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Diabetes Support Forum 10th Anniversary Advent Calendar!

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Northerner

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White rabbits everyone! :D As this is our forum's 10th Anniversary year I thought that for the Advent Calendar I would pick out treasures from calendars past 😱 🙂 So, to start us all off on our wondrous adventure into a world from the diabetic perspective, here's Day 1:

A plateful of scrumptious Diabetic Rice! 😱 :D

Diabetic-Rice.jpg
 
A nice contradiction in terms to start things off. :D
 
So, what's today's treat? 😉 Hopefully nothing from the 2016 calendar... 😱
 
Day 5, some delicious Diabetic Jam from 2011, and a poem :D

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Ah! You’re diabetic? Well, don’t worry my dear,
We’ve got all sorts of goodies that are suitable here!
There’s diabetic chocolate and diabetic cake,
And diabetic jam – took me ages to make!

And diabetic sweets in all sorts of flavours –
For someone like you they’re heavenly saviours!
So don’t feel deprived, they’re especially for you!
I’ve heard sugar would kill you – is that really true?

Now you might find the sweeteners are rather emetic,
But you’ll just have to suffer since you’re diabetic…
I should also mention they cost twice the price
Of ordinary sweet stuff, but don’t taste as nice…

What’s that? You’re declining? Well how can that be?
But you can't eat normally, like people like me!
You can? Well, my goodness, I’ve learned something new!
My business is finished, and no thanks to you! :D
 
Day 7, from 2016 (sorry @robert@fm 😱) The theme for 2016 was weird cuisine from around the world. Here we have some scrumptious
Surstromming from Sweden 😱 🙂

Baltic Sea herring fermented with just enough salt used to prevent it from rotting. Mainly found tinned in brine these days, when opened it releases such a pungent aroma that it usually needs to be eaten outside. 😱 Low carb! 🙂

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Northerner said:
Day 7, from 2016 (sorry @robert@fm 😱) The theme for 2016 was weird cuisine from around the world. Here we have some scrumptious
Surstromming from Sweden 😱 🙂

Baltic Sea herring fermented with just enough salt used to prevent it from rotting. Mainly found tinned in brine these days, when opened it releases such a pungent aroma that it usually needs to be eaten outside. 😱 Low carb! 🙂

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Yuk
 
Was a ruddy nightmare in them days Northie, couldn't get hold of a porcupine by the time I was diagnosed so had to make to with a hedgehog we kept in the garden and he was forever going walkabout in the night unless we tethered the little bugger to the rotary washing line post before it got dark.
 
I remember having dripping on toast with my grandad on Sunday evenings as a treat (late 70's early 80's)
 
Love it! Esp beef dripping. Salt and pepper on mine though please.

(Think it's been 20 years or more since I had any...…..)
 
Beef dripping Yum, no salt or pepper on mine though. Not had any for many a year.
 
Day 12 - from 2017, when the theme was 'Exercise' - we all need to do what we can, including...

Crossing a field with a large dog on your shoulders (you'll probably need to buddy-up for this one, otherwise double the calories used)

Calories:
15 mins - 43
1 hour - 179

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