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Hi all, thanks for the warm welcome !!.
Mayo clinic books - one is a diet book and one is a diabetes care book. Neither are comprehensive recipe books. I'm going to use these and the diabetes UK book, together with advice from these forum pages, to form my diabetic care program. Together with gp and diabetic nurse input.
Their care programs don't seem to be well known amongst other forum member's.
 
Afcpaul said:
Hi all, thanks for the warm welcome !!.
Mayo clinic books - one is a diet book and one is a diabetes care book. Neither are comprehensive recipe books. I'm going to use these and the diabetes UK book, together with advice from these forum pages, to form my diabetic care program. Together with gp and diabetic nurse input.
Their care programs don't seem to be well known amongst other forum member's.
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To be honest, I have a shelf full of diabetic cook books, none of which are particularly useful, tried quite a few recipes & none were particularly stunning in their results, spiking my BG's more than I wanted. Perhaps, now I'm under control it would be a different matter but I have gone in a different direction AKA Low Carb, I changed direction after researching the Cretan diet & how that was composed. (disclaimer, I am not advocating LCHF just stating that it was the direction I chose)
 
Ah - the Cretan diet ..... one portion of saganaki (deep fried, soft cheese in breadcrumbs) and one portion of flash deep fried courgette flowers in tempura batter, a portion of beef stifado and one of whatever fried fish is on today, one portion of chips and one portion of Greek salad, all of these are half each. Washed down with whatever good local wine happens to be around and followed by a good dollop of yoghurt and some local honey. Finish that off with a coffee and a glass or 2 of preferably good, home brew raki.

The only meal I ever need to bolus for during the first week there! Sadly, the second week that stops - but it is lovely while it lasts!

PS you can have stuffed vine leaves (dolmades) or ditto tomatoes or peppers, as an alternative starter, or no end of things made with lamb for your main if you prefer!
 
I also bought a diabetic cookbook when first diagnosed. Pretty useless, really. Just recipes based on the Eat Well Plate. Most recipes contain flour, sugar, potatoes, pasta or rice.😱
 
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