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@maglil55 And your slugs should have lovely strong bones!

@Rachox I'm intrigued - are your daily strawberries fresh? Or maybe frozen?

@Blackwater5 neither do I. In fact at present I have neither microwave nor freezer, which does rather cramp my style in the kitchen. Luckily, like you I need to gain weight rather than lose it, so I make daily use of my frying pan, with a choice between good olive oil and goose fat. I fry...

@Blackwater5 I find unopened feta keeps for ages in the fridge. Could you visit a large Tesco with more of a range occasionally and stock up? I know this doesn't address all the other problems, but you have to start somewhere. Olives too in jars keep almost forever. I live alone, but I always...

@shelley262 Thank-you so much for this thorough and practical reply. I have seen venison steaks in Morrisons, but never venison mince. My problem just now is that my freezer has died, so buying meat online won't work. However I am intending to make a trip to Waitrose for low carb sausages in a...

@lexiex29, When I was asked to do jury service I asked to be excused on the grounds of my many and various health problems. If I were LADA like you, even with no other health difficulties, I would write asap mentioning all the requirements I might have. Might you need to test, inject, eat at...

So frustrating, but at least you can tell yourself you are doing a great and thorough job of managing what you can.

mmoL in the UK and, I believe, Europe, mg/dL in the US.

@NickiSanta Yes I'm afraid so. Have you got a meter with the cheapest possible strips? I and a lot of people here use the Navii from Home Health @Rachox[/USER] has posted some extremely useful tips for cost cutting: "HOME HEALTH have the Gluco Navii, which is a fairly new model and seems to...

@Annb how long after did you test this meal? When I don't see an expected rise, I am always suspicious that it may have come later. I read in Dr Cavan's book on T1 that a high protein meal can take 4 hours to show up. Not that bubble & squeak is in itself high protein. I have read elsewhere that...

@shelley262 Admirable! I would like to follow your example when I am less preoccupied, so do please post full details of your proceedings. I spend a fortune on live kimchi, and rather less on live sauerkraut, but worse than the expense is the inconvenient trip to the wholefood shop to buy them.

@Goonergal Ah the joy of these small wins. Lately I keep finding Sainsbury's Organic double cream yellow stickered, imo MUCH nicer than the basic sort. Such luxury, and at a bargain price! (Seems to keep OK long after use-by date.)

@Annb Maybe you are about to start a new life of real coffee with double cream (1T double cream = 0.3gc). NB instant coffee = 0.5gc per cup black, so no better than tea. 8 cups of real coffee would of course be OTT for caffeine (though tea does contain some), but decaff? 8T double cream = only...

@shelley262 Please, where did you buy this? (I'm assuming you did buy it, rather than shooting, skinning and mincing it yourself.)

@Blackwater5, certainly you can, in Waitrose (dearer), Tesco (cheaper), Sainsburys or Morrisons (much cheaper). But do check the labels for carbs. Also I find much feta here is too salty for me.

@RosemaryJackson At my age, life is too short to bake eggshells.

https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/food/tea/carbohydrate

@Annb, sorry to say, black tea. However it's possible that different teas vary. They mostly don't declare their carb content. Some packets / sites give 0.5gc, some 0.4. Peppermint tea 0.5. My favourite Chai 1.4 ! Adding milk would bump up the carbs a lot. 2T milk = 2gc.

@MrsA2, I was shocked to find out that a cup of tea supplies about 0.5g carbs (versus a cup of brewed real coffee, which seems to be carb-free) so it appears to me that just as something reaches my gut from the tea, the same applies from those cloves. But very little?

Hello @NickiSanta, a warm welcome to the Forum. Imo "newly diagnosed" means you are living through some of the absolutely most miserable hours and days of your pre-diabetes, if not of your life. ("of your diabetes" has a better ring, but would be quite inaccurate, as it is most likely you will...