Diet drinks in bars and restaurants

[coldclarity]

Anyone know how many carbs in those J20 drinks? I don't normally drink fruit juice but they are watered down aren't they? so maybe not too bad?

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I don't really like diet coke, but it's better than diet lemonade so I've got used to it. More choice would be lovely, but I'm not a fan of diet fizzy drinks really. Aren't they quite bad for you in their own way? I'm suspicius of all the artificial sweeteners!

 

[Einstein]

I only drink diet coke so haven't noticed the lack of other drinks in bars etc but on a recent holiday i was given regular coke from a machine and told it was diet.. luckily we noticed and the lady appologised. Anyway i'm only going to have drinks from machines if i can see them pouring it!

Good luck on your plight, think the One show would take up this story.

Julie x

I've found that when you've been given normal coke/pepsi rather than diet if you 'spill' some onto a solid surface, normal will become sticky or tacky, where diet doesn't it just dries - the sugar.

The real taste issue is pepsi max - I like it, but I can't tell the difference between pepsi and pepsi max, pepsi and diet pepsi I know, coke and diet coke I know, coke and coke zero (yuk) I know.

If I can't see them pour it, I don't drink it. Same with any drink in a bar, especially from uni days, where some joker used to put vodka in anything, vodka makes me ill, not drunk, ill - I can usually smell it, but if its in certain drinks I can't.

So everything has to be prepared in front of me.

 

[Einstein]

In my neck of the woods, we can often also get the great stallwart - Diet Irn Bru! (Our other national drink here.)

I recently once managed a diet Sprite, but think they must have made a mistake with their order as they have never had it since 🙂

When we used to go out (20 years ago or thereabouts), my husband and I used to ask for 2 Diet Cokes and if they said no, we BOTH had tap water. It took a lot of persevering, but eventually one day, the place said they had Diet Coke 😎. We were so pleased and went home feeling we had really achieved something!

Diet Irn Brew is great! Tescos if you're lucky sometimes stock it.
Waitrose diet ginger beer is also good, I think its also in cans as well as 2l bottles.

 

[Proudspirit]

I was working at the local leisure centre yesterday, went into their "healthy eating" cafe/bar and you are dead right there wasn't any other dietdrink apart from Diet coke... My friends daughter is Type 1 and is only 5, she is sick of giving her diet coke too.

Let me know if i can be of any help?

Julie x

 

[Copepod]

Did the cafe serve water or milk?

Personally, I object (on environmental grounds) to bottled drinking water, so always ask for tap water if there is nothing else I can drink. Although as I drink tea, coffee and diet coke, there is usually a choice. I appreciate that 5 year olds don't usually drink tea or coffee.

 

[Northerner]

I do find it a restriction since I became diabetic. Before, if not drinking beer, I would have fruit juice, or sometimes milk in caf?s (but then they often don't have skimmed!), but now both these would push my sugars up. I've never liked diet coke, or coke generally. Now if I go to the pub I just drink beer as I know how it affects me and I find I don't need to cover it with insulin, plus I wouldn't know if they'd given me diet or ordinary coke from the taste.

 

[mikep1979]

i to tend to stick to beer when out as i also dont need to cover it with insulin and find it tastes better than diet coke etc.

 

[Einstein]

I do find it a restriction since I became diabetic. Before, if not drinking beer, I would have fruit juice, or sometimes milk in caf?s (but then they often don't have skimmed!), but now both these would push my sugars up. I've never liked diet coke, or coke generally. Now if I go to the pub I just drink beer as I know how it affects me and I find I don't need to cover it with insulin, plus I wouldn't know if they'd given me diet or ordinary coke from the taste.

Most of the chain coffee shops will have skimmed milk, cheaper to buy a pint and take it with you to your local greasy spoon though.

Many milky continental coffees are actually easier to make if the milk is skimmed or semi skimmed, full fat his hardwork to froth.

I've never got used to drinking since being on insulin, from what you chaps are saying, leaving insulin at home is the best solution to this 🙄

 

[Northerner]

...I've never got used to drinking since being on insulin, from what you chaps are saying, leaving insulin at home is the best solution to this 🙄

If anything, I will take less insulin if going for a drink. I usually have some food and insulin before I leave home, then drink, then take my basal when I get home, have a snack and Robert is your Father's brother!

