Kitty
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Thread split from NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020
This is a really important subject, which isn't addressed nearly often enough. If you live on your own it's incredibly difficult, specially as you don't have the energy to socialise.
Diabetes obviously makes it complicated, but it's hard enough even when you haven't got that issue. I too love nuts, but could neither chew nor digest them when I'm really badly crashed.
Fortunately it hasn't happened for a long while, but I used to favour chocolate digestive biscuits and cold milk. Partly because they fill you up quite well, and partly because they can be bought almost anywhere, meaning it's easy to ask people to get supplies for you. At my worst I've even resorted to asking random children playing on the street, on the grounds that they're easy to bribe with a couple of quid for sweets, and unlike friends and colleagues, they don't insist on half an hour of chit-chat on delivery!
I couldn't even rely on this diet now, as I developed lactose intolerance a few years back...
advice on how to combat my crash food preferences - for times where even a sandwich is too complicated to organise
This is a really important subject, which isn't addressed nearly often enough. If you live on your own it's incredibly difficult, specially as you don't have the energy to socialise.
Diabetes obviously makes it complicated, but it's hard enough even when you haven't got that issue. I too love nuts, but could neither chew nor digest them when I'm really badly crashed.
Fortunately it hasn't happened for a long while, but I used to favour chocolate digestive biscuits and cold milk. Partly because they fill you up quite well, and partly because they can be bought almost anywhere, meaning it's easy to ask people to get supplies for you. At my worst I've even resorted to asking random children playing on the street, on the grounds that they're easy to bribe with a couple of quid for sweets, and unlike friends and colleagues, they don't insist on half an hour of chit-chat on delivery!
I couldn't even rely on this diet now, as I developed lactose intolerance a few years back...

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