Hi- Welcome!

I enjoy big fry ups for brekkie- bacon, egg, mushies,veg, with a dollop of'real' mayo on top. Also fry up a Golden wholemeal crumpet- they are sweetened (marginally) with dextrose, so fine. The new Molenberg 'Chia' is the lowest sugar levelled bread I've found, and yummy. Coles stock it.

As for yoghurt- I am having the Nestle Diet brand- they list their sugars, even fructose, levels very minor. The best are those new duo packs 'am &pm', The lemon meringue is to die for. Thicker than they used to be. Its label read: 'sugar5.9g- fructose 0.5, sucrose less than 0.1g, lactose 5.4g.' Lactose is fine.There is a 'Liver-cleansing Muesli' in WW healthfood isle- no sugars/fruit at all- Dr Sandra Cabot backed- nice too. Yummy nuts in it.

Enjoy this huge learning curve, I certainly did/am! :)

The Homestyle Bakery (also available at Coles) has even less at 0.5g of sugar per 100g (no sugar in ingredients) and is only $2.50 a loaf and is normal sized slices (not small and heavy like some) and comes in wholemeal, multigrain and white bread.  And my whole family loves it.

For breakfast I have 3 Coles Wheat Biscuits (nothing in them except wheat and salt) with unprocessed bran (tablespoon) and whole milk, microwaved.  Alternate breakfasts for me include Golden Crumpet wholemeal with butter and rice malt syrup, or with peanut butter, vegemite etc.  Or toast with avocado and either vegemite or tomato.  Or french toast (savoury), or any number of egg dishes.

Freda Surgenor wrote:

Elizabeth Jones wrote:I can't seem to see anything here, but I really need to start getting off sugar as soon as possible as I'm totally addicted.  I've ordered the books, but in the meantime I wonder what you'd suggest as a good thing to have for breakfast?  I note yogurts and cereals are all off, which is basically what I have for breakfast...any alternatives or any websites with sugar-free menu plans that I could go to?

Many thanks for any information you can give.

Liz

Hello Elizabeth and welcome
Be careful with the diet yoghurts of any type.
David, in his books, is not keen on artificial sweeteners and advises us not to eat anything low fat as we don't know what effect the process of making something low fat has on the body.
Also, Nestle has more in their diet yoghurt than is first apparent................
This is the Nutritional chart for their Lemon Meringue diet yoghurt.

	Average Quantity per Serving	% Daily Intake* (per Serving)	Average Quantity per 100g
Energy	227kJ (54Cal)	3%	151kJ (36Cal)
Protein	6.0g	12%	4.0g
Fat, Total	LES THAN 0.2g	0%	LESS THAN 0.15g
- Saturated	LESS THAN 0.1g	0%	LESS THAN 0.1g
Carbohydrate	6.6g	2%	4.4g
- Sugars	5.9g	7%	3.9g
- Fructose	0.5g		0.3g
- Sucrose	LESS THAN 0.1g		LESS THAN 0.1g
- Lactose	5.4g		3.6g
Dietary Fibre	1.1g	4%	0.7g
Sodium	71mg	3%	47mg
Calcium	162mg (20%RDI**)		108mg

As you can see, they have separated the lactose from the sugars, lactose is no problem to us at all as it turns into glucose, which is fine.
There are nearly six grams of sugars in the yoghurt and in the ingredients list on their website, there is added fruit juice as well as the artificial sweeteners.
Your best bet is to have a plain yoghurt and add some kiwi fruit or blueberries to it for a little sweetness. David allows two pieces of fruit a day and no fruit juice.
The Liver Cleansing Muesli is excellent but I do add some kiwi fruit to that as, to me, it is a bit like eating cardboard. And I have this with full cream milk.
cheers
Freda

Hi Freda.

I dispute this, am waiting for response from David. Understand in many products they muck with ingredients in lowfat versions. I think they have typo'ed on their ingredient list- I took (from above) the lactose plus fructose and the smidge of sucrose to be the total sugar content of5.4g. With the added fruit juice, their sugars would have to be in their fructose & sucrose readings.I think the lactose is the majority of the sugar in this product. So .5g of 'bad' sugars- allowable. Total 5.9g- the sugar amount listed.

With sweeteners, they are from Davids 'your call' list. I think it is extreme to suggest new 'followers' to not eat products if these are in them.

In alot of dairy, reduced fat just means reduced calories- helpful for when our appetites are recovering I think.

Don't let this confuse you Elizabeth :)

I rotate 3 meals for breakfast. In no particular order, so it doesnt get boring !
1. all protein cook up : sausages, bacon and steak : not big amounts of each
2. 2 x Weetbix, plus a cup of the muesli that is in David's Quit Book, plus a pear chopped up, pysilium husk and 250ml of full milk with Protein powder ( sometimes add Natural Yog or Nestle Diet Yog )
3. My smoothie : 2 glasses of water, 1 glass milk, berries, 3 x tbls rolled oats, yogurt, egg, scoop protein powder, pysilium husk, almonds

I like them all and they seem to give me a good kick off to the day. I look forward to breakfast actually !

Muzza