Chicken Pot Pie

Eight servings, a homemade top and bottom crust, and a busy website full of ads.

1. One recipe of homemade pie doughSix tablespoons of cold unsalted butter and three-quarters of a cup of vegetable shortening, once Jenny clicked through — “It's high fat.”
2. One pound of boneless skinless chicken breastA third of a cup of butter, half a cup of celery, a third of a cup of onion, a third of a cup of all-purpose flour.
3. Salt, pepper, celery seed, garlic powder, a teaspoon of chicken bouillon pasteOne cup of milk. Eight ounces of frozen mixed vegetables — carrots, peas, green beans, corn.
4. One egg, one tablespoon of milkThe wash. Jenny first spotted the tablespoon and missed the cup; Scott sent her back up the page.

Add the base units, layer a correction — the A and the L of Meal Bolt.

1. 35 carbs ÷ 10 = 3.5 unitsThe base units, at a 1:10 ratio.
2. (130 − 100) ÷ 50 = 0.6 unitsCurrent blood sugar minus target, divided by the correction factor. “An additional point six units of insulin is going to be needed on top of the three point five.”
3. 4.1 units up front3.5 plus 0.6, before a single fat-protein unit.
4. 350 calories of fat and protein = 3.5 units20 grams of protein is 80 calories, 30 grams of fat is 270. One fat-protein unit is 100 calories, treated like 10 grams of carb. At 1:10, 3.5 units — the same as the carbs — extended over four to five hours.

Scott writes it down at 25:35 — carbs 35, fat 30, protein 20, bolus 3.5, correction 0.6, up front 4.1, extended 3.5. Total on the tape: “four five six seven,” 7.6. The estimator's math on the same macros: 4.10 up front, 3.50 over five hours, 7.60 total — Jenny's head and the tool land on the same numbers.

As Scott read it: immediate bolus 4.4, 3.26 fat-protein units, an extended wave of 3.25 units, total dose 7.65. Dual or square wave over five hours, pre-bolus thirteen minutes. The estimator's math on the same macros lands at 4.40 up front and 3.26 extended — a hundredth apart from the prompt on the extended, the rounding on 3.26 units.

Scott: “Look how close you were on all that. That's amazing.” The 0.3 up front is three more carbs in the prompt's count. Jenny: “I was a little bit over in protein and fat just slightly. So that would make the difference too.”

Because Scott taught it Meal Bolt, it wrote the L and the T for him.

1. Look at the CGM at three hoursThe fat-protein units are on the low end of the five-hour bracket, 3.26. If you tend to run low, you could shorten to four hours — but the standard Warsaw protocol says five.
2. Tweak for next timeSince the duration is shorter than the six-slice version, check that the tail of the fat and protein didn't outlast the insulin.
3. Scott's point“Hire Jenny if you can. If your brain works that way, god bless you.” If it doesn't — and his doesn't — ask the thing.

“I always try to think what's usable.”

1. A restaurant mealYou don't have the recipe, but you may have the ingredients. A better base to start from.
2. The Friday-night meal you've never figured outChicken pot pie every week, eight weeks in, still guessing and nudging. Put the recipe in once, get the breakdown, and put a sticky note in the margin: this is exactly how to do this meal.
3. Twenty mealsDo it for the twenty you make over and over and you've probably covered a good 80% of your management, especially dinners. Not 100% — the variables around a meal change — but a solid foundation.

Same parameters. He didn't tell it anything about how any of it was made.

1. Atlantic salmon, 6 ounces18 fat · 34 protein
2. Mashed potatoes, 1 cup35 carb · 9 fat · 4 protein. Jenny: “It's about right.”
3. Dinner roll, one16 carb · 2 fat · 3 protein
4. Green beans, 1 cup7 carb · 4 fat · 2 protein. It came back with a bolus and an extended wave — Scott's caveat: he didn't say how the beans were cooked or what was on the roll. It's an estimate.

The hidden, password-protected page on Scott's site, fed the prompt's macros: 4.6 initial bolus, 3.26 for the fat-protein units, 7.86 combined, dual wave over five hours, wait thirteen minutes. Against the prompt's 4.40 / 3.25 / 7.65 — “they disagree by point two,” and that's the target being 90 here instead of 100. Jenny: “Which is negligible for most people.”