Carb Ferindly foods could include:
1. Fresh, steamed veggies, maybe drizzled with a little olive oil, and flavors such as garlic, onion, dill, etc. for seasoning.
2. Properly baked or roasted chicken.poultry, again seasoned with a variety of herbs and spices, or better yet, grilled over flame, not broiled, or boiled, or breaded.
3. Baked beans can be made with black beans, and flavored with Splenda, onion, mustard, and a bit of molasses.
4. Sugar-free gelatin deserts can be layered in alternating flavors (colors) by making the gelatin in hotel pans, and setting each layer before pouring in the new layer.
5. Whole grain pasta can be served with low-fat marinara sauce, with the ground beef browned, drained, and rinsed. Again seasoning the sauce is important. Add veggies such as chunky onion, carrot slices, mushrooms, black olives, etc. to the sauce to give it variety.
6. Fresh fruits are always a plus. My dietician states that the fruits I should be eating are berries, and fruits native to North America. Avoid high sugar citrus fruits, Tropical fruits, and watermellon.
7. Sweet Potatoes, made right are a deliscious and diabetic freindly food.
8. Any kind of beans, or lentil dishes (legumes) are good.
9. Meats should have some marbeling in them to make them palatable, and should be cooked properly to drain the fat away as it melts while the meat cooks. Leaner meats should be made into dishes that require braising. Season with herbs and spices to avoid using too much salt. Mushrooms are great with beef and poultry. Fruits can be used with pork and lamb.
10. All abked goods should be honest whole grain products.
11. Deserts can include gelatins, egg-based custards, pana-cota, fruit dishes, fruit and cheese, etc.
12. fruit smoothies can hide raw veggies such as carrot, and can include a wide variety of healthy fruit. I add silken tofu to my smoothies to both thicken, and decrease the amount of fruit sugars per serving.
13. Dishes like 3 bean salad are cheap, highly nutritious, and very refreshing. Just omit the cooking oil from the recipe.
14. Chicken, or poultry, stuffed with a forcemeat, or stuffing is always a hit. Cimply serve the chiken breast with the bones still attached, and the stuffing placed between the outer muscle, and the tenderloin. The hole for the stuffing is made by sticking your finger between the muscles. This helps season the chicken breast, and gives a reasonable serving of the stuffing.
15. Any number of roulaides, or rouladen can be made by pounding poultry, pork, or beef thin , and then rolling it around a stuffing, either savory or sweet.
16. Whole grain pasta can be served with, or without tomato sauce, and can be seasoned in endless ways, and mixed with endless ingredients.
17. There are countless stir-fries, sukiyaki, lo mein, chow mein, and Asian soups that are healthful, deliscious, and diabetic freindly.
18. Winter squashes can be made into soups, stuffed, or served straight up, with the proper seasonings, and are rich in beta carrotien, and other nutrients.
19, nuts and seeds can be added to salads, deserts, main corses, and snacks. Talk to your nutritionist to find which ones are the most healthy.
20. Fish can be poached, steamed, baked, or wrapped around other ingredients and baked. Choose mild, sweet fish for most recipes. There aer a few of us out there who love stronger flavored fish. But most everyone likes pollock, halibut, tilapia, perch, whitefish, etc.
21. Items like bacon can be used, but should be used as a seasoning for other foods, like steamed green beans. They would replace salt and add a smoky flavor. Bacon, fried crisp, and crumbled seasons so many other foods very well.
That should be good for a few ideas.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
