Tips for diabetic people
 

Looking for new diabetic ideas.
#1 I don’t buy hamburger or sandwich buns anymore - too many carbs. Instead we use high fiber tortillas. Peanut butter in a rolled up tortilla is a pretty good snack.

sounds good so far!

I would like to have some recipes for diabetes. A relative who will be staying with me for a week, was recently diagnosed but has not seen the dietician yet. Any quick ideas for snacks and meals?

Google diabetic eating plans. From my experience, the key for diabetics is low carb and less food. Salads and lean meat, broiled or baked instead of fried. The old Weight Watchers eating plan from the 80s and 90's is perfect. 15 grams of carbs counts as 1 carb. All vegetables with low calories are good. Research the high fiber foods like Sweet potatoes and brown rice. Eggs are a good source of protein.

Cheese, even though high fat, is a good protein and has very few carbs. My husband is a type 2 diabetic. He has to have his treats and he loves ice cream. There are several, like a stick-in-the-mud (vanilla ice cream surrounded by chocolate) and dreamscicles (Vanilla ice cream surrounded by orange sherbert) that are only 1 carb. We buy only the no sugar added or artificial sweetener. Hubby tries to stay at about 6~8 carbs a day. This allows him a sandwich for lunch (2 slices of bread = 2 carbs). He does eat a healthy serving of Cheerios each morning with about a cup of milk. This counts as a protein, a milk serving and a couple of carbs. I do buy cookies, but I make sure a serving, which is usually 4 cookies is less than 2 carbs and we eat only two. It's just a lifestyle change for many of us.

A recipe that is so good for the summer is the fruit salad with a small Cool whip, small box of No sugar vanilla jello and 3 different types of canned drained fruits. Drain the fruit and Use the fruit juices to beat with the Jello and then stir in the cool whip. For fruits I use Mandarin oranges, diced peaches and diced pineapple. You can add fresh grapes cut in half, diced cherries and sliced bananas if you want. Stir the fruits into the Cool whip jello mix, put in the fridge to cool down and enjoy.

The key is moderation in all the food we eat. We split all our meals when we go out to eat and even a lunch portion is more than enough for the two of us and we usually have some to take home.

My friend is diabetic and always had trouble with her numbers. She felt stress over everything she ate that she really wanted to eat. She got a wake up call and decided cut out all simple carbs. She says she feel better then she ever has. Her numbers are steady and she no longer dreads testing every day. She said the first few months were hard and she felt deprived and angry but that passed and it's better then forever six feet under before her time. I think simple carbs is as hard to quit as quiting tobacco. She doesn't try to find alternative foods for sweets or carbs.

Here's one I just learned. Yogurt pie. Sugar free gram cracker or cookie crust. 2 containers sugar free yogurt, 8 oz sugar free whipped topping. Mix yogurt and topping, plop it into the crust. Freeze 2-3 hours. Let set out for 20-30 min to get soft enough to cut. Add sliced fruit.

Jim has me taking pills called White Kidney Bean Extract. It blocks carbs being absorbed by me. I have lost 66 pounds.

Tonight we had a lean meat and 3 vegetable salads. Both us feel better and not so bloated with less carbs in our bellies.

Try eliminating refined flour and refined sugar. Most natural sugars/carbs are ok depending on numbers. It's a tedious process reading labels but worth the effort. Most sugar substitutes are ok.

I'm not diabetic, but try to eat as healthy as I can. This is what I sub for ice cream...I put a whole, unpeeled banana in the freezer..yes you can! Depending on temp of your freezer, it should take an hour or so to freeze to just the right consistency..you want it hard, but not rock solid. Then take it out, peel, mash with a fork, top with all kinds of fresh fruit, enjoy! I actually like this much better than ice cream.