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Just before Christmas I stopped off at the Hellifield Highland Beef farm near Settle and bought some meat from the farm shop. When I walked back to the car with some steaks, it's brothers were all looking at me over the wall. I never felt so guilty in all my life.

Often simple dishes but made from top quality ingredients taste best. The trouble is locating the quality ingredients. Supermarket stuff always looks very nice but is invariably disappointing in that respect. You're lucky though. If I have remembered correctly, you're in that part of Wales...

Loads of good recipes here: http://diabeticgourmet.com/ It's made me hungry just looking at it. A nice treat though would be an expensive cut of meat, such as highland beef fillet steak. With mushrooms and/or some green pepper sauce and a really crisp green salad with a quality dressing, it's...

There's not much in there to send your BGs up. Mostly, it's things like boiled rice and those sticky gloupy sauces that have lots of sugar in. I stick to things like salt and pepper prawns, shrimp egg foo yung, roast duck - but without the sticky plum sauce. The biggest variable is the actual...

If you get another off scale reading, which is what 'Hi' means, just wash your hands, dry them thoroughly and then take another reading from aother finger. They are mostly false readings. I had one when I started testing, it was due to pressing the blood drop onto the cassette strip on an...

We have a political problem in the UK with the government claiming that too many people are interpreting being sick as an alternative to occupation. How does 'throwing a sicky' translate into german? I remember the good old days of the german system of team shifts called Accordarbeit. Workers'...

Corporation wine as we used to call it :-)

If you get some of the low cal ginger beer it has zero carbs:

Aye, Yorkshire water, filtered through several metres of peat and sheep ****. There's nowt like it. There's even a tea specially blended by Betty's of Harrogate to go with its unique qualities.

Your BG levels are up and down all the time so what you write is a 'rough guide'. If you were 5.0 before a meal and ate a meal of bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes and a first class proper meat sausage without cereal in it, you'd probably be less than 5.0 because the meal hasn't contributed...

It's not a wonder drug. A wonder drug would be a two week course of three pills a day which results in a full cure. It's just another drug, of the stronger variety, that adopts a new way of working to achieve a similar effect to other stronger medications. It's main benefit from what I can see...

I don't see the point of a diabetic going for the gluten free pastas as good quality durum wheat pastas are middle to low GI anyway, typically about 40-45. If you go for wholewheat pastas, they are even slower to release with a GI of 30-35. Remember too, a typical portion of pasta is about 60g -...

There are a lot of rigid mental attitudes and fossilized views in the NHS which is exacerbated by the left arm typically not knowing what the right arm is doing. A lot like the House of Commons. Look after yourself and don't rely on them. They will let you down.

30 years ago there was a scare about fizzy drinks using saccharin as a sweetener, but you needed to be drinking 300 bottles per day to get cancer. Some sugar free drinks are better than others though, the worst you'll get is an upset tummy. Cola based drinks though used to potentially cause...

Mine is in a book, but there are many on google and many on youtube. This dhokla recipe is similar to mine in the book. It uses all chickpea flour whereas mine is mostly chickpea flour (also called gram flour) and about 15% semolina. I substitute the sugar with Truvia and only 1/3rd of the...

I buy a sourdough wholegrain rye loaf and one leaven spelt loaf every week. The rye is slighly kinder but the spelt isn't at all bad. The problem with many bakers is that you just get a load of piffle from them. Real rye loaves and spelt loaves are heavy and fairly solid. They don't produce much...

If diabetes prompts you to make the changes that you should have made and if there has not been a lot of damage, yes, it can be a welcome shove in the back. I started making changes, quitting smoking and cooking better before I got diabetes as I had gotten into a terrible state. On diagnosis I...

I have had all sorts of problems. One, cold toes and a constant tingling is due to Ramipril, a well known side effect, and I had it for a long time before I got diabetes. The second, cramps on the toes, and calf muscles sometimes, turns out to be due to simvastatin. It's stopped within a couple...

There are many different types of sugar substitutes and the ones used in sweets contain carbs which you won't be able to digest. There is a downside to this though! A handful of sweets can be the equivalent of a few tins of beans. Same effect and similar reason. Because they don't get digested...

One of my bugbears too I'm afraid :) I suppose you are one of those members of the public who has not yet realised that doctors are now an integral part of the management of the health service with a special responsibility for keeping costs down whilst maximising the efficiency and smooth...