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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Well this is interesting….at 6.15am this morning, when I woke with the larks (actually seagulls, but same principle) my FBG was 6.8. :(. But after a reflective cuppa (it is Sunday after all) and a potter, at around 8.30am it was 5.7.:)

So that was either Dawn doing her phenomenal best to anticipate my every active moment, or the Hagen Das ice cream I polished off last night because I ran out of sugar free jellies.
 
dotty-p said:
Morning!
5.5 today and off to a wool show with my sister and a friend today. I've been very good and packed a lunch as I know it will be all carby goods for sale from the food stalls
Have a great day
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Just out of curiousity, what do you take to eat on that kind of expedition? I similarly find it difficult to find suitable non carby food when on the hoof, so ideas of alternatives would be useful. I have resorted to knawing on chicken legs (cooked!) before now as they’re easy to stick in tinfoil, but other options welcome.
 
Ladynijo said:
Well this is interesting….at 6.15am this morning, when I woke with the larks (actually seagulls, but same principle) my FBG was 6.8. :(. But after a reflective cuppa (it is Sunday after all) and a potter, at around 8.30am it was 5.7.:)

So that was either Dawn doing her phenomenal best to anticipate my every active moment, or the Hagen Das ice cream I polished off last night because I ran out of sugar free jellies.
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Hmmm .... interesting. My money's on the ice cream. .... or perhaps you were ever so slightly dehydrated and the cuppa helped to restore your fluid inake.
 
Ladynijo said:
Just out of curiousity, what do you take to eat on that kind of expedition? I similarly find it difficult to find suitable non carby food when on the hoof, so ideas of alternatives would be useful. I have resorted to knawing on chicken legs (cooked!) before now as they’re easy to stick in tinfoil, but other options welcome.
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Agree it's nigh on impossible to buy diabetic-friendly food on the hoof.

I make a lunch the day before that's equally nice hot with veggies or cold with salad and double the quantities. Leftover portions form the basis of my packed lunches, along with a wedge of Cheddar cheese, celery sticks, cherry toms and perhaps romano peppers plus a dollop of home-made mayonnaise for dipping and a few toasted almonds or macadamia nuts for extra crunch.

Here in the UK, the hot, sunny June and wet July has produced a bumper crop of wild blackberries to round off lunch on the hoof.
 
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