Holidays can be tough when you’re trying to avoid carbohydrates, and Halloween might be the toughest of them all, a day absolutely dedicated to…
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Are you concerned with how much sugar your kids take home on Halloween? Lara Riley was, even before her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.…
Have you ever dressed up in a diabetes-themed Halloween costume? Dug through the trash to find a discarded candy wrapper, hunting for the carb count?…
But the last thing anyone wants to do is dress up as a freaking glucose meter. Or worse, a CGM that beeps all through the party. And then... you can't dress up as a syringe or everyone will think you're a prick. You know what happened to me last time I wore my paper mache metformin costume?
Bisi had her lowest blood sugar yet this past weekend, and the scariest thing about it was that it’s not totally clear to me how it happened. It all…
I love black cats, pumpkins, and kids in adorable costumes, but I hate Halloween. As the parent of a child with food allergies, it is truly a terrifying holiday. I know that some parents of children with diabetes feel the same way. Because... how do you keep your child safe when sugar and allergens are everywhere?
Everyone is better off with a mouthful of vampire teeth than a mouthful of sugar. To make Halloween shopping a little easier, we've put together a list for you of 8 perfect Halloween treats that aren't candy.
Most kids love Halloween. Can you blame them? It's a holiday loaded with creepy crawly things, costumes, parties, and of course, candy. I recall the trick-or-treating loot my brother and I brought home in our childhood. We always had enough candy to last for months. We didn't usually keep all of the candy, but one year my brother outsmarted everyone and hid some in his desk drawer.
A lot of people who follow my blog suggested that I write about Halloween, and the difficulty of facing a night of obsessive candy-collecting when…
One Halloween when I was eight-years-old and my brother was five, we had the world’s most successful trick-or-treating. We got such an…