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What is your spikiest food?

I find breakfast cereals so hard to manage that they aren’t worth the effort.

Mashed potato is tricky for me, but I am prepared to work for it
 
Mashed potatoes are my nemesis. Even pre bolusing well in advance doesn’t work, I just have a smaller portion now. :(
 
Breakfast in a hotel, or in Costa, when we’re on holiday. I’m always tempted by a flat white and a croissant, and I don’t prebolus when I’m eating out because you never know quite when you’ll get served. I give myself a couple of units of bolus when I wake up, to counteract the dawn rise, but it still sends me into the stratosphere.
 
Bread in all forms sends me sky high despite correct carb counting. Potatoes on the other hand I can eat no problem.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
I find breakfast cereals so hard to manage that they aren’t worth the effort.

Mashed potato is tricky for me, but I am prepared to work for it
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Haven't dared to try breakfast cereals, although I never ate them anyway.

Would lashing of butter in the mash help slow down absorption? (And make it taste nice.)
 
harbottle said:
Haven't dared to try breakfast cereals, although I never ate them anyway.

Would lashing of butter in the mash help slow down absorption? (And make it taste nice.)
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My thoughts were not enough sour cream............
 
Any food that has caused a big spike have managed to worked round it with injection timing & such, so don't really limit many foods except those don't like.

Even cakes, when we go to a garden centre for coffee & cake/ scone tend to bolus before getting out of car to give insulin a head start, even if bg does spike for short time don't get hung up about.
 
harbottle said:
Haven't dared to try breakfast cereals, although I never ate them anyway.

Would lashing of butter in the mash help slow down absorption? (And make it taste nice.)
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Maybe the Masterchef Professional 50:50 mash? And yes that really is 50% butter 😱 :rofl:
 
Sushi has overtaken the Oat Milk by a mile!
 

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I love red seedless grapes (AKA sugar bombs to a lot of us) but sadly I can only handle up to 10 small ones and I can't just eat 10 - I want more! So (sadly) I don't buy them any more :(
 
There's a few things but the worst by far are chipped and mashed potatoes.
 
Pitta bread is not great for me but mainly because I don't stop at one.
 
The pizza in Naples sent me the higest I've seen (just under 10) at the hour mark.
 
harbottle said:
The pizza in Naples sent me the higest I've seen (just under 10) at the hour mark.
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If you were diagnosed with an a1c of 83 then no way is under 10 the highest you’ve seen your bg go
 
Lucyr said:
If you were diagnosed with an a1c of 83 then no way is under 10 the highest you’ve seen your bg go
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I only did a few tests after diagnosis and they were mainly in the sixes and sevens.
I didn't do any more tests for 3 months - by which time hba1c was 36.
So yes, the pizza in Naples is the highest result I've seen (It was back in the sixes 2-3 hours later.)
 
Chip shop chips for Jo! Which, incidentally, is exactly what we got her in the moments after the doctor said “I suspect she maybe diabetic, I want you to get her something to eat and go straight to the hospital”.
Brilliant work Thomas! 😱
 
For me it's pastry, specifically shortcrust. I've bought a feta and spinach filo pastry pie this week to try in the hope that it's not so spiky.
 
Bread, even wholemeal/granary/seeded and porridge are some of the spikiest foods for me that I have tested, but there are quite a lot of foods that I simply stopped eating, like breakfast cereals and pasta/pizza and Snickers and coffee with sugar, so I don't know how spikey they would be but I suspect quite bad. I now drink coffee with cream instead which I enjoy more and a lot less carbs.

Interestingly I don't seem to be too bad with chips when I share a single portion of fish and chips with my partner roughly once a month.
 
Bread is pretty bad for me so I don't really eat it anymore.
 
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