Hi there

[Peekaboo63]

Many of us who follow a low carb way of eating to help manage our diabetes use real butter and real cream and full fat milk and cheese.
Most of the spreads are heavily processed and not necessarily better for us and don't taste as good as butter in my opinion. If I am giving up a lot of the things I used to enjoy, then I want to enjoy the foods I have left to me in order to make it sustainable, so I have real double cream in my coffee on a morning (never Elmlea) and it is one of my little daily luxuries and a knob of real butter on my cabbage and courgettes and mushrooms etc. and a chunk of really nice cheese for lunch with half a good British apple like a Braeburn or a Coxes if I can get some, or one off my own trees, cut into slices instead of biscuits or grapes with my cheese.

Good to hear you are getting more consistent readings from your meter. As mentioned, a replacement doesn't have to be more expensive but just one that is known to be reliable. There are 3 on the forum which are all much the same price as the one you bought and have reasonably priced test strips, but are tried and tested by members here over the years without issue. Those are the Gluco Navii, the Spirit Healthcare Tee2 and I think the Contour Plus Next. Hopefully someone will correct me about that last one, but the first 2 have been used by members here for many, many years without issue.

 

[Peekaboo63]

Thank you for your reply, it is good to read how you manage your eating regime by adding in a tasty compromise .
I have taken note of the meters tried and tested for future refrence just in case … be prepared thanks again.

 

[Mark72]

That all sounds lovely where do you buy flower farm spread please?
I feel I made good food choices today had porridge this morning, then for lunch I had ham omelette and baked beans then yoghurt, this evening I had savoury mince cooked from scratch with steam fresh veg and yoghurt blueberries and banana .
Readings were 6.7,6.4 then lunch 7, 7.2 then 6.9 not took after tea reading yet as I was late eating

They sell the spread in my local Sainsburys. I tend buy when it's on offer but check the dates as I don't think it flies off the shelves and one lot I had almost ran out of date.

 

[Peekaboo63]

Hi Mark thanks I will take a look next time I am in Sainsbury’s

 

[Toby.SYSLC]

Hi I am 62 and blood tests have shown I am pre diabetic for a while now, recently though I have been excessively tired all the time peeing every 1.5 hours through the night and craving carbs usually when I am tired or as soon as I wake in the morning.
I went to GP yesterday with a urine sample she said no sugar in my urine, I don’t have a temp and no pain in my abdomin, I felt like a fraud I bought a glucose moniter took a test when it came my blood read 9.6?
I know my body and I know I havn’t felt right, can you have high sugar even if it does not show in your urine?

Hello and welcome to the forum

 

[Peekaboo63]

Hello and welcome to the forum

Thanks Toby
I am finding this forum very helpful

 

[Toby.SYSLC]

Thanks Toby
I am finding this forum very helpful

Excellent , yes it is a good forum

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I feel I made good food choices today had porridge this morning, then for lunch I had ham omelette and baked beans then yoghurt, this evening I had savoury mince cooked from scratch with steam fresh veg and yoghurt blueberries and banana .
Readings were 6.7,6.4 then lunch 7, 7.2 then 6.9 not took after tea reading yet as I was late eating

Those meals look like they suited you well @Peekaboo63

I’m not familiar with the Yuwell meter. Have you had many other odd readings since that slightly surprising 4.2?