RobLL
Sat, Apr-05-08, 15:02
I just completed an 11 day trip to Morocco. As always jerky and nuts in my back pack functioned well as emergency rations. Much, if not most, of the available shop and street food was pure carbs. Normally but not always eggs were available for breakfast. On non-travel days I was walking enough that I could eat about 40 carbs a meal, and still control BGs. I only had one high reading (169), but found that I had to use a supplemental Regular insulin injection to stay below 100 more often that at home. My Internist gave me a Lantus cartridge which made life easier, and meant I did not have to discard a 10 ml vial because of the heat. For some reason my normal dose of Lantus resulted in FBGs of 78-80, about 13 points lower than usual. So if breakfast were delayed (several times) it was something out of my back pack to the rescue, or half a cookie from a street vender a couple times.
Carbs would appear in the oddest place, Green Salad, mostly shredded carrots and canned corn. Orange juice when ordering an omelet, Salad Nicoise came with potato, beets, rice and carrots. Tangine, a national dish, and sort of stew was as likely as not to come with high carb veggies. Rare was a waiter good enough at English for me to specify low carb veggies (and my Arabic or Barber were non-existent). Despite all of this I had a great time, and finding the food I could eat did not make the trip difficult. People were friendly, hotel living in the Medinas (old walled cities with alley ways) was enchanting, and the whole thing a super experience.
Carbs would appear in the oddest place, Green Salad, mostly shredded carrots and canned corn. Orange juice when ordering an omelet, Salad Nicoise came with potato, beets, rice and carrots. Tangine, a national dish, and sort of stew was as likely as not to come with high carb veggies. Rare was a waiter good enough at English for me to specify low carb veggies (and my Arabic or Barber were non-existent). Despite all of this I had a great time, and finding the food I could eat did not make the trip difficult. People were friendly, hotel living in the Medinas (old walled cities with alley ways) was enchanting, and the whole thing a super experience.