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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 2394942" data-attributes="member: 68789">If I want a quick glucose burst then the go to is jelly babies, which are just sugar and an agent to create the jelly, but dates, apples, oranges, pineapple, plums, dried figs and fruit juice will be a treat for a slightly slower rise.  Jelly babies are easy to carry around if a few are put in an easy seal bag but beware leaving them in a hot car where they can congeal into a sticky mass.I agree with all the others who say that your husband really needs to have his insulin doses and his daily blood sugar readings checked.  Does he test often?  If he kept a record of test results and food eaten then the medics would have better information to judge his insulin needs by.Has he done a Dafne course?  There’s something called Bertie online that gives the tools to balance doses and food, and a publication/app called Carbs and Cals that has information about the grams of carbohydrate in foods.  He’d need a set of scales that weighs small quantities; they’re not expensive, or big.  It all seems like a lot of work but after a while most people get used to judging how much carbohydrate the food they eat frequently contains.  It also helps a lot that so many foods have the carbohydrate per item or 100g printed on the packaging.</blockquote>

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