Help! I’m in the UK, where all my friends assured me that the stores are “very health conscious” and that I’d have no trouble finding all my diabetic foodstuffs. WRONG! I have tried Boots, Sainsubry’s, Mark & Spencer, and representatives from the cardiac foundation.
So please help me out–I’m looking for low-carbohydrate “breakfast bar”-type snacks. In the US they have names like “Carbolite” and “Ultimate Lo-Carb” and are about 250-300 calories a bar. These are NOT candy bars, though they are sweet and may be coated with chocolate. They are made with polyols: maltitol, sorbitol, isomalt, e.g., NOT nutrasweet or sweet n low.
I really need these because the “diabetic” meals I was served on the several planes I took here had at least 50 grams of sugar each, distributed over every single item so that I could eat nothing on the tray.
Any sort of foodstuff labelled “diabetic” has fallen out of favour in the UK, mainly due to too many of those types of food being very high in fat. At least that was the way it was when I emigrated in 1999.
I am diabetic. Maybe you can try asking some pharmacists good places to buy low carb snacks, they might give you some good advice. Quaker lowfat granola bars are not too bad if you can find them over there. The ones I have now have 110 calories with 22g of carbs.
My brother is type I diabetic, and he eats the Quaker chewy bars all the time… are you insulin-dependent or not? His physician tells him it’s ok to eat more complex carbohydrates, in fact sometimes preferable, because it keeps him from having insulin reactions. In my understanding, it’s just the simple sugars that would be a problem.