Sample Day #3

Gazpacho soup (part of dinner)

Here is my menu and glucose readings for 7/27:

Fasting BS: 96

Breakfast (7:10am):
1/2 peanut butter sandwich on Milton's Whole Wheat Plus bread
1/4 cup cottage cheese (with less than a tsp of low sugar strawberry jam)
coffee w/cream


BS 1 hour after breakfast: 114

Snack (10:20am):
2 Rye Crisp crackers
1 oz cheese

Lunch (1:00pm):
Turkey, cheese, and avo sandwich on wheat bread
milk
1/2 diet Hansen's ginger ale

BS 1 hour after lunch: 117

Snack (4:00pm):
Cottage cheese
12 cherries (chopped and mixed with the cottage cheese)
2 mini chocolate biscotti from Trader Joe's (12 g carbs)

Dinner (6:30pm):
Homemade gazpacho soup
2 pork ribs (take out from the night before)
leftover pasta
milk

BS 1 hour after dinner: 93

I went for a 20 minute walk after breakfast and another after dinner. Since the morning walks have helped me keep my morning blood sugar in check, I have started putting a small dollop of reduced sugar strawberry jam in my cottage cheese at breakfast. 1 Tbsp of the jam has less than 5 g of carbs, so I thought that a tsp or less would be pretty insignificant while making it easier to eat.

I've settled into a pattern of having the same breakfast every morning. At first I didn't. But I'm generally too hungry and/or groggy to make something more advanced than peanut butter on bread with cottage cheese. My afternoon snack is pretty consistent, too. Cottage cheese with some kind of fresh fruit mixed in. Lately that has been peaches or cherries.

And then I was having 3 graham cracker halves for the other carb. But I discovered some chocolate and hazelnut mini biscotti at Trader Joe's that have only 6 g of carbs per biscotti. I know my guidelines said not to eat cookies, but I found out last Tuesday that I could have angel food cake with fresh (unsweetened) fruit and homemade whipped cream (no sugar), so I thought if some sugar in the AFC is OK, why not in something chocolate if it is less than my prescribed number of carbs? Not every day, but I thought I would try it out and see how it affected my blood sugar. I seemed to do OK with it. But I do plan to ask the dietitian if it is OK. It makes it a little more enjoyable to have a little treat now and then.