#1727 Bolus 4 - Applesauce
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
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🗓️ 3 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Scott and Jenny discuss how to bolus for applesauce.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Juice Box podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | In every episode of Bowles for, Jenny Smith and I are going to take a few minutes to talk through how to bowl us for a single item of food. |
| 0:22.0 | Jenny and I are going to follow a little bit of a roadmap called meal bolt. Measure the meal. |
| 0:28.0 | Evaluate yourself. Add the base units. Layer a correction. Build the bowl of shape. |
| 0:33.5 | Offset the timing. Look at the CGM, tweak for next time. |
| 0:43.3 | Having said that, these episodes are going to be very conversational and not incredibly technical. |
| 0:51.0 | We want you to hear how we think about it, but we also would like you to know that this is kind of the pathway we're considering while we're talking about it. |
| 0:55.2 | So while you might not hear us say every letter of meal bolt in every episode, we will be thinking about it while we're talking about it. So while you might not hear us say every letter of meal bolt in every episode, we will be thinking about it while we're talking. If you want to learn more, go to jukebox |
| 1:00.6 | podcast.com forward slash meal dash bolt. But for now, we'll find out how to bowl us for today's |
| 1:06.6 | subject. While you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox podcast |
| 1:14.4 | should be considered advice, medical, or otherwise. |
| 1:18.2 | Always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan or becoming |
| 1:23.7 | bold with insulin. |
| 1:29.8 | Applesauce. |
| 1:30.7 | I brought a whole bunch of applesauce in Florida. |
| 1:34.0 | You brought applesauce to Florida? |
| 1:35.7 | I shouldn't say we brought it to Florida. |
| 1:37.6 | So we, as I've told you before, we, like, if we're going to be on vacation to save money and just be more economical. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.8 | Especially at parks, which are just expensive, right? |
| 1:48.2 | We order in from Amazon, whatever cart or whatever it's called, fresh. |
| 1:53.8 | And so one of the things we order was applesauce because it's easy for both me in terms of carrying it around, as well as for the boys, they love applesauce. I'm going to guess it wasn't Mott's applesauce, though, which is the one I'm looking at. No, it wasn't. It was an organic, unsweetened. Organic unsweetened applesauce. You're ruining applesauce, Jenny. Well, why doesn't have to be sweetened? It's got natural sugar. It's just like eating an apple that's been parades. So would you, do you put, do you put sugar on your bites of apple slices? No. I'm sure there are some people that do. I've got a friend who actually put sugar on her watermelon. So, you know. Wait, you have a friend who sugars their watermelon? Yeah. Don't |
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