Well, I'm a little lost on my menu planning. DH was told his blood sugar and glucose levels are diabetic this past week. Honestly, it's not *my* cooking, it's the
Rather than torture him completely to begin with, I'm doubling his fruit and vegetable content, and I'm not baking any sweets until I see his numbers go back down to an acceptable level. And he's not to eat any food at work that I don't send with him! (I fully blame fast food at work) We'll see if we can fix this without drugs.
Monday: DH is working a double, so soup for dinner
Tuesday: recipe of the week
Wednesday: Baked chicken, asparagus, Seasoned French Fries
Thursday: Creamy Cheese Chicken
Friday: homemade pizza night with lots of veggies
Saturday: Easy Pasta Bake (with whole wheat pasta)
Sunday: Orange chicken, steamed veggies, brown rice
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5 comments:
My husbands levels were pre diabetes so we have cut out sugar. We are also trying to fix it without meds and trying to lose weight which they say will help tons. I bake stuff but he limits ok I limit the amount bc if I made 40 cookies..30 of them are going in him lol. There are lots of low glucose recipes online and a magazine called Low Fat Living (he also has high bad fats) just as helpful hints! :]
Ugh, hopefully you can get the blood sugar under control with just diet. My whole family is borderline diabetic or diabetic (except for me, I'm hypoglycemic) and I've seen what untreated blood sugar issues can do.
The change that worked the most for my family was switching over to whole wheat everything. Complex carbs for the win!
I hear ya. DH and I have moved to eating oatmeal for breakfast every day. I prepare individual servings every evening (minus the water) and put a plastic cover over the bowl (shower cap type). Quaker Oats old fashioned oats (from Costco), homemade brown sugar, raisins, cinnamon. I add powdered milk to DH's. Microwave three mins in a deep bowl (bubbles up a lot). I like walnuts in mine which are supposed to be a super food with omega 3s and all. Oats are whole grain complex carbs, keep you full longer. Cinnamon is supposed to have some magical effect on blood sugar level (if you eat enough). We're slowly getting out of the habit of automatically having dessert every night, which I miss terribly...but look at people around you to see the consequences of a poor diet, and it gets scary. I'd say make slow, deliberate, lifelong changes. My DH, too, is obsessed with grabbing all the free goodies he can at work. We DWs have to quietly set good examples at home and guilt them into being good at work.
Oh that stinks about DH's blood sugar. I hate how much crap my husband eats at work and I'm scared to see his cholesterol level not just his blood sugar! Good luck with working this out naturally through diet- It is indeed challenging but can be done (oldest son's dad is diabetic).
BTW, your creamy chicken sounds so yummy! Comfort food for a grey, rainy day, can't wait to try it out!
You might check with a local hospital of yours and see if they give free diabetic classes.
That really helped us when my hubby was told he had prediabetes and needed to do changes or he'd end up being diabetic within a year or less.
He has lost 38 pounds total since we began moderating his diet.
Mostly it's portion control.
They said that he should have a breakfast of usually a healthy cereal with skim or fat free milk. That it shouldn't exceed 300 to 350 calories combined and to really try to keep the carb count as low as possible. The boxes of the cereals will tell you what a serving size is. I actually send hubby to work with breakfast because he works long shifts. I put the serving size of cereal in a rubbermaid container that is bowl like with a screw on lid. I like these bowls because they have a line on them half way up and it says one cup (that's a usual serving size of cereal). Then I send in a container the milk, because I won't mix the two together, or it would be too soggy before he ate it.
For a mid morning snack I like to give him a Fiber One Yogurt, the ones with only 50 calories.
For lunch I like to use Wonder bread's Light Wheat Bread it has fewer calories than any bread I've found, only 80 calories in two slices. We put two slices of low fat lunch meat on the bread along with French's yellow mustard or fat free low calorie mayo or low fat or fat free miracle whip salad dressing. We put the amount on the side of the containers to ensure we are only giving him one serving. Sometimes we'll give him a peanut butter sandwich for a change of pace, or instead of a sandwich I'll give him a large salad.
For an afternoon snack he either has a small piece of fruit or a serving size of nuts.
During the day he drinks unsweetened tea or water with a little lemon or lime juice in it.
Dinner: Coffee with no cream or sugar or unsweetened tea.
Then we try to keep his dinner meal under 500 calories and as low carb as possible. We found this cookbook online at Barnes and Noble, it's the Better Homes and Gardens Biggest Book Of Diabetic Recipes, it has more than 350 recipes for diabetics.
There are several recipes in there we really like and there are a few we don't.
Then after dinner if he needs a snack he tries to keep it really low in calories and fat.
Usually he eats a large pickle, which has around 25 calories.
My husband also has to watch his cholesterol levels since he has heart stents.
I think what helped most was him going to the diabetic classes at the hospital and learning alot about portion control.
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