@anonymom3
Plant protein is what has worked for me.

I put a scoop of plant protein powder (see photo) + 1/4 of a protein shake (see photo) in 12 oz of coffee. Tastes like creamy hot chocolate!

Flax seed + chia seeds + Greek yogurt work well in my overnight oats recipe
(see 4 photos).

Sunflower seeds also taste good in Greek yogurt.

I don’t eat red meat. Turkey and tuna are my protein sources.

For your question about if you should use finger stick along with CGM. I have found my Dexcom G7 CGM has been off by 30-50 mg/dl at times. I’m able to recalibrate my CGM on my phone app. Also the first 24 hours, after applying a new sensor on upper arm, I have had many inaccurate low alerts on CGM. With all this variation, one time when I had my 6 month labs, my A1C was 7.5, but my CGM had been telling me my 90 day average was 6.5. I was very disappointed. My endocrinologist told me to trust the finger stick and recalibrate my CGM to sync with the finger stick. Blood is more accurate than interstitial fluid. I googled this and she is correct.