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Meat i buy from my own butcher at the end of my street, he know i am a type 1 diabetic which is handy. Almond flour from amazon, fresh veg often from the ladies in moore street market, dark chocolate at lidl. Greek yoghurt from Aldi. I do like Kvarg which i take as a snack sometimes but can only...

No Sainsbury in reupblic of Ireland so just have to keep on dribbling water out of my mouth reading all this lol

this morning greek yoghurt with some fresh strawberries and for lunch a little home made soup and for dinner low carb pizza (http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/low-carb-pizza-84516) and some salad

Good morning everyone, Are there any type 1's here that are doing the 5:2 diet with the fasting so less then 800 calories 2 a week. I would be most interesting to hear how they arrange their day on a fasting day and what do they eat and in which quantities. Do you adjust both basal and bolus or...

I had the same issue a while ago and changed my lunch habit (left out the fruit and moved that to another time) and injected earlier then normal. But I believe FIASP is good when you have afternoon highs. Might be worth discussing it with your care team

i dont take kindly to pizza on the blood sugar side and personally i dont think its worth the hassle. But i recently came across a recipe for low carb pizza http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/low-carb-pizza-84516 Maybe worth while trying it out

hi i had surgery several time the last one being a burst appendix which made me very sick and costed me 10 days in hospital. It took me a while to get back to normal. I can image having an op on your liver which is an organ that plays an important part in th e glucose process taking time too...

Hi, I never had any hassle from my employer. I inject openly at my desk and test there as well. My manager and some of my collegues have the hypo gel in their desk and know what to do with it. And of my work place needs adjusting no problem. I have always been open about it, its part of me and...

Hi As a type 1 i do low carb and my husband joined me last year as he wanted to lose weight and he never has been hungry with low carb so not hungry no cheating. As i have done low carb for a long time i actually get nausea and start vomiting if i eat high carb

I will check out the recipes. It will be good for all the kids actually to go less on the sugar this Christmas

Hi chock yes that’s me in the pic. I suppose eating healthy for decades paid of [emoji847], for what is weird about max my grandson type 1 only seemed to have affected females so far in our family so he will be the first boy

That is a great tip! Thanks

Good morning from Ireland, Soon it’s the Christmas cookies baking again. Usually I bake and glaze Christmas cookies for the grand children and I just keep some for ornaments but this year I would like to reduce the sugars. One of my grandsons (half of identical twin) looks like he will follow...

Thank you and the worst nightmare has come true, the hurricane Ophelia hit us hard and my flight to holland was cancelled and I cannot attend the funeral of my own dad

I am sorry not to give any feedback, my beloved dad died Friday and I am heart broken. He will be buried in holland tomorrow and I suppose to fly from Dublin tonight but we are hit by the worst storm in 50 years. All transport in Dublin has ceased and many flight cancelled so I keep praying my...

I have skyrr with some blue berries in the morning, I have to get up 4.45 every working day and this works out nicely till 9.30 when I have a snack.

I don’t want it too thick and personally I don’t take kindly to cream but I love all the suggestions, tomorrow I will take a picture so all of you can see how it turned out

Hi Miszu, I put carrots in there and nice beef but no potatoes as we are on low carb. I love goulash

Good afternoon everyone, I am planning to make a nice Goulash with fresh peppers and paprika i brought back from Budapest, Will taste nice with cauliflower rice i think. But to make it thicker i want to use a tablespoon of cornflower in it. I looked it up and it has 5.1 grams of carb in it...

I only need one for the Novorapid, as i am on low carb i only need small amounts of bolus insulin. The Levemir I keep on the normal pen, after all 25 units is 25 units and that doesn't change daily