trophywench
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Well except Vit D if you live north of Watford of course. Or taking Metformin and thereby acquire a B12 deficiency.
I just consulted some packets in my bread bin, where the cake also resides. One of them 😱 contains not only Glucose Syrup and sugar, but also Glucose/Fructose syrup and also Dried Glucose syrup. Most of the others contained either G syrup or G/F syrup. I'd say all of them were dodgy all in all even though not HFCS - or is it just HFCS tading by a different name ? 😱
Except the pack of Fruit scones. Tesco's Finest; no syrup at all and made with unsalted Cornish butter. And the brioche. My Heroes !
Oh how I laughed when I saw one of them included Sorbitol in the list ....
I mean I knew it was all c**p, don't get me wrong, and have to add, it's rare to have so many packets, but in at least 2, there's only only portion of it left. And I am called on fairly often to feed hulking great 6ft rugger playing teenage school kids between school and dinner, and if you can't rely on Grandma to provide the necessary carborific sustenance, well - who the hell can you rely on these days!
Your meter tells you which fruit you can consume safely and how much of it remains safe diabetically. The calories in it will also determine whether it's suitable for you to eat or not, notwithstanding whether you are D or not.
And we have the lowest number of X a day in the developed world. ISTR somewhere it's as high as 13. Plenty of 7's and 9's though. So you'd have to make a fair whack of that veg. Having said that any portion of veg I dish up (except you know - eg parsnips or cauliflower cheese) will count as 1.5 if not 2, of that 5. We usually have 2 veg with our evening meal and we like all sorts (well except aubergines) so we're nearly there anyway before we even start on salad of some description at lunchtime (on or off a sandwich, etc) and fruit. The only exception to that is root veg - because being more starchy more than one portion fills me up far too much to eat the nicer bits of my din dins. Green leafy don't fill you up nearly as much, therefore you automatically eat a larger portion, don't you?
I never actually consciously think about 5 a day, I just know we do it usually. At least!
I just consulted some packets in my bread bin, where the cake also resides. One of them 😱 contains not only Glucose Syrup and sugar, but also Glucose/Fructose syrup and also Dried Glucose syrup. Most of the others contained either G syrup or G/F syrup. I'd say all of them were dodgy all in all even though not HFCS - or is it just HFCS tading by a different name ? 😱
Except the pack of Fruit scones. Tesco's Finest; no syrup at all and made with unsalted Cornish butter. And the brioche. My Heroes !
Oh how I laughed when I saw one of them included Sorbitol in the list ....
I mean I knew it was all c**p, don't get me wrong, and have to add, it's rare to have so many packets, but in at least 2, there's only only portion of it left. And I am called on fairly often to feed hulking great 6ft rugger playing teenage school kids between school and dinner, and if you can't rely on Grandma to provide the necessary carborific sustenance, well - who the hell can you rely on these days!
Your meter tells you which fruit you can consume safely and how much of it remains safe diabetically. The calories in it will also determine whether it's suitable for you to eat or not, notwithstanding whether you are D or not.
And we have the lowest number of X a day in the developed world. ISTR somewhere it's as high as 13. Plenty of 7's and 9's though. So you'd have to make a fair whack of that veg. Having said that any portion of veg I dish up (except you know - eg parsnips or cauliflower cheese) will count as 1.5 if not 2, of that 5. We usually have 2 veg with our evening meal and we like all sorts (well except aubergines) so we're nearly there anyway before we even start on salad of some description at lunchtime (on or off a sandwich, etc) and fruit. The only exception to that is root veg - because being more starchy more than one portion fills me up far too much to eat the nicer bits of my din dins. Green leafy don't fill you up nearly as much, therefore you automatically eat a larger portion, don't you?
I never actually consciously think about 5 a day, I just know we do it usually. At least!
