Mmmm, chocolate eclairs...

[Northerner]

Snap! @Robin!

 

[Pine Marten]

There isn't really a rule, if you're controlling your diabetes with diet, or a combination of diet and non insulin meds, the best way is to test your blood glucose before eating something, then test again two hours afterwards and see how much you've gone up! Some apparently high carbs items, like eclairs, suit people because the cream with them slows down the absorption of the carbs, (and they haven't got too many carbs to begins with). The most discussed item on this forum, I think, is porridge. Some people can eat it without it spiking their blood sugars, some find it sends their levels into orbit! Experimentation to see what it does to you is really the only way.

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised 🙂 to find that eclairs seemed to be ok. The things that sent my readings up were Linda McCartney Deep Dish pies, of which I was very fond pre-D, but as I recall they sent me up to 12-something . You never can tell....

 

[AndBreathe]

The ASDA frozen eclairs I have in the freezer are only 2.5gr per eclair, including a very sickly chocolate paste on the top. They're fairly small, but when not used to eating sweet things, they're enough (if you're me).

Tesco do frozen profiteroles which, if I recall correctly, suggest a slightly higher value per serving (which I think is 5 profiteroles. The box is something like 20 profiteroles for 4 servings. The accompanying chocolate sauce comes frozen in a little poly pouch, which in this house goes directly in the bin as I'm not a chocolate fan, and MrB prefers a better quality chocolate on choux pastry. I have no idea how many carbs in what remains, but it has no impact on my bloods.

 

[Pine Marten]

Mmmm, profiteroles....🙂 .....my favourite dessert in Turkish or Greek restaurants used to be baklava. When I had some the other week when we were out I found them to be rather sickly sweet <sigh>