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Cheese and apple - good or bad snack?

Emmar

Emmar

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
I have never craved an apple so much! Would this snack be ok in an evening?
 
Everyone is different, so why not test, eat the apple then test again at one hour, two hours and three hourly intervals to see how you react. You never know, you could be okay with them.

Personally I can't eat apples because they spike me too much - but I could eat the cheese though!
 
Cheese: :p
Apple: :eek:

I can manage about 1/3 of a small eating apple at a time if I eat with something else. So I make a low carb blackberry and apple chocolate hazelnut crumble, or have chicken with sour cream, chives, apple and walnuts. I also want to try a bit of sliced apple fried in butter when we next have pork chops.

So do as @Chook suggests and do some tests to see what you can cope with. You could also try cheese and apple as a second course to see if that might work better?

Robbity
 
Thanks Robbity, cheese and apple after my meal sounds like a plan, but I will definitely check levels at intervals too. It's weird I'm not craving bread, pasta, biscuits but an apple?!

Re checking levels I am experiencing a bit of a problem as I discovered my meter is giving higher readings than I actually have - after a trip to a and e earlier this week I discovered my meter was reading 2.5 higher than the nurses calibrated meter (and still 1.5 higher than proper blood sample test). So, this is making my management a bit more difficult! Sheesh!
 
Funny that, I don't like apples - they bring me out in goose bumps, think its the crunchy noise etc. Any how I too have been craving apples so I have half a one. Mind you I didn't test.
 
Emmar said:
Re checking levels I am experiencing a bit of a problem as I discovered my meter is giving higher readings than I actually have - after a trip to a and e earlier this week I discovered my meter was reading 2.5 higher than the nurses calibrated meter (and still 1.5 higher than proper blood sample test). So, this is making my management a bit more difficult! Sheesh!
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If your HbA1c was different it's probably because it's taking an average of all your glucose levels over the last few months - you meter is just giving you spot checks at different times - so not a complete picture. What you need to be looking at is any big spikes after eating and any trends/patterns in your readings.

Robbity
 
I often have a Royal Gala apple for dessert after dinner. They are quite sweet so satisfy my sweetness cravings. I don't test after meals, but they don't seem to have raised my BG when I test the next morning. And I usually have some cheese in the evening too.
 
I would try a small apple or half an apple and test to see the effect. A small apple can contain about 15g carbs and a medium 20g so for many diabetics this would realise BG levels. What about celery or raw pepper if you want a crunch.
 
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