Def need to stock up on diet items

[Jam]

Continuing the discussion from Stock up on Insulin before the Coronavirus comes here:

LMBO!! that was funny.

[mohe0001]

This is gonna be tough because it is kinda in the nature of ‘diet’ foods that they don’t store well. But, I have learned during covid that cabbage keeps very well. You can make crockpot cabbage and apples. Or, cabbage stew. Cabbage is somewhat delicious.

All the old fashioned war ration favorites are not very ‘diet.’ It’s a problem.

Do you HAVE to stockpile? Could you use Instacart for deliveries of food?

P.S. I’m using my stockpiled NPH insulin from March right now because postal deliveries have come to a halt and pump supplies have been late. Plus, the post office is a covid nest right now.

[Tim12]

Although I’m a big fan of diet cola, I haven’t bought Equal/Aspartame packets in decades now. When I have coffee at home just milk in it, no sweetener.
https://www.indiamart.com/proddetail/aspartame-sweetener-powder-6070287212.html

[Tim12]

And since you mention Cabbage: Thrice-Boiled Cabbage was a famous from the Frederick Allen recommended meal plan for T1’s before the discovery of insulin:

a man weighing 60 kg and able to tolerate 100 g of carbohydrate might end up on 60 g of protein, 130 g of fat and 25 g of carbohydrate. His daily ration of the latter might consist of 7 oz (198 g) of thrice boiled cabbage, or 5 oz (142 g) of similarly treated spinach or two and a half bran biscuits [10]. The bran was needed to counteract the constipation induced by the rest of the diet.

Adults did relatively well on this regimen, but children hovered miserably between death from diabetes and death from starvation. One 12-year-old boy, already blind from diabetes, was reduced to eating toothpaste mixed with birdseed stolen from his pet canary. ‘These facts were obtained by confession after long and plausible denials’, remarked the pitiless Allen. The unfortunate child died of starvation. A few physicians hailed the treatment as a means of prolonging life, but Carl von Noorden shuddered and turned away when Joslin showed him one of his cases. The controversy concerning the value of extra months or years purchased at the cost of so much misery was very bitter, and Allen was banned from the diabetic clinic at the Rockefeller Institute in 1918 [11].