The "Mashed Potato Phenomenon"

If you've got a diabetic around then you've most likely heard of the  
"Pizza Phenomenon".  That unexplainable blood sugar rise that happens after carefully counting every single ingredient in a slice of pizza and correctly bolus-ing for it...only to find that a half hour after eating the pizza, your blood sugar is high despite double and triple checking your math.  Yes, that my friends is why Pizza earned the word "Phenomenon" to be it's dreaded companion like a hiss and a byword.

Around our house there's a few more things that have earned the prestigious "P" after its name as well.  An unfortunately they are favorites for both Mitchell and Chloe-though, to their dismay, I serve them very rarely.

First is the "Spaghetti Phenomenon", a serious blood sugar spiker there.  Mitchell in particular, loves spaghetti and will eat two monstrous plates full along with an unauthorized helping-or should I say heaping-of garlic bread (did I mention there's a "Garlic Bread Phenomenon" too?).  Spaghetti night doesn't happen too often around here just for that reason.

It then goes without explanation that we also have a "Lasagna Phenomenon" around here too.

Then there's the "Pancake and Waffle Phenomenon" which happens despite using the sugar-free syrup, a  "Corn-on-the-Cob Phenomenon", and a "Muffin Phenomenon" as well.


But the worst of them all is the evil and highly dreaded "Mashed Potato Phenomenon", which takes two full days of blood sugar checks to recover from. 

This is why, at our house, you will seldom see these things on the menu.  I avoid them like the plague because I am convinced it takes longer to get these foods out of their system than it would an actual plague.  I have lovingly termed the whole lot of these foods "White Death" since most of them come in the color WHITE and give me nothing but grief and ketoacidosis.

And now, for the bonus round...
Can you guess what was recently on Chloe's birthday dinner menu??

Spaghetti, Mashed Potatoes, and Corn!

I'm calling that, "The Birthday Phenomenon"!