D-Feast Friday APPLE SAUCE!

Homemade Applesauce Yeah, I know it sounds boring but it’s really affordable and easy to make. And it can be a nice sweet treat with no extra sugar added. I mostly put it into the kid’s lunches, but we also eat it with spicy sausages for breakfast, mix it into yogurt and it’s awesome in a pinch [...]

Day 5 of CGM Booty

As you can imagine, Kelsey’s wearing the CGM has been a real eye opener. But not in the way you would think..or maybe it’s not in the way I expected it to be. The weekend is a time when Kelsey gets to go off and do her thing..whatever that “thing” may be. So Friday she [...]

Lazy Mom Update & The Beach

As you could have guessed, yesterday was a disaster. Marty spent WAY TOO MUCH MONEY…$15 between morning tea (raw veges and a pc of fruit) and lunch (drink, nachos and a cookie). Ok, so he ate well for snack so I am not upset that he ate crap for lunch…but $15?!?!?!?!?!? I could have done [...]

The Day of the Lazy Mom

Yeah, I admit it. Just when we get the kids BS numbers back in order I decide to be lazy. I didn’t feel like cooking last night so we ordered Chinese. And since we’ve moved, it’s a new Chinese Take Out…which means I had to completely guess.( For example Lemon Chicken does have sugar in the sauce, [...]

Oh Carbs, How we love thee…them…you…

My family has an absolute love affair with carbs. Pasta, homemade pizza, mashed potatoes…and a myriad of rice dishes. We have a starchy carb with almost every dinner. We do keep it to one serving (mostly) and we do measure, but it’s rare to not have carbs at the table for dinner. Now breakfast is [...]

A1c Report

I knew the kids A1c’s weren’t going to be great. A lot of highs…A LOT of highs…but I had no idea they would be so high. Kelsey popped up to an 8.9 (from 8.1) and Marty’s jumped to 8.4 (from 7.5). I have been trying to find the right balance for Marty because when we [...]

Back to School

Hello Everyone! The kids went back to school and it seems they weren’t the only ones who were struggling with the vacation being over. I overslept this morning and didn’t get to post in the morning as I usually do. Uhg….getting up early to shower, make lunches and serve everyone breakfast before I run out [...]

Splenda Blob & an Inaccurate Label

I have read about this, but never experienced it myself. It’s been pretty damp here in New Zealand lately. Spring has just brought waves of rain and cool weather. A few mornings ago I made myself coffee for my new morning ritual of writing for The DiabeticDuo. About half way through my cup I paid attention to [...]

Weekend Fun

As I typed that topic sentence, my husband said “Yeah, Right…Fun”. He spent all yesterday afternoon coming up with logo’s to get us started on Cafe Press. We didn’t go to bed until 1am and 6am was very hurtful to him this Monday morning. It rained all weekend. What to do, what to do? So, [...]

The New Math

As a diabetic family we do math all the time. Nothing new, not that exciting, no big deal. Yeah, well….when we moved to New Zealand things changed. Labels changed, measuring tools changed…MATH CHANGED. Almost all of the labels for foods here are done by weight for serving sizes. Everything….pretzels, yogurt, peanut butter (really, peanut butter?)…you [...]