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A harsh lesson

ladybird64

ladybird64

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Feeling a bit rough again today so didn't feel like preparing a salad for lunch. The other week in the poundshop (yes, I know but needs must) I saw some small cup a soup type things, 3 for a £1. I bought them for a rainy day.

Well, not a rainy day but I thought I will have one of them, should be ok. Didn't check the label and an hour later, I can hardly keep my eyes open, in fact I had to go and lie down, I assumed it was because I'm not well.

Stupidly I did the same thing at dinner, just the small soup, really couldn't be bothered to do anything else. Half an hour later I'm exhausted again, my head is nodding and the penny is dropping - thought I had better do a bg. 10.2 ! Highest it has been for I don't know how long.:shock:

Lesson well and truly learned. Levels now back to 6.5. Going to pre-boil a couple eggs in the morning, if I don't feel like making lunch I can have them instead.
 
It just goes to show doesn't it? Something we may think of as really quite innocent is anything but. Lessons are always valuable though, so long as we learn from them, which I just know you have. Don't beat yourself up (((LB))).
 
Thanks Jo x By the way..love the signature, says it all really! :D
 
Aw ladybird I wish I was near you I would pop round with some nourishing food for you, sounds like you could do with a little TLC you certainly give plenty of that out yourself you need some back.
Don't bother buying those instant soups no matter how cheap or convenient they may seem. No nutritional value no goodness left go them they are high in salt starch and have transfats colouring and whatever else.
Next time you make your own soup from good ingredients freeze some of it.
I hope you are better very soon x x
 
Those cup-a-soups also contain a high level of salt :(
 
Hi
It's not just cup a soups - I had a carton of Covent Garden carrot and coriander Soup ( nothing else with it) - BG 2 hrs later 10.4mmol/L !! I couldn't believe it - until I read the label and realised that it is crammed with sugars ( honey/orange juice etc). I'm newly diagnosed and this was a lesson for me. READ THE LABEL and don't assume that a nice packet means the stuff inside is not going to upset your balance.
CathyN
 
The manufacturers cram their food with all these "goodies" to make them sell. It's the British tastebuds that are to blame I remember many years ago when Alex Ferguson was still at Aberdeen they were playing a Swedish team and he came back raving about how there were no fast food shops there (at that time?) and how everyone seemed to eat good healthy seafood
 
If you do have fast soups, and I do sometimes, there!s a massive difference between packets and tins. Carbs about 50% higher in packets. Think they have go put flour and general congealing gunk in the packets. One packet of mulligatawny in the cupboard is 22 grams carbs. Half a tin (same quantity) of ****-a-leekie is 5 grams.
 
One of the lowest I have tried is the Bachelors Cup a soup Broccoli & Stilton, it is pretty low and doesn't taste too bad as far as cup a soups go.

Angie
 
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