In the scheme of things, millysue, you're still in the early days of your testing and learning, and whilst it is true the odd strip can give a rogue reading for no apparent reason, sometimes those "rogues" are explainable (e.g contaminated finger), and sometimes the diabetes diary throws in a curved ball and an inexplicably higher reading is truly high.
I would urge you to try to stop continually retesting. It's not always helpful, it can hurt, and each test costs money. The Codefree is a great, value piece of kit. If you look back through the forum, there have been posters who have gone through no end of makes of meters, and pretty much found the same thing for them all; except it cost them three times as much to find that out!
Diabetes isn't an exact condition. Food A + Exercise B doesn't necessarily result in Result C. Over time, it might result in a band of results (for example, my fasting routinely runs between 3.5-4.5), so unless I have something outrageous going on, I'll accept a reading in that range, even if my feeling is it should be a bit lower or higher.
I think I was perversely luck when I was diagnosed and began testing. I had just come abroad for a number of months and brought my supplies for that period (based on x tests per day and a few spares), so there was no way I could indulge the level of retesting I see here. But, it made me accept the regime I describe a few lines ago, and it hasn't done me any harm.
Yes, this batch ending 4144 has been a bit "special", but is a rarity when you consider how many strips we must use collectively, even just via this forum. The thing is, we never spout ad nauseum when we have a batch returning great scores, we just lap the scores up and smile inwards.
Diabetes is a mental, as well as physical battle. Don't make it harder for yourself than it has to be.
Could you try eggs and a little lean ham maybe? Or an omelette with lots of mushrooms and a little cheese? Ahhh, or are you a veggie? Been there, done that
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