Need Help with diabetic cooking please :)

pigpen

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

I am afraid even with medication you can't eat just what you want:eek:

Ask me how I know

Candlelightx

depends on a lot of factors.. rat poison and anti-freeze cakes are never a good idea


We are yet to find something DS cannot eat. pasta and pizza are definitely the worst.

mardatha

He's the type who won't cheat - if I waved temptation under his nose he would look down it and give me the lQQk. I think maybe he is just fedup of sugar free jelly lol. I've been on low-carb sites looking for ideas but I just can't cope with the baking cheesecakes etc. Meat and veg is mainly ok, but the poster who said MEAL PLAN is right, this is my problem I think. I was doing ok but this week I've been tired and he is living on bacon & eggs or omelettes. Probably would be better to just rehome him.

happy35

If you have a slow cooker you could make soup and casseroles, bung some stuff in in the morning and not think about it for the rest of the day

I assume he can eat pulses so replace rice with pear barley easy to do and cheap. I made a risotto type thing wiht pearl barley, roast butternut squash and thyme and it was lovely

Also hairy bikers do some nice recipes, I regularly make their chicken and chorizo traybake and their lamb and potato curry and assume these would be ok

pudding wise I like fruit based things, I like yoghurt fruit and oat layered thing, also a digestive biscuit with cream and strawberries on was something I liked years ago for a treat

i am not diabetic so my tips might be totally wrong

smeeth

Not so much a recipe, more a tip from experience.
Try to get him to drink chamomile tea, both my Dad and another relative both diagnosed with type 2 due to being on steroids for other conditions, neither made any other changes to diet or exercise. But drank lots of chamomile tea.
It might not be connected, but my Dad got his HBA1C down by almost 2 in just over a year.
Worth a try.. HTH

Mojisola

mardatha wrote: »

I think maybe he is just fedup of sugar free jelly lol. I've been on low-carb sites looking for ideas but I just can't cope with the baking cheesecakes etc.

Why not just give up having puddings regularly?

VfM4meplse

Mojisola wrote: »

Why not just give up having puddings regularly?

Agreed. Whilst it would be a miserable life without some nice things to eat, these days who regularly cooks a pudding anyway? Stick to fresh fruit.

I can understand the need for protein, but too much bacon is not a good idea either.

mardatha

He can't eat fruit it puts his BG up. Thanks smeeth I'll get some chamomile tea and try that - he is taking cinnamon and that has got his numbers down into the high 5s every morning.
Re puddings my god I'd eat two puddings every meal instead of a main course lol. I know, I am a disgrace lol

midnight_express

I make iced lollies using diluted no added sugar squash. They are very low carb.

teddysmum

I've been type 2 for over 6 years and was very good on diet and exercise for a long time, but I began to slip a few years back and still got away with a good HbA1c.However, since July, I have been on a warning (medication) so have to be very good.


Having type 2 , but living with a difficult (foodwise) husband and having to do the shopping, so seeing all the temptations is far worse than being the type 2 being fed.


I'm finding desserts difficult, so rarely do them, but also put off going out for meals, as I don't want to be faced with all those lovely desserts put on show.


I agree, that a lot of diabetes recipe books have weird ingredients that I don't fancy and I am fussy in that I dislike pasta, spicy food and many vegetables. Some veg I do like (ie brassicas) don't agree with me and though I like tinned salmon (of course my husband doesn't), other fish gives me indigestion.


I have another condition, possibly emerging, that will mean cutting out things I like, such as yoghurt (Irish Yoghurt is fat and added sugar free), cheese and other dairy, so at least I'll end up sylphlike.

RAS

This is very simple one pot bake that I cook and that I sometimes share with the diabetic member of my family. It is not low fat but your comments suggest that calorie intake is not a problem.

Chicken bits - I prefer thighs to breast meat but you choose.
A selection of vegetables in large chunks, excluding potato, parsnip and any other high carb veggies, tossed lightly in oil. You can add tomatos, mushrooms and cauli, although I would do this about 10 minutes after starting to bake. I like to include an onion, quartered and some garlic cloves (skin intact), plus a sprinkling of dried herbs (thyme is nice) or some basil (fresh). You can tuck in half a lemon as well although I would either add tomatoes or lemon not both.

Bake in the oven until you chicken is cooked right through and the veggies are done. I cover for about 15 minutes and then roast. Add the cover again if things start to burn rather than used colour.

Serve with salad if you like or a plain green veggie as a contrast. Either squeeze the lemon over the chicken or use the baked tomato to make a "sauce".

If you make twice as much as you need; the baked chicken is the basis of another meal, cold or hot. Any left over roast veggies can be heated with some stock and blitzed to make soup.

So you get three meals from one main cooking session.