You may just be FEEDING the diabetes.
A Diabetic Diet should be the most successful tool you have to defeat your diabetes and lower your blood sugar level. A Successful Diabetic Diet does NOT mean you STARVE. It is about what you eat, not about how much you eat.
What Exactly Should Be In My Kitchen?
After the Doctor visit, people say: "Give me a list of Real Foods that are Diabetic Friendly, fill the need for Complex Carbohydrates, and FOODS that I can keep in my kitchen and make my own healthy meals.
Back To Your "Defeat Diabetes Naturally" FOODS IN THE KITCHEN
Let’s face it. There’s no such thing as the perfect "properly" stocked kitchen. What’s proper for one family will not necessarily be proper for another. Individual food preferences, family size, budgetary limitations, and many other factors will influence what ought to be in any kitchen. But just so that you can see what healthy foods a diabetic’s "longevity kitchen" might contain, we present the following lists of the BASICS that you can add to and build those outstanding healthy meals.
FOODS IN THE REFRIGERATOR
* Vegetables: Fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and mushrooms; other vegetables in season; Left over cooked vegetables.
* Grain Foods: Sourdough Starter; Fresh cornmeal, fresh wheat berries; Leftover pancakes; Leftover cooked rice and beans
* Fresh and hard-boiled eggs (only the whites are used)
* Dairy Products: Skim milk; Fresh Cheeses; Cottage Cheeses; Cream Cheese; Sour Cream; Yogurt
* Miscellaneous cheeses: Echtarharkase cheese, green cheese, moldy blue cheese (used in small quantity to flavor Blue Cheese Dressing)
* Beverages: Tomato juice, Vegetable juice from the "juicer" Iced tea; water.
* Condiments: Hamburger Sauce (NO high fructose Corn Syrup); Chili Salsa; Taco Salsa; Leftover canned California green chilies Pimientos
FOODS IN THE FREEZER
* Vegetables: Bags and cartons of frozen of vegetables: (skip the corn), limas, peas, broccoli, etc. (Some of the most amazing STAPLES for meals are found here
* Meats: Lean Beef steaks (sirloin, round, etc.); Leanest ground beef; Fish filets; Chicken and turkey breasts; Lamb bones; extra lean Beef Sausage; Mock Pork Sausage
* Soups: (NO MSG) Stocks, Sauces: Bags of ice cubes of frozen Bean-Thickened Gravy, beef stock, Chicken Stock, etc.; Jars of spaghetti sauces, soups, stocks, salsas, etc.
* Cheeses: Cottage Cheese; Homemade Hoop Cheese; Fresh Cheese
* Breads: Pita Bread; Sourdough Bread and Biscuits; Corn tortillas; (Find Whole grain, germinated grain – do not be fooled by those ‘Contains 30% Whole Grain Imposters!)
* Miscellaneous Items in Baggies: Chopped onions; Chopped green peppers; Lemon peels
FOODS IN THE CUPBOARDS
* Spices: Dried Chilies: Canned Goods (packed without simple carbohydrates gremlins); Canned Foods: Condensed skim milk; Tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato juice; Canned California green chilies juices (vegetable); Vegetables (beans, green beans, corn, potatoes, etc.); caned Meats (tuna, salmon)
* Crackers: (Norwegian flat bread, matzo crackers, etc.)
* Pasta: ONLY made from whole grains (Macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, etc.)
* Cereals: Hot cereals (Wheat Hearts, Quaker Oats, etc.); Cold Cereals (Shredded Wheat, Grape-Nuts, etc.); Grains (oats, wheat berries, etc.)
* Staples: ONLY Whole grain Flours and starches (all kinds)
* Special staples: (yeast, junket, pectin, gelatin); Vinegar
* Dried Foods: Beans (red, black, navy, pinto, kidney, etc.); ONLY whole grain!
* Rice: Beware, a real trick here! Only real, 100% (100%) whole grain (brown rice, wild rice) Barley; etc. is a Complex Carbohydrate (white rice, died brown is white rice)
FOODS SITTING OUT
Foods: A Bowls of Bananas (Remember one or one half banana for Potassium); Bag of Potatoes (Using only partial servings); Bag of Onions; Garlic, turnips, etc.
Get help if you need it, a real Registered Diabetic Dietitian. And get some help from natural supplements. Diabetics tend to be deficient in chromium, vitamin B Complex, Zinc, Potassium.
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