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Greetings,
This is the first in a series of postings dealing with recipes for diabetics using slow cookers. The origin of the series comes from a 'conversation' between forum user 'forge' and myself in forge's thread "Fun - Getting the most out of life".
The more I thought about it the more I felt that a short series of postings in which I gave recipes of varying types would be far more useful than one posting giving just a few recipes. I also took on board forge's comment that his household normally consists of two people but at present consists of three. One of my complaints about cookery books and recipe sites is that they mostly cater for four people but there are a lot of people who need recipes that cater for one person or for two. The need for recipes that cater for one person or two people can arise for a variety of reasons such as:
· You're single.
· You live with just your spouse or partner.
· You're the lone diabetic in a household of non-diabetics.
· You're the lone vegetarian/vegan or person with a food allergy in a household of omnivores. (I'm not a vegetarian but I eat a lot of vegetarian food).
If you come under any of those headings this series is particularly aimed at you. There are millions of recipes aimed at the "standard household" of four people and precious few aimed at people like us. Particularly for slow cookers it's very easy indeed to multiply a recipe for one of two people up. All you do is add extra amounts of the ingredients. However it can be very difficult indeed to divide a recipe for four or more people down. The result of this is that singles or couples either wind up throwing out food or they wind up eating the same thing to the point of boredom. For that reason the overwhelming majority of my recipes in this set of postings will serve one or portions.
As there are quite a few people who don't know what a slow cooker is I'm starting the series with this very long posting explaining what they are and how they work. In fact it is so long that I have saved it as a PDF file and uploaded it.
The next posting will deal with slow cooker types and some basic rules of food hygiene and safety as they apply to slow cookers - that too will be a PDF file. Once we have those out of the way I'll start posting recipes.
Mark.
This is the first in a series of postings dealing with recipes for diabetics using slow cookers. The origin of the series comes from a 'conversation' between forum user 'forge' and myself in forge's thread "Fun - Getting the most out of life".
The more I thought about it the more I felt that a short series of postings in which I gave recipes of varying types would be far more useful than one posting giving just a few recipes. I also took on board forge's comment that his household normally consists of two people but at present consists of three. One of my complaints about cookery books and recipe sites is that they mostly cater for four people but there are a lot of people who need recipes that cater for one person or for two. The need for recipes that cater for one person or two people can arise for a variety of reasons such as:
· You're single.
· You live with just your spouse or partner.
· You're the lone diabetic in a household of non-diabetics.
· You're the lone vegetarian/vegan or person with a food allergy in a household of omnivores. (I'm not a vegetarian but I eat a lot of vegetarian food).
If you come under any of those headings this series is particularly aimed at you. There are millions of recipes aimed at the "standard household" of four people and precious few aimed at people like us. Particularly for slow cookers it's very easy indeed to multiply a recipe for one of two people up. All you do is add extra amounts of the ingredients. However it can be very difficult indeed to divide a recipe for four or more people down. The result of this is that singles or couples either wind up throwing out food or they wind up eating the same thing to the point of boredom. For that reason the overwhelming majority of my recipes in this set of postings will serve one or portions.
As there are quite a few people who don't know what a slow cooker is I'm starting the series with this very long posting explaining what they are and how they work. In fact it is so long that I have saved it as a PDF file and uploaded it.
The next posting will deal with slow cooker types and some basic rules of food hygiene and safety as they apply to slow cookers - that too will be a PDF file. Once we have those out of the way I'll start posting recipes.
Mark.