Diabetes Support Forum 10th Anniversary Advent Calendar!

[Madeline]

Me eat a steak bake? Far too much. The sausage rolls are too big anyway - but used to be so more-ish. Fat virtually dripping out of the flaky pastry and ditto the sausage. Now the pastry has no 'layers' and there was a completely empty space all round the dried up circular length of what they claimed was sausage - like they'd used a length of that horrid skinless sausage.

Oh. It’s been years since I had one, sounds like I’ve not missed anything.

 

[Northerner]

Oops! Behind again! 😱 Day 18, from 2012 - time to get baking with some of Lister's Diabetic Flour!

 

[Northerner]

Day 19, from 2010 - the chemical structure of Metformin 😱 🙂

 

[Eddy Edson]

Oops! Behind again! 😱 Day 18, from 2012 - time to get baking with some of Lister's Diabetic Flour!

And their diabetic flour factory: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c97e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

 

[Madeline]

What on Earth was diabetic flour? Actual thing or a big con?

 

[Ljc]

And their diabetic flour factory: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c97e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Omg

 

[Eddy Edson]

What on Earth was diabetic flour? Actual thing or a big con?

It seems to have been based on casein, presumably extracted from cows milk? But how that got processed into "flour", don't know.

Mentioned in this https://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/documents/publications/bulletins/b220.pdf from 1919, which is a great little insight into the "late pre-insulin" era.

 

[Madeline]

Mmm thrice cooked vegetables, yummy! Thanks for that, I’d not had any success googling, I just got auction stuff for old posters.

 

[Northerner]

Day 20, from 2017, when the theme was 'exercise' 😱 🙂

Ironing

Calories
15 mins - 22
1 hour - 88

 

[Lanny]

No kidding! I HATE ironing & never do it! I only buy no ironing or minimum ironing clothes!🙂 An ABSOLUTE essential with my work clothes, when still in the restaurant business: teflon coated short sleeve shift dress & longline jacket, part of the waiting staff, that repelled stains too!😎 From a specialist catering industry clothes catalogue. Still needed washing everyday because of the smell of food & alcohol! DID NOT want to iron too!😱

 

[Northerner]

Day 21, from 2012 -
Oh yum, some diabetic ice cream! 😱

 

[Ljc]

No kidding! I HATE ironing & never do it! I only buy no ironing or minimum ironing clothes!🙂 An ABSOLUTE essential with my work clothes, when still in the restaurant business: teflon coated short sleeve shift dress & longline jacket, part of the waiting staff, that repelled stains too!😎 From a specialist catering industry clothes catalogue. Still needed washing everyday because of the smell of food & alcohol! DID NOT want to iron too!😱

I don’t blame you , I detest ironing too I do the bare minimum.

 

[Northerner]

Day 23, from 2011 - hope everyone has got a jar in the cupboard for that special treat!

 

[Northerner]

Day 24, from 2017 - Treadmill session in inappropriate footwear. Make some room for those sprouts! 😱

Calories
15 mins - 45
1 hour - 180

 

[Northerner]

And finally, Day 25, from 2012 - give yourself a boost with Gluco-Burst Diabetic drink! Merry Christmas everyone! 🙂

 

[AdeV]

I'm a bit late to the party here, erm, so Happy Christmas everyone!

Meanwhile:

Oops! Behind again! 😱 Day 18, from 2012 - time to get baking with some of Lister's Diabetic Flour!

Interesting that carbs were in the frame way back then as a problem for diabetics... makes you wonder what changed, doesn't it?

 

[robert@fm]

I like your Gru-some avatar. 😉

 

[AdeV]

I like your Gru-some avatar. 😉

Hehe - thanks 🙂 It goes back to a "work/holiday" trip I had to the States; out there with the boss, his lad, and me in Florida: Boss says, let's go jetskiing! So we did, and batted up and down a lagoon for a happy hour. Apparently, I looked "just like Gru" whilst hunched over the handlebars trying to make myself more aerodynamic in order to go faster!

I couldn't walk properly for about 3 days after that, my legs were completely like jelly... I couldn't even go *down* stairs, let alone up them! Had to lever myself in and out of chairs, on/off the bog, and I didn't dare take a bath in case I got stuck in it! But.... what a rush!