Diabetes friendly food while travelling

ne0h said:

Really? From time to time my blood glucose levels are so high that the meter just says "hi"! Even when my bg is that high I do not recall feeling dizzy...

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I wrote on another thread where you had posted one of your ridiculous comments. I spoke about a lady who would not listen to her consultant. She, rather like you, thought that the higher the number the better. As far as she was concerned, 4-7 was nowhere near enough and was delighted when she was rewarded with a HI. How wrong she was. At least where she is now we do not need to be concerned anymore.

ne0h said:

Really? From time to time my blood glucose levels are so high that the meter just says "hi"! Even when my bg is that high I do not recall feeling dizzy. Maybe you have issues aside from diabetes.

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Please ignore ridiculous comments like this. If your meter says "hi", do something about it quick !

Try doing your own mix. I will be travelling up to Calais. in early May and will make up my food. I still stop off at the motorway restaurant. they have lovely ham and choice of veggies. normally I have something like that . easy as I always carry my own drinks/ water, juice. and something sweet just in case. as the drive is over 7 hours and stopping makes it even longer. but can stop when I want. know my limitations. anne

Totto said:

And what do you do when your meter says hi? I try to keep my bg below 7 at all times, not that I manage always but most days.

And no, this dizziness, sort of feeling drugged only comes when my bg goes above normal, say above 8 or there about. It was such a relief to get an explanation for this, along with the tiredness and as I feel so much better when bg is normal I want to keep it normal.

The risk for developing diabetes complications must very high if you run your bg in levels your meter can´t even test for?

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I know exactly what you mean, if I have a sandwich made with a baguette then insulin is needed or I feel very dizzy, drowsy and drugged. Testing my BG two hours after one such incident gave a result of 18.5! Tend to avoid such sandwiches now or plan to take the insulin to cover it


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south711 said:

Try doing your own mix. I will be travelling up to Calais. in early May and will make up my food. I still stop off at the motorway restaurant. they have lovely ham and choice of veggies. normally I have something like that . easy as I always carry my own drinks/ water, juice. and something sweet just in case. as the drive is over 7 hours and stopping makes it even longer. but can stop when I want. know my limitations. anne

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Doing your own mix can sometimes be difficult and I often have to gain extra will power not to eat the stuff that I know will sky rocket my BS.

I've found the trick is not to get too hungry, so I have these home made trail mix bags made with almonds, pumpkin seeds, cocunut, roasted chickpeas, Mac nuts, walnuts, Brazil nuts and raisins - often don't eat the raisins unless I am hypo or exercising but the sugar on the raisins rubs against the other nuts and departs a bit of sweetness to them without affecting my BS.

I have these bags stashed all over - just don't go too crazy and eat a whole bag not good for weight gain.


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