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Cheese & biscuits - friendly biscuit alternatives?

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Madeline

Madeline

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Cheese and biscuits, my favourite bit of a meal - have any of you come up with good alternatives to the biscuit bit? I’m going to have a potato and a mince pie, but one mince pie sent me into 11+ territory, so I don’t want to push my luck.
 
Madeline said:
Cheese and biscuits, my favourite bit of a meal - have any of you come up with good alternatives to the biscuit bit? I’m going to have a potato and a mince pie, but one mince pie sent me into 11+ territory, so I don’t want to push my luck.
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Hi Madeline, I love cheese I have mine with Rice cakes, or seeded crispbreads or even a well seeded slice of bread, but then I am on Insulin MDI so can cover any rise in my BG. You can only try and test . Good luck.

John.
 
Madeline said:
Cheese and biscuits, my favourite bit of a meal - have any of you come up with good alternatives to the biscuit bit? I’m going to have a potato and a mince pie, but one mince pie sent me into 11+ territory, so I don’t want to push my luck.
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How about Fine Oat Cakes? Yum I have them all the time.
 
Oatcake is a good idea. I am a twit, I have Finncrisp in the cupboard, I’ll see what happens if I have those.
 
It's not at all surprising that one mince pie should send your BG soaring skywards, when approx. 99% of the 35g of carb in one of them is the mega sweet, 99 mph version of carb!

There's only about 4 or 5g of carb in the average cream cracker or water biscuit!

I'd rather have one cream cracker with a good lump of hard cheese or a good dollop of a soft one, just because you eat enough cheese to cover 6 biscuits does not mean you HAVE to have 6 !
 
trophywench said:
It's not at all surprising that one mince pie should send your BG soaring skywards, when approx. 99% of the 35g of carb in one of them is the mega sweet, 99 mph version of carb!

There's only about 4 or 5g of carb in the average cream cracker or water biscuit!

I'd rather have one cream cracker with a good lump of hard cheese or a good dollop of a soft one, just because you eat enough cheese to cover 6 biscuits does not mean you HAVE to have 6 !
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It's Christmas.
Many "normals" hit 11.
Chill.
Eat to your meter, but don't be a victim to it.
It's a one off
 
At 11 I feel c**p, so I’d like to ‘save’ my carbs. You’re right, it’s Christmas, I’ll ditch the mince pie and stuff myself with cheese.

Christmas is a HUGE deal to us, our family is tiny, but it’s a time when we really celebrate being together, plus after being seriously ill I am genuinely grateful to be able to celebrate with them. Food is included in that, we don’t make pigs of ourselves, but I’m damned if I’m going to be virtuous and hold back. I love food, it’s one of life’s pleasures.
 
Madeline said:
At 11 I feel c**p, so I’d like to ‘save’ my carbs. You’re right, it’s Christmas, I’ll ditch the mince pie and stuff myself with cheese.

Christmas is a HUGE deal to us, our family is tiny, but it’s a time when we really celebrate being together, plus after being seriously ill I am genuinely grateful to be able to celebrate with them. Food is included in that, we don’t make pigs of ourselves, but I’m damned if I’m going to be virtuous and hold back. I love food, it’s one of life’s pleasures.
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If you have a meter, and willing family, test, you will be surprised what high is normal.
Lots of bad advice about spikes seem to be propagated.
 
travellor said:
If you have a meter, and willing family, test, you will be surprised what high is normal.
Lots of bad advice about spikes seem to be propagated.
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Hah! I have been known to stab them. We are a naturally slim family, very active outdoors types, something I really struggle with losing. So far I’ve not seen anything above 5.5, and that was 2 hours after my eldest scoffed a load of Danish for breakfast. S’not fair :(
 
BTW, is this the cause of the famous ‘carb slump’? You know, that bowl of pasta for dinner and next thing you’re waking up after a nice doze in front of the tv.
 
Madeline said:
Cheese and biscuits, my favourite bit of a meal - have any of you come up with good alternatives to the biscuit bit? I’m going to have a potato and a mince pie, but one mince pie sent me into 11+ territory, so I don’t want to push my luck.
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Looked at mincepies, horrendously high carb content around 35g. Good thing I dont really like them.
Cheese biscuits, on the other hand, if you choose carefully could have several for around 10- 12g.
hope this helps and Merry Christmas
 
I’ll compare crackers tomorrow, I did buy a big box of cheese biscuits so there’s plenty of choice, much rather have cheese than one mince pie.
 
Madeline said:
I’ll compare crackers tomorrow, I did buy a big box of cheese biscuits so there’s plenty of choice, much rather have cheese than one mince pie.
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So would I Madeline - I kind of count carbs like money hence a mince pie is ruddy expensive, whereas a cheese biscuit is dirt cheap! 🙂
 
trophywench said:
So would I Madeline - I kind of count carbs like money hence a mince pie is ruddy expensive, whereas a cheese biscuit is dirt cheap! 🙂
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That’s exactly it really, isn’t it, simply can’t afford a mince pie if I want to feel ok. Not when I’m already having a potato etc, and I’m not missing a roast potato - particularly when it’s not one of mine, as I’m not exactly the greatest roastie maker.
 
We are having a buffet on Xmas day so I am going to have to be blinkered to avoid the higher carb stuff but I like cheese and doing smoked salmon with cream cheese, and am making a trifle which will be as sugar free as possible. The problem for me is I overthink everything and buy too much. Doggie bags for everyone going home will be sorted. If it’s in the house I will eat it or stress about not using it up
 
I replace the biscuits with cucumber, celery, peppers and carrots. Although a biscuit is quite modest on the carb front I find it very difficult to stop at 3 or 4 once I get started!
 
Radders said:
I replace the biscuits with cucumber, celery, peppers and carrots. Although a biscuit is quite modest on the carb front I find it very difficult to stop at 3 or 4 once I get started!
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That’s my problem too, it’s all so very moreish.
 
These days, I'm quite happy with the cheese, and for the soft cheeses, maybe have cucumber slices as carriers.

If I want a bit of crunch, the either very crispy bacon strips (like are sold in M&S) or chorizo crisps are my go-to. Boy, is that delicious - chorizo crisp with Boursin. Nom nom, nom.
 
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