I haven't been in a 'coffee shop' since they started giving hundreds of names to their coffee - I could just about cope with cappucino, then it all went far too ridiculous for me! Mind you, I was the same with Subway - I only ever went in there once and it felt like torture going along the line having to make decisions about this, that and the other - I just wanted a cheese and tomato sandwich for goodness' sake!😱

 

[insulinaddict09]

If anything, I will take less insulin if going for a drink. I usually have some food and insulin before I leave home, then drink, then take my basal when I get home, have a snack and Robert is your Father's brother!

I haven't been in a 'coffee shop' since they started giving hundreds of names to their coffee - I could just about cope with cappucino, then it all went far too ridiculous for me! Mind you, I was the same with Subway - I only ever went in there once and it felt like torture going along the line having to make decisions about this, that and the other - I just wanted a cheese and tomato sandwich for goodness' sake!😱

Ha ha yes , a coffee is a bl**dy coffee for gods sake 😱

 

[Einstein]

If anything, I will take less insulin if going for a drink. I usually have some food and insulin before I leave home, then drink, then take my basal when I get home, have a snack and Robert is your Father's brother!

I haven't been in a 'coffee shop' since they started giving hundreds of names to their coffee - I could just about cope with cappucino, then it all went far too ridiculous for me! Mind you, I was the same with Subway - I only ever went in there once and it felt like torture going along the line having to make decisions about this, that and the other - I just wanted a cheese and tomato sandwich for goodness' sake!😱

Agreed on the coffee names, Latte, Cappucino, espresso, fine... double mocha googly ganglers??/ What!

As for subway, I like the fact I choose whats in MY sandwich, once you have worked it out, its very simple - even for me!

 

[Northerner]

Agreed on the coffee names, Latte, Cappucino, espresso, fine... double mocha googly ganglers??/ What!

As for subway, I like the fact I choose whats in MY sandwich, once you have worked it out, its very simple - even for me!

I think that, when buying sandwiches, as opposed to making my own I like to see a selection and think 'Oh! that sounds nice', rather than having to think about it further - although I might think differently now that I am diabetic. It's a trait of mine that I can only make decisions easily when surrounded by people who can't!😱

 

[Einstein]

I think that, when buying sandwiches, as opposed to making my own I like to see a selection and think 'Oh! that sounds nice', rather than having to think about it further - although I might think differently now that I am diabetic. It's a trait of mine that I can only make decisions easily when surrounded by people who can't!😱

Because I don't eat pork or shellfish I've always been limited in what I can have in pre-packed sandwiches, so deciding, beef or chicken, with or without cheese any or no dressing, what salad is great. And you know its fresh!

Plus subway for eating out is healthy and is reasonable value - still not as cheap as my home made bread though 😉 Or as good

 

[Einstein]

I've just popped to my local Sainsburys (10 miles away) and was surprised by their range of no sugar added soft drinks, mainly fizzy and mostly 2l bottles.

Pretty good prices to, picked a couple up to try them, I think Tescos is missing something here...

Now to get pubs and the likes to stock more of them.

 

[mikep1979]

i hate subway with a vengance!!!!!!! used to love it at one point but i got food poisoning from our local one and since then havent been in ANY others.

as for sugar free pop i just stick to corpy pop hehehehehe

 

[bev]

He he - 'corpy pop'! I havent heard that phrase for years Mike! Bev

 

[Einstein]

He he - 'corpy pop'! I havent heard that phrase for years Mike! Bev

Corporation pop - Water - tap water to be more prescise... for those who don't know!

 

[mikep1979]

He he - 'corpy pop'! I havent heard that phrase for years Mike! Bev

well what can i say i love to talk the lingo hehehehehe

 

[bev]

David, yes i did - but i have been away too long and become 'southernised' i think! Bev

 

[Einstein]

David, yes i did - but i have been away too long and become 'southernised' i think! Bev

I also read your original comment too quickly, and edited my response for our southern friend who don't know what free drinks are 😉