Daily Diabetic Diet and Recipes
Diabetic Diet
It would be nice if diabetes was more like a food allergy and you could simply avoid one type of food, take your meds, and you’d be all set. Instead, diabetes means a 24-hour-a-day balancing act between blood sugar levels and an entire category of foods (carbohydrates).
Diabetic Recipes
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Sugar and Sweets can be part of a diabetic diet, but should be combined with other foods to lessen their impact on blood sugar.
Fats are a necessary part of any diet. With diabetes, excess weight and risk of heart disease are concerns, so managing fat intake is especially important.
Water and Other Low-calorie beverages are the best ways to quench your thirst without adding excess calories and carbohydrates.
Vinegar
balsamic, fruit-infused, herb-infused, red wine, white wine, sherry, malt, rice wine, cider.
Oils
canola, olive, safflower, sesame. Not necessary, but nice to have for added flavor: almond, avocado, grapeseed, hazelnut, peanut, and walnut.
Pasta
angel hair, bow ties (farfalle), lasagna, linguine, penne, Oriental rice sticks, rotelle, spaghetti, ziti.
Stir the pasta two or three times throughout the cooking process. Pasta cooks in eight to ten minutes. The brief time you spend attending to it away from family or guests will reap huge rewards at the dinner table.
