Low sugar low salt and no meat any ideas of what to eat??

Hey I have just joined the site and keen to find a low sugar granola recipe. I am recovering from a double heart bypass and trying to eliminate sugars and salt from my diet. Added complication is I am not wanting to eat meat any good ideas??

[Zest]

Hi Hidden

Regarding the 'low sugar granola recipe' there is one here in BBC Good Food website, so have a look to see what you think:

bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/low...

I realise they have mentioned some maple syrup in that recipe, but the amount is relatively small - I guess you could try to cut it down further, and see what it tastes like.

Zest

[Hidden in reply to Zest]

Thank you good recipe!

[Hidden]

Hello Hidden firstly welcome to the group and Zest has given you a great link, you can make crunchy granola by adding egg white instead of the sugar to make it crunchy and you could even use an egg replacer and just don't add salt add spice like cinnamon to give extra flavour, which sounds like a win win to me. 😊

I hope that you make a speedy recovery from your double bypass, you will get lots of support on here with eating well and regaining your fitness.

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Thank you I am receive some good ideas 😊

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Congratulations on getting through double heart 💔 💔 bypass. 👏 👏 (Wonderful receiving a new beginning.) Wishing you speedy recovery. 😌 🙏

[Would hold off on the granolas (typically sweetened with dried fruits & even ‘natural’ sugars) & with nuts, etc.. Would look at other low sugar, low salt, & no oil foods if interested in pursuing an Esselstyn-type ( dresselstyn.com/site/faq/ ) of heart-recovery/ friendly foods in order to avoid subsequent by-passes or other heart ‘incidents’. (Merely my opinion.)]

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[Fran182716 Prediabetic]

Is it particularly granola you want? Would you consider muesli instead which doesn’t need any sort of sugar added, or seed oils?

This is the sort of recipe I mean: thekitchn.com/muesli-recipe...

Best wishes for your recovery from surgery 😀

[TheAwfulToad]

There is no such thing as a 'low sugar granola recipe' because granola is by definition a starch-and-sugar recipe. Starch is metabolised rapidly and efficiently into glucose.

I realise you've had a big scare, but going on an air-and-water diet isn't likely to do much for you. Nor is eating a low-salt and low-sugar variant of the diet that put you in this position in the first place. You need some good healthy meals to help you heal.

Take a step back and a deep breath, and spend some time reading everything you can about physiology, human metabolism, and CVD. Avoid anything written by a "registered dietician" - those articles are about as useful as opinions from astrologers. When you have some medical facts at your fingertips, you'll have a much better idea of where to go with your diet. Your conclusions will probably surprise you.

In the meantime, if you're avoiding meat, I'd say you can't go wrong with eggs florentine for breakfast. Skip the muffin, though.

[Hidden in reply to TheAwfulToad]

Thank you for your reply, good advice. Heart disease runs in my family on both sides. I have had High blood pressure and high cholesterol for over twenty years. I have avoided salt and fats all of my adult life so yes it was a wake up call. Meat has not been high on my list of fav food so it’s no big deal. I do eat eggs, fish and enjoy cereal with fruit and low fat yoghurt. I eat seeds and LSA so I colleague suggested making my own granola .

I use a sprinkling of cinnamon on my breakfast, I think I generally follow the heart foundation guidelines. Plain salad or roasted veg is not cutting it lol.

Thank you all for your good ideas and links to websites it will give me a fresh look 🤗

[TheAwfulToad in reply to Hidden]

Take a look at what you wrote there. For 20 years, you avoided salt and fat, and religiously followed all the guidelines ... and you ended up with a bypass.

Then here's me, well past my dead-by date, with a VO2max score better than the average British teenager, BP at 116/76 (last time I checked), and 13% bodyfat. I'm not a genetic freak or an exercise nut. I just eat healthy, filling, minimally-processed food, including salt, meat, and fat ... and I ignore all the pronouncements on heart disease that come from nutritionists or heart disease charities, mainly because they don't accord with basic biological facts.

My dad has led an almost identical lifestyle to you: virtually vegetarian, low this, that and the other. He had a bypass in his late 40s and has remained chronically ill since then (mostly, I suspect, because of the half-dozen fashionable pills he's been taking since the op). He's on dialysis, half-blind and has lost all interest in life. Healthy-eating advice didn't do a whole lot for him, I'd say. Funnily enough, according to the standard risk assessments, his heart disease represents the biggest risk factor for me. Hmmm.

I'm not telling you what to think. But do ponder on the incongruity between my outcome and yours. And do your own research. It's not nice finding out that you've been duped, but it might buy you some extra years of happiness.

[Hidden in reply to TheAwfulToad]

Totally agree with you!!

You speak my language!

I am sat here justifying myself.... I think so where did I go wrong???

