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<blockquote data-quote="BoggyBimbleJr" data-source="post: 1379658" data-attributes="member: 375981"><p>I've ordered a 'Exactive Easy Blood Glucose Meter Monitoring System Kit' from the big river company (don't know whether I'm allowed to say) because replacement test strips and lancets (50 of each) can be bought as a set for £11 with next day delivery, which compares favourable with the Codefree ones. It arrives on Friday, so I shall test on Saturday morning, have some porridge and test again two hours later.</p><p></p><p>I bought some Pure Stevia so I can put a pinch into the porridge because I don't like it plain. Thanks DevonVee, I'd ordered the Stevia before I saw your post but I'll buy some Erythritol granules anyway due to Stevia having a bitter aftertaste. Another thing someone told me to do whenever I felt I fancied some sugary food was to go online and look at some photo's of diabetic's feet just before amputation, then decide whether you really need that sugar after all. Just don't look while you're eating or shortly after.</p><p></p><p>In reply to Bluetit1802, I've been eating too much chocolate every day for the last 20 years (morning snack, pudding after lunch, afternoon snack, pudding after tea, watching TV in the evenings, when driving for work, can't just have one Double Decker, I'd have to have at least five with a fizzy drink) and recently because the tubs of Heroes and Celebrations were available since about August last year at least one tub a day between then and Christmas (especially when they went down to two tubs for £7, really stocked up but they didn't last long) plus all the extras (some days ate nothing but chocolate) and got up to 23st (though was 20st in August anyway). So yes you are right, I was hoping someone would say "it's okay to eat all those carbs like rice, pasta, potatoes etc. if you're not eating the chocolate" and I could go back to having banana sandwiches with sugar on. The trouble is, I don't have any of the usual symptoms of Type 2 and I was hoping the big reading was just from all the sugar I had been absorbing.</p><p></p><p>I've been through the tins and packets in the kitchen cupboards and anything that has more that 10g carbs and/or more than 2g 'of which sugars' in the whole tin will be going to the food bank, which is about 90% of them). Another problem I am having at the moment is with Loyd Grossman pasta sauces. When they were on special offer a few months ago I bought loads (I've got about 150 jars in my shed) and about three large bags of fuisili . The problem is that although some are about 30g carbs with 25g sugar which will definitely be going, one I really like is 19g carbs with 16g sugar (four teaspoons!) and I'm trying to persuade myself that most of it is natural sugar from the tomatoes. I shall therefore have to do a before and after test on Saturday and be prepared to lose them too. Is there such a thing as a non carb home made pasta sauce?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BoggyBimbleJr, post: 1379658, member: 375981"] I've ordered a 'Exactive Easy Blood Glucose Meter Monitoring System Kit' from the big river company (don't know whether I'm allowed to say) because replacement test strips and lancets (50 of each) can be bought as a set for £11 with next day delivery, which compares favourable with the Codefree ones. It arrives on Friday, so I shall test on Saturday morning, have some porridge and test again two hours later. I bought some Pure Stevia so I can put a pinch into the porridge because I don't like it plain. Thanks DevonVee, I'd ordered the Stevia before I saw your post but I'll buy some Erythritol granules anyway due to Stevia having a bitter aftertaste. Another thing someone told me to do whenever I felt I fancied some sugary food was to go online and look at some photo's of diabetic's feet just before amputation, then decide whether you really need that sugar after all. Just don't look while you're eating or shortly after. In reply to Bluetit1802, I've been eating too much chocolate every day for the last 20 years (morning snack, pudding after lunch, afternoon snack, pudding after tea, watching TV in the evenings, when driving for work, can't just have one Double Decker, I'd have to have at least five with a fizzy drink) and recently because the tubs of Heroes and Celebrations were available since about August last year at least one tub a day between then and Christmas (especially when they went down to two tubs for £7, really stocked up but they didn't last long) plus all the extras (some days ate nothing but chocolate) and got up to 23st (though was 20st in August anyway). So yes you are right, I was hoping someone would say "it's okay to eat all those carbs like rice, pasta, potatoes etc. if you're not eating the chocolate" and I could go back to having banana sandwiches with sugar on. The trouble is, I don't have any of the usual symptoms of Type 2 and I was hoping the big reading was just from all the sugar I had been absorbing. I've been through the tins and packets in the kitchen cupboards and anything that has more that 10g carbs and/or more than 2g 'of which sugars' in the whole tin will be going to the food bank, which is about 90% of them). Another problem I am having at the moment is with Loyd Grossman pasta sauces. When they were on special offer a few months ago I bought loads (I've got about 150 jars in my shed) and about three large bags of fuisili . The problem is that although some are about 30g carbs with 25g sugar which will definitely be going, one I really like is 19g carbs with 16g sugar (four teaspoons!) and I'm trying to persuade myself that most of it is natural sugar from the tomatoes. I shall therefore have to do a before and after test on Saturday and be prepared to lose them too. Is there such a thing as a non carb home made pasta sauce? [/QUOTE]
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