Well, we’ve finally reached it, the end of Maycember. Or MAYhem. Every year I think that April is my busy month since that’s when my biggest time of year is at work but nope, I simply shift to the biggest time of year in my children’s school lives. Baton recitals, baseball games, recorder recitals, sacraments, field day, end-of-year countdown, graduations. I think we probably did it all.
But now its SUMMER!!! I love summer. I love the kids being home (even if they are fighting). I love the vacations. I love the swimming. I love the outside events. And with all of these come the extra challenges of type 1 diabetes. This will be our third summer having T1D and I wonder what I’ll learn this go round as I undoubtedly have learned a lot over the last two. I’ve learned that she goes high in the heat but low when swimming and I’ve learned that she was high nearly our entire trip to the beach last year. The heat? The excitement? The relaxation? Who knows. But what I try to do the most in the uncontrollable situation is control what I can control and that is the food we eat.
This year, we’ll be heading to Disney World (super yay!!) and also to a couple of out of town competitions so I have been thinking about what to eat at these for months. And what I’ve decided is this: there will be some high carb food consumed, absolutely because she cannot live on the sidelines. But there’s also going to be a lot of food we are bringing with us because I can’t have fried chicken tenders at every meal (I think my kids could live on chicken tenders. They are good but really, all day, every day good?). So what foods do I get that aren’t going to go bad and travel well? Here’s what’s on the list so far: unsweetened applesauce pouches, travel size peanut butter cups, ranch dipping cups, carrot sticks, apples, nutella/pretzels on the go, peanut butter crackers, cheese crackers, YumEarth candies (for lows!), simply Cheetos, meat sticks, nuts, So Twistz low carb pretzels, fruit strips, fruit snacks and Keto bread. I’ll of course have to do a grocery order for fruit and veggies once there but I’m hoping snacky items like these are going to keep us satisfied. I want to have a wonderful trip – so I’m gonna try my hardest to balance our meals in a theme park and avoid an emergency. I don’t have it all figured out now, I’m definitely going to be learning on the go as well.
Before I sign off, one thing I decided to put on my to-do list is write a book of recipes. After a lot of thought, it’s going to be T1D recipes dedicated to the holidays. I’ve been working a lot on what recipes to put in and I’m ready to start compiling them together for lots of people to see. Maybe it’ll be successful! Maybe not haha! But I’d like to try because one of the hardest things about T1D is worrying about what to eat. I’ll keep you updated on the progress. Currently, it is slow, ha! Hopefully that speeds up once I get some alone time.
T1D Type A Mom 