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Group 7-day waking average?

5.4 this morning.

Did most of the food shopping yesterday but a couple of other bits to get including a swede, cauliflower and broccoli but may opt for frozen for the last two.

Made a low carb mincemeat with the intention of making mince pies but think I’ll make a mincemeat fool instead as that’s easy and very low carb.

Hunting for decent options for stuffing but it can’t contain pork and don’t want to have to make keto bread (nowhere locally has the low carb loaves that get mentioned often here) and could do with some cranberries as I’m going to make low carb cranberry sauce.

Trying to lower carbs in the Christmas menu where possible because of the Christmas pudding!
 
freesia said:
Like @eggyg @Snowwy and @MeTooTeeToo, i'm off to Sainsburys shopping for us and my mum. Wish us luck.
6.4 for me this morning
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I’ve had a reprieve. Mr Eggy wandered down at 6 o’clock and said he would go as I’d got this far without catching “it” and it didn’t make sense me putting myself at risk at this time. Blimey, this man of mine HATES food shopping at the best of times. That’s true love. Mind you I’ve had to modify my list, directions to where things will be in the store, alternatives if things out of stock. I’m not good at relinquishing control! 😳
 
Morning all. 🙂 Well, a 5.2, how nice.:D

Very quiet here in the Welsh tourism belt. Hubby did the shopping yesterday and said there was hardly anyone around...spooky.

Pistachios @ColinUK instead of breadcrumbs? That’s what we normally use.
 
Lots of comments from people going shopping very early. Good luck to you all. Just four of us here on Christmas Day. I’m collecting just about everything we need tomorrow from M&S, ordered some time ago.

I did a normal weekly shop in Sainsbury’s yesterday at around 10 o’clock and there was a short queue outside. Lower population density over here but it will get busy so tomorrow I’ll go for the last few fresh items very early. I hope I’m not being optimistic!

We’re going into Belfast today, which I’m expecting to be very quiet. Just getting it in before we go into lockdown again on Boxing Day☹️

My brother in law, who’s with us on Christmas Day, has had the first of the two COVID vaccinations. He runs a couple of care homes and was one of the first in line.
 
Morning all, 5.8 here. Did my big shop yesterday, in the nick of time, everything was stocked up, but there was a huddle of assistants having a panicked conversation about the fact that the lift had broken, and no way were they going to be able to get all the later deliveries up two flights of stairs! (Chipping Norton is a very hilly town, and the lorries deliver two storeys below the shop floor). Shop was much busier than usual at 8am, and I decided against buying any meat from the bargain counter, after I saw a customer picking up every single package and holding it close to his face to squint at the label, before replacing it on the shelf. (he eventually selected the first item he’d picked up)
Today's excitement is my pneumococcal jab.
 
Good morning 3.8 and not liking my new sensor as it is much lower than testing with blood.
For for the first year ever I am super organised for Christmas which means that I am going to the food bank today to give food as I will be alone. My three daughters will be together in London, their beautiful bright faces are keeping me going and they are still laughing. So grateful for zoom, WhatsApp and the rest!
I wish you all a good day.
 
khskel said:
Libre training was little.more than listening to the leaflet being read but I've shown willing and now waiting for it to appear on the repeat list.
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Good luck with that! Mine didn’t appear on my repeats, and when I checked on line, it had been put on the 'acute' medications section with the comment 'not issued'. Rang the dispensary, and asked why not, and they said 'Oh! Did you want some?' Durr!
 
So got my prescription on Saturday, had a text saying it had been dispensed and was now ready for collection so Bruce went up, they handed him only a box of ketone strips, he said is that it as she's expecting insulin etc to which the woman responded oh let me go and check, we maybe haven't bagged it up yet, why send the blooming text saying it's ready then!

We'll go through a breakdown of this morning
5:22 - 5.7 = 2 Lift tabs
5:43 - 4.9 = 2 Lift tabs
6:38 - 3.6 = 3 Lift tabs
I'm fed up and cold and just want to go to bed, I'll no doubt be sky high come dinner time now but not much I could do!
xx
 
Bloden said:
Morning all. 🙂 Well, a 5.2, how nice.:D

Very quiet here in the Welsh tourism belt. Hubby did the shopping yesterday and said there was hardly anyone around...spooky.

Pistachios @ColinUK instead of breadcrumbs? That’s what we normally use.
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I like that idea! Thank you 🙂
 
Well we are Tier 4 and on our short drive to go for a walk the roads are just as busy as they normally would be. The people we passed were not all trying to distance though we were and I was wearing a mask. One guy decided to whistle is dog as we passed him not once but several times, my other half was so cross.
 
freesia said:
Sorry @MeeTooTeeTwo
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:D Just back from M&S a short while ago - it was practically deserted. Got all that I wanted, except I forgot their wonderful Carrot and Ginger relish (which was on my list). 😳 I plead old age.
Might creep out again tomorrow - is that classed as essential shopping, I wonder? 😛

Dez
 
I'm with you again @Michael12421 in the 7s today with a 7.5.
Eating late with no insulin is stopping me from hypoing through the night but I need to tweak things a bit to get a bit better in range result in the morning. I toyed with 1unit of Fiasp at bedtime last night when my reading was 10. Might give it a go tonight. It would be nice to bring my average BG score down a bit but I don't want to go back to night time hypos.

@Bloden Lovely to see you getting an House Special this morning. Congratulations. Enjoy basking in the glow of that ultimate morning achievement! 😉

@Kaylz. Sorry to read that you are battling morning lows still. Have you had problems at this time of year before or is this a new anomaly? How are your hands? Hope they are starting to heal and not so sore.

Good luck to all you guys going out to forage/scavenge/scrummage for food. I don't envy you! My Eggy is a star for volunteering Elaine! You got a good one there! I still haven't made any plans or shopped for the "big day" and no idea what I am going to eat but I am sure I won't starve and I have plenty of cream to go in my morning coffee so life is good. Afraid I'm a terrible Bah Humbug and current situation enables me to be more so without so much guilt, so I am actually really going to enjoy being very, very low key.
 
Robin said:
Congrats on the HS!
Lucky you! We were inundated with second homers arriving from London on Saturday just after The Announcement, probably bringing their new variant Covid with them.
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We’ve got some cases up in Cumbria, particularly the south Lakes. Second homers? Tourists? Who knows but I’m now under house arrest by PC Eggy. :(
 
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