Hi Mel,

Kelli has great advice too! Vita Wheats and Ryvita are the best! other crackers are medium to high GI.

Re Nuts - I was told anynuts are ok, but I read peanuts are bad in pregnancy? I eat vegemite every day!!!

The best low fat cheese is Cracker Barrel (blue label) tastes just like normal cheese!!!

With Yogurt Mel, look at the sugar content, I found the best one for me with low sugar is Jalna or traditional yogurt, or Atiki.

I havent tried Dongarra, but Basmatti rice is excellent and always cooks only for 10-12 mins and is always not gluggy! tastes like normal rice, If you like indian food this is the type of rice they use.

Heres my typical day:

Breakfast
Toast (2 slices of sourdough)
or Scrambled Eggs (well done of course as preggers) on 1 slice of sourdough with tomato.

morning tea
Fruit or raisin toast (1 slice or 2 depending how hungry I am) raisin toast is LOW GI

Lunch
- Salad with Tuna or
- Sourdough sandwich with tuna or cheese or tomato or salad made from home or
- small Pasta serving (1/2 cup uncooked) with Tomato based sauce

afternoon tea
- fruit

Dinner
- I try and eat no carbs at dinner if possible
- red meat & veges
- fish & salad or pumkin or sweet potato and green veges
or
- Chilli con carne with meat and kidney beans and 1/4 cup of uncooked rice
The GI lowers when you add veges.

However must be noted if you have double serving of a low GI food it makes it high GI. Confusing I know.

Hope this helps.

Bel
xxx