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High reading after dinner

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Lorilo

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Hi all
Diagnosed type 2 in July following a minor stroke and took me a few weeks (with advice from this forum) to manage my food/carbs and BG levels. Thought I had got things under control and BG readings were stable but this evening after eating small amount of mash. 1.5 hours later had a reading of 15. Highest I have ever had since diagnosis. I have to admit it was chilled mash from M and S ie not home made so I am guessing this is the cause. First and only time I have eaten 'processed' food since July !!
Took metformin just before I ate meal.
 
Hi
What was your pre meal reading and was mash the only thing you ate?
Mashed potato is a food with a bit of a bad reputation. What was the portion size, compared to the pack and how many carbs did the whole pack contain? Info will be on the packaging somewhere or probably available online if you have binned the packaging.
Did you wash your hands before testing?
It is always a good idea to wash hands and retest if you get a particularly unexpected reading as you can get a rogue reading from miniscule traces of food like fruit juice or jam/chutney etc on fingers or possibly a dodgy test strip.
 
rebrascora said:
Hi
What was your pre meal reading and was mash the only thing you ate?
Mashed potato is a food with a bit of a bad reputation. What was the portion size, compared to the pack and how many carbs did the whole pack contain? Info will be on the packaging somewhere or probably available online if you have binned the packaging.
Did you wash your hands before testing?
It is always a good idea to wash hands and retest if you get a particularly unexpected reading as you can get a rogue reading from miniscule traces of food like fruit juice or jam/chutney etc on fingers or possibly a dodgy test strip.
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Hi and thanks for your prompt response.
Portion size less than half a pack - about 30g carbs and a couple of vegetarian sausages. BG was 6.6 before eating. I have eaten potato previously without an issue ie jacket or boiled so I will avoid processed mash in future. Just taken another reading which is 11.4 so going in the right direction. Still finding my feet with all of this!
 
I agree. Mashed cauliflower with a good dollop of cream cheese and a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard is a really tasty substitute for mashed potato and much easier on the BG levels
 
You keep referring to it as "processed mash"

To be honest I don't think it would make a difference whether you had made it yourself, the starches break down during the mashing process allowing them to be absorbed quicker, many can handle skin on potatoes but not tolerate mash due to this fact
xx
 
There also be more carbs in the sausages than you expected worth a check
Carol
 
I personally found even when I could tolerate other types of potato that mash always had more of an impact and I mean homemade mash.
 
I have been making mashed swede for dinner - seems a good option.
The vegetarian sausages are rather high carb so you need to compensate for that.
 
rebrascora said:
I agree. Mashed cauliflower with a good dollop of cream cheese and a teaspoon of wholegrain mustard is a really tasty substitute for mashed potato and much easier on the BG levels
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Has anyone tried cauliflower couscous? I recently got a copy of Tom Kerridge's Dopamine Diet but haven't tried any of the recipes yet and he seems keen on it.
 
The more you smash the spud about, the higher Carb and GI it will be so if it's mashed at home with a masher and not had warm milk/butter added and beaten in, it won't be as high as if you lob the spuds & milk/butter in a food processor or Kenwood Chef with a big K beater on it. Likewise the industrial beaters in industrial 'mashing' machinery are even larger and correspondingly higher carb/GI.

Err, wouldn't cauli couscous be much the same as cauli rice? - just looked and yes it is!
 
The one I read you cooked in the oven. I didn't notice for how long but OMG if you cooked even a whole cauli with the outside leaves still on for 40mins, it would be mush!
 
I make my own mash, wth added butter and milk, and split it into portions of 150 gms. I then freeze it and use it as and when required. 4 mins in microwave, mixing gently after 2 mins. I find this suits me but I know we are all different.
 
Now is the time for pumpkin mash. Lovely stuff. Also can add some smoked bacon lardons and spring onion and lightly mash so bit thicker in texture then onto a hot pan like a patty and add a poached egg on top. Good breakfast for the winter. At home (New Zealand ) we grow pumpkins all year and they are fabulous veges used all sorts of ways.
 
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