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Handbag snacks

AndBreathe

AndBreathe

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Good evening everyone.

I am relatively newly diagnosed and so far so good. I am coping with the changes I need to make to get life onto some sort of even keel, but today hit a metaphorical bump in the road.

I was out from mid-morning, but my return was delayed by about three hours, meaning my lunch was very much delayed. Cutting to the chase, I started to feel very rough. It wasn't so much hunger as really empty and the best way I can describe it is to suggest it felt like someone had disconnected my power supply from the mains. I know I wouldn't have been having a true hypo, as I am not on any medication at all, and my liver would dump to keep me going, but it just felt awful. What sort of things does the collective suggest as suitable handbag snacks? By that I mean something that can lurk in the bottom of my bag for days or weeks on end without going off.

I have a long haul flight over the next few days, and I'm thinking such a handbag snack would be a decent standby for potentially poor airline food. Whilst I can usually find something to eat, for my reduced carbohydrate diet, breakfasts are the worst meal on aeroplanes, in my experience. I'm not a great fan of nuts, but may have to accept extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary actions.

For completeness, I don't know where my numbers were at the time, as my meter decided to die a couple of days ago, and where I am, overseas, I have been unable to source an alternative. You know; timing is everything! That said, my 30 day average testing is 5.1, and I haven't transgressed without my meter.

Thanks in anticipation.
 
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I use Belvita as a standby.
They last forever, seem not to affect me too badly, and I've eaten them when they've been reduced to crumbs after being crushed in the car glove locker.
 
They look delicious.

Prior to diagnosis my standby for this sort of thing was a Jordan's cereal bar, with red berries, so not a million miles away, but potentially a little kinder to my numbers.
 
The Belvita is 12.5 g, 8.5g is carb, of which 1.9 is sugar.

so 68g carb, 15.2g of sugar per 100g

Jordans bars are 75.1g of carbs, 33.8g of sugar per 100g,
 
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Thanks all. Anyone else have suggestions?
 
Cheese. Boiled eggs. Those two works well enough for me.
 
"Cheese. Boiled eggs." !!!
Blimey, I wouldn't want to look too closely into the bottom of your handbag!
 
Salami sticks. Such as Peperami. I found lidl do a nice one. I have some in my winter emergency kit in the car and often pop them in my handbag when I go shopping.
 
sally and james said:
"Cheese. Boiled eggs." !!!

Blimey, I wouldn't want to look too closely into the bottom of your handbag!
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AndBreathe said:
....... I mean something that can lurk in the bottom of my bag for days or weeks on end without going off........
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Wouldn't want to get back into my car after they've been sitting there for a few days in the sun last summer, let alone a few weeks.
 
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pork scratchings .. limit the amount you eat . i find they keep hunger away failing that brazil nuts or cheese for me xx
 
Biltong - a dried meat snack or beef jerky. I also gather up the little individually wrapped biscuits that come with coffee - they do have carbs and sugars but are quite small and don't take me above 8 so I feel they are good emergency food.


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I use a couple of small snap shut tupperware boxes in my handbag .
Pop few almonds in or sliced carrots/celery/apples/few [8] green grapes .
Cathedral city cheese prewrapped ones!
Caramel coffee biscuits that you get with a cappuchino too are handy too :)
 
Guys, I don't snack, ever. I never have done. This fuel is for those times when unplanned circumstances interrupt my usual eating patterns, resulting in me felling "off", so pretty much non-perishable is important - especially as I'm mainly in the Tropics at present. Can you imagine how difficult it is to eat that fabulous, locally grown fruit in moderation?

It's hell, but somebody has to do it. :)
 
I'm the same, that's why the Belvita is usually reduced to a bag of crumbs by the time I do actually eat it!

I can't remember how many biscuits are in a sealed inner packet, it's either 2 or 4, if it's two, that's only 17g of carb, if it's 4 that's only 34g if you eat them all.
I liked them, as I can cope with that as a one off, more importantly, they never go off, they don't get sticky or melt, but they're not so dry you need to have a drink with them. They're also not a sugary fast release, they are a moderately good GI for that type of food, and didn't cause me a bad spike.
 
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:happy:No biltong for me it lasts as long as l have it in my hands and can rip/chew/swallow it all down... handbag not a hope l was teethed on the stuff... Heaven
 
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