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What do you do to keep your glucose levels steady between meals and over night as you sleep? Over the years I have read seemingly endless suggestions and recommendations for diabetic snacking. There are so many “rules” out there for how to snack I won’t even try to go into them. One thing I have …
When this blog was started, the main premise revolved around substitutions. If you are a Diabetic and you really, seriously care about controlling the disease then you MUST cut way back on the amount of carbohydrates you eat. I have found that huge amounts of diabetics do not understand that, within the body, carbohydrates metabolize …
Do any of you readers have a restaurant pet peeve? I sure do, and that is salads. I love salad. Specifically fresh vegetable tossed salad. When I order a salad I expect it to be cut up pieces of a LOT of fresh veggies. Some lettuce. Not just plain old iceberg, but red leaf, or …
Fried Green Tomatoes For those of you who garden, towards the end of Summer, there is always an abundance of vegetables available. Sometimes more than you know what to do with. That’s when I go a little bit nuts with “end of Summer” soups, salads, stews, whatever I can dream up. When there is just …
As a Diabetic myself, and a mildly overweight one at that, I am constantly on the prowl for ways to eat a really tasty, nutritious meal that is low in carbohydrates. That’s why these diabetic tin foil dinners are such a treat for the Diabetic in me and low in calories, for the overweight me. …
It would be rather stupid of me to say “all Diabetics are ———–“. Any time you say “all” in reference to anybody or anything you usually get in trouble. If it were not for that truism I would say “all Diabetics are overweight and need to lose anywhere from some to a lot of weight”. …