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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanD" data-source="post: 121361" data-attributes="member: 6186">Hello Romola, the best you are likely to get from the non-diabetic is food without sugar - sandwiches, etc. You need to educate them gently by telling them what you do eat on such occasions - e.g. slices of cheese, a stick of celery & an apple, & of course tea. Remember it takes years for most of us to realise what we can & can't eat.You could even make some diabetic delicacies for the WI tea. A useful idea is to fill celery with cream cheese. I make jelly from gelatine or vegegel, flavoured & sweetened with no-added-sugar squash, topped with plain yoghurt. The low carb minute muffin variations are useful. The latest variant is carrot cake. I sing with a choir & when we go out, we are often served cakes which look delicious ... I've learnt to say, "No, thank you." As for church teas - our Indian ladies are generous with their rice & chapattis & sweets & battered fried savouries. They are used to me saying, "No, thank you," & provide meat without rice & chapattis, & fruit. But the diabetics among them still eat what I will not touch. "Healthy" vegetarian Indian samosas comprise potato & peas wrapped in pastry & deep fried in oil. Saying "No, thank you" gets easier with practice.</blockquote>

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