Since the only people who read this blog right now are people who know me, you’re all well aware that I am a huge baseball fan. Yesterday my team returned home and presented me with a new dilemma. How to I eat low sugar at the ballpark? All my standard fares are loaded with carbs: burgers and fries, fried chicken and fries, half-smokes and fries, and nachos. Of course I could just always bring my own food with me, but I was certain there was a way to make ballpark food work for me.
So I got to the park early, prepared to head to all my favorite stands and ask for their nutrition information, analyze them, and figure out how this would work. But then I took the easy way out. I saw the stand “The Healthy Plate,” with their turkey wraps displayed front and center. This was surely the stand for me! So I asked for their nutrition information. The guy running the stand didn’t have it with him. “Well what sauce is in the wraps?” He assured me it was mustard and just mustard. “Nothing with sugar?” “Oh no, not at all!” Sounded good to me. Serve it up!
One bite in I knew that the sauce was definitely NOT just mustard. 😦 And it definitely had sugar. But I’d already paid eight bucks for it, so it was going to be my dinner anyway. Two hours after dinner (well, two hours and three minutes, had to wait for the inning to end!) my blood sugar was 140. One meal in the fail column, this was not low sugar. But I’m still determined to find what ballpark food will work. Updates to come.
At least my team won!
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