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toby said:
Just had pb on wholemeal seeded toast with sliced banana on top, needless to say it was delicious.
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I bet it was 🙂 shame I'm not quite ready for that :( x
 
Toast, avocado & peanut butter (or even better cashew butter), is great.
 
The joy of marmite is that you need so little for a massive taste of it, as Radders said just a scraping. I think the insuiln for it would be hundredths of a unit, so not even possible to deliver for.

On the other hand the other suggestions that have popped up are also tempting me.
Let us know what you try Kaylz
 
@Kaylz - If you keep an eye on Lidl offers they regularly have nutritional scales, with a memory of something like 200 items?

I don't have any, although as the button on my current scales seems to be sticking and not responding consistently, I'll be keeping my eyes open.
 
The way I see it, the amount of difference 1g carbs makes is well within the error on meters, scales, carb tables and the range of levels considered healthy, and therefore really not worth considering.
 
Radders said:
The way I see it, the amount of difference 1g carbs makes is well within the error on meters, scales, carb tables and the range of levels considered healthy, and therefore really not worth considering.
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Yes but its added along with other things, the cucumber and whatever else I have comes to 6g carb usually therefore half a unit of insulin for me and then the other 2.5 units for the bread x
 
AndBreathe said:
@Kaylz - If you keep an eye on Lidl offers they regularly have nutritional scales, with a memory of something like 200 items?

I don't have any, although as the button on my current scales seems to be sticking and not responding consistently, I'll be keeping my eyes open.
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Thanks for that nugget of info, my mum gets the emails with Lidl's offers so I shall mention it to her as I had a look at the ones on Amazon and they are way above my price range x
 
Kaylz said:
Thanks for that nugget of info, my mum gets the emails with Lidl's offers so I shall mention it to her as I had a look at the ones on Amazon and they are way above my price range x
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To be honest Kaylz - what Lidl do, Aldi do a few weeks before or after.

If you Google, "Lidl nutritional scales" quite a bit comes up, including this: http://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde...sl/product.html?id=5591423&title=Dieettivaaka Other results suggest the scales are (or were) £7.99.

Thankfully, I've never really, really had to monitor amounts quite that closely, but they do look good.
 
@AndBreathe I'll keep an eye out for anything along those lines thanks 🙂 xx
 
Kaylz said:
Yes but its added along with other things, the cucumber and whatever else I have comes to 6g carb usually therefore half a unit of insulin for me and then the other 2.5 units for the bread x
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Ok, but 1g would be less than the difference between 2 slices of bread!
 
Kaylz said:
Sorry not quite sure what you mean :confused: x
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Sorry!
I meant that two slices out of a loaf aren’t the same thickness, so the amount of carbs in a slice could easily vary by more than 1g carb from one slice to another. I’m not trying to make life difficult, just trying to show why measuring to within 1g carbs seems a waste of effort to me, that’s all. You must do what you need to do and I respect that of course 🙂.
 
Radders said:
Sorry!
I meant that two slices out of a loaf aren’t the same thickness, so the amount of carbs in a slice could easily vary by more than 1g carb from one slice to another. I’m not trying to make life difficult, just trying to show why measuring to within 1g carbs seems a waste of effort to me, that’s all. You must do what you need to do and I respect that of course 🙂.
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That's precisely why I weigh my bread everyday, then you get this happening and have to give nearly a full loaf away! (managed to use only 2 slices) x
 

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Kaylz said:
That's precisely why I weigh my bread everyday, then you get this happening and have to give nearly a full loaf away! (managed to use only 2 slices) x
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I also sometimes weighed the bread until I realised that there can be quite a difference in the weight of one slice depending how fresh it is, so now I don’t bother unless it’s the crust. Am I right I thinking that you have to round to the nearest half unit of insulin anyway?
 
Radders said:
I also sometimes weighed the bread until I realised that there can be quite a difference in the weight of one slice depending how fresh it is, so now I don’t bother unless it’s the crust. Am I right I thinking that you have to round to the nearest half unit of insulin anyway?
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See I had this same discussion just a few days ago, I don't find that the weight changes I weigh it when I get it to see how long it will do me and 4 days later they 2 slices still weigh the same, yes half units well only really used 1 meal a day x
 
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