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Mince Pies - Suggestions?

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I just love mince pies at Christmas. Has anyone any suggestions for anything more diabetes friendly than the usual supermarket fare?
My wife is intending to make some with puff pastry, raisins, sultanas, spice, dates but with no refined sugar and will use stevia as sweetener.
OK, all that fruit = fructose = sugar, but if I limit myself to one pie per day of festive season my BG shouldn't suffer too much ( I hope). And, if I don't test for a week I won't know or worry. 🙄
 
Can she make them smaller as well? Also, how about having them with cream - the fat might help with carb spike. Enjoy!
 
Perhaps have an open mince pie! I.E, don't put a lid on it so it's less carbs or could you use almond flour/ground almonds for the pastry?
 
One Christmas paradox is, if cinnamon is so beneficial to D, why do mince pies and Christmas cakes/puds still spike people? 😱
 
robert@fm said:
One Christmas paradox is, if cinnamon is so beneficial to D, why do mince pies and Christmas cakes/puds still spike people? 😱
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Maybe they should eat more pies and thereby more cinamon! 🙄
 
Take some squares of filo pastry, finely chop up a couple of cooking apples and put a teaspoonful on each square with a teaspoonful of mince pie filling. Make a wee parcel using a thin pastry strip to tie it off. Place on a baking tray and bake at 180 till golden brown. You still get the mince pie taste but a tiny tad less sugar, you don't need to add any sweetener cos the pie filling does that bit. I make them bite sized ones cos I'm good, I can stop at just the one and a whole mince pie was always too much for me, worse than metfartin.
 
LOL - I was well hypo at 2.8 just after my dinner last night as there was masses of fat in the sausage we had so the insulin got there far in front of the carbs so although the whole tea was only 30g CHO and the bolus was only 3u - I plummeted.

So - I had a guilt free Mr Kipling - they are very nearly 40g CHO each !

Still took over an hour to get me over 4 though.
 
trophywench said:
Still took over an hour to get me over 4 though.
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I always find that really annoying when low TW. All those delicious treats that are too spike-inducing normally are nothing like fast enough when you *really* want your BG to shift upwards!
 
One problem I don't have is mince pies - I really don't like them very much🙂
 
pottersusan said:
One problem I don't have is mince pies - I really don't like them very much🙂
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I always have liked em but I find em far too sweet now - can't taste any spices - not even the cloves that should be there - these days.

Mincemeat making was a whole family affair mum sis and I sat at the card table (the mincer clamped on so it wasn't allowed near the dining table even with padding LOL) with all the ingredients, feeding mum's mincer in turn and it disgorged the deliciousness into the last remaining enormous crock bowl, that used to have the jug to match it in my grandma's bedroom! - and we'd have a taste every so often, in turns. Mum would say More apple! and dad would go back in the kitchen to peel core and slice another Bramley - my sis would say 'More nutmeg!' so I'd grate some more in, then I might request more cinnamon or cloves. Then my dad, having provided the apple and stirring it all again, would (obviously) say 'More whisky!' and merrily add (yet) about another teacup of Mr Walker's best !

The bowl then got covered with a couple of teatowels and left till next day when mom would either jar or basin its contents whilst we were at school. Last thing was for us kids to have to write labels in our best writing using our fountain pens with the date on when we got in before tea. Dad would stick em on when he came in from work - no self adhesive things in THOSE days - and he stuck em on straight - mom never hardly managed to get anything straight! (hence Dad liked us to take her shopping when he was paperhanging too LOL)

Mincemeat one year and Xmas pud the next - by - they certainly both kept very well in those days! LOL - and no fridge, just a huge cold slab at the back of the pantry.

What the hell do whole families do together these days ?
 
trophywench said:
Mincemeat one year and Xmas pud the next - by - they certainly both kept very well in those days! LOL - and no fridge, just a huge cold slab at the back of the pantry.
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I've just made a batch of mince pies with mincemeat I made last year, which has been in the larder ever since. The Puds never last from one year to the next though, because they get eaten - we normally have the last one at Easter!
 
One at Xmas, one on Dad's birthday in February and one at Easter too! So the recipe amounts made 8 to begin with so my Grandad could have one at Xmas each year - they were a bit too much for them to eat any other time - and he was on the large side! LOL Plus Dad's step-mother didn't really like it much.
 
Forgive me. I have sinned and ate two!

Yesterday my lovely wife, knowing how I like mice pies decided to make some from scratch rather than use pre-prepared mincemeat.
She chopped up - dates, sultanas, currants,apple and apricot. Added the juice of a tangerine and a couple of desert spoons of Stevia and some mixed spice. I added a dash of sherry, just to be helpful!
The 'baskets' were made in puff pastry with no lids - thus cutting the carbs/sugars in half - in theory at least!
The aroma in the house while they were in the oven was just mouth watering and lingered for ages.
I tasted one when they came out of the oven and it was by far the best mince pie I'd ever eaten. In fact just to make sure I tested another before they cooled and were put in the freezer, just to make sure they were as good as I'd thought. They were!!
Tested my BG just before bed and it wasn't too bad at 6.8
 
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