With the diabetes diagnosis, what's in my pantry and fridge has changed a lot. Here's my inventory of the ins and outs.
What's out:
White flour
Flour tortillas
Milk
Sugar
anything from a bakery
juice
gatorade (you might as well just write a higher glucose level into my meter)
What's in:
Splenda (embrace the fake!)
Almond flour (awesome for low carb baking!)
carrots (great for bulking up dishes)
chicken
homemade chicken stock (flavor without carbs!)
eggs (omelets mmmmmm)
egg whites
cheeses
diet soda (never thought THAT would ever happen)
yogurt (I need to get calcium in somehow but milk does ever make me feel full. Yogurt on the other hand can be a great meal with fruit)
berries (15 grams of carbs per 1 1/4 cups!)
bagged salad mix from the farmer's market
muscat or reisling vinegar
What's in that's kind of surprising
White rice (you never think that a half a cup of rice will fill you up but really it does)
Pasta (same as the rice)
I'm not gonna kid you, the eating is radically different and I've said before, I miss things. I miss the baking. The sad thing for me is changing my thinking from what tastes delicious to what will keep me full. The lucky side is that I can make things taste delicious. Nevertheless, I am surprised how much I have been able to retain in my eating habits.
Checking in / On the road...
13 years ago
1 comment:
This is very interesting! Thanks for sharing, this is some very useful stuff.
How do you use carrots to bulk up stuff? I'd love to see a whole post on that. I am one of those people that always has bags of mini carrots but is never really sure what to do with them when I get bored of crunching.
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