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If you drive, do you keep a low snack in your vehicle?
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Peanut butter cracker packets, juice boxes and glucose tabs. I also check the bg every time I get in my car to go somewhere – even before CGM (resulting in 15-20 fingersticks a day. There were times wqhen I got scolded for my requests for an Rx for a huge amount of test strips. I answered that wuestion with a question of my own: I asked the ENdo how many times, during his residency rotations when he was assigned to the emregncy dept did he accompany EMS and was on scene at motor vehicle accidents caused by an impaired driver. He was off put by my question and in a huff, said he never had to do that. I responded by telling him that I had lost count of the times I was on scene with other first responders. I added that I was not about to be “that” impaired driver.
I keep it in my purse/manbag which goes with me when I am driving.
Definitely. I keep glucose tabs because they don’t go bad, but I always have PB crackers and little apple juices available. And bite-size snickers bars 🙂
I keep a snack in my purse.
Now that I have the new iLet Bionic Pancreas by Beta Bionics it has been learning my system so I have had more than usual lows. I am sure to keep glucose tabs with me and available in my car, my purse, by the bed, living room and at work on my desk. I have had to pull over a few times while driving to take a few tabs during low blood sugers. I normally take 4 tabs at a time which seems to work and not over do to confuse the iLet.
Juice boxes, glucose tablets, smarties, peanut butter crackers or fruit filled Nutri-Grain bars.
Glucose SOS – a powdered form that easier to get down for me and it works quickly
I keep wrapped candies in the car at all times. I also tend to carry a Gatorade as well (I buy the powder and mix my own-less plastic and $$
I stated “no” because I don’t consider glucose tabs a snack, though I think of them like large SweetTarts to some degree. I take a small tube of them with me everywhere while not at home.
I always have wrapped candy in my pants pocket or pocketbook. In my car, I keep a bag of wrapped smarties.
Always! I carry ‘smarties’ rolls in my side door compartment. They are way easier than juice and don’t spoil when the car gets hot. 2 rolls of the candy = ~15 grams of carb
Candy corn because it doesn’t melt in hot weather.
Tootsie-Pop or Lifesaver
Gummy snacks -quick and easy
Glucose tablets
Glucose Tablets, and on long drives packs of crackers.
I always keep small bottles of Pepsi, etc in side door pocket. I also keep Welch fruit gummies in my coat pockets and purse.
I keep five tubes of Glucose tablets in my car and my wife’s car, and I Always never leave home without a Glucose tube in my pocket. Smacks take too long to digest. Especially Choclate.
Fully agree.
Always have Glucose tabs in glovebox and pocket.
I am no longer capable of driving due to epilepsy, but glucose tablets are kept in the glove compartment at all times.
Juice box and granola bar.
Fruit snacks, apple sauce pouches
I have glucose tabs in both my and my husbands cars. I also have a Baqsimi and glucose gel in my purse.
I keep glucose tabs in the car and my bag or pocket.
I have a bottle of glucose tablets in the center console.
Mentos
Glucose shot and glucose tablets. I always have crackers in my purse for my son and if I don’t have anything else, I’ll eat those
Always have juice, candy, granola bars.
Car is a snack bar always need to be prepared.
We get Chips Ahoy by the box in the little two-cookie packets. I know, I know, not the fastest or most perfect or whatever but here’s the thing. I decided waaaaaay back in the bad old days of R/NPH and no CGM, the days of “Either you can’t or you have to,” that if I’m gonna always be having to pass on things I’d love to have, when I HAVE to have them I want to use the opportunity to have something I actually like. And yeah, I have glucose tabs and all that. But I LIKE those chocolate chip cookies. So if a GOTTA have something, I’m gonna have something I like.
Gluco gummies, pelligrino soda, nabs
I said “no.” I don’t keep a snack in my vehicle. I carry a bag of snacks with me everywhere I go. So, it goes with me into my vehicle.
Swedish fish
I always have hard candies, glucose tabs, and lately jelly beans in my purse. I also keep a roll of Necco Wafers in my glove box and some peanut butter crackers.
I keep fruit snacks.
I keep gummies, smarties, or jelly beans in the car.
Glucose tabs
I keep a couple of bags of Bkack Forest Gummies because they have 15 carbs so I am not over eating. I also have a granola bar in case I am going to be out for a long time and need food.
I keep glucose in both my vehicles. My son has one in his too for me and his brothers just incase we forget snacks!!
I have a container of juju bees or smarties. I used to keep glucose tabs but they have really jumped in price.
I keep glucose tabs in my vehicle.
I carry a medical bag with extra supplies. I also have a dexcom and my pump stops pumping below 70
I keep Belvita snack wafers, fruit bars (generic), and my favorite, go-to, Welch’s Fruit Chews (2g/gummy). The fruit chews work very fast and can be easily popped in your mouth while driving. I keep multiple snacks in the car just in case my BG crashes.
Glucose tablets in a door-cupholder, if I’ve been exceedingly active may place a bottle lemonade “in case.” I always have tablets in my pocket though: injecting insulin means it doesn’t take much to be wrong sometimes. And I’m prone to make mistakes.