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Diabetic Cooking:Class 101

To Prevent The
Early Symptoms Of Diabetes

Diabetic cooking is really not that much different than cooking for a non-diabetic. With a few simple substitutions, you can create meals with less fats (trans fat and saturated fats), fewer calories, reduced carbohydrates and lower sodium (salt) levels. All of this will finally help you to prevent the early symptoms of diabetes.

While learning how cooking for diabetics or even diabetic baking differs from regular cooking, you can transform a recipe by just utilizing some simple substitutions. You can therefore re-work almost any of your favorite recipes by giving it a makeover. This procedure then helps to control the constant swings of your blood sugars.

Diabetic Cooking For Meal Substitutions

Many people hate the word makeover when it concerns a recipe. We all are accustomed to our own versions of “comfort food” and we really are in no mood to have some kitchen quack try to convince us their version is better.

But what happens when the makeover version is so close to the taste and texture of the original, that if you as the cook don’t mention to the family you tried a makeover, nobody at the table even realizes it. With the right basic ingredients and the knowledge of how to use them, this does actually become possible.

Normal
Try This Instead
white rice, pasta or noodles
whole wheat pasta and noodles or whole grain rice
4% milk
skim milk or 1 % milk
unsweetened chocolate baking bar
3 T. unsweetened cocoa powder
cream
fat free evaporated skim milk
1 egg
2 egg whites or eggbeaters
mayonnaise or sour cream
nonfat sour cream or greek style fat-free yogurt

cooking oil for baking
unsweetened applesauce or pureed prunes (from a baby food jar)
salt
reduce 1/2 the measurement asked for in recipe
ground beef, bacon or sausage
ground turkey, turkey bacon or turkey sausage
milk, butter or soft cheese which is high in saturated fat
skim milk, olive oil or a hard cheese-parmesan
cooking with butter or vegetable oil in skillet
cook with pan spray and then drizzle small amount of olive oil over top of food when serving
full portion sizes
share your plate with a friend or spouse or separate and have 1/2 for tomorrow’s lunch
frozen pasta with vegetables in sauce
vegetables with small amount of pasta drizzled with a light sauce

So by slowly including some of these simple diabetic cooking substitutions in all of your own home cooking, you have the advantage of still enjoying a great meal but in a healthier finished version.

So when you are newly diagnosed and you are trying to figure out what the doctor meant when he said to start eating a good quality healthy diabetic breakfastevery day or the nutritionist insists diabetic and low fat cooking with herbs is your new goal, try these instead of using all those heavy sauces made from cream, butter or cheese.

Start slowly and incorporate a few of these changes into your diet. Your final results will lead to lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels, better blood pressure control, loss of weight and a reduced risk of heart disease. Ultimately though, diabetic cooking will lead to a noticeable difference in the control of your blood sugar levels.

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