Quick cheesecake. No, really.

As you might already know, a constant "hiccup" in my daily life is low blood sugar. I can go from being totally fine and sociable to being sick to my stomach, dizzy, and a complete bitch in a matter of a minute and a half.
The other day I was, once again, on the verge of nausea from low blood sugar and was in a half daze trying to put together a snack of limited things in the house. I found a box of cinnamon-sugar Stop & Shop brand graham crackers in the depths of the pantry, and made a cream cheese sandwich out of it.
Now, when I'm in this daze of trying to find a quick snack that isn't totally shitty for me and something that has carbs to pick up my sugar, it goes one of two ways: I either devour 3/4 of a sleeve of Ritz crackers, or I catch myself in time to actually put something together that occasionally turns out to be quite delicious. Lots of times it involves cream cheese...like the banana cream pie on a Ritz. I love cream cheese.
Anyway, this time I had no bananas or other fruit for that matter, and usually I more enjoy the honey graham crackers over the cinnamon sugar ones, but holy moley was this one a good choice.

The first bite I took out of it was like "ok hopefully in 5 minutes I wont feel this sick anymore" and it quickly moved to "holy crap why is this so delicious??" It's become a new favorite snack. It literally tastes like cheesecake, and why not?? Afterwords I was like "DUH, cream cheese and graham cracker crust!" Plus the sugar on the cracker, which made the cream cheese taste sweeter and suddenly there was a light bulb above my head.
Try it. Just...seriously just try it.

Hypoglycemia

Socially awesome awkward penguin basically sums me up. Ever since I was in early elementary school, my mom knew something was off with my eating habits and needs, so we got some blood work done in elementary school as well as in the fifth grade where I had a hypoglycemic attack like I've never experienced since, and it was concluded that I was hypoglycemic. Its just a long word that means I have low blood sugar. I don't need to inject myself with anything daily, I just need to make sure I eat enough, all the time.
I know what you're probably thinking: all you have to do is eat enough? Honestly though it can sometimes be such a burden. If I go more than like 2 1/2-3 1/2 hours without eating anything at all, I get nauseous in the blink of an eye (its so weird...I'll be perfectly fine one minute, and the next I could easily be dry heaving over the toilet), dizzy, sometimes pretty disoriented, really tired, wicked cranky, and more than half the time I will lose my appetite, which makes it pretty difficult to get myself feeling back to normal again.
Its hard to keep up with eating so much though. If I happen to go "out" anywhere and I'm not sure when I'll be back, I have to make sure to at the very least bring a couple granola bars and some water with me. I don't think I've ever once gotten through one of my 3 hour classes without having to eat something at some point during it. I feel like a walking grocery store sometimes.
So it's pretty paramount that I have some go-to snacks to get in my belly either before or while the nausea begins to set in and I realize that I need something to eat, now. I've been trying pretty hard lately to make my own snacks to bring places too, instead of grabbing PopTarts or Chewy bars on my way running out the door because I forgot. There is always a 50/50 chance that I have an entire sleeve of Ritz crackers in my bag, but lately I've been trying to make my own "_____ and crackers" snacks to take on the run with me. Nutella on a Ritz is usually my go-to first thought. I love Nutella. After that, it's whatever fruit I have around me, smooshed into my Nutella. After that, whatevs. I think these are my favorites because I could die happy while eating anything of the salty/sweet combination (when I was a kid I would dip potato chips into Dr. Pepper. Yes, the soda, don't judge me).
Yesterday, though, I had cream cheese in the house. Smooshed it on a Ritz, ate it. Then I saw that we had bananas, so I cut up that banana, like so (I'm convinced I've come up with the tidiest way to slice bananas...),

put it on top, ate it. Then I realized that what I was eating could be like a mini banana-cream-pie, so I put a little bit of sugar on top of my next cracker's cream cheese (like quick-made cream cheese frosting), put that banana on top and ate that little shit too.

Cute, huh?
I should turn this into a segment. Hypoglycemia: Eat Something Before You Throw Up And/Or Pass Out.