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What healthy snacks do you eat for bedtime to avoid Hypoglycemia during your sleep at night? Thank you for the idea, namaha.
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I have a Greek yogurt and a protein bar that has 20-30 grams of protein.
My dr has banned most fruit especially late on. Cheese & oatcakes is most likely. Cant really imagine myself taking the trouble for any of the rest. I have also promised dr to carry something sweet in case I feel or detect too much blood in my sugar stream. This is a low sugar chocolate brownie. Not ideal but surprisinly low. Not that keen on greek or greek style yoghurt and apparently that fat free version is less than helpful
The chocolate brownie for when out of the house is a nice idea. Do you have any drinks that could be used, too? 
Only the occassional hot chocolate. Dont take sugar in coffee nor do I touch sweet juices or fizzy drinks
This is an interesting post. I don't have hypos during the night. I do have a problem with binge eating before bed. I try very hard to not eat before bed but on a bad day, and if I'm not getting to sleep, I will get up and go 'hunting' in the cupboards for food. It's usually one of these things: a piece of cheese, a cold cooked sausage, a slice of toast with peanut butter and a drizzle of honey, or a piece of fruit cake. I frequently really struggle to keep away from eating a whole tin of cold baked beans - complete with a significant dollop of salad cream on top! My night time eating is abyssmal.
Thank you for saying that about the poll. I really appreciate it very much.
The toast and peanut butter sounds good. Do you eat peanut butter on toast without honey ( sometimes)?
Yes I do. I sometimes eat peanut butter on toast with a banana mashed into it! But I wouldn't do that at bed time. More like a whole lunch meal. I'm a beekeeper so the honey is not like anything you buy from the supermarket!
That's great to hear. How much honey does your bees produce for you?
In a normal year I would get about 60 - 80lbs. I won't get any this year though because I wasn't able to do the necessary procedures due to my poor health, hence the colonies didn't have any excess for me to take. I have to be very careful to leave enough honey in the hive for the bees to get through the winter.
Fortunatly never been diabetic - now 73. If I do want a snack before heading for bed Cheese is the only choice - never any fruit with it as that spikes blood sugar.
How many slices do you eat before bed?
Oatcakes and peanut butter.
How many oatcakes do you eat for snack time before bed? How many carbs. do they have?
Slice of toasted fruit bread and a cup of cocoa.
Thanks Leah !I take half a cup oats topped with Flax seed Powder and a small piece of Sweet Potato as my bed time snack...
You're very welcome, namaha ! Thank you for helping with the poll. I appreciate very much.
That sounds like a great snack to have before bedtime. I really like sweet potatoes and flaxseed. How much powder do you use on the oats?
