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Golfing snacks - more variety please

jackois

jackois

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
Hi all,

as a keen golfer who is also type 1, I find that if my blood sugar drops during a round of golf my play becomes erratic. To this end, I tend to snack my way round the golf course and over the four hours can ingest between 3 and 6 bananas, alternated between with snack bars, tracker, Go bars and the like and tend to hold my blood between 5 and 6 whilst playing. I seem to be 'honeymooning' at present so loading up on carbs before I start or reducing my insulin (currently around 2 units of Novorapid for 60 grams of carbs.) doesn't tend to work.

What I'd like is a bit more variety in my snacks and am looking for something with around ten to 15 grams of carbs that is easily eaten between the green and the next tee or whilst walking between shots.

many thanks, Peter.
 
Have you tried the Nakd bars?

You get lots of different varieties and they tend to range between 12g and 20g carbs.

Unlike other types of chew/cereal bars they just have natural ingredients and no added sugar or honey. Most of them are about 50% dates.

You can get most of them in Tesco, Asda, Holland & Barratt and currently Poundland have 3 for £1. Their own website also quite often do good deals.
 
When I do my gardening job before I start I have half a yum yum.. And 2 hours later the other half. M&S and BP m&s garages have them. Something in the 17g of carbs in total gives me enough fat? Carbs? To last 4 hours of hard physical work. And boy, are they tasty!! They work to sustain me during gardening better than anything else....


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jackois said:
Hi all,

as a keen golfer who is also type 1, I find that if my blood sugar drops during a round of golf my play becomes erratic. To this end, I tend to snack my way round the golf course and over the four hours can ingest between 3 and 6 bananas, alternated between with snack bars, tracker, Go bars and the like and tend to hold my blood between 5 and 6 whilst playing. I seem to be 'honeymooning' at present so loading up on carbs before I start or reducing my insulin (currently around 2 units of Novorapid for 60 grams of carbs.) doesn't tend to work.

What I'd like is a bit more variety in my snacks and am looking for something with around ten to 15 grams of carbs that is easily eaten between the green and the next tee or whilst walking between shots.

many thanks, Peter.
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i'm the same mate. i usually manage 2 bananas and a mars bar to keep lvl's up. but its abit boring now, heading for potassium overdose, so i'll keep an eye on this thread for suggestions
 
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