Discussing Diabetes

[Indiana]

Nancy good idea I have a backup. Even though I just take mine once in a while it is from when I needed one everyday.

[Nancy]

It would be better if I could find the topic form for Diab. for this link.
It's a traveling with diab. / packing list on one of their pages.
This site also has some great books!

http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=103441

Thanks to the mods that moved this post over here
from PWYC for me!

I got a back up monitor and have a coupon for a free Bayer one and some strips
for it also so I"ll be checking on that next time we are at the store.

[Nancy]

I have food issues this year again surrounding Turkey day.
It kicked in at the grocery store.
Now with hubby's low salt diet it's even more of a challenge.
It seems that there is nothing healthy about this day.
Sigh I'm looking for some alternatives.
Cooking a small turkey for the two of us is not going to work.
Maybe a turkey breast and
cranberry stuffing if I use our own spices instead of the packet.
I hate it that I have no clue what I'm doing again this year.

Today I can say I did great on the chili w/ low salt maybe we can have that!
Cranberry stuffing with our own spices instead of the ones in the box.
With turkey breast.

Okay I have a menu for two

turkey breast x
cranberry stuffing {I'll set out hubby's before adding spice mix.} x
green salad
cauliflower w/ cheese topping / mix veg.
fruit salad / jello x
crustless pumpkin pie / desert x

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Last night got the turkey breast for H. & I and cranberry stuffing wanted to try making
that this year, and sug. free orange jello for salad and topping for it and the pie.

[Indiana]

Nancy there can be plenty healthy on Thanksgiving including low sodium.

You had a good idea on a turkey breast. Leftovers can be frozen.

Here are links to several sites that have healthy side dishes and desserts. The counts are included in all most all of them.

A link for healthy swaps for Thanksgiving:

http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats ... P2_TGSwaps

Splenda has a lot of side and desserts:

http://splenda.tastebook.com/

Kraft-Diabetes Center has Thanksgiving recipes:

http://www.kraftrecipes.com/healthy-liv ... /main.aspx

Self Has Thanksgiving recipes too:

http://www.self.com/fooddiet/2010/11/di ... ws_hl1101#

It is better and easier than you think just keep a positive attitude that you can have a great menu.

[Nancy]

For Christmas I'm thinking egg plant Lasagna for a low carb. version
with eggplant slices in place of regular lasagna noodles
I saw this cooked on a gardening show today
I love this idea! !
The Schwan's catalogue has some thing like this,
I'm going to check at the groc. store too.

24.5 carbs. Yea!!!

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[Nancy]

I need to add a couple of plus low carb. things that I thought of
to my holiday menu deviled eggs have been a hit for us, and a relish plate.

[Indiana]

Those are both good Nancy. I liked your idea of eggplant lasagna. It sounds lighter than regular lasagna. Lighter not only in calories but lighter because the noodles in lasagna tend to he heavy.

[Nancy]

Thanks Indiana!

Today I used some of the same stuff in soup, low salt can of tomatoes with oregano and Basel and some tomato sauce with beef stew meat and other veggies I had on hand like onion, carrots, celery, a dab of leftover spinach and one small zucchini squash for an even lighter recipe and it does not have the cheese in it great for a rainy day like we are having.

I will adapt this with ground beef and no carrot with spagitti sp? squash on another day.

I like what Dr. Oz said about replacing carbs with vegetables, and putting canned goods in the fridge so you can scoop the fat off the top. And eat and apple 1/2 hour before lunch it fills you
up so you do not want so many carbs.

[Harriet]

I'm learning more about diabetes lately. Dd12 was to pick a disease and pretend she had been commissioned by a government agency to write an informative brochure about it. One of the main requirements is that the back page of the brochure has to be a bibliography, and, of course, we have diabetes books right on the shelf lately. So she was set.

She found the clearest general explanations from Dr. Neal Barnard in "Program for Reversing Diabetes" (2007), so will probably use his book a lot. I notice, btw, that for quick meals he highly recommends low-fat vegetarian soups, especially Tabatchnick, Amy and Health Valley brands. I am used to seeing these as canned products. He says he especially thinks keeping the frozen ones on hand is smart. He is certainly the "anti-Atkins", very concerned about fat intake and critical of dairy.