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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Let’s eat chocolate, Part 2: Korean Moon Pie, a.k.a. Choco Pie, plus a bonus Workout Test (which failed!)

  • November 17, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Let’s eat chocolate, Part 1: Pocky, a.k.a. Pepero

  • November 17, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

¡More enchiladas, por favor!

  • November 11, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Diabetes-friendly baked goods!

  • November 8, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Yes! Heinz “No Sugar Added” ketchup is way easier on the glucose than *regular* ketchup

  • November 7, 2020
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Stuff Diabetics Need

How much does insulin cost in Korea? Not much!

  • October 31, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Maybe kimchi jjigae isn’t so bad on the glucose after all?!

  • September 28, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Yes, “real” pizza is very, very bad for the ‘beetus

  • September 27, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Sausage, Bacon, & Scrambled Eggs: A Very Diabetes-Friendly Breakfast

  • September 27, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Easy Cheese? Yes. Crackers? Hell no!

  • September 22, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

🍕 A widdle pizza pita thing I made 🍕

  • September 19, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Glucose Meter Comparison: Are They Really All the Same? Also: Do NOT Eat Korean Buckwheat Noodles!

  • September 15, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

The KFC Twister really isn’t worth the blood sugar hit

  • September 13, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Sorry, but tamales are not bueno for diabetes :(

  • September 13, 2020
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Going to the Doctor

Two things I have a lot of: pills and triglycerides

  • September 5, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Pizza sucks for diabetics. But not if you make the dough with almond flour!

  • September 5, 2020
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Stuff Diabetics Need

Everything you wanted to know about diabetic lancets but were afraid to ask

  • June 27, 2020
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Stuff Diabetics Need

Yes! You CAN pair two Accu-Chek glucose meters to the same device

  • June 27, 2020
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Managing Diet

If You’re a New Type 2 Diabetic, Here’s What You Need To Know!

  • April 29, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

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

  • March 22, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

I ate half an ice cream bar … twice!

  • March 11, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

That big burrito tortilla ain’t gonna do your blood sugar any favors!

  • March 7, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Eating that big pile of onion rings was not a good idea

  • March 6, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Diabetics can eat potato chips! Whoops, no they can’t …

  • March 5, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

A damn GRANOLA BAR did this to my blood sugar?? WTF Nature Valley!

  • March 3, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

KFC Chizza – Is it cool for this diabetic to eat TWO?

  • March 2, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Whoops, I just ate a big hunk o’ salmon sashimi

  • March 2, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Yes, you can survive ONE Girl Scout cookie!

  • March 1, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Hard shell tacos are easy on the diabetes, and that is muy bueno

  • March 1, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Diabetics might wanna stay away from Boston Market’s Chicken Pot Pie

  • February 26, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Newsflash: If you’re diabetic, one little piece of Halloween candy will NOT kill you!

  • February 23, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

Screw you, diabetes! I’m eating this Italian Beef sandwich whether you like it or not!

  • February 22, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

How fast does Metformin work? Also, bell peppers … WTF!!

  • February 22, 2020
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Managing Diet

Do ALL Campbell’s soups suck for diabetes? Yeah, just about.

  • February 20, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating

KFC Double Down: Is it safe for diabetics to eat? LOL not really

  • February 20, 2020
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Diabetes Blood Sugar Test: Before and After Eating Managing Diet

If you have diabetes, this is probably why Campbell’s Chunky Soups are really bad for you

  • February 19, 2020
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Hi, I’m Michael. I live in Seoul, Korea, and I have Type 2 diabetes. I also have gout. And a fake eye. And I’m pretty sure I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

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  • This roasted artichoke & chickpeas recipe is easy on the glucose and the taste is … OK, I guess
  • I knew that eating Vietnamese pho would go badly, but …
  • Japchae (Korean glass noodles) revisited: Still delicious! And still SO bad on the glucose
  • This is how I keep my A1C low!
  • Hail, Caesar! The salad, not the Greek dictator
  • Dear Watermelon, I LOVE YOU
  • Oh, you have diabetes? Here, have some ICE CREAM :D
  • Bell peppers revisited – turns out they won’t kill you after all!
  • This iced latte did NOT do “a latte” to move my blood sugar
  • Rum is made from sugarcane, so it kills diabetics … right? Wrong!

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