Day 2 of Diabetes Blog Week is all about Making the Low Go. I have made it pretty clear on here before that my favorite food, well candy, to use is Skittles. The next closest thing is sour patch kids or the watermelon ones, mmmmm. I don’t get to eat these foods very often, so when my blood sugar is low, it gives me the perfect opportunity to indulge and also fix my low.
Unfortunately, the downside to Skittles is that they tend to spike my blood sugar after I eat them. If I have a regular size bag, I end up eating the whole thing which is too much. They are too good to stop once I start. That is why I like to buy the small packets that they hand out during Halloween because they are perfect sizes.
There are also times when my sugar is starting to go low and it is time for dinner, but Amanda and I are out. I get a craving for the same place pretty much all the time, Olive Garden. When my sugar is low, I love to eat OG, because I know I am about to pig out and eat a lot and my blood sugar is going to raise. It is crazy to me how much my blood sugar does go up when I eat one bowl of soup and 4-5 bowls of salad.
Well, that is all for me, those are the main foods that I use to raise my blood sugar. Juice only when I don’t have candy. Glucose tabs make me gag so I don’t eat them ever.
Can’t wait to read what all of you use as well.
The snack size candies are so convenient. It’s hard to stop yourself from eating more than necessary when you have to portion it out. With the snack size – it’s all done and you feel less like you’re depriving yourself of something. Aren’t Skittles about 1 carb per? That makes for easy measuring!
I do LOVE skittles and sour patch kids… But really, I’m opposigte you: do enjoy the glucose tabs. (Weird, right?) See my blog for the full story!
I’m with ya on finding other stuff besides Glucose tabs. They’re SOOO chalky! I end up getting sick just eating them.
Plus, I can only eat them when I have something to drink it down with. If I don’t have any water or anything then I almost choke on them.
Oh man – Skittles are AWESOME! But I’m the same way – if I get the regular size bag I’ll definitely eat the whole thing.
Oh yeah, those Sour Patch watermelon things!!! Love ’em – but I have to be very careful or I won’t stop eating them and I’ll end up WAY too high!
Whenever I eat Italian I swear it hits me like 5 hours later. I can bolus before bed and wake up in the middle of the night CRAZY HIGH! I avoid pasta now. 🙁
Yea, Olive Garden is very weird to me. I do the Olive Garden take home trick though, so it’s not the pasta that causes the highs. I order a pasta dish, but fill up on salad and then just take the whole dish home, it’s like 2 for 1 meals.