Last Saturday night, I was invited to what turned out to be an absolutely AMAZING meal at a friends house here in Auckland. At the risk of sounding like a 60’s house wife, I love a good dinner party and this one proved to be the golden standard 
It was one of those dinner parties where everyone got along, the house was cosy and homely, the conversation flowed, the food was incredible and the atmosphere overall was as good as it could possibly have been. Our hosts were very generous with their cooking and the meal had several dishes from various people so that over the course of the evening, we ate nuts, fruits, snack foods, soup, lamb, sausages, 4 -5 salads, bread, wonderful French wines (our hosts were French…) and then an astoundingly good dessert array.
After indulging ourselves for a good hour and a half (and before the deserts came out), we were also presented with a huge array of chesses: goats, cheddar, fourme d’ambert, brie, gouda and more. I LOVE cheese as those of you who have been reading the blog for a while may know already (see this post for an explanation) and I will never give up a chance for a good stuffing. So, as the plate rolled it’s way across the table to me there was no hesitatation whatsoever as I took a healthy sample of each and every one of them. And then a second helping as it came back because in my mind, that was going to be my dessert.
Often, when I’m out like that I will tend to avoid desserts and will where possible to have a cheese platter in lieu. The main reason for this is that I’ve never had much of an apetite for desserts preferring savoury instead and I love cheese which is a bit of a blessing I suppose, but there is also definitely an aspect of opting for that because I can’t be bothered having to deal with any carbs – it’s kinda disordered eating essentially!
Anyway, quickly devoured as the cheeses were, we then moved onto a desert of Feijoa and Banana crumble with Fresh cream plus a South African dessert called (I think) Malva and I ate some of that too! By this time I was ready to explode and had eaten so much that I was feeling quite unconformtable but my self control destroyed, I decided that there is always room for dessert right?
Yes, yes there is.
Remarkably, my diabetes behaved very well throughout the evening as I grazed away. I was able to up my basal rate to accommodate the continious munching plus alcohol and then bolus for larger bites. It was a really nice confidence boost for me as my levels have been a nightmare of late and I left the experience feeling very satisfied both figuratively and literally.
- Aaron
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Dee wrote
Oh I love the cheese platter – if going to a bbq where I know there wilkl be a lot of carby snacks I always take some blue cheese and a soft cheese and snack away on those…. probably doesn’t help my waist line much though!!
Then again, I’m a sucker for a good rich desert too – for the “25th anniversary of diagnosis” we went to Strawberry Fare here in Wellington and I got something very chocolately and rich and so much the “you can’t eat that you’re diabetic” food. And my numbers were pretty good.
Sarah wrote
Cheeese…I love cheese too. It’s because it’s *free*, ie, us MDIers don’t have to puncture ourselves for a piece. Maybe you should make the next T1 dinner a cheese session! Having said that, I have quinces in my fruit bowl that I am planning on poaching in a red wine sugar syrup. They’d go down nicely with marscapone, I think. And have you tried baked ricotta desserts? Or low sugar pannacotta and creme brulee?
Aaron wrote
Sarah – Never tried any cheese desserts save for Tiramisu and the normal fare like cheesecake. YUM.
Quinces I’ve never got into as I don’t much like fruit (sorry dieticians reading this). You’ve got me thinking though….
Dee – I’m with you all the way!
Saffy wrote
I love dinner parties that work out so well.
Blue cheese wontons from Chow. Delicious!!!
Dee – you’re a legend
That’s exactly the kind of thing that I’ll do for my 25th too!!
Sarah – mmmm – a girl after my own heart.
I make my own oat cakes to have with blue cheese. I tell myself that they’re healthy-ish.
Nic wrote
I feel stuffed just reading about it Aaron! I also ‘hate’ you for still being so skinny
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I went to SPQR last night and had my first creme brulee, and actually my first sticky date pudding (shared between three, mind). Oooooh. Both were good. Didn’t fare so well with the overnight BGs though. Ooops. Was worth it though.
Sarah wrote
Ooh, I’m coming up to my 28th anniversary – the same day as my 37th birthday – so maybe I’ll have to take myself out for a sugar/fat glut too! Chocolate, another one of my loves. I have discovered 85% Lindt which has hardly any sugar in it but still lots of fat, flavour and caffeine. Those high fat desserts are hard work, though. They hoard their sugars for later, usually while you are sleeping. The worst thing is when you give yourself a bolus for them and get a hypo soon afterwards, only to be greeted with a 17+ BG 5 hours later.
Cherie B wrote
The advice on cheese sounds good, but what crackers are best to have with the cheese? Any ideas? Am a new T1 diabetic… so still learning….
Aaron wrote
Hi Cherie.
I actually tend not to have crackers with cheese as I like the cheese without them and I’m it’s easier to not have them! That said, all crackers will have the carbohydrate details on the packet so you can figure out how much insulin to take
I like Snax when I do have them though 
Nic wrote
Sarah, that’s almost exactly what happened (the sugar hit later on) – doh.
Dee wrote
Yep – that late slug of glucose is nasty…. I do a small shot at the time, (we had a rather early dinner and had gone mtb’ing that afternoon – I also did another small shot when I got home and set my alarm clock for later in the night so that I could cover the release. A fair bit of trouble, but it’s fun to tell people who think you should live on rabbit food that you did something like that and watch their faces.