[yannah]

they added "Diabetes food" as a label to one of their isles
I am going to call them up and ask them if they hate people with diabetes.

Good lord. the have a candy bar in the isle with 23 grams of carbs per serving. sugar free.

cake mix, same, no sugar.

processed food. basically no sugar, processed food, carbs and lots of nutrasweet.


thanks for putting alot of effort into that Mr. Grocery Store.

it is this tiny little section.


I think there is a market out there
for real frozen diabetes dinners, don't you? I think there is a billions of dollars industry out there. Ya know, like with 5 carbs, no sugar. low salt/chol. it can be done. i do it everyday.
but I would like to have a quick prepared dinner available to me. I could have took it with me to Christmas dinner or something.

[yannah]

I just called and educated the grocery store. I doubt he "got it". He said they put that together a week ago. I told him to dismantle it. It is insulting, spreads a horrible myth about diabetes. and helps no one with diabetes.

[morrisma]

Call him back and offer him some of your recipes so he can stock the aisle with all the ingredients needed to make them and copies of the recipes to use. Now THAT would be helpful.

[Evermont]

Lets see - if I were Mr. Grocery store and I thought it was a good idea to cater to a group of people with this specific disease...

15 isles of organic, locally grown produce. No carts or baskets and moving sidewalks that all go in the wrong direction!

Huh, waddaya know, that's a good formula for non-diabetics too.

[enigmalady777]

Isn't scary when you start to read labels of everything????

My mind now works in such a way that no matter what it is that I'm buying, I automatically look at the label and if it's got more than about 10 grams of carbs, I won't buy it, lol.

The "sugar free" stuff tends to have more grams of carb than the real stuff sometimes!

I found out that I can eat a small amount of sugar free candy, jams, pudding or jello, but if I eat a "normal" size portion of the same I will still see a BG spike - albeit a smaller spike than with the "real" stuff, but a spike nonetheless. n

Yesterday I ate one piece of regular chocolate candy - BG zoomed to over 200 again!!! Later in the afternoon I dropped to 60 and could feel my BG literally continue to drop until I got same said candy into me to bring it back up to 90. I just CANNOT eat this stuff. I swing from one end of the spectrum to the other and it's just not worth it.

I'm glad the holidays are almost over. It's killing me and my diet!!!!!

[EdnBama]

I'm trying to figure out at what part you laughed!

[Barberian]

Originally Posted by enigmalady777

Isn't scary when you start to read labels of everything????

I automatically look at the label and if it's got more than about 10 grams of carbs, I won't buy it, lol.

You have to look at the serving size too. They are supposed to have a reasonable serving size represented in their #'s, but that is not always the case. It's not uncommon to see what most people would consider a "single serving" container divided up to numerous small servings making the #'s disproportionally small.

[enigmalady777]

You have to look at the serving size too. They are supposed to have a reasonable serving size represented in their #'s, but that is not always the case. It's not uncommon to see what most people would consider a "single serving" container divided up to numerous small servings making the #'s disproportionally small.

This is SOOOO true!!!!!!

The product that's the absolute WORST when it comes to this is non-stick cooking spray. They are allowed to say "0" calories on the nutritional label because they define a "serving" as something like a "two second" spray. Well who the heck uses a "two second" spray on a frying pan or casserole dish??? May as well NOT use anything at all!!!

[exdiabetic]

I found that if I concentrated on labels that I tended to think that I was being deprived in some way. My recommendation would be to look at your waist and weight and decide whether you are larger than nature intended and at the same time eat by your meter and eliminate food types that elevate your blood sugar levels higher and for longer. You can of course influence these readings by just modest exercise , like walking.
In a short space of time you begin to change your thinking from diet to healthy eating. This is the type of program I used to come off insulin injections and have remained that way for over two and a half years. When I was diagnosed as diabetic type 2 I had had a heart attack and given a bagfull of medication many of which I have been able to reduce or totally eliminate. My HbA1C have recently been around 5.8 but am currently beginning to see a slight upward trend I think caused by long term use of Amiodarone that is impacting on my thyroid and causing my metabolism to drop which leads to weight increase.
Since coming off insulin I have tried various complementary supplements like alpha lipoic acid that helped reduce blood sugar levels and more recently vitamin C which reduced it further and then seemed to tail off which possibly is the amiodarone effect.
It is certainly worth trying to get your BMI index closer to 25 and you will see a difference as you reduce your insulin intake and almost imediately reduce collateral diabetic damage.
Best wishes for 2009 , I will return.

[yannah]

Originally Posted by Evermont

Lets see - if I were Mr. Grocery store and I thought it was a good idea to cater to a group of people with this specific disease...

15 isles of organic, locally grown produce. No carts or baskets and moving sidewalks that all go in the wrong direction!

Huh, waddaya know, that's a good formula for non-diabetics too.

true, true true.

I mean I felt betrayed by my local kroger for this display, for some reason I had this evil laugh which turned into some kind of mad rage.

I told him he needed to have my endochronologist come out and take a look at his "Diabetes Food" that some uneducated diabetic was going to throw all that stuff into their cart, go home and eat it, and land themselves in the hospital with a blood sugar of 700.

He was nice at first, then seemed a little miffed. "Sean" the manager....

[cyberus]

A local store here has a "low carb/special foods" section off one isle. It consists of 2 sizes of "South Beach" tortillas, fifty-eleven South Beach and "Atkins" bars and a huge selection of gluten free.
Nary a real "low carb" food in sight since the "Atkins" bars only qualify as low carb if you buy the "New Atkins" voodoo math.

[Psycho Penguin]

Diabetics know to check labels. The store doesn't know any better. No reason to get mad.

[PattiM]

In the grocery store situation I would have approached it a little differently. The manager that you spoke to is probably not diabetic, and probably doesn't know anything about it. Rather than confront him or jump on him for putting what he though were "diabetic" foods on display, an educational conversation with an offer to help him set up such a section might have had a much better result.

There is no need to get mad or be offended by the actions of someone that is trying to help. As maddening as it can sometimes be when a person that has no clue about diabetes is doing what he thinks is helpful, education is the best way to handle the situation.

We know that those "sugar free" foods have just as many, if not more carbs and calories than regular items do. Most people that are uneducated about diabetes have the idea that no sugar is allowed, and all kinds of other misinformation. They are only going by what they have read or been told.

It's probably too late to give the store manager a mini diabetes education and an offer of help, but hopefully all is not lost.

[yannah]

Okay, i do have a right to get mad. they are a GROCERY store.

I asked if a dietician or doctor looked into to it. I mean it is a GROCERY store. nothing more. so just sell groceries. don't try to medicate people. Where is the "High clholesterol" isle, the "high BP" isle? The smokers isle. It is a grocery store.

[EdnBama]

Why do you feel "betrayed" by the grocery store over this?

I guess maybe we should feel betrayed when a grocery store carries items labelled in large print "trans fat free" as if the other fat in excess isn't bad for us ... and what about the kid's cereal with pronouncements that they contain "essential vitamins and minerals" -- as if that outweighs the sugary unhealthiness of it? Or the candy in bags labelled "a fat-free food"?

As you noted, the store is a "grocery", not a health food store nor a pharmacy (although they often have a pharmacy).

Stores supply goods for sale and, to that end, become marketers, not just suppliers. Just part of the game in our system.