I made up a batch of sugar-free custard last night to have with a sliced pear. Custard powder is sugar free so I just added sweetener instead of sugar. It was a real homely treat. Oddly this is the first time I've made custard since being diagnosed two years ago.
The recipe couldn't be simpler: 1 tablespoon of Birds custard powder, 1 tablespoon of sweetener (or equivalent), 1 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Green & Black's Fair Trade) and 1/2 pint of milk. Mix dry ingredients with a little milk to make into a paste, heat up the milk (microwave) and slowly add the hot milk to the paste while heating in a saucepan.
The only sugar present is from the milk (5% sugar) and naturally in the pear (~10% sugar) so it's around 8% sugar in total which is pretty nicely acceptable for a diabetic.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Chocolate custard (sugar free)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sugar in urine panic
It was around 11am and I happened to use a diastix test strip in my urine (I've been so well controlled for the past 18 months that I only bother about once a week). Sudden panic, the strip went green rather than the perfect blue I always get!
Was in a funk for the next hour or so. Should I take another Metformin? Was I reacting to my newly prescribed statin? Should I call up my GP for such a small change? Crap, the trouble with diabetes is that you know it's going to creep up on you eventually.
Drunk plenty of herbal tea and stayed on very low sugar food for the rest of the day. Tested again around 3pm, perfect blue result again. Panic over I hope. Looked in the mirror and saw how much younger and sexy I look after losing weight for the last two years; not so bad after all.
