What HALF a can of Campbell’s Chicken Corn Chowder did to my blood sugar

The nutrition info on this soup is pretty horrific. The whole can contains 47g of carbs and 7g of sugars! Eww. That’s a lot. For comparison, a can of condensed Chicken Noodle soup has only 20g of carbs and no sugar.

So I knew that eating this entire can was a bad idea. But I already had the damn soup from my pre-diabetes life, so I figured it would be OK to eat just half a can and save the rest for later.

Blood sugar reading before eating: 104

This reading of 104 was after work, so I hadn’t really eaten anything since lunch.

Blood sugar reading after eating: 171

This reading was about an hour after I finished the soup. During that hour, I went out for a short walk with Terry the Dog.

So this result is pretty terrible, mainly because I only ate half of the can of soup. 104 → 171 would be acceptable to me if I had eaten something more substantial, like a whole meal.

Now, Campbell’s Chunky Soup is the “soup that eats like a meal,” but not if it’s half a damn can!

I did a whole writeup on how Campbell’s soup is generally bad for diabetics, and this really confirms it. I’ll still eat the rest of the Campbell’s soup I have on hand, but the only ones I’ll probably keep eating in the future are Chicken Noodle and maybe Cream of Mushroom if I need it for cooking.