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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vikki2" data-source="post: 209038" data-attributes="member: 25049">HiThe whole family have gone lower carb. My 6yr old daughter has T1.For a lot of our usual meals the proportions on the plate have changed i.e. less of a helping of the carbs and more of the veg, with meat probably staying the same. I throw in a lot more veg. The plate looks very colourful and we are lucky in that we have good eaters. Corn on the cob is great - yes, it has carbs but I find that these kinds of carbs act differently to say potatoes/rice.We very very rarely have pasta anymore. Despite being on the pump we still haven't mastered bolusing for pasta. But my big discovery is Shirataki noodles. They are carb free!! They are Japanese and made from the Konjac plant. I hunted high & low for them & eventually found them on Amazon (how bizarre!). Look in the grocery section. You need to boil them first so they are not too chewy and then you need to flavour them as they are tasteless. I tend to chuck them in the wok. I keep those noodles for my daughter and we eat other noodles that look the same - it's a bit too expensive for the whole family to munch on them. It's a very strange feeling letting her eat a massive bowl of noodles & veg with no insulin!!I find that her body can cope so much better with carbs at lunch time. We now have a CGM (self-funded) and so I can see exactly how her BG levels are coping with different foods. She stays pretty stable after carbs at lunchtime but spikes if she's had a large amount of carbs in the evening.All the bestVikki</blockquote>

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