Pizza

[pat.y]

Does anyone risk pizza? I regularly get invited to pizza evenings - Dominoes. I have declined recently because I'm not sure of the effect on blood sugar.

 

[trophywench]

Fairly mega Pat! - as you suspected. 150g weight (ie half) of a thin crust 12" pizza is 50g carb or thereabouts - but if you have a deep crust or stuffed crust it will be loads more and more the bigger diameter it is.

Plus the fat slows the carbs down so you can get a spike about 5 hours after you ate it, after you've already had the first couple of spikes in between. I ain't even that keen on it TBH !

However - we are indeed all different so if you fancy experimenting - then do it or you'll never know! It might be bearable once in a while or it could be Never Again.

 

[KookyCat]

My body doesn't handle dominoes well, but pizza express pizza is fine, that said if I go to a pizza night with takeaway I take a really nice salad (for everyone) and either just have a slice of pizza they order (thin crust preferably) with buckets of salad or I take my flower power pizza base, some tomatoe sauce and toppings and cook my own when there. I honestly prefer the flower power pizza and it has no impact on my blood sugar at all. The base is made from cauli, almond and buckwheat flour so lower carb, the tomato base is home Made then everything else is exactly the same. I make several bases at once and freeze them and just take them out when I want pizza, I freeze the sauce too. Most muggles like it too, and it doesn't taste of cauli at all. The whole thing is around 40g of carb 🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/flower_power_pizza_13681
Ps I make my sauce from tinned tomatoes rather than fresh!

 

[Northerner]

Pizza can be a 'problem' food for a lot of people - mega carbs, but the fat will often slow down the release - the consequence may be that you rise high-ish and then stay there for a long time. Worth having a browse of Bev's Food Experiments - Pizza to see how others got on with it 🙂

 

[DeusXM]

I'm hesitant to give blanket advice (I'm much more of a 'whatever works for you' kind of person), but with pizza, I would say no-one with T2 should be eating pizza. In fact I'd go as far to say that no-one with diabetes should be eating pizza full stop - and I say this as a big believer in the general principle that no food is off limits.

In my experience as a T1, pizza always contains more carbs that you think and you always eat more than you think. I used to get Papa John's pizza delivered from time to time and I would find that I would need to take the equivalent of three days' worth of bolus insulin and be injecting every hour just to keep my blood sugar under 20. I eventually narrowed down the problem. I simply didn't realise that a single slice of PJ pizza contains 40g of carbs. So two slices already is more carbs than a big bowl of pasta.

I find pizza very moreish and I can easily eat 5 or 6 slices without blinking - which of course means I'm actually eating 240g of carbs in one go. No wonder I was having trouble! More than that, once the pizza is 'in', it just seems to sit in my stomach for 8-10 hours spilling out glucose.

I suspect no-one can eat just one slice of pizza and if you're a T2, even 80g is probably pushing what your body can safely handle. As a result, I simply don't eat pizza anymore - it's too much hassle. KookyCat has the right strategy.

 

[Stitch147]

Not had pizza since being diagnosed. Apart from the ones I sometimes make myself using sandwich thins if I am at home and fancy for lunch.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I would say no-one with T2 should be eating pizza. In fact I'd go as far to say that no-one with diabetes should be eating pizza full stop - and I say this as a big believer in the general principle that no food is off limits.

Conversely I can eat pizza without much of a problem. We have the chilled ones from a supermarket probably once or twice a month and BGs are mostly pretty well behaved (if things are working right that week). I *do* get far more problems if I eat more than 60g's worth of carbs in one go and, yes, I DO find it much harder to manage if it's a takeaway type one, but the chilled/frozen ones from supermarkets tend to work out at about 20g a slice and I'll have 2 or 3 with a big leafy salad.

I don't seem to get the mega-delay with pizza that I do with other traditionally tricky foods (eg indian takeaway), but perhaps it's because these are of the non-Dominoes/PizzaHut variety and are not so carb-heavy and laden with fat?