Do you count the carbs in beans?

[Janedent]

Hi.
I eat a lot of beans - haricot, borlotti, kidney, chickpeas, you name it. Most of my meals contain about 100g of beans.
I know they're slow-acting carbs.
The dietician at my diabetes clinic told me I don't need to count the carbs in beans when calculating my insulin dose. Recently my BS has been a bit higher than I'd like and I'm wondering if it's the beans.
Do other people count them?

 

[Diawara]

Hi.
I eat a lot of beans - haricot, borlotti, kidney, chickpeas, you name it. Most of my meals contain about 100g of beans.
I know they're slow-acting carbs.
The dietician at my diabetes clinic told me I don't need to count the carbs in beans when calculating my insulin dose. Recently my BS has been a bit higher than I'd like and I'm wondering if it's the beans.
Do other people count them?

 

[Janedent]

Thanks Diawara. I have the carbs and cals app (which is brilliant) so I know what the carb content is. But I was told not to count them. I'm interested in whether other people count them.

 

[lovinglife]

Hi @Janedent I don’t eat beans but I’m diet only - you say you are on insulin, so don’t want to comment or advise as it’s totally different from diet only are you T1? I will tag a couple of our T1 members who may be able to help you @Antje77, @EllieM, @Jaylee, @Nicola M

 

[Antje77]

I count them, but I seem to need a little less insulin for the carbs in pulses than for the same amount of carbs from bread or rice or such. So I reduce the dose a little.

 

[KennyA]

T2, not on insulin. I notice that although the carb content of beans, pulses, legumes etc is reasonably high on paper, in practice these carbs don't seem to affect my BG as much as I would expect. I can have eg a lamb stew with broad beans and not much happens to BG at all.

 

[Janedent]

Hi @Janedent I don’t eat beans but I’m diet only - you say you are on insulin, so don’t want to comment or advise as it’s totally different from diet only are you T1? I will tag a couple of our T1 members who may be able to help you @Antje77, @EllieM, @Jaylee, @Nicola M

Thanks. Yes, I'm Type 1 and one insulin for the last year.

 

[Jaylee]

Hi,

I do take beans into consideration when calculating my insulin.
It could be the beans, but if your BGs have been higher over all (not just after beans?) you may need to check your basal dose? (The long acting insulin.) Before experimenting on injecting for beans..

 

[Ushthetaff]

To be honest if it’s got carbs I count it unless is negligible , beans personally I would count as long term carbs so would take insulin at a different time than the 20 mins before .