NUTRITIONAL INFO FOR RESTAURANT

[mum2westiesGill]

Chester - Your local Hickory's Smokehouse

Hickory's Smokehouse on The Groves in Chester. Discover Authentic American BBQ at Our Family-Friendly Restaurant - Book Today!

hickorys.co.uk

We're eating at the above restaurant at the weekend but I can't get hold of nutritional info - can anyone help me out please?

 

[Inka]

I can’t see that info on their website either. Google gives some results but there seem to be a number of restaurants with a similar name.

I’d just look at the Menu, choose before going, and carb count roughly.

 

[Deleted member 25429]

Have you tried emailing them and asking ?

 

[Robin]

Have you tried filling in the contact form and asking them if their nutritional info is available?
I ate in a hotel chain restaurant once, and the into wasn’t on line, but they’d got a huge folder behind the bar that they consulted for me when I'd chosen what I was having.

 

[Deleted member 25429]

Try my fitness pal website it’s got the info there

 

[mum2westiesGill]

I've tried emailing the restaurant but haven't got anywhere with them

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Sunday 25/7
Wish me luck because this evening we're off to the restaurant which I posted a link for at the start of my thread.
The table isn't booked until 7:30pm so it will be a later than usual teatime so bedtime test will be later and I'll just set an alarm.

This is the meal I'm going to have and enjoy.


I'm going with this for the skin on fries and will use my scales to weigh them. I'm going to guess that even though the brisket will probably have some carbs in the gravy it won't have many so I will just do carbs for the fries - eating out is all about enjoying yourself and if you get it right great if you get it wrong deal with it later - if a correction is needed at bedtime I will be very tempted to leave it until the morning because I don't like going to bed with insulin on board.

 

[rebrascora]

Hi Gill. We know your morning reading was a bit high but how did your evening go. Did you enjoy your meal? You said you miscalculated the carbs and used too much insulin. Could it be that you actually calculated the carbs right but the fat in the meal delayed their release and your insulin kicked in first and then the meal carbs pushed you high through the night? Or do you know for a fact that you made a mistake with your calculation?

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Hi Gill. We know your morning reading was a bit high but how did your evening go. Did you enjoy your meal? You said you miscalculated the carbs and used too much insulin. Could it be that you actually calculated the carbs right but the fat in the meal delayed their release and your insulin kicked in first and then the meal carbs pushed you high through the night? Or do you know for a fact that you made a mistake with your calculation?

Hi @rebrascora my evening went really well - I really liked the meal I chose and I'm feeling a bit more confident in eating out (apart from last night!) -
I do 1. ask for spare plate or sometimes I just use a serviette depending on what the food is
2. before meal test
3. weigh all the chips or all the fish and enter that weight on carbs and cals
4. any chips or fish that I've left re weigh and enter the the new amount on carbs and cals
5. get bolus advice on MySugr and do injection but last night as you saw it went horribly wrong - I misheard my hubby and it was actually the wrong weight I put on carbs and cals not on the scales - I entered 368g weight which gave me 146g of carbs


but I should've entered 86g weight which would've given me 34g of carbs

 

[rebrascora]

Oh wow! Yes, that was a bit of a serious error and not surprising you hypoed and needed 2 treatments plus a large bedtime snack but the important thing is how well you recovered from it. We will all make mistakes from time to time, but it is how you manage them which counts.

I think this incident may illustrate the danger of relying too heavily on the bolus calculator, where you just accept what it says rather than think..."Just a minute, that's rather more insulin than I would normally inject for a plate of chips" and then double check.

I have to say I am really impressed with how chilled you are about it though. I loved your post this morning brazenly announcing you were taking the prize for the highest number. That gave me a chuckle but it seemed like you genuinely weren't going to let it get to you and you would just sort it this morning and get back on track which you did brilliantly! I hope this less anxious and more confident Gill sticks around. Well done!

 

[Lucyr]

Hi @rebrascora my evening went really well - I really liked the meal I chose and I'm feeling a bit more confident in eating out (apart from last night!) -
I do 1. ask for spare plate or sometimes I just use a serviette depending on what the food is
2. before meal test
3. weigh all the chips or all the fish and enter that weight on carbs and cals
4. any chips or fish that I've left re weigh and enter the the new amount on carbs and cals
5. get bolus advice on MySugr and do injection but last night as you saw it went horribly wrong - I misheard my hubby and it was actually the wrong weight I put on carbs and cals not on the scales - I entered 368g weight which gave me 146g of carbs
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but I should've entered 86g weight which would've given me 34g of carbs
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Well done for dealing with it but when carbs and cals comes up with 146g carbs you should be thinking to yourself “that’s a lot more than how many carbs it usually is when I eat out, it can’t be right” and not just putting that number of carbs into the bolus calculator. You have chips out a lot so you should have an idea of how many carbs is about normal and you can use that to sense check.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Well done for dealing with it but when carbs and cals comes up with 146g carbs you should be thinking to yourself “that’s a lot more than how many carbs it usually is when I eat out, it can’t be right” and not just putting that number of carbs into the bolus calculator. You have chips out a lot so you should have an idea of how many carbs is about normal and you can use that to sense check.

It did cross my mind it was a lot of carbs for what I'd eaten plus a lot of insulin at 14u - I knocked a couple of units of insulin off to 12u but obviously I made a wrong choice