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Treats for Diabetics
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Just wondering if anyone here can help, after reading th thread on making xmas gifts I am feeling very inspired and sitting planning what to do for gifts. I would like to do a nice hamper with treats like shortbrad and jam for an elderly relative, however he has recently been diagnosed as diabetic and am not sure what would be suitable. Can anyone help?
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About the best I can find, for the moment is ---> This Thread
Though I'm sure there have been other mentions somewhere.
Edit: I knew there was more
Chocolate cake for diabetics
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=81189
Sugar Free Cake
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=75934
Cereal bars for diabetics
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You can make meringues with Splenda (made from sugar, but no calories - use just like sugar). For anyone with diabetes and a sweet tooth, they are ideal!I'm a retired employment solicitor. Hopefully some of my comments might be useful, but they are only my opinion and not intended as legal advice.0
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Boots used to do a great range for diabetics with all kinds of Christmas treats and goodies in. One year fed up with watching my diabetic grandmother missing out while we tucked into the Christmas Puddding I made up a basket solely from this range complete with a sugar free individual Christmas Pudding. For the first time in years she tucked in with the rest of us. Her face said it all. Sadly she died later the next year but I still remember the pleasure that my final Christmas gift to her gave.Life's a beach! Take your shoes off and feel the sand between your toes.0
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some of the larger boots still do a diabetic range, i know a neighbour of mine gets some things from our large one. it may be worth a look.0
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Really think about things that are not food based. many of the specialist chocolates & sweets contain sweeteners which are actually a little bit laxitive. My daughter has been diabetic since she was 7 & we were told not to bother with special sweets by the medicos. They have just as many carbohydrates as ordinary sweets just the sugar is in a different form & they generally taste a bit weird.
You can get low carb pilsner beer which might be nice & is suitable in moderation0 -
Asian Sweet shops.
We've got loads near us and they have a great selection. I get my friends stuff from there.
Although - the packaging is not Christmasy, so I have to make my own.0 -
Thorntons do a diabetic range too.Here I go again on my own....0
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Perhaps Boots are brining back their diabetic-friendly sweets and stuff as an awful lot of MSErs seem to be getting a token for so many points on diabetic-friendly chocolate in our latest bundle of coupons through the mail from the Advantage Card schememy advantage_card is like gold dush0
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You could try looking on the British Diabetic Association website, they also have a catalogue and website is called diabetesshop I think, they do a good range, I order stuff from them all the time0
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Don't waste your money on so-called 'diabetic foods' - they are more often than not worse for you than 'normal' stuff. The current medical advice regarding food for diabetics is that they eat a healthy diet - the same advice that EVERYONE is advised to follow - ie 5 portions of fruit/veg per day, lean meat, wholemeal bread etc etc etc - and cakes/puds/sweets etc occasionally as a treat.
Diabetic chocolate is full of sorbitol, which is a laxative. It's also full of fat and tastes absolutely disgusting and is a massive, expensive con.
EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!!!! That's the key!
Try making your shortbread with something like splenda, and investigate ways of using less sugar in the jam - though unless your relative is putting bucket loads of jam on his bread then it doesn't really matter too much, a thin spread of it isn't going to do any damage.
If you want to buy stuff suitable for diabetics, Weight Watchers make a sugar-free jam (and it's absolutely delicious), and there's also another brand, but I can't remember what it is. There are loads of sugar-free sweets on the market - Sula is one - lots of delicious flavours and about 85 p for a little box, or Aquadrops - and I know there are others.
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