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Handy Guide to Carb Portions

That's a nifty guide Lucy. Thanks for the link.
 
Interesting and on the whole useful.

The only things I can very quickly see they get horribly wrong are raspberries and strawberries. I have those most mornings, I buy the frozen packets you can get to make my own yoghurt by mixing them with plain yoghurt. They reckon not to worry about carbs in raspberries well the packet says different and so do my BG's. Same thing with strawberries no way is 10 strawberries 10 carbs you can have far less than 10. So maybe suspect other fruits but the idea and simplicity is fine.
 
That looks pretty useful Lucy, I have always assumed that teaspoon/desert spoon/tablespoon measures are always level as they are in cookery books :thumbup:
 
xyzzy said:
Interesting and on the whole useful.

The only things I can very quickly see they get horribly wrong are raspberries and strawberries. I have those most mornings, I buy the frozen packets you can get to make my own yoghurt by mixing them with plain yoghurt. They reckon not to worry about carbs in raspberries well the packet says different and so do my BG's. Same thing with strawberries no way is 10 strawberries 10 carbs you can have far less than 10. So maybe suspect other fruits but the idea and simplicity is fine.
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size matters: I've just weighed 100g of strawberries. (5.9g carb) There were 13 strawberries.
(they were gariguettes like this http://www.frenchvie.com/tag/strawberries/)
When estimated for insulin I normally use 5g per 100g for both raspberrries and strawberries,
 
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