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Diabetes friendly recipes
Topic Started: Dec 19 2005, 07:29 PM (484 Views)
yaffalafa
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I am visiting my family in NY for about a month. Usually when we visit, my dh and I do all the cooking for shabbos. Recently, one of my family members was diagnosed with late onset diabetes. I dont have that much familiarity with the diet. So, I was wondering if any of you had some good recipes that were carb/ diabetes friendly. I know that this person's condition isn't very bad so, he's allowed a bit of carbs here and there, but this person does need to check their blood levels and watch what they eat.
I was wondering if any of you could help me out with some good (the easier the better) recipes(Zu already said she had a few recipes for me, thanks in advance :) ).
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My all time favorite was fake mashed potatoes:) Take cauliflour and steam it. Mash with a potato masher (or a fork), maeg, salt, pepper. Yummmy.

Chicken- check the backs of marinades. A lot of them have very little carbs. I know the italian dressing we get is 0 carbs. I like to marinade the chicken and bake it. Or salt, garlic powder, paprica and bake.

Not much you can do about challah and kiddush. Depending on the person depends on if for the meal they can have any other carbs. I personally could not.

Chicken soup- loads of veggies, lots of chicken. lay off on the noodles ;)

fish- sometimes I would bake some salmon. Lots of ways to do it. My personal fav was to steam it with a mayo/lemon juice/dill week dressing over it. Or poach it and service with the sauce on the side. I kind of avoided the sugar free gefilta loaves cause they kind of lack taste without the sugar. But when I needed to use them I would try to use a good tomato sauce (tomato didn't bother me) with sauteed onions over it.

Shabbos lunch i loved to (before shabbos) take sandwhich meat and throw it in the oven to get it a bit crispy (and cause I was preg so needed to cook it), cut it up in strips. Than for lunch throw together a huge salad with sunflower seeds, sandwhich meat, hard boiled eggs cut up, and veggies. Throw on italian dressing or another low carb dressing. I found some good ones in the health section at our grocery store.

You would be surprised how many kugels are good. have to look into my files but I remember the spice and spirit ones being pretty good. (okay not the lukson ones or the potato ones, but zucchini and others)

crustless quishe. I can get you a recipe if you want, but most quishe recipes are good. I think someone posted one somewhere. Loads of protein in them!

OH! Zucchini soup!!! You could prob. make with most veggies too. Sautee onions (4). Add in about 4 chopped zucchini and sautee a bit. Add water to cover the zucchinis. Bring to boil and let simmer for and hour and a half. Take immersion blender or blender and blend. Salt and pepper to taste. yummy!

HTH
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I also have to watch my sugar, but not to that extent.

The meat, fish and veg is the easy part. Soup also can be made with nearly anything cookable. Marinades are the best when they don't come out of a bottle - olive oil, vinegar, spices and dry red wine are main ingredients. A lot of taste can be added by generous use of onions, roots, celery and herbs/greens like parsley, dill and cusbara. Good soup addition - egg drops, egg alone w/o corn flour or potato starch. All of these things taste much better if no sugar is added.

The prob - sides and dessert. Sides can be made by stir fry, pan kugel or fritters/latkes. Not only cauliflower can be mashed. Parsley root, carrots and pumkin.l Here is a sefardi recipe that is delicious. Cook pumpkin(pos. sub. carrots or sweet potato) until soft and mash. Mix olive oil, 1 or 2 crushed garlic, salt and cumin. Stir into mashed veg. Good hot or cold.

Desserts can be made with --ugh-- artificial sweetner. They are lying if they say it tastes good. Unfortunatly most of the good ones are milchic. Skip it or put out hot and soft drinks and shelled, salted nuts after dinner. Sweeetner is not so bad in hot drinks and unfortunately we've gotten over the bad taste of diet soft drinks and are used to them.

Kiddush - dry wine. Semi dry is really semi sweet and has added sugar. Even grape juice that doesn't have added sugar has natural fruit sugar and I get a zetz from it. Dry wine doesn't taste good from a silver cup though. It can be kept in a separate open glass and mixed with a small portion of the kiddush (halacha check).Remember that only the Mekadesh has to drink most of the cup.

