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Type 1 Afternoon Tea

As long as you know how to dose for it yes.

Afternoon tea has never been something I've done (I am gluten-intolerant which makes normal cakes/scones/pastries/bread out of the question anyway, and I dont really like tea either) but I sure many others have
 
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you'd be surprised, but diabetics can even still eat pizza at parties with friends ;) As soon as they learn DAFNE
you can do anything you want at all, just not always wihtout injections or sugar
 
I love tea!
I have never had to suffer afternoon tea!
I can't imagine myself at afternoon tea.

Because my condition alienated me from baked goods, the lure of cakes can't influence my dietary regime.
I can't even walk into a bakers without sweating!

If you can tolerate itt, why not?

However, my philosophy around meal times, labels, are there to remind you to eat at specific times of the day.
Why?
You don't have to!
As an intermittent faster, I eat when and if I want to!
Eating so many different meals a day, just doesn't seem logical to me. Why move from the table?
 
diamonddamaris said:
I suppose the question is knowing how much insulin you would have to give before taking afternoon tea.
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I take nothing before. It is too risky to pre bolus.
I know how much I need for a sandwich and an idea for cakes. Then I add it up when I see the food.
I usually inject a couple of times in case my “eyes are bigger than my belly” and fail to eat it all.
 
diamonddamaris said:
I suppose the question is knowing how much insulin you would have to give before taking afternoon tea.
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The formula does not change ;)

the amount of carbs in your afternoon tea / 10* the number of bolus units you need for 10g of carbs.

If this it is less than 1, then don't give the injection
 
Alternatively, you could eat food low enough in carb so that you would not have to bolus. I usually have boiled eggs and cheese with my tea when I don't want to take insulin.
 
JAT1 said:
Alternatively, you could eat food low enough in carb so that you would not have to bolus. I usually have boiled eggs and cheese with my tea when I don't want to take insulin.
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What afternoon tea has no carbs?
Eggs and cheese are not an afternoon tea at a smart restaurant/hotel.
An afternoon tea is sandwiches and cakes. Some have scotched eggs and quiche. Most have scones and jam and clotted cream.
 
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An afternoon tea is sandwiches and cakes.
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Which is plain as day for those living in the UK.
But for those not living there and slowly getting used to the perks of your country (and language), we first learn that tea is a drink, then we find out it can mean the main evening meal as well, and then we learn it can also mean a festive afternoon affair involving cakes and sandwiches.

Things can be a little confusing for those of us not in the UK, especially when we think we know the meaning of as simple a word as tea.
 
Maybe this will help
Antje showed me these wonderful guys and now I'm a fan of them. To be honest, I eat cakes a little differently - I give an injection so that the insulin starts acting at the moment when I start eating sweets, those before starting such a meal, my cgm shows a vertical arrow down
 
As distinct from "high tea" which is a Midlands/Northern meal, fairly substantial with things like pie or flan, followed by cake or pudding. That's because in those areas, "lunch" is called "dinner" but eaten midday. Confused yet? It really gave me a hard time as a child, when people didn't explain anything.
 
Outlier said:
As distinct from "high tea" which is a Midlands/Northern meal, fairly substantial with things like pie or flan, followed by cake or pudding. That's because in those areas, "lunch" is called "dinner" but eaten midday. Confused yet? It really gave me a hard time as a child, when people didn't explain anything.
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I’m further south. (West Country) The industry I’ve worked we have “tea breaks,” short breaks morning or afternoon for a snack (if need be.) & a “cuppa.” Then there are the “lunch breaks” to consume “dinner.”
But then I was born in the West Midlands. From what I can make of it. Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford took a “tea break” around 4pm because she couldn’t make it to dinner at 8?

If this seventh Duchess of Bedford had been T1? I’d probably suggest she be mindful of any Novorapid on board left over from the cake.
Which can for me still keeps working with a lick in the tail upto 5 hours later.
 
You are spot-on about the invention of afternoon tea - it's a long time between lunch(eon) at 1300 and dinner at 2000 ( "I get too hungry for dinner at 8" as the much later song says......) whereas the hoi polloi would have breakfasted very much earlier and had midday "dinner" after a long morning of work.
 
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