Tips for diabetes during celebrations?

[mikeyB]

I’ve had 21 Christmases as a T1, and just joined in. Easier with a Libre. The last two have been alcohol free, which has shown me you can have a good time without falling asleep in the afternoon, like other grandads do.🙂

 

[Sally W]

@Hannah DUK.

Firstly, planning is key for me. If I know I’m going to a friend’s and want to take something suitable I’ll make sure I’ve prepped it and frozen, I’d possible, in advance to avoid just eating everything naughty on offer. Als, if I’m out evening and know options are limited that day I’ll eat just salad with protein and minimal carbs so overall for the day it’s reduced.
Finding alternative low carb/sugar recipes I enjoy help: everydaysugarfree website by Sarah flower has Christmas pudding and chocolate roulade (roulade contains eggs, cocoa powder and sweetener rather than wheat).
Cooking and reheating potatoes or pasta and then adding yoghurt and mustard to creme fraiche is a way of lightening salads without lots of mayonnaise.
Just googling your favourite treat without sugar or low carb sometimes brings useful recipes. I found sugar free baileys that way. I even prefer it to shop bought baileys and like being able to make just a small amount for Christmas.
Finally, as @everydayupsanddowns says, if I’m going to have a treat occasionally I enjoy it, knowing that most of the time I eat well and it shouldn’t make much overall difference.

 

[Drummer]

Weird things such as roasted celeriac, fried courgette, boiled radishes, cauliflower mash etc. can all help to lower the impact of festive fare.
Taking the tops off mince pies - particularly when the pastry has been applied over enthusiastically, can make a significant difference to the carb count.
I found that making Yorkshire puddings with extra thick cream and water, three eggs rather than one, slightly less flour, but using bread flour instead of ordinary, and using a tin with small cups rather than muffin sized also helped.
I also found that other people were perfectly happy eating the lower carb foods I provided and I smiled to see them enjoying them all unknowing.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Weird things such as roasted celeriac, fried courgette, boiled radishes, cauliflower mash etc. can all help to lower the impact of festive fare.
Taking the tops off mince pies - particularly when the pastry has been applied over enthusiastically, can make a significant difference to the carb count.
I found that making Yorkshire puddings with extra thick cream and water, three eggs rather than one, slightly less flour, but using bread flour instead of ordinary, and using a tin with small cups rather than muffin sized also helped.
I also found that other people were perfectly happy eating the lower carb foods I provided and I smiled to see them enjoying them all unknowing.

Do you not feel the need to tell people they have enjoyed a low carb meal?
Personally, I'd tell them beforehand if I was going to load them up with high saturated fat, and high cholesterol foods.
I'd also be unhappy to have had my diet violated by food that I don't eat, masquerading as food I do.

How would you feel if you went to a low carb feast, but the host fed you high carbs, and smiled behind your back, as you unknowingly enjoyed the food you don't normally eat?

 

[Drummer]

Do you not feel the need to tell people they have enjoyed a low carb meal?
Personally, I'd tell them beforehand if I was going to load them up with high saturated fat, and high cholesterol foods.
I'd also be unhappy to have had my diet violated by food that I don't eat, masquerading as food I do.

How would you feel if you went to a low carb feast, but the host fed you high carbs, and smiled behind your back, as you unknowingly enjoyed the food you don't normally eat?

Oh they ate all their usual foods for Christmas dinner, their meal was not low carb in the slightest, nor was it ever intended to be low fat nor low cholesterol. My dishes were seized and emptied with exclamations of delight at their novelty, the herbs and spices I had used were particularly commented upon.
As it is becoming plain that saturated fat and cholesterol have been unjustly demonized for decades, I am surprised that you think that it would be a problem for anyone to eat a little extra of either of them - they each got about half an egg and a teaspoonful of olive oil along with the sprouts, celeriac, carrots, mushrooms and sweet peppers - plus the tablespoonful of cream and the 1/3rd cup of flour from their servings of Yorkshire puddings, over all of which they poured liberal amounts of the gravy I declined. They were perfectly happy to have the rest of the large container of cream on their pudding, knowing perfectly well what they were eating - it was Christmas after all.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Oh they ate all their usual foods for Christmas dinner, their meal was not low carb in the slightest, nor was it ever intended to be low fat nor low cholesterol. My dishes were seized and emptied with exclamations of delight at their novelty, the herbs and spices I had used were particularly commented upon.
As it is becoming plain that saturated fat and cholesterol have been unjustly demonized for decades, I am surprised that you think that it would be a problem for anyone to eat a little extra of either of them - they each got about half an egg and a teaspoonful of olive oil along with the sprouts, celeriac, carrots, mushrooms and sweet peppers - plus the tablespoonful of cream and the 1/3rd cup of flour from their servings of Yorkshire puddings, over all of which they poured liberal amounts of the gravy I declined. They were perfectly happy to have the rest of the large container of cream on their pudding, knowing perfectly well what they were eating - it was Christmas after all.

The old "high saturated fat is good, your choice is wrong, so it can be ignored"?
And then laughed at how ridiculous your updated view is?
Sorry, people matter to me, I respect everyone's view.

 

[Drummer]

The old "high saturated fat is good, your choice is wrong, so it can be ignored"?
And then laughed at how ridiculous your updated view is?
Sorry, people matter to me, I respect everyone's view.

I am trying to take your arguments seriously, but who are you quoting?
Your comment about being laughed at - I do not understand what or who you mean.