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<blockquote data-quote="Sirmione" data-source="post: 1893374" data-attributes="member: 190454"><p>I always have a few small cans of tinned Tuna in Olive Oil in the food cupboard.</p><p>One thing to be aware is meter accuracy.</p><p>When I first started going "on the meter" I tried a few brands of meter and found widely varying results on the same blood sample so I benchmarked them again against test solutions. All the meters were pretty much in agreement at the hypo end, (which is good news for anyone on insulin. I only found one brand that was consistently low against test solution. As a T2 using a meter as a guide an LCHF diest I was looking for accuracy in range of 5 to 9mmol/l . Against both test solution and real blood samples meter readings had a much wider spread above 5mmol/l. Almost all the results against test solution were within the acceptable error range but high. One of the bigger selling more expensive brands consistently returned results higher than any of the others.</p><p>As result of my rough and ready trial the only two types of meter I now trust for daily use l are those in Contour Next range and the humble SD CodeFree. The CodeFree because of the cheaper running costs is my choice and its running averages have proved a very good predictor my HbA1c .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sirmione, post: 1893374, member: 190454"] I always have a few small cans of tinned Tuna in Olive Oil in the food cupboard. One thing to be aware is meter accuracy. When I first started going "on the meter" I tried a few brands of meter and found widely varying results on the same blood sample so I benchmarked them again against test solutions. All the meters were pretty much in agreement at the hypo end, (which is good news for anyone on insulin. I only found one brand that was consistently low against test solution. As a T2 using a meter as a guide an LCHF diest I was looking for accuracy in range of 5 to 9mmol/l . Against both test solution and real blood samples meter readings had a much wider spread above 5mmol/l. Almost all the results against test solution were within the acceptable error range but high. One of the bigger selling more expensive brands consistently returned results higher than any of the others. As result of my rough and ready trial the only two types of meter I now trust for daily use l are those in Contour Next range and the humble SD CodeFree. The CodeFree because of the cheaper running costs is my choice and its running averages have proved a very good predictor my HbA1c . [/QUOTE]
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