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Eating with the family

Joe Sweatthang

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Just wondering what it's like for you guys at the family dinner table. I've just been diagnosed and have changed my diet overnight. Do you cook for yourselves now ? Do you co-ordinate with your partners ? Do you have difficulties with the different menu requirements in one sitting ?
 
I'm quite fortunate in that my diabetes has had a positive impact on the diet of my whole family. I'll admit I don't really cook though but am fortunate to have a very supporting wife who even works out the carb content for me ! Diabetes is a condition for the whole family to enjoy !


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I find it pretty difficult sometimesto be honest.
Its been easy to cut back /reduce the bread and potatoes but my family like meatballs and chilli .I just have a little of the pasta and rice and lots of the sauce.
The really funny thing is my husband has developed a sweet tooth all of a sudden and I find that hard.
I found it easy to switch to a sugar free lemon squash.
I sometimes think that as long as im good at breakfast and lunch then a little bit extra carbs at tea time is ok , then I know ive overdone it and feel awful so its just not worth it , lower carb diet works for me lol

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Jamrox nice to see I'm not alone. I don't have a problem with the pasta side of things as I'd have soba noodles instead. The likes of roast dinners is a problem for me... Potatoes and Yorkshire puddings a major pain and no substitute I know of.


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You could try sweet potato, but I must admit I got fed up of them
Try soya, or almond, even chickpea flour for a batter mix.

Ideally you need to test with a meter, to see what impact these have on you.
I must admit though, roast dinners tend to be meat and veg for me normally nowadays.
 
I eat the same as the rest if the family but omit the carby element on my plate and replace it with vegetables. Most of the time I don't make any special effort to substitute the carbs with non-carby replacements, I just up the veg on the plate, but sometimes I do, for example

Bolognese with courgette ribbons
Chilli con carne with cauliflower rice
Shepherds Pie made with celeriac mash

That sort of thing.
 
for mw it depends what were having, my family still have pizza nights etc so my wife tends to cook two completely separate meals, they have the pizza ill have say egg and bacon etc, the sunday roast is easier, i just don't have the spuds and yorkshires and have the cauliflower cheesy mash, tbh i no longer miss the spuds etc at all, sounds a bit rude but i got into the habit of a tray on my lap while they sit up the table, in the beginning i found the whole eating thing heart breaking, i craved everything i couldn't have but after a while you will just get used to it
 
I usually cook for myself and I keep to a fairly rigid but not absolute diet. I get visitors for whom I may also cook but I find they take pity on me and bring things. Over the last week there have been pot noodles, sausage rolls and a giant lemon meringue thingy. I am encouraged to "try" things as if I don't know what they are and what they will do to my blood sugar.

I don't really understand why people don't get the gist.
 
I often go to my dads for tea. Him and his partner tend to do meat some veg and potatos. I just have everything but the potatos. I also leave a stash of sugarfree jelly pots there too.

I find its all a case of mental attitude. I want to lose more weight, as it feels so great when I can buy a smaller size of clothes, so this motivates me. Lower BG is a great side effect!

Last night my after dinner reading was 9.7 which I was gutted with, but I think it was the sweet potato. Must cut down on that.
 
I am the cook in the house so my other half just eats what he's given!

T1 so I can have what I want, but I'll tend to remove about 50% of the carbs (pasta, rice, potato)

So j-ho had loads of roast tatties with dinner last night, I had 2 and plenty roast carrots instead!


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They all think it's great because I have my birthday and christmas within a few days of each other and my wife, son and daughter used to have difficulty in ideas for presents. My brother and sis in law too.

Herb, chilli and pepper growing starter kits, hot chilli sauce kits, books on spices, spice blender, mandolin, ravioli press, garlic crushers, meat hammers, meat presses, spice grinders, books on smoking and curing and how to build a home smoker, kitchen knives and many recipe books. Presents are no longer a problem.

Unfortunately expectations are now raised and I have to step up to the mark, made more difficult because of my daughter's dislike of many things my wife and I like, so it's things like a very mild curry with a separate hotter sauce for my wife and I to mix in during serving. Things like mushrooms too have to be done separately and added into sauces.

I even got an excellent copy of Larousse Gastronomique. I think they are trying to keep me out of the way.

I also do most of the food shopping at farmers markets, farm shops, asian and chinese stores, specialist bakers and the fish wholesalers. I've learned to take an interest in quality and variety and make shopping for food a pleasure and not a chore. I do some shopping nearly every day but I am very lucky because I have the time. I realise most cannot and are stuck with their local supermarket. Fortunately, where I live, we have three sunday morning food markets in a month with some excelent stalls with great produce. They are rapidly becoming very popular.
 
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LOL. Brilliant. Reminds me of that BBC Radio 4 programme on disability "Does he take sugar?"

Do you have cats bringing you dead mice as an offering too?
 
Cool responses from you guys ... Both cooks and non-cooks. Thank you. I never did like Roasts for starters. Hate the amount of cleaning up required for something I don't enjoy that much. The only part of the roast I liked was the meat if cooked well and the gravy soaked spuds. I'm just going to have start catering for myself.
 
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I am on my own most of the time but when my boys are at home they eat the same as me as do any guests. I am not prepared to faff about making separate meals for people. My grandson, aged 3, spends a lot of time here and he eats what I eat.
I respect that when I go to other people's houses I eat what they offer as this is how I treat them. I usually leave things on the plate that I cannot eat and don't make a fuss about it.
 
Yorksman said:
Do you have cats bringing you dead mice as an offering too?
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How did you know that. I also had a cat (now dead) that used to bring me live mice. She was so excited at succeeding at being a cat that she used to come in and drop these mice at my feet. The mouse, not believing its luck ran off and hid in the furniture.

Tom and Jerry are a myth believe me.
 
My husband makes lovely pizza and usually does chicken wings as well.
I have a small portion of the pizza a few chicken legs and a lot of salad. The funny thing is I did that before I was diagnosed so it doesn't change things.
Its missing the chocolate that I find harder than anything .

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We had to get a humane mouse trap to catch the mouse that our cat brought in and let go in the kitchen .The mouse decided to take up residence in the back of the fridge The second time we thought we had another live offering the trap had closed and my husband took it off to the field to release----- a piece of cheese
CAROL
 

Have you tried ground almond pizza base? My husband makes that (for me - the others won't touch it!) when they have pizza - I love it!
 
i conviscated a itsy bitsy ickle wickle field mouse from one of our cats once, she was not impressed and ignored me for weeks, she would literally sit on the arm of the chair and face away from me in disgust
 
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