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Dec 2, 2011
Jenny
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry Could you weigh them based on jacket potato? Maybe you will have to have a few guesses and then write it in your carb book in the notes section. |
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Dec 2, 2011
SueA
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry I have a similar problem with jacket potatoes, I like to microwave them first then finish them off in the oven, so when I remember I weigh the potato before cooking. Potato raw is 1.5cp per 100g, I dont't think any carbohydrate is lost in cooking. This is a little more tricky when cooking for a family, however. I have been considering buying a tefal actifry how do the chips taste? |
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Dec 2, 2011
Garry
328 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Changing of Needles/BG Meters Have been to see our team of HCPs here and whilst there asked about the JAZZ meter.They had no experience of it. It has not been promoted here and it may be that nobody in this area is using it. Regards Garry |
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Dec 1, 2011
meltow
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I buy my bread from an artisan bread maker; one of his best sellers is a Marmite Loaf. SUPERB, served warm with a big pat of butter! |
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Dec 1, 2011
SimonC
78 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown?
Oh yes - I love it, esp on toasted brown bread 
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Dec 1, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry I have seen myself contacting the folk who make certain products to get nutritional information from them...........If you think you will be using it frequently, maybe a wee email might do the trick.......... |
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Dec 1, 2011
Devinesign
6 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry This was the site I found last night but as you can see, some of their values are a bit daft - one gives 100g of chips as having 0g CHO, yet another gives 100g as having 13.5g. This doesn't seem sensible! Either way I think I will guestimate my values based on oven chips and add a bit !! not very scientific but I think it is the best I can do. |
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Dec 1, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry http://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/tefal-actifryDont know how reliable that is personally.........it seems that the carb value is cut when using it, is that right? |
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Dec 1, 2011
Devinesign
6 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry Thank you for the welcome and your response I guessed at the cooking process being similar to oven baking and calculated accordingly (I only took 4 chips as a trial) There are obviously more CPs in the actifry chips than either oven or fried as my blood was 11 when I was heading to bed. The chips loose so much moisture in the cooking that per g of weighed food the carbs are more concentrated. I wish when companies promote a new machine on health grounds they would supply guidance on the range of nutritional changes the machine will make to the food!! Does anyone else use the Actifry? Has anyone cracked the calculation of Carbs with it? Any help will be really really appreciated!! |
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Dec 1, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry Welcome to the forum.............The carbs and cals book states that both oven chips and chip shop chips have roughly 0.3grams of carbohydrate for every 1g of chips............ But I suppose oven chips have been fried already and you are just reheating............... The oil content obviously has no carbs, however I dont know what kind of changes, if any, frying with less oil would have to the carbohydrate value of the potato.................I would assume it would not be anything significant anyway........... I hope someone else has a better answer........... |
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Dec 1, 2011
Ahmentep
99 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown? You mean there ARE people who like Marmite?!!! :-)
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Nov 30, 2011
Devinesign
6 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Tefal Actifry Is there a resource anywhere for carbohydrate content of foods usually done in a deep fat fryer now cooked in the new Tefal Actifry? I have searched online and am getting the variance of 1.3cp per 100 g to zero which is obviously rubbish. I am sooo frustrated at the lack of information on carbs, as calories are covered ad infinitum!! (Rant Over) any help would be appreciated
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / High blood readings Sometimes trying to spot a pattern with the blood sugars is the biggest problem with diabetes................the diabetes fairy is usually the main suspect..............glad your getting expected results now......... |
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Nov 30, 2011
pancreotectomy
3 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / High blood readings Hi Pancreotectomy here bg now ok dinner time yesterday back down to 7.7 & today my waking bg was just 6. As my Dad used to say "Awkward being born & awkward ever since" just proving him right. |
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Nov 30, 2011
SimonC
78 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown? I love the brown bread - not because of the higher fibre, lower GI etc, but because I love the taste. I prefer granary, but will happily eat brown. I have on occasions had the Bergan bread because I was trying to eat an over all lower GI diet - ie I had to endure brown rice as well. It did work but so boring. I'm afraid I find white bread tasteless and so I choose brown - which is what DAFNE allows us all to do - eat what we choose.It is an interesting debate, and I bet it is a bit like marmite, with camps firmly opposed. 
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Can anyone hive advice please
If I could bathe in Levemir I would............... 
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Me too......... |
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Nov 30, 2011
mum2westiesGill
502 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown?
Thanks novorapidboi26, i think i'm going to stick with my white bread
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown? More commonly type 2s will need to choose there food strategically, so basically, choose foods that have as little an impact on blood sugars as possible, low GI.Type 1 diabetics taking this approach is also good, but purely a personal choice. If you can eat white bread and get your insulin dose/timing right to manage it without spiking, then theoretically you can eat it without feeling like a criminal...... The burgen bread is lower carb and lower GI, so it needs less insulin and it also gets absorbed much slower, helped by all the seeds etc too......... |
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Nov 30, 2011
mum2westiesGill
502 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown?
I so much prefer white bread but an awful lot of diabetics i believe have brown (ie bergen) so i don't know whether i'm doing right or wrong having white. Gill |
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Can anyone hive advice please Hey there,the first thing I always look at is BI, and at risk of sounding like a broken record [all my other posts], I would put to you that your BI is not correct ,and therefore trying to work out your QA needs will be difficult at best.......... Example: Sunday 20/11/2011 6.49 - 7.49: No carbs or QA insulin on board, your blood glucose went up, suggesting your evening BI of 22 is insufficient,however could also be signs of the dawn phenomenon, to confirm DP you should do a 3 am test. 12.43 - 15.00: No carbs but 2 units of correction, your BG still went up, suggesting your BI in the morning is also insufficient. you could confirm this by having a carb free dinner also. Later on the week you moved your BI up, which is good, but you may need to go further................I personally move my BI dose up 2 units a time, unless there is only a small increase in BG. So just be patient, and keep increasing your BI dose till it hold you steady, both overnight and during the day.....................my doses are 32 in the morning [6.50] and 38 in the evening [22.00], the later evening dose is because it help with the DP. |
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown? As you probably guessed from my other response, I will eat any kind of bread, unlike a lot of folk, both type 1 and 2 who choose there bread carefully, I dont know if I SHOULD be doing this, but I dont.............
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Nov 30, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / annoyed and fed up All good advice so far.....................And correct too, I left my DAFNE course far from on top of things, it takes a while to get your background requirements sussed accurately, and only then can the carbs/insulin ratios be established, stick with it............. And enjoy your time out, dont worry too much about the carb count, as it will be a guess anyway.............just keep testing..............
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Nov 30, 2011
mum2westiesGill
502 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / White Bread or Brown? Hi,Who has white bread & who has brown bread? Gill |