Jelly Babies?

[The_petal]

I love the green ones!

can you buy bags of just green ones?

 

[Sally71]

My daughter hates the green ones and won't even touch them when she's hypo, so that means they are the only ones I get to eat (we do have plenty of hypo treatments lying around, I wouldn't eat them if that was all she had for a hypo!). They are OK, but there are plenty of other sweets I prefer!

You can get bags of the berry flavours only (black, red and pink), and I think I've also seen a citrus one which is presumably the yellow, green and orange ones only. So that would improve the chances for all you green lovers, they are quite hard to find though, not all shops stock anything other than the normal bags.

 

[trophywench]

Think the white stuff is like very very very fine cornflour - it's designed to stop em becoming a sticky gooey mass when it's warm and losing body parts in transit!

 

[PhoebeC]

I love the green and the yellows.

I always eat heads first. being three teeth down eating them whole is harder than little bites.

 

[Carolg]

Think the white stuff is like very very very fine cornflour - it's designed to stop em becoming a sticky gooey mass when it's warm and losing body parts in transit!

Wondered if it was cornflour.

 

[Ljc]

I was not too fond of the green ones. I cannot have any JBs in the house else I would scoff them all, heads down the hatch first.

 

[AdeV]

As a non-medicated T2, I obviously don't need Jelly Babies - indeed, I really shouldn't have them at all; which is a shame, as they're really nice (even the green ones).

Whilst hunting for a sugar-free alternative, I found these on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Astra-Sugar-Teddy-Bears-Sweets/dp/B01LTIQJVK

The reviews did rather put me off, though.... especially the one which mentioned the high carb content 🙄

 

[Barbara W]

All in one no messing, don't mind any colour.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I stuff them in whole. Green and red ones are my favs!

 

[Lanny]

It seems that it's usually heads first then!😱 I had a non diabetic work colleague & friend who loves JB's & munches bags of them. Sometimes she chomped the heads first & sometimes she nibbled legs & arms off slowly, leaving the head last! The poor baby: very torturous & macabre!😱

Now, as I've already said, I don't like jelly babies & I usually treat my hypos with fruit juice, now full sugar coke because of the unreliable sugar content of juice due to the sugar tax.

Ok if I'm at home but, what if I'm out? I've been carrying around 2 mint humbug sweets in a little plastic clip seal bag in my handbag since the end of January 2018, when I had my first series of hypos, in a year of lots of them due to changing insulin requirements!🙄

I've only needed it once in the heat wave last year, 2018, queuing to post a parcel in the post office: VERY long queue & I was melting in the heat! Felt myself going funny & guzzled 1 down. I had my testing kit with me but, due to standing in line & holding parcels with no counters, it wasn't convenient to test. I lost track of time waiting in the queue so, can't really say how long it took to work but, I DID leave the post office, eventually, feeling better!🙄

Are mint humbugs ok as a fast hypo treatment? What other alternatives are there apart from jelly babies that are easy to carry around? I wonder if Turkish Delight, not chocolate covered, might work the same as JB's? You can get them at M&S or on Amazon without chocolate & taste MUCH better!😛

Shush!😉 Sometimes I have cravings for it & get the chocolate covered block of Frys Turkish Delight easily available anywhere!😳 That, I suppose, wouldn't do for hypos as it's too big a block & the chocolate would slow down the sugars!🙄

Also, how about marsh mallows?🙄 Any other ideas?🙄

 

[Seabreeze]

You can make your own turkish delight if you are up to the challenge, it's around 500g sugar to 650ml water according to the recipes out there. I don't know how that compares to JBs

 

[PhoebeC]

I dont think hard boil sweets work fast enough. I think it needs to be something you can quickly chew/drink and get into your system.

Any type of sugary sweet.

I always find marshmallows hard to gauge, they do have sugar in and little if any fat, but I dont find them the best.

Glucose tablets are reliable

 

[Lanny]

I dont think hard boil sweets work fast enough. I think it needs to be something you can quickly chew/drink and get into your system.

Any type of sugary sweet.

I always find marshmallows hard to gauge, they do have sugar in and little if any fat, but I dont find them the best.

Glucose tablets are reliable

Thanks for that, @PhoebeC🙂 It does take a while to suck the mint humbugs! I’ll replace them with the berry flavour JB’s that I saw online at tesco! Those are ok ish: it’s the citrus flavours I don’t like! I think you’re right about marshmallows too as I was checking online at tesco & asda & they’re all different sizes & carbs contents & I don’t want to do any complicated marhs when hypo!😱 And now that, I’ve thought about ot, Turkish Delight is too big a temptation & I’ll end up scorffing it all!😳

 

[mikeyB]

One of my favourite hypo treatments at home is a teaspoon of decent quality jam. It’s easy to calculate, because it’s 50% sugar, and has a very rapid effect. Plus it brings back happy childhood memories of jam butties🙂

 

[trophywench]

Trouble is in our house with jam, Pete much prefers Raspberry complete with pips and I don't! Also thinks it's a waste of cash to invest with Tiptree or Frank Cooper ……...

 

[Seabreeze]

There was a craze a while back for jelly baby vodka.
put them in a bottle of vodka and put it in the dishwasher for the JBs to melt.

 

[PhoebeC]

There was a craze a while back for jelly baby vodka.
put them in a bottle of vodka and put it in the dishwasher for the JBs to melt.

I'm doing this for my 30th this year! haha!

 

[Carolg]

There was a craze a while back for jelly baby vodka.
put them in a bottle of vodka and put it in the dishwasher for the JBs to melt.

Yuk, hate vodka.

 

[mikeyB]

You obviously haven’t tasted Chase Marmalade Vodka, Carol. Made from spuds, so two of your five a day(Scottish values)

 

[PhoebeC]

In a shop in Wales the other day and they had some bottles of garlic vodka, I was very interested in it actually being a lover of both!