Well, that was unexpected....

[TeddyTottie]

I have been growing-my-own this year and have had a really great crop of tomatoes. Fortunately I seem to be ok with tomatoes when I eat a few of them with a meal, so I have been really enjoying the novelty of toms that actually taste of something.

However, I have had such a massive haul this weekend, I made a huge vat of tomato sauce. It’s delicious but sooo sweet... just from the fruit, all I added was onions, garlic, chillis and an aubergine because amazingly I have a bumper crop of those too. My plan was to bag it up, freeze it and use it instead of tinned toms for ‘pasta’ sauce, currys, stews etc, but I got to 9pm tonight and was not desperately hungry, so I thought I would try a bowl since it makes a pretty yummy tomato soup.

I was very wary of this, a whole bowl of the stuff all at once and not split as the basis for another 4 or 5 meals... I expected bad things to happen to my BG but thought I would give it a go.

And... nothing. BG increased by 0.2 after 2 hours. Colour me astonished! Well that’s good then, another option for the menu!

 

[MrsA2]

I had similar with some home grown grapes. I havent had shop bought for months once I'd seen what they did to my bg, but yesterday I saw that my home grown ones were ripe and sweet. Now usually they are a bit sour but this year they are so good that I actually binged on a small bunch straight off the vine. They didn't even get indoors! But they didn't seem to affect my sugars. I was .5 up this morning.
So maybe there's some truth in the famine and feast theory, that the very occasional feast on seasonal and local is ok
Or that we both ate just the one item, not a full meal.

I just wish I knew and understood more about what I can eat and when.