Heroes chocolates...

[grainger]

it’s not a good idea to have a box of these near you when hypo! ...

*cough* maybe one or two too many and I shall spend rest of evening attempting to avoid the inevitable high 🙄

 

[trophywench]

Ditto Quality Street, Roses and Celebrations - but we have to do the market research, it's compulsory for survival !

 

[ukjohn]

it’s not a good idea to have a box of these near you when hypo! ...

*cough* maybe one or two too many and I shall spend rest of evening attempting to avoid the inevitable high 🙄

I agree with Trophywench. I thought eating Heroes would make me one ( Hero ) that is, so I must keep trying.😳😉

John.

 

[Martin9]

I keep high cocoa chocolate on hand but not that stuff x

 

[Madeline]

I fantasise about a big bar of Whole Nut

 

[trophywench]

I keep high cocoa chocolate on hand but not that stuff x

I don't think any of us buy such things for ourselves Martin. We may indeed buy them for our guests and other members of our family as most other people we know are not diabetic and although I personally got a Terry's orange (a favourite since the early 1950s) Pete happily receives anything like them as gifts - why shouldn't we? None of us actually use chocolate - ANY chocolate however high cocoa content it happens to be - to treat hypos. It's NBG at all for that.

Between @grainger @ukjohn and myself we have 60 years experience of living successfully with D - we've all known one another on this forum for years, we're all on insulin exclusively to treat it and have gone far lower down than 3.9 on any number of occasions so know only too well the brain fade that always accompanies it. Hence we all have a darned good laugh about it - laughing WITH each other accompanied by no criticism whatsoever either intended or perceived by the OP.

I daresay it may well seem an odd thing to joke about to some people who don't live with D every relentless day and fully grasp our 'perfectly normal' lives, but there you go. It's a waste of breath sharing such things with folk who don't understand so in the main - we don't bother. But THIS FORUM is one place anyone can do it and be sure of giving any number of us an empathetic belly laugh!

My own DSN's reaction was to say, 'Perhaps not the best plan, Jenny!' to me whilst we both had a good old giggle about it. No - she wasn't diabetic - but her husband of 30 years was, since age 12 !

 

[Lisa66]

I could have sworn I saw a box of Roses and some chocolate brazils here somewhere...no idea where they’ve gone ....🙄

 

[Matt Cycle]

My top 4 in order. 🙂 Not keen on the fondant and toffee ones in Roses and QS.

1. Celebrations
2. Heroes
3. Roses
4. Quality Street

 

[Carolg]

I could have sworn I saw a box of Roses and some chocolate brazils here somewhere...no idea where they’ve gone ....🙄

I know where the box of quality street I bought for visitors over Xmas went..either munched by the carol fairy or in the bin