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Christmas food

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mikeyB said:
Sod low carb anything. I'll just add up the carbs, and use a bucketful of insulin. That's what I've done for 20 years. This will be my first alcohol free Christmas, so I'll have to face the grim reality of enforced jollity and c**p television stone cold sober.

Well, you did mention it in September...
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What's that, 30 units of novo rapid
 
Ibby said:
im just wondering what Christmas treats other people have. Last year I endulded in treats to much and hba1c went up to much. How do people cope with christmas x
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Well I think the best way is a little of what you fancy. People go massively overboard at Christmas, but I just do a bit of careful manoeuvring with food. I tend to eat salad a lot anyway but I go a bit salad mad at Christmas and then use my carbs for a mince pie or two. Think about the things you really like, and don't waste your time on the stuff you don't. In the pre diabetes days I'd probably have eaten my way through a box of roses but honestly I don't like them it just felt like I should. So instead I get three little trays of hotel chocolate truffles and really enjoy them. I love a mince pie so I'll be having some of those but I eat salad and then have the mince pie slathered in cream. I love a Christmas coffee too so I will be indulging in that too, just not every time I go out. My first Christmas with diabetes was awful because I stayed away from everything, then realised life is just too short for that so last year I made my own advent calendar type list with Christmas treats (some were food, some nailpolish, some nice seasonal stuff like Carol concerts) and I really enjoyed it. As adults we tend to consider Christmas to be all about food and drink, but if you think about what you enjoyed about Christmas as a kid you come up with some startling answers, reinvent Christmas a little and you might find you enjoy it even more.
 
Christmas is one day. I'll have what I like. Oh doesn't have a sweet tooth so there wont be much naughty stuff at home. I tend to work over Christmas anyway.
 
Mark Parrott said:
Well, this Christmas will be my first since diagnosis, so I've already done my research. I will be making low carb Christmas cake, low carb Yule Log & low(ish) carb mince pies. Also will make lots of 90% cocoa rum truffles.
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Have you a recipe for low carn X as cake Mark?
 
Ive found a low carb fruit cake recipe that would make a great Xmas cake. They use cranberries instead of the usual raisins & stuff. Also has a lot of booze in it to give the liver something else to do.🙂
 
Mark Parrott said:
Well, this Christmas will be my first since diagnosis, so I've already done my research. I will be making low carb Christmas cake, low carb Yule Log & low(ish) carb mince pies. Also will make lots of 90% cocoa rum truffles.
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It always makes me nervous when you start talking about cooking and then mention log. Kind of reminds me of the desert 😛
 
Take a look at the recipe for Weinacht Stollen, Mark, the trad German Christmas cake. (bread, really). Looks ripe for Markification, if that's a word.
 
Ooh, l forgot about Stollen. I had better get on the case.🙂
 
I carb count as usual and have ice-cream instead of Xmas pud cos I know it won't spike me. I don't particularly like mince pies, etc. If I indulge, it's choc but carb-counted and covered with insulin. My BG was loosely-controlled for a few years and I felt like rubbish, so I try to avoid highs at all costs nowadays. I suppose I'm lucky living in Spain - Xmas starts a few weeks before Xmas, not in September!🙄🙂
 
Bloden said:
I carb count as usual and have ice-cream instead of Xmas pud cos I know it won't spike me. I don't particularly like mince pies, etc. If I indulge, it's choc but carb-counted and covered with insulin. My BG was loosely-controlled for a few years and I felt like rubbish, so I try to avoid highs at all costs nowadays. I suppose I'm lucky living in Spain - Xmas starts a few weeks before Xmas, not in September!🙄🙂
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Xmas doesn't start in September? Gosh, you are behind the times, I bought hot cross buns in Waitrose this morning!
 
mikeyB said:
What's the point? Well, for millennia, and well before anybody called Christ was born, the winter solstice was celebrated raucously, because that is the turn of the year, the days get longer, and you've managed to get through the worst of the winter. That might well be why Stonehenge was built, because it is worth celebrating, whereas the summer solstice signals days getting shorter. Christians just tagged on to this, some committee or other deciding that Christ was born on the 25th of December, so bingo - there you are. Your pagan winter celebration buggered up by religion. The tide, of course, is turning.
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Well, I'm Christian and I lurvvve Christmas so yah sucks boo 😛 ! But I'm not getting into an argument about the date of Christmas cos it would go on too long - and I shall look forward to low carb recipes, so bring 'em on, @Mark Parrott :D!
 
Well, the Stollen is now sorted.🙂
 
Ah, one of my 2 favorite meals of the year (Thanksgiving is the other)....... I'll be sticking to a nice low carb turkey, brined for 3 days & slow roasted for 5-6 hours. Now the stuffing needs some work this year; using cauliflower as breading just didn't work out last year😱
 
I wonder if almond flour would work, or even ground flaxseed.
 
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