I have never smoked I occasionally have 1 glass of wine. So how did this happen?

My sister has had 2 heart attacks and she is in her 40s, it just does not make sense!

I have two sons and I want to be around for them.

I want to avoid sugars, I have taken part in a salt switch challenge, this was part of a study. You were given details of an app which you then used to scan the nutritional info on store bought items, this then offered you a better alternative ie less salt, if you could choose another option. Unfortunately this App got deleted at the end of the study!

So with 2 new highways around my heart sounds good? But they can block and the smaller arteries are also clogged 🥴

[TheAwfulToad in reply to Hidden]

Well ... it does make sense, and you're going to be absolutely livid when you put two and two together.

It took me ten years to eventually figure it out - please don't be as slow on the uptake as I was.

[Yoginut]

This site might be useful?

bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo...

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[sailaway51]

drmcdougall.com/health/educ...

[Nmartinez15]

There is alot to eat! I am vegetarian. Hellofresh!!!! Have great recipe under 45 minutes that you can eat without meat or vegan. Download the application. You dont need to subscribe only follow the instructions. I made several recipes and they are so great!

[Hidden in reply to Nmartinez15]

Yes great idea! I will take a look.

I really need to get a good base to work from so that I am not left looking at nothing but lettuce 😊

[Nmartinez15]

Use Himalayan salt instead of the white one

[Hidden in reply to Nmartinez15]

Thanks, I do have Himalayan salt but use it very occasionally. I have not used white table salt for many many years 😊

[becca1279]

Is there a reason for the not wanting to eat meat? There are some great tasty substitutes if you are willing to give them a try and using seasonings like Mrs. Dash... which come in several flavors that are salt free. You could make a dish in no time that would give you the benefit of meat protein wise AND flavor.

[Lilykristymichael in reply to becca1279]

I am vegetarian since birth. Animals are diseased and many of their diseases can't be passed to humans. For example the now scary corona virus was passed to humans who ate bat soup- a delicacy in China.

[Nilsam]

It's not what you are directly asking for but: porridge made with water, lots of stiring then blueberries or rasberries makes a lovely breakfast.

Forget sugar replacements.

Vegetable soup for lunch (smidge of chilli for a kick). Then fish with roasted veg and butterbeans with pesto sauce. Good luck.

[Hidden in reply to Nilsam]

This sounds great! I have once tried quinoa porridge. Have you tried it? I love blueberries and they are still fresh in the shops.

I think the census is to avoid granola! So that has helped me to re-think. 😊

[Nilsam in reply to Hidden]

Oooh sounds good for tomorrow. I must admit we use frozen blueberries. Although my husband defrosts them....I just throw them in and stir and it cools the porridge enough to eat quickly on a work day morning. 👍

[MamaOnTheRun]

You can substitute bananas for the sugar in most oatmeal bars. Not sure if you use maple syrup but I substitute most sugar in baking with Maple syrup, apple sauce, puréed dates, or maple syrup.

[Hidden in reply to MamaOnTheRun]

Would love a recipe for a healthy bar! I make pack lunches for my sons who love a mid morning snack😊

[Nmartinez15 in reply to Hidden]

You gonna like! I made couscous salad, pasta, Mexican plate with veggies only. They have sweet potatoes fajita and they are like so good! My husband love it.

[Hidden in reply to Nmartinez15]

That sounds tasty !

[Hidden]

I tend to agree. However my mother had a heart bypass at 50, we were already eating salads and fresh fruit and veg. Then my father died suddenly at 54 without knowing he had heart disease. It’s crazy and very scary to suddenly be told I needed a double heart bypass.

So now I need to take care and make changes

[gonnadoitnow]

Hi, I found a delicious recipe for granola.

1. cup of pecan nuts, roughly chopped

1.cup of walnuts, roughly chopped

1. tablesp coconut oil

1.tablesp birch sugar or erythritol (natural sweetener)

1 teasp ground cinnamon

1/2 cup flaked almonds

1/2 cup chia seeds

1/2 teasp ground ginger

1/2 teasp nutmeg

1/4 cup pumpkin seeds

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

1/8 ground cloves (I didn't use)

Method

1. Melt oil in large frying pan

2 Add spices and birch sugar

3 Add nuts and seeds

4 Coat everything until in the spiced oil

5 Toast granola low/med heat for 6-8 mins, until golden.

6 Cool completely.

YUMMY

I have mine with yogurt. Even hubby likes it, and it's got rid of the oats.

[Hidden]

Granola recipe looks substantial should keep everyone through until lunch 🤗

[Lilykristymichael]

Just eliminate any sugar, syrups, honey etc from any granola recipe. You may not like the taste as much but the granola will turn out okay. Happy granola making.