Some Good Food for Diabetics

Like what I mentioned during my previous entry, I was soooo excited to try out the recipes on my new cookbook by Betty Crocker. So last Saturday, with the book in front of me, I planned out the dishes that I was going to prepare based on the Carb Choice scheme. I planned on cooking some pork, some chicken, and a dessert. I also bought ingredients for some other recipes that were in the book for next weekends’ cooking.

Since I wouldn’t have time to do some serious cooking during the week due to my work schedule, I have to prepare about 2 - 3 meals all at once for the whole week. So that’s what I did last Saturday. I went to the grocery to get the ingredients I would need plus I also bought some tuna in cans, a fat-free mayo, some pickle relish to make some tuna salad and some chicken salad from our leftover chicken we bought from Sam’s Club yesterday. I promised my mother-in-law that I was going to make her some tuna salad and chicken salad for my husband’s nephew who just started working. (She prepares his lunch. Such a sweetie my MIL is :)

So there I was, back from the supermarket. I immediately started on the tuna and chicken salads first. Nothing special with those altho I added some slices of sun-dried tomatoes on the chicken salad that I made just to give it some extra zing.

Then I went on and cooked the “Asian Pork and Noodle Soup” and the “Cheesy Chicken Pasta Stew” from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. While I was preparing all the ingredients, slicing all the meat, chopping up the onions and the carrots and what-have-you’s, I was a little bit doubtful if they would turn out good since my impression was, diabetes cooking was going to be bland, to say the least. So, since this is my new lifestyle now, I braced myself for the “disappointment” I might experience.

But was I so surprised! They really, really, really tasted soooooooooooo GOOD! You wouldn’t even think that they were made for diabetic people because they were so flavorful. The Asian Pork and Noodle Soup tasted a bit like the Filipinos’ Tinola (due to the scent and taste of ginger) and the Cheesy Chicken Pasta Stew was to die for!

Unfortunately, due to copyright constraints, I cannot write down the recipe here. But I can probably give you the nutritional information for each of them and I can show you pictures of how they came out.

For the Asian Pork and Noodle Soup (which I had 2 servings of. Why? See how minimal the carb choice is below.)

  • 1 serving: 235 calories
    • Fiber: 2g
    • Sodium: 160mg
    • Cholesterol: 70mg
    • Protein: 26g
    • Carbohydrate: 15g (which translates to 1 Carb Choice!)

For the Cheesy Chicken Pasta Stew (This didn’t last as long as I planned because my husband loved it and had two servings for the two meals we had it.)

  • 1 serving: 325 calories
    • Fiber: 2g
    • Sodium: 440mg
    • Fat: 15g (Saturated 8g)
    • Protein: 27g
    • Cholesterol: 80mg
    • Carbohydrate: 21g (1 1/2 Carb Choice)

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One Response to “Some Good Food for Diabetics”

  1. kharen says:

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    HI Karen.

    Thank you very much for your concern. I will think about your suggestion. I know, it’s a non-curable disease and I am indeed lucky to have a good doctor and a very good husband. My husband is a nurse and he really takes care of me.

    You can use my templates anytime - kahit paulit-ulit :) Thank you for leaving me a note. Let me know if you get your site up using my template so I can put your site on my links :)

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