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Jelly Babies

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Lauren

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I've just discovered jelly babies. Went low in a shop earlier today and decided to buy them as everyone on here loves them - good grief they are delicious! How can people only eat four?! :D
 
I've just discovered jelly babies. Went low in a shop earlier today and decided to buy them as everyone on here loves them - good grief they are delicious! How can people only eat four?! :D
What took you so long? Warning, don't eat the green ones unless you have to and make sure they suffer when you do.
 
Before I was diagnosed, I eat packets of them. No wonders I'm diabetic!😱
 
for many folk in here they are the hypo remedy of choice because it's easy to work how many you need to deal with a certain level without going too far in the other direction. I never leave home without them.
 
I hate them and love them all at the same time....it's like Stockholm syndrome, they've turned me 😱 I can't stand those dextrose tablet things, it's unfortunate really that I despise anything sweet, couldn't get me to pop a sweetie for love nor money when I was a kid, unless it was a polo once every Preston guild. My first hypo I only had dextrose tablets, and it was a bad one (1.6), so there I am, gagging on dextrose tablets, drooling and shaking in the pouring rain and crying because I couldn't swallow those chalky nightmares. Jelly babies looked positively delightful in comparison. They are referred to as the life savers in this house :D
 
Shhhhh! I'm with you there, but there are people on here who actually LIKE the green ones. Don't get them started!

I like the green ones! I leave there black ones until last 😉
 
Oh for a green jelly baby- yummmm :D
 
You must have been cheap to buy Polos for Kooky - every 40 years is it? - I know there was one in 1972 cos the staff nurse on my ward when I was diagnosed was going!
 
Loooove jelly babies, even the green ones, that's why I have to stay away from them can't eat just four, have to eat them all yuummmmm :D
 
Mmmmm green jelly babies. The food of the gods.
 
Just found a lone jelly baby lurking rather flatly in the bottom of my bag.
A bit fluffy now so perhaps not save it

They are definitely not my choice of sweets but definitely choice for hypo treatment (when they are not flattened and fluffy in the bottom of the bag) as they are so easy to pack and take up little space.

Give greens a chance
 
Save the green jelly babies, save the green jelly babies...... wait...... what am I saying??? Eat the green jelly babies, eat the green jelly babies!
 
Save the green jelly babies, save the green jelly babies...... wait...... what am I saying??? Eat the green jelly babies, eat the green jelly babies!
Save them all, even the green ones,....born to be eaten
 
I have news for green jelly baby haters! They now sell bags of the berry flavoured ones only 🙂 just found some in sainsburys. Although I still got a bag of the normal ones because I like the yellow ones!
 
I like the Haribo jelly babies, they are not as sweet as other makes. Not sure how well they would work for a hypo thoe as I end up eating them before the go past their use by date...
 
So I was going to ask this anyway. Is 4 the right amount for a hypo ?
 
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