Friday, November 21, 2008

The Great Pasta Experiment

Following up on yesterday's post, I'll share with you the results of today's pasta experiment. Before lunch my blood sugar was 88. A little over an hour after eating the leftover Dreamfields spaghetti it was 102. The experiment is successfully concluded. I get to eat pasta that tastes like pasta. Yay for me.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Spaghetti

I'm bored with this. That's probably because it is boring. My life, in general, is boring. I wouldn't want to read it. I certainly don't want to write it. Instead I think I'll just write occasionally about things that interest me.

To tell you the truth, not much interested me today. I was tired. I needed a rest, so I took it. That's not much to be very excited about, but it is so.

I guess the big thrill today was trying a brand of pasta called Dreamfields. I'm not sure how this “digestible carbohydrates” thing works, but I figured I'd try it. It sounds too good to be true, and I'm nothing if not skeptical.

My first experiment has been a success. My preprandial reading was 112. An hour and twenty minutes postprandial was 115. That ain't bad. I'm encouraged enough to try it again. Next time I'll test after just an hour.

What surprised me was the taste. It tasted like, well, pasta. I've had some whole wheat pastas. They're not bad, but they have a sort of whole wheaty taste. This stuff was just regular old spaghetti. And I like spaghetti.

I think I'll hold my next experiment tomorrow. I've got leftovers.