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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 349032" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>I've got a bag of Tesco 'garden salad' in front of me - it has 3.5g carb per 100g - an average lunch portion for me might be about 80g, so around 2.5g carb. A couple of small tomatoes - maybe 2.5g carb, a bit of red pepper - maybe 2g carb, some radish - maybe 0.5g carb - that's just a small basic salad and it comes to around 7.5g carb. (That's about a unit Apidra for me at 1:8 ratio), add in a bit for the protein in the chicken and I arrive at 1.5 units Apidra for a chicken salad. That 1.5 units might seem 'lost in the noise' to those of you on high carb diets and high doses of insulin, but it is the difference between BGs in the 5s and BGs in the 8s for me. So I would say add up the carb wherever it comes from and jab for it!</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 349032, member: 29301"] I've got a bag of Tesco 'garden salad' in front of me - it has 3.5g carb per 100g - an average lunch portion for me might be about 80g, so around 2.5g carb. A couple of small tomatoes - maybe 2.5g carb, a bit of red pepper - maybe 2g carb, some radish - maybe 0.5g carb - that's just a small basic salad and it comes to around 7.5g carb. (That's about a unit Apidra for me at 1:8 ratio), add in a bit for the protein in the chicken and I arrive at 1.5 units Apidra for a chicken salad. That 1.5 units might seem 'lost in the noise' to those of you on high carb diets and high doses of insulin, but it is the difference between BGs in the 5s and BGs in the 8s for me. So I would say add up the carb wherever it comes from and jab for it! Smidge [/QUOTE]
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