteins.

Thanks. That would work for me. I do love cheese. You would not know how much she ate at a time? Like for instance, how big a piece of cheese and whether it was one cracker, etc. Was she also able to eat rye crisp instead sometimes?

I never saw rye crisps in the house, she like that Wheatworth or some sort of cracker like that - she ate about 6-10 crackers with a good sized chunk of cheese on it, probably only a couple of oz of cheese actually tho.

The doc said that the glass of milk was actually more important - skim of course - she did that or, when she was playing golf, took some cheese and crackers with her for the turn.

I think after about 20 years she kind of slacked off on the evening snack, but was really careful about the morning one - she seemed to like that one best

Remember, she became borderline diabetic at 42 so we are talking about being 62 with no major problems.

Honestly, I think you've probably heard me say that I believe that corn is a major contributor to Type 2 diabetes - well, mom was about 52 when we discovered my corn allergy and 90% of the corn she ate went out of her diet and she really had a lot fewer problems after that...

I no longer have corn. I will have tacos or make tortillas once in a while, but I will not buy any corn even for my husband who does not like corn by the way, so it makes it simpler (not like potatoes. We had stew yesterday so I put all the potatoes and carrots in his portion, after carefully removing the ones from my own. i can eat raw carrots by the way) The trouble is that when one of you is borderline and the other does not have that problem. It does make it a bit hard.
I do love cheese, but it is expensive and I love the old cheese the best. I did buy some Swiss as well for a change, but I will not have that large a chunk at a time, just a bit. And I get phlegm when i drink milk so have to be careful, but I do love yogurt, the low or no fat kind of course.

well, I can understand about the milk, it turns my stomach, and I don't mean lactose intolerance...

Lets always remember, we are talking 41 years ago - so the very early 1970's, I swear it was earlier... but yogurt wasn't that common back then - heck, Whole Foods Market (started in Austin) didn't even exist back then!

I remember when we did not even have pizza parlors, and the only pizza that was available was the kind you made that was offered by Kraft. Now we can get all sort of things. And the trouble is now that sometimes the food you love is the kind that does not make you feel that well. Like my sister=in-law who is allergic to milk would love to have ice cream, but cannot and my dad who was allergic to cabbage would take allergy pills so he could have some cabbage rolls.

well, mom sometimes made pizza at home, but there was a pizza/sub place here when I was a kid - my dad grew up in Atlantic City and you KNOW he'd find a good "yankee" style pizza and sub shop even in the back water that was Austin at the time

I sort of like the thin crust pizza myself. Not the thick crust and now they have these whole grain pizzas. I have not tried to make one from scratch, guess I am too much of a chicken to do that.

I do have problems with cysts and that could also be my problem since my doctor just said I had high blood sugar and never actually came out with the diagnosis that I had diabetes. He just gave me the pills, and since they were for diabetes, everyone assumed that. I will check out that web site. I hope they have cheap ideas as I do not want to buy anything too expensive.

Are you on Metformin? I was put on Metformin because it helps reduce the PCOS symptoms. Most of the ingredients on the website, I can get at stores like Aldi's or save a lot. I have been able to stick to a very good budget even with planning meals for the week. I also go to Farmers Markets for produce.

No I am on glyburide. But my blood sugar did not start to go down until I added some herbal medicine so I figure I am one of those who have a natural high blood sugar.

I don't blame her. I think the ones who invent these ideas are the ones who are night hawks and just get ready to go to sleep at about ten in the morning or else they have servants and cooks to prepare the food for them. I will eat a little at breakfast, but well a bowl of porridge or some yogurt and fruit will do.

The reason border-line diabetics, and diabetics and those with metobolic syndrome eat six mini meals is to keep their blood sugar level and not spiking not to gain weight. I mean if you are trying to gain weight, you can eat the food that we cannot like donuts, cheesecake, high caloried stuff and that. We have to eat lots of fruits, veggies, and salads and avoid high creamy salad dressing, creamy sauces, bacon, and sausage, cakes, cookies, etc.
Go for high calorie food. Then you will gain weight. For instance, with that fruit have a cookie.