Begorrah, laddie, me knew that already!
Patrick
Hearing bagpipes in the distance.

Apreciate your contribution….will take a look at that book.

Scott

Here’s my thoughts, strategy and some info on how to deal with alcohol. I carry
the "Eating Out Food Counter" by Annette Natow and Jo-Ann Heslin ISBN
#0-671-89471-4…

Its got serving size, calories, fat, carbs, cholesterol and sodium counts for
thousands and thousands of items at dozens of restaurants and thousands of
common food items… Its paperback and getting a bit beat up now, and a pain to
have to carry around all the time, but is really quite helpful. Everything from
Double D to Denneys, Micky D’s, Au Bon Pain, Starbucks and Dominos… Even if
you don’t find the particular restaurant you’re at, there’s sure to be something
similar in there to what you are about to eat, so I even use it with home cooked
foods if I can’t get a count off of packaging or recipies…

Necessary waiver of accuracy, validity, responsibility and all that jazz. As
always YMMV, no waranty written or implied, Caveat Emptor, etc…

The specific reason I’m writing you about this, though, is its sections on Beer
and Ale, Drink Mixers and Wine… This book dosen’t have listings for any
specific microbrews, only major piss in a can brewskis -(don’t get me wrong -
there is very much a time and place for something like a case of Olympia or
Pabst Blue Ribbon (12g. CHO per 12oz. each), usually involving the beach, sun
and sand, but that’s about it.

This book says the following about beer in general…
Ale, Brown 10oz, 8g CHO
Ale, Pale 10oz, 12g CHO
Beer, Light 12oz, 5g CHO
Beer, Regular 12oz, 13g CHO
Lager 10oz, only 4g CHO
Pilsner Lager 7oz, 13g CHO
Stout 10oz, only 6g CHO

In general, I usually count a 12oz. beer for 12-15 g CHO or, more accurately, I
shoot a unit per beer, wine is nill, unless its something really trashy like
boons or a wine cooler (Bartles and James Peach has 33g. CHO) or a Port… But
best of all is that Vodka and Scotch have nill, zip, zero, nada, none. So a
brain holiday with vodka rocks, neat scotch or a decent Pinot costs me no
insulin and no high blood sugars.

My personal rules/guidelines on drinking, diabetes and pumping; check to see if
the site might need changing in the next 12-18 hours and change it if so (site
changing while intoxicated is not a recommeded manouver), test more frequently,
tolerate slightly higer numbers to further reduce risk of lows while drinking;
with beer and wine, drink as much H2O as beer or wine; with hard drinks, glass
of H2O per mixed drink or roughly double fluid volume in H2O…

Again, as always, YMMV, no waranty written or implied, Caveat Emptor, etc…

Anyone know of a database of nutritional values that runs on a palm pilot or a
single purpose handheld widget?

Regards,
John