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- Type of diabetes
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Assuming one has the motivation and willpower to adopt the lifestyle and dietary changes necessary to control one's diabetes, there are still three main obstacles one must negotiate to achieve this:
- Knowledge constraints;you must know what action to take in order to take it.
- Time constraints; it takes time to find and or prepare the right meal, to exercise etc many convenience food options are no longer available.
- Cost constraints; it may cost more to buy and prepare the right food from scratch, particularly if living on your own and can not enjoy economies of scale. If you have to buy your own medication or testing material then that is also costly business.
This forum does an excellent job of educating people about how to manage their disease.
To try and help with the last two constraints, I thought that it was worth opening a thread to act as depository for practical tips on how someone on a budget can cut the cost of living and copying with diabetes for the benefit of those of us on a tighter budget.
Feel free to contribute any ideas you may have. These can be anything but could include:
- recipes for lower cost appropriate meals
- recipes for meals that can be frozen and reheated at a later time
- recipes for reusing leftover food from a previous meal.
- ways to cut the cost of testing glucose or ketones
- ways of cutting the time of preparing food
- any ready made/ convenience meals that are suitable and/or less costly
- any suitable choices for lunch when away from home
- anything else that you think might be useful to a diabetic on a budget whether monetary or time.
I thank you for your contributions.
Pavlos
- Knowledge constraints;you must know what action to take in order to take it.
- Time constraints; it takes time to find and or prepare the right meal, to exercise etc many convenience food options are no longer available.
- Cost constraints; it may cost more to buy and prepare the right food from scratch, particularly if living on your own and can not enjoy economies of scale. If you have to buy your own medication or testing material then that is also costly business.
This forum does an excellent job of educating people about how to manage their disease.
To try and help with the last two constraints, I thought that it was worth opening a thread to act as depository for practical tips on how someone on a budget can cut the cost of living and copying with diabetes for the benefit of those of us on a tighter budget.
Feel free to contribute any ideas you may have. These can be anything but could include:
- recipes for lower cost appropriate meals
- recipes for meals that can be frozen and reheated at a later time
- recipes for reusing leftover food from a previous meal.
- ways to cut the cost of testing glucose or ketones
- ways of cutting the time of preparing food
- any ready made/ convenience meals that are suitable and/or less costly
- any suitable choices for lunch when away from home
- anything else that you think might be useful to a diabetic on a budget whether monetary or time.
I thank you for your contributions.
Pavlos
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