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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruth B" data-source="post: 825012" data-attributes="member: 111960">We normally shop at Asda and they have a good range of chilled ready meals.  It has been trial and error in finding which I can manage and some surprising results.  As they are my main meal I can look for ones with a total carb content of below 50g per meal.  Successes have been chicken lasagne, chicken tagliettelli, chicken chow mein and chicken hotpot.  (I don't like any meat minced so it does limit my choice to mainly chicken options and I'm not keen on Indian food)  Failures have been chicken and bacon pasta bake (tts either the penne pasta or the white sauce spikes me), sweet and sour chicken (the unbattered variant even, the sauce is just too much sugar) and chicken and leek bake (too much potato in it)  We have tried Sainsbury's after the new one near us opened but the meals were a bit bigger and seemed to contain more carbs per pack.Make sure you read the labels and go for ones that are less than 50g total carbs per meal (ignore the 'of which sugar' number, then try one and test before and several times afterwards.  I have ended up testing every hour for 6 hours after one meal out to really find out what the spike was at (it wasn't good but i expected it knowing what I had eaten).  Remember the more fat in the meal and the longer you take to eat it the later the spike will be and will probably stay high for longer as well.</blockquote>

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