Honey Eat This

Over the weekend, my fiance and I visited some community markets in the country, where there were a lot of stalls selling honey. 'Natural, organic, unprocessed' honey. My partner was very enthused as he loves the stuff, I love it too, just my body prefers me to be low before my indulgence (and as some of you might know from previous posts, my midnight low/trance state usually results in me overdosing on honey and butter on toast). So there's all these stall owners holding out spoons of the golden gorgeousness to taste test. Sample size ranging from half to over a full teaspoon... you can probably see where I'm going here... working out my 'can I have it?' math: numerous honey stalls x various varieties + no insulin in bag x lazy Sunday attitude = don't do it!

Partner finds a stall that particularly tickles his fancy, starts taste testing, and the stall owner looks to me, 'Don't you want to try some too?'. 'No thank you' I reply. 'Are you sure, its all natural, different kinds, has healing properties, great for your skin...' she says, pushing a teaspoon at me. Now this is the point I'm sure most diabetics think 'do I say something??'. Well I did this time, 'I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and now is not a good time, thank you though'. Well it seems I brought out the dietitian/scientist/endocrinologist in her as she started to explain to me how unprocessed honey doesn't actually have as much sugar as normal honey so diabetics should include it in their diet, that I should try it and I'd like it. Ummmm well I never said I didn't eat it or like or even understand it, just that now is not the time!!! It was one of those times where I just groaned to my partner that 'after 17 years with diabetes...' I'm pretty confident of the effects of honey on my body and of the 'when to have it, how much can I have, does it need actioning' balancing equation.