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I'm 10 months in to the type 1 journey, and still learning so much. One thing I have enjoyed [!!], is exploring the recipes on this website. So far they have all been delicious, and I've enjoyed trying new things. As with many other recipes the preparation time is optimistic- allow longer unless you are a dab hand at chopping preparing veg etc. Today's trial will be the banana chocolate mousse!
 
The mousse sounds yummy - do report back on its taste! I always ignore the prep times in most recipes.
 
diabetic gardener said:
I'm 10 months in to the type 1 journey, and still learning so much. One thing I have enjoyed [!!], is exploring the recipes on this website. So far they have all been delicious, and I've enjoyed trying new things. As with many other recipes the preparation time is optimistic- allow longer unless you are a dab hand at chopping preparing veg etc. Today's trial will be the banana chocolate mousse!
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I do like a good recipe for success.
 
I am not organized enough to follow a recipe very often. My cooking is mostly intuitive and off the cuff.... a bit sort of "Ready Steady Cook" but with rather mixed results and when it turns out really nice, I can never remember what I did to be able to replicate it as I don't weigh or measure anything. My friend always raves about a turkey and orange soup I made one year from their turkey carcass after Christmas.... which she was going to throw out!! I have tried a few times since but not been anywhere close to tasting so good as to be memorable. 🙄
I do follow recipes for baking but since diagnosis I haven't bothered much with baking as the results are too tempting!

How was the mousse?
 
I can't say I have paid much attention to the Diabetes UK recipes - mostly because, with Type 1, my diet is not limited. I eat a combination of reciped and non-reciped meals. My partner suggests I am not very good at following recipes but I think it is more that I know what is in the cupboard that can make a suitable substitute.

The only recipe I remember from Diabetes UK is a blackberry cake. Given the blackberries are already ripening, I may need to dig it out again.

I am not sure about Diabetes UK recipes but I have found that other recipes on line have a tendencies to disappear. Therefore, I save them to my "kitchen tablet" - an old iPad - so I don't lose them. And they are all in one place.
 
I never made the mousse- but maybe next week when 2 of our grandchildren are staying.
I'm lucky that I enjoy loads of veg/salad stuff, but, even so, 10 months in to T! I am BORED of being sensible!!
 
diabetic gardener said:
I never made the mousse- but maybe next week when 2 of our grandchildren are staying.
I' m lucky that I enjoy loads of veg/salad stuff, but, even so, 10 months in to T! I am BORED of being sensible!!
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You don't have to be sensible all the time.
With Type 1 we should be able to eat the same "healthy" diet as someone without diabetes. And that includes non-healthy food sometimes.
If we take our insulin when we have pizza, cake, icecream, ... and we don't only eat this stuff, we are fine.
Yesterday, I have a lovely salted caramel hazelnut millionaire's shortbread. It was far from sensible or boring. I took my insulin and the highest it rose was 7.0.
However, if it rose to 12.0, I would not beat myself up. I do not see numbers that high every day ... and don't eat millionaire's shortbread every day.

Be kind to yourself. Don't be sensible all the time. Enjoy your food ... and life.
 
diabetic gardener said:
I never made the mousse- but maybe next week when 2 of our grandchildren are staying.
I'm lucky that I enjoy loads of veg/salad stuff, but, even so, 10 months in to T! I am BORED of being sensible!!
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We can all enjoy some treats @diabetic gardener I had birthday cake yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. Interestingly, my blood sugar didn’t go above 7 afterwards whereas today after lunch with no treat, it decided to go up to 10. So ‘healthy’ doesn’t always give the best results!

I eat cake, ice cream, croissants, cheesecake, fruit crumbles, etc etc. It just takes a little more thought and experimentation (which is fun too!)
 
I can't claim my sugars have been perfect by a long way but just wanted to chip in that I've been on holiday diet this week. Still basically healthy enough but has also included caramel puddings, paella, lemon meringue (you get the picture...)

I've had some fairly mountainous looking dexcom graphs but time in range has been pretty good around 70% and it's been great to tuck in!

So actually not too different at all to my pre diagnosis eating. Apart from a few hypo cures and a bit more planning really

I can't remember whose it is but I love one member's signature here about including cream. Gives me faith in life!
 
Mumpie_olgran said:
I can't remember whose it is but I love one member's signature here about including cream. Gives me faith in life!
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I am pretty sure that is Roland (@Proud to be erratic ) Not that he is the only one to enjoy cream. It goes in my coffee every morning and is one of my daily luxuries, since I no longer have sugar.
 
