Diabetic or low calorie/sugar/fat recipies.

[Krepta3000]

I have been pre-diabetic for years and years, and now I'm borderline diabetic, which means, IMHO, that I'm diabetic just not bad enough to need insulin shots yet. Instead I'm on a once daily pill to control my blood sugar. Having to take medicine, check my blood glucose regularly, and control my diet are all proof as far as I'm concerned that something's wrong, and needs to be dealt with. Wouldn't you agree with that?

So, anyways, Dad has diabetes because of the drug he has to take for sarcoidosis, a life long disease that will kill him if he stops taking his medicine. And now I'm sort of on the knife's edge between diabetes, and not diabetes. Tipping over into full diabetes probably won't take long. So, what we need is a radical change in our diet, I think. My Dad has been given a diabetic cookbook, I can start putting in recipes from it here, and I'd love to see diabetes friendly recipes from you guys on here too.

I have a limited foodstamp allowance of $200 per month. Dad can't afford all the food costs, so I help supplement what he is able to do. We Were on the HCG diet, but it's become too expensive to keep going on it. Both the drug, and the food costs, became too much for us to handle. I'm going to try my very best to only purchase good, healthy, foods, but it would really help if I knew exactly what to get, have a plan, etc.

I'm incredibly tired right now.

Have any of you heard of Jamie Oliver? His Food Revolution is totally awesome, but apparently ABC canceled it after just two episodes of the second season aired, supposedly because of low ratings, and replaced it with reruns of Dancing with the Stars. I don't like that show at all, I think it's totally useless, I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. How America has become so dumbed down, stupid, brain dead, is a serious problem. ABC deciding to favor the dumbing down of America instead of promoting Good, Wholesome, and Entertaining Educational programming is an utter travesty! I don't fraking care about the ratings, those are just idiotic statistics anyway. You do know that they don't track Every single person's viewing habits don't you? The one data point they track is what the Average people watch, Live. What about people who record things to watch later? What about people who watch things online instead of the TV? Not tracked, they don't care, apparently. Only Live TV Ad viewing is important to them.

Well, I'm off track a bit, I guess. Much too tired. So tired. Where's the BEEF?! In my pocket? With a rocket? No, surely not, how silly. Let there be enlightenment, and health, in your minds, and in your bodies.

Peace.

[Project]

OK well I will say this. I am trying to change my diet as well. I am trying to always fill up on fresh, non-cooked food. All vegetables are great if you can find the way you like them (and I was not a veggie fan at all previously). Find a local farmer market (I guess with foodstamps that may be harder, but I still think you may be able to find local producers that would take them), they are almost always the cheapest and best quality. I use a homemade vinaigrette and season things like carrot, celery, cucumber, broccoli, etc. Obviously there is no soda pop, candies, cake, ice cream etc etc allowed (maybe on special occasions).

Eat raw food all day, always have a bag of veggies or fruit with you. When it comes to dinner or lunch, eat simply. Have a sandwich with mustard, lettuce, turkey and good bread (make your own bread for best price and quality). Nuts can be expensive, but a great source of "good fat" and protein as well, plus they are a good snack food instead of chips or junk food. I dehydrate apples, pears, kiwi, etc (again, cheap if you do it yourself), and I cut those up into the nut mix. Once a week I make a huge mix of nuts and fruit and that keeps me in snacks, and breakfast sometimes. The cost for that mix is about the same as two boxes of cereal (which is made with corn crap and is terrible for you).

I don't believe in "diets", I think we can all eat healthily, but it does take some willpower and preparation.

Obviously you need to find your own solutions, but I think the less you cook things the better, plus that is when you would normally put in sugar, butter, etc... so you skip those steps.

Some links that may help:

http://www.diabeticcooking.com/DCFin...ipeFinder.html

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/health...etic/Main.aspx

One thing I don't like is so many of those use SPLENDA or some other gross sugar substitute. I know it is good for diabetics since it does not affect blood sugar, but I think it probably affects other things that could be detrimental to your health.