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This is what worked for my husband (fussy eater). Breakfast: choice of bacon, egg, sausage with mushrooms, tomatoes, small amount of sugar/salt reduced baked beans or Greek yogurt based breakfast (100g) with berries and 10-15g no sugar granola or vegetable omelette. Lunch: choice of apple, pear...

Could you speak to the person who complained and explain the situation? Maybe they are just ignorant about the necessity of having to inject?

I’m genuinely puzzled how people cut out carbs completely? Even a carrot has carbs! Do they just eat protein and fat? Surely unhealthy and unsustainable and BORING. My husband was diagnosed with type 2 over twenty years ago but has brought down his blood sugars by eating a low carb diet (under...

Watched this last night. Was hoping for some advice and low carbohydrate recipes. Fat chance! If they really eat like that, how come they’re not very ill or worse? It was like they deliberately shunned anything healthy- they walked past the fruit and veg section in the supermarket. I don’t...

My grandson’s school does have a little girl with type 1 diabetes but nothing has changed because of this. My grandson, aged 6, is tall for his age and overweight, due, I feel to school meals as my daughter is conscious of what he eats at home and ensures he gets lots of regular exercise such...

You can complain to PALS but this is long winded. Have you asked to speak to the consultant? Husband is type 2 diabetic. He was hospitalised last year for bursitis. I also had gallbladder surgery around the same time in another hospital within the same trust. What bothers me is the food that is...

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I know of someone who carries a tin of salmon in his glove compartment for emergencies!!

There’s some good advice here. I see people in petrol stations grabbing chocolate, cereal bars and sugary carbonated drinks all the time because of their lifestyle but if you are diabetic this is definitely out now. The advice someone has given to try a protein based breakfast is good. Bacon and...

It’s hard to say how long it will take, but he’s already reduced his blood sugar readings considerably which is encouraging. My husband was diagnosed 20 years ago and advice then was to base meals on carbs!! He is now eating a low carb diet, though not as low as 50g, and has lost 2 stones since...

Husband has had type 2 diabetes for 20 + years. Advice given in those days was to ‘fill up on carbs’. So he did as he was told and based his meals on potatoes, wholemeal bread, whole grain pasta and brown rice and his weight gradually increased and blood sugars readings were high. His diet was...