Anyone have any experience or ideas for school lunches or going the packed lunch route?
My kid is on school lunches. But while for weeks at a time these are generally well-managed (we provide the school with the carb counts based on the menu / choice for each day, and tell them how to bolus for it), we are having real problems with large spikes (above 14), and low lows (below 3mmol/L), usually due to - large spikes frankly due to the large, high fat/high carb meals they serve up on an almost daily basis (very few low carb options, or to be frank options I'd class as healthy in any case), coupled with a tendency to over-correct hypos (they've recently started prompting to down a full glucojuice even when the hypo is more like 3.8-3.9, even though we have supplied them with guidelines as to how many carbs of dextrose to give at any one time depending on how deep the hypo is). So after an overcorrection there will be a climb to 10-14, this can then be followed by a large carb-heavy meal, with large bolus. So the meal causes the glucose number to keep climbing, and then the pump autocorrection + the insulin bolus causes a rapid crash - usually into a deep hypo. Needless to say, this does not happen at home, and while we don't restrict carbs, we do carb count and account for the type of food eaten and how quick the absorption is going to be.
We are now considering packed lunches for the next school year. But are struggling with creative ideas away from sandwiches, pasta salads or similar. It can get very boring very quickly, Any good ideas/resources out there?
My kid is on school lunches. But while for weeks at a time these are generally well-managed (we provide the school with the carb counts based on the menu / choice for each day, and tell them how to bolus for it), we are having real problems with large spikes (above 14), and low lows (below 3mmol/L), usually due to - large spikes frankly due to the large, high fat/high carb meals they serve up on an almost daily basis (very few low carb options, or to be frank options I'd class as healthy in any case), coupled with a tendency to over-correct hypos (they've recently started prompting to down a full glucojuice even when the hypo is more like 3.8-3.9, even though we have supplied them with guidelines as to how many carbs of dextrose to give at any one time depending on how deep the hypo is). So after an overcorrection there will be a climb to 10-14, this can then be followed by a large carb-heavy meal, with large bolus. So the meal causes the glucose number to keep climbing, and then the pump autocorrection + the insulin bolus causes a rapid crash - usually into a deep hypo. Needless to say, this does not happen at home, and while we don't restrict carbs, we do carb count and account for the type of food eaten and how quick the absorption is going to be.
We are now considering packed lunches for the next school year. But are struggling with creative ideas away from sandwiches, pasta salads or similar. It can get very boring very quickly, Any good ideas/resources out there?