Adequate number of calories without increasing number of carbs

Type 1 and LADA
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Adequate number of calories without increasing number of carbs

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Cornerstone, welcome to the community. Nuts, especially Almonds and chopped walnuts that can be bought in bulk at the big box membership stores, have a very high Calorie to Carb ratio. 1/4 cup is about 6 grams of carbs for 200 calories. Nuts are always a quick way to build calories while watching carbs as you can easily eat 800 calories a day, just in nuts.

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Cashews and chocolate covered macadamia nuts!!!

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For me, crunch is an essential food group, but most food that provides this key nutritional element comprises things like crackers, chips of myriad sorts, things I don’t like anyway (Cheese Doodles), and the like, all rich in corn syrup and starch-based BG explosives. Thus, yes, NUTS!!! Which can contain some carbs but nothing like as much as that other stuff and I mostly don’t bother bolusing for 'em (except when I was trying to make automode in the 670G work, and was grubbing for any gram of carb I could declare). The problem of course is the other thing you point out: they can be as bad as the rest of the crunch food group when it comes to calories. Which may explain why I have such a hard time losing weight? Sigh. I wonder if TANSTAAFL should be in our Diabetes Terminology list…

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I can fill up on fats. Like butter, olive oil, avocados, cheese and heavy cream.