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"!

Fridge Art?

Some friends came over the other day and pointed out the fact that the "fridge art" we unabashedly display on our fridge is quite unique.  I guess we're guilty there.  I suppose the stuff you display on the front of your fridge is usually the things you care most about, like your child's latest works of art, cherished photos, the phone number of your favorite pizza place.  And since the space there is pretty limited you've got to be choosy.  Only the most important things make it to the magnet.  It's a little like being the curator for the Louvre-you've only got so much square footage to display a world of meaningful things. 

So, if what goes on the fridge front can tell you a lot about the family, what does yours display?  Inspriational quotes?  Photo collages? Kindergarten art? Maybe even coupons.

Originally, my fridge was supposed to display absolutely nothing.  What does that say about us?  That I'm a neat freak?  Probably.  I made sure there was nothing on my fridge a magnet could stick to so I wouldn't collect a jumbled mess of trinkets on my fridge.  Unfortunately, that plan recently went awry.  Here's a closer look at what we've now got on ours...

Post-it Notes!  And what does this say about us?  Well, perhaps that we love food facts more than we love family photos.  It also says, that Chloe is trying really hard to memorize how many carbs are in her favorite foods so she can bolus for them without looking it all up each time.  So while we're on the steep learning curve, folks who come to visit us will get to enjoy valuable nutritional facts about our favorite things to eat!  We call it "Informational Food Art".