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Enjoying what you eat is one of life’s pleasures. But if you have diabetes, or cook for someone who does, it can be tricky at times.
Enjoy Food offers recipes, advice and expert diabetes nutritional information – from your weekly food shop, to serving up a delicious meal at the table, there’s simple, practical advice for all families on any budget. For everyone with diabetes, whether you’re newly diagnosed, looking for family-friendly recipes or just in need of healthy mealtime inspiration, you can start enjoying food again.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Enjoy-food/
This is just a re-launch of the same old low fat nonsense, check out the "Healthy Swaps: Breakfast"
Start the day the right way with these healthy, filling and delicious breakfast swaps.
- Swap a fruit yogurt for a plain low-fat yogurt and some fresh berries and save 46Kcal and 2.3g fat.
- Eat fruit and fibre cereal, instead of granola, and save a massive 170Kcal and 10g fat. Plain crisped rice cereal, rather than chocolate-flavoured cereal, saves 1.5 tsp sugar. Don’t undo the benefits by adding sugar to the plain rice crispies.
- Use wholegrain bread for toast and boost your fibre intake for a healthy gut.
- Swap whole milk for semi-skimmed milk on your cereal – you’ll save 30Kcal and 3g of fat, and still get the calcium you need for strong bones and teeth.
- Switch from butter to a vegetable-based spread to cut back on saturated fat, and choose a lower-fat alternative if you’re watching your weight.
- Try a medium skinny cappuccino, instead of a latte, and save a whopping 100Kcal and 8g fat (of which 5g is saturated fat).
- Make chai with skimmed or semi-skimmed, instead of full-fat or condensed, milk. Leave out the sugar or replace it with artificial sweetener.
- Choose roasted mudhi or chudha, instead of chudha upama with oil and vegetables.
- Try rice, besan or oat cheela with stir-fried vegetables, instead of luchi and cholar daal.
- Pick yogurt or buttermilk made with low-fat, rather than full-fat, milk.
- Eat whole wheat roti or wholegrain bread with homemade chutney, instead of matarshutir kochuri.
- Make bajra no rotlo with a small amount of vegetable oil, instead of ghee.
- Choose yogurt or chaas made with low-fat, rather than full-fat, milk.
- Try mumra (plain puffed rice) instead of chevda or gathia.
- Choose plain biscuits, such as rich tea, ginger nut or garibaldi, instead of shortbread, custard creams and chocolate biscuits, to cut back on fat and sugar.
- Try dry roasted methi paratha instead of aloo paratha.
- Make egg bhurji with a little oil and extra vegetables, instead of making it in butter.
- Drink plain lassi instead of sweet or mango lassi. Or, try sweetening lassi with artificial sweetener instead of sugar.
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Enjoy-food/Eating-with-diabetes/healthy-swaps/healthy-swaps-breakfast/
