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Easter

I saw Cheese Easter Eggs in Asda - they are pretty low carb!
I would avoid diabetic friendly chocolate - it tastes yuck and contains laxatives.
Apart from that, you could just have normal chocolate and inject insulin for it - with type 1, you do not have to go low carb.
Dark chocolate, typically, has less carbs so you need less insulin.
 
Hi @Soph94 I'd avoid anything that says diabetic friendly, generally they can be worse than the real thing and carb content can be higher too, i'd personally have a smaller one myself or have dark choc as Helen said.
 
Totally agree with the 2 previous posts....avoid anything that says diabetic friendly.....it most certainly is not. Taste like cardboard and full of laxatives plus probably as high in carbs!!!
 
helensaramay said:
That Easter Egg may only have 0.8g of sugar but it is 45.9% carbs!
Bless 'em for trying to hide it.
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It does indeed, but carbs from polyols (sugar alcohols) are very unlikely to effect your blood sugar, possibly marginally if you eat the entire thing. They are pretty much indigestible...hence the toilet situation.

"One major use of sugar alcohols is in the management of diabetes, primarily to maintain close to normal blood sugar levels. The reason for this is because the sugar alcohols are incompletely absorbed, meaning they don’t initiate the same insulin response as they would if someone had consumed regular sugar. This allows for quite a few products to be marketed to people with diabetes, but as with anything, your doctor should always be consulted if you are to add sugar alcohols into your daily diet. Again, consumed in excess, they can still raise blood sugars though."
 
Thankyou everyone I’ll stick to normal ones then! Worth an ask with me being newly type 1 I just want chocolate
 
As a type 1 I see no reason you can't have the same ones as anyone else as long as rapid acting insulin is taken appropriately.

One minor point on dark chocolate, though, is that the carbs (although a smaller amount anyway) will be digested a bit slower due to the fat content being higher so the timing of the injection might need to be a bit later to avoid blood sugar dropping before the carbs digest.
 
I’m not diabetic at Christmas, Easter and close family birthdays, I have a worn out insulin pump to prove it. I reccomend Cadbury. For any Diabetics that new to diabetes, sorry give Easter a miss this year. I find that hot cross buns are worse than the hollow Easter Eggs. I’m not brave enough to try the filled eggs no matter how small they are.
 
I have an egg put by for Easter. It comes with a large bar. Both are dark chocolate and vegan (not really relevant to @Soph94). I thought I could have one half of the egg on the Sunday, half on Monday and split the bar in half. That was I get four days with chocolate! I will obviously inject for it, but see no reason to deprive myself of a yummy treat, when I can dose adjust.

Usually I save chocolate for when I've had a terrible day and need to comfort eat but hey - I was buying eggs for family members and there it was - a perfect, beautiful vegan egg saying "Buy me ..... go on, buy me ......"
 
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