The #1 snack food served at Super Bowl parties is Chicken Wings (according to buzzle.com). I’m curious, “if” you were to eat 12 chicken wings alone (as descibed below) at kick off time (3:30 p.m. Pacific Time), and your blood sugar was a level 115 mg/dl, would you bolus for them or not? If you do bolus for them, please describe in a little detail of how you would go about doing this. Thanks.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/top-ten-superbowl-snack-foods.html
http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-wegmans-unbreaded-sauced-buffalo-style-i93725
Wish I could help ya out but I just started bolusing 2 days ago lol. Is the carb count zero?? Wow what brand wings are these?
I would just bolus for 30G of carbs and find 30G of carbs somewhere, beer cooler, taco chips and dip. Then, when the second quarter started, I’d have another 20G and eat some more? 
I don’t see any listing for carbs on the nutrition info you included. I don’t eat chicken wings, but doesn’t the sauce have a lot of sugar in it? Especially if it is a packaged food rather than made from scratch?
this website
http://www.fatsecret.com/Diary.aspx?pa=fjrd&rid=1120672
says they have 0 carbs
which seems to agree w/ your graph above
FWIW is a fancy pants supermarket in pennsylvania.
I think that it’s usually hot pepper sauce w/ some vinegar in it so it wouldn’t have a ton of carbs? I still don’t buy zero. that’s why for party situations like that, I would eat more than just the wings to make sure I had a bit of carbs floating around.
Well what I was interested in knowing is do you bolus for fat and protein?? I am a newbie and have no clue about any of this…how does this work??
If I were eating 12 straight hot wings, I would not bolus. However, I like mine with beer and blue cheese so I would be lovin’ my extended bolus. And if they were those less-desirable bbq ones, I would have to count that sweet sauce.
btw, Wegman’s is a supermarket chain from Rochester, NY that is throughout the mid-Atlantic states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegman%27s. Joe’s “fancy pants” description is apt!
I don’t bolus for fat or protein… but I know some people who do. Just pure carbs for me.
Buffalo Wing Sauce is usually not a sweet sauce so it does not have a lot of carbs in it. These wings are also unbreaded so there is no carbs there. I would have to worry about what I ate with the wings. The fat content would keep your glucose levels normal or low for a little while and then when you have digested the fat your glucose could shoot up. I might do an extended bolus or a combination bolus because of the high fat content in the wings.
i would definitely bolus according to ACIDROCK23
Please read the warning label first! 
Oh, it makes me sad to learn that many people don’t know about TAG and don’t bolus for the protein and fat! It is sooooo effective (can you tell I’m a tagger? http://www.tudiabetes.org/group/tagers/forum ) because we all know that, even when we eat no carbs, protein and fats will raise our BG, esp. in large amounts.
Anyway, funny enough, wings were the first thing I ever used the TAG method for and I was amazed. So, keeping in mind that I am a pumper, here is what I would do:
12 wings = 4 servings, so fat would be 30 x 4 = 120g fat and 36 x 4 = 144g protein. So, using 40% for protein and 10% for fat, that would equal 12 + 57.6 = 69.6 - divided by my I:C ratio of 10 (69.6 / 10) that would equal 6.96 or 7 units, rounded up. I would deliver this as a combo bolus over 3 hours at a spread of 0% to 100% over that time. I use 3 hours because there is such a large amount of fat and it tends to take longer to hit the blood stream.
That’s it! Go Green Bay!!
By the way, I’ll be having my Michelob Ultra with those wings (VERY low carb)
Way to go Cheri. I follow a very low carb high protein diet and protein is in some cases a major source of blood sugar for me. Other sources suggest that up to 58% of protein can be converted to glucose. My rule of thumb is that the first 25 g of protein is used by your body “as protein,” but that the remainder is converted to glucose with 58% efficiency. This 58% of (144-25)g of protein would end up with a net result of 69 g of equivalent carbs (OMG, exactly what you found). I am an insulin resistant old man, so with my ratio of 5, I would bolus my Regular insulin for 14 units. I usually find that protein is digested slowly over a period of 4 hours or so.
Hi bsc - Yes, 40% works for my system, but people have to experiment to find their percentage.
You bring up a good point about the protein. Also, because I am sooooo insulin resistant, I have switched from a strict, extremely low carb diet to a modified & more moderate low carb (only high fiber, complex carbs), high protein, and lower fat diet - I am finding that I don’t have to TAG for protein unless it is 15 g or more in one meal - like my protein drinks or my fave meat (cornish hen).
However, I find protein gets through my system in 1.5 to 2 hours - whereas fats require a longer period. For very high fat content I will use 3 hours.
By I LOVES me some wings - especially for football!
Regardless of what I’m eating - the TAG method is always there, always my friend
Dana Carpender’s Heroin Wings
From 500 Low Carb Recipes
4 lbs chicken wings
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 Tablespoons dried parsley
1 Tablespoon dried oregano
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/2 cup butter
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cut the wings into drumsticks, saving the pointy tips for other use.
- Combine the Parmesan cheese and the parsley, oregano, paprika, salt, and pepper in a bowl.
- Line a shallow baking pan with foil. (Do not omit this step, or you’ll still be scrubbing the pan a week later.)
- Melt the butter in a shallow bowl or pan.
- Dip each drumstick in butter, roll in the cheese and seasoning mixture, and arrange in the foil-lined pan.
- Bake for 1 hour.
Yield: about 50 pieces. If you ate it all it would be 4723 calories, 10.5 g carbs, 256 g fat, and 566 g protein, and I would recommend bolusing for protein.
I will often modify the spices to have a lot more zing. You can also throw batches of the wings in a bowl and coat with your favorite buffalo sauce.
LOL, I was the freak in your math class that loved word problems…if I was to just eat this with no breading or blue cheese, then I would dual wave bolus: normal bolus of 0.6u for correction and about 2.2u/serving on a square wave of 3-5 hours. Of course, that would never be all I ate, or drank…so yeah, what acidrock said…
The ones I buy have 1 carb per wing. With my Omnipod I would bolus 2.4 units. Just using the extened rate and no immediate bolus. My ratio is 1-5.
a percentage of protein is used to make glucose. I’m not sure what the formula is to tell you. For something like this, I would wait about an hour or two, and see how much your blood sugar has risen. It’s the only way you’ll really know…
Yogi