Lechem Mishneh - Nearly everyone can eat a k'zayit of the nonsweet challah. It is sold anywhere there are Chassidim or sefardim who can't make hamotzi on the sweet challahs. This is what you save your carbs for. There is no mitzvah to eat more bread than the k'zayit.
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btw- I make my challah with splenda and desserts too so it is less carbs. My family likes it.
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zuncompany
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btw- I make my challah with splenda and desserts too so it is less carbs. My family likes it.

Wow - dh can't stand the artificial sweetners.

Dh has been a diabetic for the last ten years so we've learned a lot.

You've already got a bunch of great recipes but here's something you may not have thought about.

Yes - be careful about carbs and sugar but it is the absolute biggest bummer when we go to the home of a good cook and they have purposefully made everything with splenda or no carbs because they think this will make it so that Sam can eat it. Just because someone is a diabetic doesn't mean they've lost their tastebuds. I would say to find out if this person is on a strict diet or if they are simply taking meds and watching carbs somewhat. Dh can eat whatever he wants (within limits of course because obviously a big slice of pumpkin pie is going to have to be prethought) because he has an insulin pump. This person you are feeding...are they on insulin shots or pills? If it is diabetes two (non insulin dependant and can be controlled through diet and pills) then they actually might have LESS leeway than if the person is on shots (once you are on shots there is a different philosophy to life since you can't control it with food.)

Also - based on personal experience - skip the desserts. Much better to have fresh fruit than to try and whip up something "fake" with the artificial sweetners. If they want to splurge and eat some real dessert than it's much better to have a small piece of the real thing than a big piece of something you just don't feel satisfied with.

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sarah- the recipe I use, it works. I guess to some people they can taste is, but since I have only made this recipe with splenda, we are all cool with it. Also I put cinn. sugar (splenda again) to give it an extra yummy kick.

I agree- it depends on if its diet controlled or insulin controlled. I never took insulin and could only have 15g of carbs a meal (30g with dinner). Doesn't go far when you are required to have a bit of kiddush and a bit of challah.

I agree about taste- I always felt blah when people would serve me the soup chicken and a steamed veggie. I could have taste- just not carbs.

I have a GREAT apple pie recipe actually somewhere made with splenda. Its honestly good! Someone gave it to me while preg with Zu and my guests were always begging for more.

Everyone is set off by their own foods. For me it was potatoes, corn, and rice. I was fine with bread. Used to eat a big juicy burger and have no probs! But I would have a 1/4 cup of rice or corn and my blood sugar was through the roof. Apples did nothing to my blood sugar so I liked using them for my desserts cause I could eat more:)
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no potatoes
no sweet potatoes
no whit four

yes - brown rice
yes - al dente noodles
yes - vegetables

maybe - fruit
but
no - grapes
no - watermelon
no - honeymelon
no - brown bananas

try to get fructosa for baking
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Can we get your pie recipe?
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crust:
makes 5 or 6 balls:
1 lb Crisco (or other shortening)
5 C. Flour
1Tablespoon Salt:
in 1 Cup measuring cup mix:
1 Egg
2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
1 Tablespoon Vinegar (white)
beat well and add water to make 1 cup.

with a pastry blender mix flour into crisco, then mix in liquid and once mixed dump onto board and gently knead into 1 large ball, make sure it is not sticky!
Cut into 5 or 6 balls.
Crust can be frozen in balls and defrosted for use!

Pie:
in a 9.5 pie plate, need a double crust, one for the top and one for the bottom.
9-11 apples (I use a mix of about 7 pink lady's, 2 granny smith, and 2 golden delishious...or course these are small to medium size...)

less than 1 Cup Sugar (or Splenda)
3 Tablespoons Flour
1 Heaping teaspoon Cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
Combine the above and add to 9-11 cut and peeled apples (app. 8 cups)

Place mixture in pie plate (with bottom crust in plate already) and dot with margarine before putting top crust on.
Put top pie crust on, pinch sides together, and design edges with fingers.
Brush with milk (non-dairy creamer in this is a better sub for the milk than soy or rice)after putting top crust on ...slit the top and put in oven!

Bake at 400 degrees for 40 minutes

note- 1 large apple = 1 cup.
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i would ask the person him/herself, if possible. diff. people have diff requirements depending on their condition, how bad it is, how well it is controlled and with what.

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