Ellie's Elephants

Day 4 Juvenation Blog Carnival Challenge prompt:  Refrigerator. If you open up your fridge, what is the first thing you would eat? and why did you pick that food? How many carbs does it have?

I'm a sucker for salad, and thankfully, it's usually very low carb.  Usually a broccoli slaw as base, carrots, cucumber.   I go for lite salad dressing (which means it's higher carb than full fat, but less fat for my veins to deal with).  I'll usually give insulin for 10grams of carbs for a salad.  

This brings up an interesting topic though - so lots of people do low fat options, right?  Did you know that if they take the fat out, they pump up the carbs?   So fat free salad dressing has WAY more carbs than full fat of same brand/type.   Like  4 grams in a normal 2-tbsp helping of italian dressing, but a non-fat italian dressing will have 20grams of carbs for the same 2-tbsp.  

 The same holds true for the 'sugar-free' candy (which, there is no reason anyone has to buy this for someone with type 1 diabetes - but thanks for trying to be accommodating).  Sugar free candy options tend to have the same amount of carbs as a sugar filled option.  

One other item while we talk about refrigerators - You know your butter compartment?  I think in more than 75% of type 1 families the butter compartment is the insulin bottles storage place.  :) 

Done blathering.