Thanks everyone. I wasn't someone who ate a lot of sweet stuff before T1, but do find it disconcerting that a small [maybe 1 inch square] bit of something like flapjack can send my BG from 6 to 16! While I am getting more confident about correction doses, it still makes me wary!
 
diabetic gardener said:
Thanks everyone. I wasn't someone who ate a lot of sweet stuff before T1, but do find it disconcerting that a small [maybe 1 inch square] bit of something like flapjack can send my BG from 6 to 16! While I am getting more confident about correction doses, it still makes me wary!
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Totally fair. One of the things that has surprised me is how much some foods send me into orbit and others only really the lower levels
 
diabetic gardener said:
Thanks everyone. I wasn't someone who ate a lot of sweet stuff before T1, but do find it disconcerting that a small [maybe 1 inch square] bit of something like flapjack can send my BG from 6 to 16! While I am getting more confident about correction doses, it still makes me wary!
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That suggests to me you need to experiment more.
In my experience, food with more fat flattens the curve. So, all butter shortcrust biscuits are easier than flapjacks which contain far more sugar.
Chocolate also contains high fat.
 
I'm not proud of myself at all to report that I had a binge on milk chocolate today. First milk chocolate I have had since diagnosis and I lost it badly. It was one of those huge 360g bars and I have to confess I ate half of it within the space of an hour. I was 6.6 when I started and 1 didn't measure and calculate much, I just winged it and kept jabbing a bit more and a bit more insulin as I was tempted to eat more and more chocolate. What shocked me was that at one point within that hour of scoffing, my levels got down into the low 4s and I actually had to have a JB to stop me dropping into the red. Overall, my levels didn't go above 7.5, despite all that sugar and no prebolus time. It was a disaster of willpower and healthy eating but an absolute triumph of diabetes management!! 🙄 Not recommending anyone do that by any means, but @helli's comment above about chocolate really resonated. I was totally shocked, as generally I am slow to absorb insulin and very fast to digest and release glucose, so I fully expected hitting the 20s and having to battle to come down.
I will be sticking to dark 70% plus from now on as I simply cannot restrain myself once I start on sugar like that. Hopefully it will be another 4.5 years or longer before I am tempted again. It wouldn't have happened but I found it in the back of the cupboard under the stairs and had been put away for someone as a gift and then got lost and was too "long in the tooth" to actually give to anyone now and I couldn't bear to waste it. 🙄 I don't want to think about how much insulin I injected to cover it but I did dutifully log each dose as it went in on my Libre so that I could keep track later if I needed to. Some literally 10 mins after a previous dose as I scoffed some more. Bad girl :(
 
Not once followed a DUK recipe, tend to stick with meals I know how to cook from past experience, but occasionally I'm bit like @rebrascora where I'll make something delicious but forget what went in or quantity used, more so with soups.

Like @helli & @Inka tend not to deny myself many foods as it makes you want to crave them all the more, so do indulge in sweet treats at home & when out dining.
 
rebrascora said:
Bad girl :(
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Not at all @rebrascora !

Sounds like you did a cracking job of not wasting the food, and dosing appropriately.

Just keep experimenting @diabetic gardener - you’ll soon work out which occasional treats are worth the possible BG chaos, and which are just not enjoyable enough.

Leaving a gap between dose and eating, and/or having a treat while I am walking the dog (which generally increases my insulin sensitivity enough to need some precautionary carbs) are both effective strategies to take the edge off the spike for me 🙂
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Not at all @rebrascora !

Sounds like you did a cracking job of not wasting the food, and dosing appropriately
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I agree! Sounds like you smashed the sugar control and for me at least that's the biggest prize. I'm actually somewhere between impressed and inspired!
 
You guys are all far too kind and supportive. If I was an alcoholic I am not sure you would be quite so encouraging with your comments. It is dangerous ground for me and I confess I went back to the bar last night and had some more and the remainder is constantly on my mind today, calling to me, so I need to get rid of it.
helli said:
Did you cause anyone harm?
Did you stop anyone else having enjoyment?
Did you waste anything?

Don't look to me as if you were Bad in anyway.
PLease be kind to yourself and don't look upon food as good or bad.
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I abused my body and I lost self control and I used far too much insulin that the NHS has to fund on rubbish that is harmful to my health rather than wholesome food to nourish my body.... and I set my foot on that slippery slope which is dangerous to me and worst of all, I got away with it with an impressively good result....which means it is not the deterrent I would have expected or probably preferred it to be! ....... These thoughts are what helps to keep me (mostly) on the straight and narrow.

But no I didn't hurt anyone else ..... although my "Bad Girl" comment was slightly tongue in cheek. I am not giving myself a really hard time about it, but it is important to acknowledge my weakness and guard against it.

At least I don't need to "practice" some more to get the insulin dosing right for a large bar of chocolate, so I don't have that excuse to do it again! 😉 :D
 
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