Bean Stew?

[meoman]

Thinking of making a mixed bean and veg stew with a little chicken and hopefully with a hot kick... any ideas on a good low GI and calorie recipe?

 

[meoman]

something i can lunch on but also available during day if i get peckish and sugars are ok or dipping.. sort of like a snacky thing rather than cabbage soup!..

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[zolabud]

Baked beans for breakfast ( Just s small spoonful) made my blood sugars rocket from 6 to 18.2. I was gobsmacked and rather unhappy as I like baked beans, And these were Tesco reduced sugar beans too....

Can't help you with a recipe I'm afraid but if you do end up making it let us know what it does to your blood sugar eh....

 

[douglas99]

I found most beans were ok, but some lentils gave me a massive spike.
Same with veg, some are ok, root veg again gave me a bad reading.

So my stews are a selection of beans, (butter beans go well with chicken, kidney beans if I put chili in, chick peas if it's curry, mung beans, pinto beans, are also ok with me.


Either tinned or pre soaked and boiled.

Any veg I have from the selection I know is ok, usually green beans, onion, mushroom, peppers, peas, cauli, broccoli, courgette.
Garlic, chili peppers, or indian spices, chinese, or French herbs depending on what I want.

Any meat I want to add, or leave it as just the beans.

All in the crock pot, and I prepare a batch for the week to freeze.

I tend to make a general base now, out of ingredients I know work for me, freeze it in meal sized portions, then add the various spices/herbs when I microwave it, which works surprisingly well to give a curry one night, chicken chasseur the next, chili the next, Chinese the next.

 

[meoman]

thankyou so much.. some great ideas here

 

[Engineer88]

Failing that the sausage cassolole is amasing, think its in the diabetes cookbook (was in the summer one I believe)

 

[meoman]

dont have that book unfortunately.. whose publisher?.. is the sausage version recipe online?

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[meoman]

doug.. do you defrost the portions yoy freeze overnight etc.. or do you reheat from frozen... perhaps ok for veg but not if meat in.. thoughts?

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[douglas99]

doug.. do you defrost the portions yoy freeze overnight etc.. or do you reheat from frozen... perhaps ok for veg but not if meat in.. thoughts?

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It goes in plastic Tupperware dishes in the freezer, I write the date and what it is in with a marker pen.
I'm never organised enough to defrost the night before, I just pop one out into a microwaveable dish, and defrost it. Halfway through, at the slushy stage, I add the spices or flavourings, then heat it through until it's steaming.
Exactly the same as any shop bought ready meal, so I reckon it's ok.
The only difference is I keep mine a week or two, rather than the months on shop bought ones, as mine have no preservatives, and the containers are clean, but not sterile when they go in.
But that suits me as I tend to cook at weekends.

I make chicken stock from the families sunday roast, and freeze that to use later, that seems to last several weeks ok.

 

[meoman]

thanks so much

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