Mindful eating is essential for everybody, particularly diabetics. Recipes for people with special diet needs often comprise bland and boring ingredients. On the other hand, dishes straight out of gourmet kitchens include tons of fat, sugar, and high sodium levels.
Nevertheless, diabetics can also roll their sleeves and dig into a gourmet platter,or a casserole of biryani while keeping good health. All it takes is a little thought and planning behind what goes into making diabetic-friendly recipes, such as:
- Beginning with stocking your kitchen with a laundry list of groceries that simply cannot go wrong health-wise.
- Keeping a journal of meal plans for the diabetic. Recipes can include, broths and stocks, palm sugar, walnuts, dry fruits, eggs, chicken, dark chocolate, whole wheat, and rock salt
- Making seasoning with spices, such as cloves, that help control diabetes instead of terribly sweet spices like cinnamon.
- Replacing potatoes and other starch-based vegetables with greens, beans, and cruciferous vegetables.
- Using herbs copiously. These darlings not only add flavor, but also help with diabetes!
- Including whole grains to make cookies, crusts, and crackers.
- Preparing desserts with low-fat milk and cheese, vanilla beans, walnuts and neutralizing fruits, such as apples, avocado, papaya, cantaloupe, etc.
Using these tips, you can certainly motivate a diabetic to recipes a. Additionally, you can also try our recipes for:
- Idli and appam
Note: while our recipes include white rice, you may replace it with horse gram, millets or red rice.
- Egg salad sandwich
- Chicken tenders
- Baked chicken
- Coriander juice
- Lemon Mint juice
- Watermelon juice
- Apple shake
- Vanilla shake
- Chikoo milkshake
You can also give your own spin to these recipes and motivate healthy and mindful eating habits among diabetics. Recipes, such as the ones listed here are enriching, yummy, and refreshing compared to typical diet grub that is boring and tasteless.
Trivia:
- Diet recommendations for diabetics is not very different from that for non-diabetic people—this means that healthy eating should be a norm for everyone and not just for the diseased.
- WHO (World Health Organization) attests that around 425 million people live with diabetes today—a double in figure compared to the 1980s.
- About 95% of the total diabetic population have type 2 diabetes.
- Diabetes can only be controlled and not cured. However, the good news is, diabetics who cultivate healthy eating habits get to enjoy life and live as well as non-diabetics.
