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Wrong. There is always time for cooking. It takes just a couple of minutes to cook a rasher of bacon and fry an egg in its fat. Even less to make microwave scrambled eggs. Plan ahead a little and have a stew or quiche in the freezer which can be re-heated in the microwave while you're in the...

This morning my breakfast was a small steak and two fried eggs. Other ideas here: Breakfasts

G'day Nikki. I wrote this to help you begin: Getting Started

The alcohol may be the least of his problems, provided he isn't alcoholic. I've highlighted the important issues. He needs to have a darn good look at his menu to reduce those blood glucose levels.

Congratulations on your improvement. Try to avoid that nurse like the plague in future.

This is not a solution but it may help you understand what is happening: I Ate Nothing! Why Are My BGs high? That is the reason for glycogen release; Somogyi is a bit different.

Test both your sugar and your BP next time it happens - at that moment.

Please read this: Blood Glucose Targets

Please consider this technique: Test, Review, Adjust If you are not sure of your peak post-meal timing start with one hour after your last bite. Start with a goal to stay under 8; later, as you start achieving that easily, you might revise that lower.

Please consider it. I think you may be wasting strips and getting a false sense of security at two hours.

Is that a question? Read this: Aspartame

Drop in if you wander down this way. We might have a low-carb beer together. I'm downing a Hahn's SuperDry atr the moment: 4.6% alcohol, reasonable taste, 3gms carb per stubby.

G'day Dianne. Let your meter guide you to a better way of eating for better blood glucose levels. I notice you don't appear to test. Please obtain a meter and some strips and start.

G'day from just south of the border in Pottsville Beach. I prefer flat-head or bream :)

Live dangerously. Try a forbidden test one hour after breakfast tomorrow...

I aim to never exceed 8mmol/l and try hard to stay under 7 at any time. I won't pretend I always succeed, but more often than not. My usual peak is about one hour after the last bite.

Glad to help. Keep asking questions. The only silly questions about your diabetes are the ones you should have asked - but did not :)

I know why "is it is not recommended in the UK unless in extreme cases." I consider that disgraceful. You will find my reasons in the BMJ rapid responses to the paper being used by the NHS so often these days to justify that nonsense. If you browse through the other responses to that terrible...

Maybe you need to tattoo a target around the right spot for the vein?

I'm 67. For fun, apart from deliberately annoying dieticians about fats and doctors about statins, I travel.