A great Aunty served lettuce with bugs once!! Yet I don't mind lettuce!! Lol
I'd never considered this as a hypo stopper, I used to love Kendal Mint Cake when I was youngerKendal Mint Cake? Basically Sugar, Glucose and peppermint extract, you can even choose whether it's brown or white sugar!
We always used salted, but that was because mum didn't buy in specially, toffee was also made with salted, so I was eating salted caramel years before it became fashionable!
As it's almost pure sugar it does keep really well as long as it's in an airtight container. But it is very "morish" so hide it away from your sweet toothed, non DB, family or there'll be none left when you need it!I've actually tried freezing some too. (Don't know if this will work or not) as the qty in a tray will last me years!!! (Unless hubby tucks in!!)
I'm not sure how long that would last in our fridge as a "hypo treatment"....Along the same line as Kendal Mint Cake, I've started using Thorntons Dairy Butter Tablet, it comes in a 285g bag so I just carry a few squares around in a small bag and leave the rest in the fridge, it is 78g CHO per 100g and has sugar, butter, sweetened condensed milk and glucose syrup in it and no artificial flavours or colours. I happened upon it as I was going hypo outside Thorntons. It is a bit like hard, crumbly fudge and is a bit different to dextrose tablets.
They only do one size of condensed milk that I could see.. About 3/4 size of baked bean tin.
It set really quickly although I did stick tray in fridge after it had cooled down.
I needed a cube Sat night and it literally was a bite!!!
I made it in a swiss roll tray so its not very thick.
Thanks...... I was in sympathy with you last night. Did some basal testing with the G4 cgm and was going low so buzz buzz, bleep
bleep on the pump, me swallowing jellybabies and the pump keep bleeping....me getting up so OH could sleep and just waiting for bg to rise which took a bit for the cgm to catch up. Tonight should be better with any luck
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