@maglil55 Am very impressed by your dedication to this thread. And your concern for the people here. Not to mention your inventive and delicious food. Love the idea of meatball Christmas puddings. Very Heston.
@Rachox Have found an occasional hash brown does not spike the BG. Am assuming this is because the potatoes are pre cooked and frozen so probably increasing resistant starches.
@DCUKMod Thank you for the suggestion about postal blood tests. Have decided that will wait until feb when MrSlim has to return to uk for a refresher course and we may stay a week or so.
Best effort to recall
19-12-19
Umm breakfast nut granola. 2CWC. 2eggs and cheese. Either omelette or scrambled.
Biscuits with coffee. Going to give up buying biscuits I like. The builders are not touching them. Toooo tempting by far.
Lunch sardines on toast. Salad. Tea.
Dinner.chicken legs veg .
Too much wine.
Had a big attack of Xmas panic and misery.
Then found some chocolate. Ate far too much of it.
20-12-19
2x CWC. Nut Granola, cheesy scrambled eggs
Biscuit with my coffee again, Bad Lizzy.
Lunch. Pâté, toast, salad, Tea.
Dinner. Pork chop. Red cabbage. Green
beans. Carrot.
But biscuit binge later. Need to find a better way to deal with stress.
Got lot of homemade goodies in jars. Ideal way to package them seems to be wrap in tissue paper, pop it in a bag. Only. No such thing as tissue paper sheets here.
21-12-19
Breakfast CWC, nut granola, Tea.
Out shopping.
Lunch. Buffet starters. fish soup. Egg, pâté, several salads
Main cod and vegetables
Dessert. Buffet selection; have as many as you want; thought I was very restrained, had a tiny jar of panna cotta with apricot topping. Some chocolate mousse( thinking the fat content might help) and small slice if coconut tarte. Didn't eat the mousse, or the pastry on the tarte. Water to drink.
No idea of BG as meter was at home.
Later snack of cheese and ham. Several glasses of fizz during the evening which was spent wrapping presents and writing lists. No tissue paper so have substituted paper napkins.
Bedtime tea.
I'm not sure what the arrangements are yet - one sister in law (the one that cooked for us) mentioned about us staying over there from New Years Day through until 4th (the day after the funeral) but I'm trying to think why we need to stay all that time. (They probably want us to clean out the garage this time!) Anyway I don't think Millie (my old Labrador) could cope with more time away from home. I would prefer to go over early on the day of the funeral and come back late the same evening, which means we won't put anyone out and I can pay a neighbour's daughter to dog sit all three dogs for the whole of the day. If we go for just the one day I will have a big breakfast at home and fast the rest of the day. 
.o.o k la homa....All the music was from musicals and it lightened the whole funeral. Really got people talking afterwards. My brother's, I designed the eulogy the same way - a life story in 20 mins but it was created from amusing events - some his friends knew, some they didn't but same thing it got everyone sharing memories afterwards. He was very specific about flowers too. He's paid £150, told us to pick them and said everyone else was to donate at the funeral to Myloma UK in the hope it helps find a cure for those who come later. Hubby didn't like us discussing things but it was important to him that we knew his wishes (and if we didn't obey he'd haunt us!)
