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Diabetics should learn to cook

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I think every diabetic should learn to cook: then you an make meals, knowing EXACTLY what is on your plate. You don't have to be at the mercy of supermarkets with food full ov additives and hidden sugar.
And it's cheaper too.
 
I could not agree more with you on this subject!If you are not prepared to have some input as to what you put in your mouth, your are fighting a losing battle with blood glucose levels.

So many diabetics whine about "I don't know what I can eat, as you have said learn to cook and know what you are eating.
 
I couldnt agree more - this is a subject close to my heart. In uni dietitians learn to cook - not very academic but I think essential - how can u tell people what to eat if u cannot cook . As many of you may know i am an accredited sports dietitian and I run cooking workshops for young athletes - nightmare they know nothing and it is prob because they do not see real food at home. I cook real food , and if I am pushed for time have some quickies that will feed everyone but these kids have never cooked a thing - one of them recently chopped an onion with the skin on - ahhhhh! We made pancakes at one workshop and most had never made them even on pancake day. the nhs should fund cooking courses and in some areas they do but its not enough!
 
No WAY thats what the wife is for :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

No only kidding PLEASE don't tell her she will kill me :shock:

Really I love to cook, can't do cakes and stuff BUT I can't eat them now anyway so no los there :D

And yes you are correct everyone should be able to cook, and from natural ingrediants not all this pre packaged rubbish either. I think half of the health problems could be to do with all the additives in all the pre packed food the general population tend to eat, ie frozen meals, dehydrated stuff with hundreds of preservatves, artifical sweetners etc CANT be good for you.

Brian
 
so do I - if you saw the food diaries I have it would make you cry. I feel as if its out of control. When i was a kid my mum cooked every day and I do but so many parents tell me they dont have time. How we change this - I am not sure we can!
 
Completely agree with everyone my Mum used to cook all the time and let me and my sister help and watch, so many of my friends can't cook (I'm 25).
My sister always cooks the processed stuff and the kids don't really like it that much - they love coming to dinner at our house on a Sunday I get a little table in the kitchen and my niece helps me chop veg. We eat most of it before its cooked though!
 
I have always loved cooking and have never bought "ready meals" but it breaks my heart that many of those 90 odd cookbooks are pretty useless now I don't eat cakes, "naughty" puddings and am now trying to cut the carbs too. I have lovely books on bread-making, chocolate cookery, desserts to die for etc. etc. Yes, I browse through, hunting for veg. and salad recipes now but I still miss home-made chocolate fudge pudding, eccles cakes and savoury breads. I can't say the things I eat now make me moan out loud in that "When Harry Met Sally" fashion!!!! :lol: I'm just being honest.
 
Thoroughly agree. When I was first married and had no money,it was a hundred ways with mince or how to cook a breast of lamb, now its a hundred ways to cook chicken or turkey!
It does shock me when I return to the UK to see just how many pre prepared meals are on offer. Here there are so few in the supermarket that you'd have a very boring diet if you relied upon them. What I don't understand is why cookery programmes are so popular on British TV if very few people cook.
I've been cooking for a long time but once you have the basic skills you can still learn lots of new things. Recently I've challenged myself to be more adventurous with fish. A typical British upbringing left me with very little knowledge about fish cookery and I tend to be a bit squeamish about the varieties I don't know. (most of them!) The dieteticienne cooked a dish of saumonette with a saffron sauce on the pump course. I looked up saumonette and found that it was what the Fish and chip shops used to call rock salmon ie dogfish , very ugly,comparatively cheap(here) and delicious even without a coating of batter.
 
In an ideal world it would be nice if all young people could learn to cook real food in school. My daughter had to take four weeks to plan a health breakfast before she got the chance to go into the kitchen.

As a family we eat together every day, and on weekends my husband and three children (age 4,9,10) do the cooking.

If anyone is looking for a cookery lesson for children/young person the City Hotel Westminster do cookers lesson for children. My eldest had one as a Christmas present. She got a tour of kitchen, by head chef, shown how to select freshes ingredients - fruit, veg, meat and fish. Then cooked a three course meal of sweet potato soup, fish cakes and apple tart, She got to keep apron and a disposable camera, all for 35 quid.

Excellent christmas pressie that didn't make a noice and wasn't broke by Boxing day.
 
Both my grown-up sons can cook very well. The eldest actually went to catering college and worked in Switzerland for a while as a pastry chef but he had to give it up due to health problems. It breaks my heart that he's married a girl who even now she'shome all day, hates cooking and her idea of a roast dinner is a Birds Eye roast chicken PIE with Auntie Bessie roast potaotes etc. :roll: That's if he's lucky! Recently she did sandwiches for us for a Sunday lunch because she says it's too much hassle to cook a hot meal. I've tried guiding her to cooking better, have bought her lovely easy-to-do cookery books etc. but she is not interested and refuses to listen. You can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.Sadly.
At school I despaired because for my son's final cooking exam he cooked a a beautiful piece of salmon etc and was marked by a teacher who did not even taste his food because she was a vegetarian and then marked him down, saying the fish was overcooked. I ate all of it and it was cooked to perfection...melt in the mouth. Mind you this is the same teacher who corrected his spelling of greengrocer. She changed his CORRECT spelling to her spelling.....greengroccer..... and I hit the roof.
They tried to dissuade my son from going into catering, as they thought he could do more and go to university. He didn't want to, so I wrote a letter to Gary Rhodes( my son's hero at that time) and asked if he could spare a few minutes to write some words of encouragement to my son, as the school would not. Gary Rhodes is a gentleman, not only did he hand-write a lovely letter back but also gave my son a day working with him in his City Rhodes Restaurant in London. He was only just becoming famous then and possibly today he'd be too busy to do such a thing but I shall never forget his kindness.
 
Gary Rhodes is a gentleman, not only did he hand-write a lovely letter back but also gave my son a day working with him in his City Rhodes Restaurant in London.
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what a lovely story :D
 
I'm glad I started this thread.
Of course I cook, but didn't learn at school. I did Latin instead. I didn't learn much from my mother either. she was too impatient and if I did something too slowly, she would snatch it out of my hands. I think I absorbed it from the aether onto my Czech peasant genes.
Recently I stayed with my Mum for 3 weeks. she's now 90 and let me do all the cooking. She particularly liked my way with courgettes. If anyone wants to try: select nice firm courgettes and wash
slice finely ( about 2mm ) on a Mandolin slicer or a grater.
put in a microwave bowl with a generous knob of butter and NO water.
cover and microwave on full power.
Since cooking time depends on quantity and individual machine, look at it every 2 minutes or so and stir every now and then.
It's done, when shiny, transparent and steaming. A little browning on the edges is good.
Done this wway,it'a a perfect acompaniment for fish Especially Sea Bass.
 
I think everyone should learn to cook. Diabetics already spend half their lives being neurotic about what they're eating - we're not the ones who need to be told this. :wink:
 
I think that you are all right but i hate cooking with a passion and working 12 hour shifts i would never have the time but my very sexy husband likes to cook
Wendie
 
I think that you are all right but i hate cooking with a passion and working 12 hour shifts i would never have the time but my very sexy husband likes to cook
Wendie
 
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