# It's time for a Christmas bolus! **URL:** \ **Category:** Food\ **Created:** [December 22, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431 "2022-12-22T17:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CarlosLuis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/carlosluis/32/11389_2.png) [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/1 "2022-12-22T17:46:02Z")
We’re having our usual traditional Christmas tamales, ymmm! Have no clue what t bolus. Will be doing an extended of 60/40. ---
**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/2 "2022-12-22T17:57:15Z")
I think the 60/40 split makes sense due to the fat in the dough. The hard part for tamales in our experience is the variable amount of lard that is incorporated in the dough. They are delicious though definitely worth a trip up and down the blood sugar scale. When my wife was living in Port Aransas TX there was a lady that made them in her home and sold them in 12-packs. This was many years ago, but the perfection in her tamales still stands out. Just the right amount of dough to filling ratio with a somewhat spicy and very tasty filling. yuuum! ---
**Author:** ![bostrav59](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/bostrav59/32/7281_2.png) [@bostrav59](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/bostrav59)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/3 "2022-12-22T21:33:19Z")
Tamales are my favorite. Here in boston, there aren’t any good tamales to be had. Out on the west coast, they are all wonderful. I don’t remember how I bolus for them. But I do like them. ---
**Author:** ![JessicaD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@JessicaD](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/JessicaD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/4 "2022-12-22T22:32:16Z")
For awhile I was buying them from a guy who sold them out of his apartment building in Allston. I’m sure he had a commercial kitchen in there?!?!? They were SO GOOD! I’d pass along his contact info, but this was before covid and I’ll bet he’s not there anymore. But wow, now I’m craving them. To the topic, I have no recollection what I bolused for them. Probably 35g carb worth/tamale. Seems about right. My goodness, were those good. (I am in Portugal right now and we just had empanadas and they HIT THE SPOT.) ---
**Author:** ![CarlosLuis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/carlosluis/32/11389_2.png) [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/5 "2022-12-22T22:42:40Z")
> [@JessicaD](#): > > empanadas Mexican empanadas tend to be sweet. Years ago there was a little lunch place in Houston that served all kinds of empanadas, meats, cheeses, fruits and other sweet stuff. The owner was Argentinian. He made a delicious sangria with apples, pears, cherries, plums and peaches. What memories. ---
**Author:** ![JessicaD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@JessicaD](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/JessicaD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/6 "2022-12-22T22:50:32Z")
@CarlosLuis I adore memories like that. Would love to try a Mexican empanadas. Tonight’s were incredible – I am not sure what ethnicity this shop was based in (my husband and daughter picked them up from across the street from our airbnb). Last night my other daughter and I split a DANGEROUS pitcher of passionfruit sangria at an Italian restaurant of all places, insisting to my husband that it was low in alcohol (it was not). ---
**Author:** ![CarlosLuis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/carlosluis/32/11389_2.png) [@CarlosLuis](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CarlosLuis)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/7 "2022-12-22T23:10:18Z")
> [@JessicaD](#): > > insisting to my husband that it was low in alcohol (it was not). You walked to the restaurant, right? ---
**Author:** ![jim26](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/jim26/32/9780_2.png) [@jim26](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/jim26)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/8 "2022-12-22T23:14:22Z")
Love good tamales!!! ---
**Author:** ![JessicaD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@JessicaD](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/JessicaD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/9 "2022-12-22T23:18:36Z")
Yep, we are walking everywhere here! (And we really didn’t drink that much!) (But wow, was it good sangria!) ---
**Author:** ![Trying](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/trying/32/4078_2.png) [@Trying](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Trying)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/its-time-for-a-christmas-bolus/13431/10 "2022-12-24T01:02:27Z")
Love Tomales!! I don’t think I’ve eaten them since I was a kid when my sister discovered how to make them at home. She frequently made them when it was her day to prepare dinner.