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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hopeful34" data-source="post: 2725128" data-attributes="member: 378858">Timing is very important with meal and correction insulin, but everyone is different and reacts differently. I used to have porridge for breakfast and spiked really high regardless of when I had my insulin. Granola had the same effect, so I gained much steadier blood glucose skipping breakfast completely (not suggesting your daughter does that). Jacket potatoes raise my bloods the most out of any way of making potatoes, so I choose to rarely have them.Wholewheat bread with added seeds doesn't raise blood sugar as quickly/by as much as sourdough for me. I use split doses (am on a pump now, so use extended bolus as well) for pasta and any meal with a fair bit of fat. You're doing really well, and it's a credit to you to have such a good result after lunch, when you're daughter's so newly diagnosed. As you go further on this journey, it quickly becomes clear that diabetes isn't an exact science, and what works one day may produce a completely different result another day. Sometimes you can work out why (more exercise, starting with a cold etc), but often you can't, so don't be disheartened when that happens. As the weather turns colder, some of us need more insulin, some less, so for example I have 2 different basal profiles on my pump - summer v winter.</blockquote>

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