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“What about honey?”

We came back to "Honey" 4 times in this exchange. I was going nuts.

Here is the deal, I am working at a church retreat in a few weeks and I was approached by the person in charge of food for the weekend regarding food choices. Apparently there are going to be some other people with diabetes attending the weekend and they thought they would get my suggestions.

“I plan on making French Toast for breakfast on Saturday morning but I figured I could use honey instead of syrup. What do you think?”

“NO! Honey is not good.” I explained that honey will raise blood sugars for sure.

“But it’s natural?” He said it as if I thought honey was synthetic or something.

“I know but it full of natural sugars.”

“Oh really because a friend of mine who has diabetes eats honey all the time,” he said again as if I was crazy.

“That may be the case but it would spike my blood glucose for sure.”

“Well what can diabetics eat that will not raise their blood sugar?” He was getting frustrated.

I honestly tried my best to hold back laughter.

“Most things are going to effect blood sugars but you could so something like scrambled eggs and bacon. It will still bring up their blood sugar but not like French toast. French toast without anything on it will raise blood sugar.” I was trying to explain it as best I could but I could see my words were not being absorbed.

“Maybe I’ll do some granola bars and fruit.” He said this as he started to walk away from me.

I explained that those things will also raise blood sugars. I told him the most important thing is to offer some choices and to have all the carbohydrate amounts handy so we can count them and adjust our medication accordingly.

Does anyone have an easy way to explain it? I tried but I think I tend to get too technical and confuse people.

One thing is for sure, Honey is not d-friendly.

Except maybe to treat a low.