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Baked beans?

Gemmablower

Gemmablower

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This may sound strange I don't know but here goes,
So I have noticed a pattern emerging for quite some time now with baked beans and my little one and I wondered if anyone else had?
She will have only what I count as 13g carbs of baked beans which is I count as about 3 big table spoons with some scrambled egg and then normally followed buy some fruit and yogurt.
My question is, I almost feel like I don't need to count the carbs for the beans, they are low gi but they never seem to appear even later on??
Anyone else that doesn't count baked beans when it comes to small portions?
 
I grew up on baked beans and I can just about tolerate two tablespoons of them strained.
If I cook them, left them cool, strain them and microwave them, then a couple more tablespoons full!
Yes, I know, it's a bit obsessive, but I love them!

I have tried various pulses, like butter beans and its the same, only a couple of spoonfuls!
I have tried cooking the beans from fresh or packaged and added a low carb sauce, but it just doesn't taste the same!
 
Hi. I wonder why you mention just baked beans and not other carbs in small portions? I would expect the meter to guide you. If after 2-3 hours the meter shows less than 8'ish then no bolus insulin was needed. If a lot higher that tells you to use a little Bolus next time?
 
The diabetic dietician said to count the sugar in the beans and not the beans themselves as they don't contain enough carbs to affect b/g's.
 
Iol @nosher8355 what ever you got to do hey! she loves them to.
@Daibell i just mention beans as this is the food in particular I see a pattern when eating beans of running a lot lower than normal or hypos and strikes me as odd that I would not need to add it to my bolus calculations, and wondered if any others experienced something similar with beans.
 
That's interesting @silverbirch and explains a lot. So of which sugars would be 4g with her portion and presume this is the sauce which is prob less than that as i tend to try and leave a lot of the sauce. Thank you x
 
Hi gemmablower
Carbs are carbs and still need to be counted, assuming these are out of a can follow the info on the can to calculate the carbs. However if there is only a small amount in a meal and the rest is not carbs you should be able to tell by the reading at next meal if you needed any insulin for future calculations.
Cheers
David
 
Typically the issue with baked beans is the sauce, which is where most of the carbs are. The difficulty is how much of the sauce are you getting with the beans as this will drive the big reaction.
 
From personal experience I can say that just because two meals have the same carbs, doesn't mean I need to take the same dose. Pulses for me are much slower to be processed, which means if I took a normal dose I would go low 2 hours after. The dietician said not to count them at all, but I find I need to count for about half.
 
It's odd how they have no impact on your daughter (and others). It may be that there's enough fat
in whatever else she's eating to slow down the absorption.

I'm a vegetarian so beans/lentils are a major source of carbs and protein for me. I'm also on a low fat diet, so there's nothing to slow absorption even if they're low GI.

I find baked beans do affect my BG, although I eat half a can at a time, to the extent that I normally eat the Heinz low sugar version (but they are bland and an acquired taste!).
 
For me I more or less have to treat these the same as I would any other carb.
The only thing I do find is that lower GI carbs require me to either delay the shot slightly or inject somewhere that it seems to take a longer to absorb from.

Though I learned this by watching what my meter told me, as mentioned earlier by Diabel.
 
Ledzeptt said:
It's odd how they have no impact on your daughter (and others). It may be that there's enough fat
in whatever else she's eating to slow down the absorption.

I'm a vegetarian so beans/lentils are a major source of carbs and protein for me. I'm also on a low fat diet, so there's nothing to slow absorption even if they're low GI.

I find baked beans do affect my BG, although I eat half a can at a time, to the extent that I normally eat the Heinz low sugar version (but they are bland and an acquired taste!).
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Yes I think you are right about something slowing it down. She has 2 eggs scrambled with her small portion of beans or 1 fried egg and this def slows down the absorption of the meal. When she doesn't have the eggs with it then we get a spike if it was beans on toast for example but will still plummet after.
So tried just counting the sugars in the beans as suggested above and so far this has worked for us on 2 occasions. been very helpful and interesting hearing how they effect everyone differently. Thank you x
 
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