Making meals for me and my non diabetic children

You could make your own pizza using fat head dough.

Anything with meat?

With warmer weather on the way you could make a big bowl of salad. I prepare avocado, spritz with lemon juice. Add toms, cucumber and usual ingredients. Before T2 I would add grapes or sliced strawberries. Now I add more olives instead. Sometimes I add walnuts. Stir in crumbled bacon, I use pancetta. Cheese of your choice.

The next day I used to nuke a bag of Tilda rice. Stir the leftover salad. Maybe stir through some toasted sesame seeds.

Anything you fancy Google it, just putting keto first. There are all sorts of sweet and savoury muffins. Fat bombs might be fun for the kids to make. Some can be frozen.

MonicaST said:

Hi, I am a Type 1 diabetic with 2 children ages 7 and 8. I hate having to make 2 meals (one for me and one for them) They are not veggie lovers and prefer canned soup and cheese sandwiches or cheese pizza type meals. Are there any suggestions on meals I can fix that they would eat that are healthy for me AND them but lower in carbs?

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Monica. I have a 6 year old and have shifted the accent of her food away from carbs and more towards meats, eggs and dairy. That’s a shift along the spectrum rather than a radical change to the other end of it. It seems to be working albeit slowly.

This particularly applies to breakfasts.

That helps me as I cook the food, mostly and is probably better for her.

We just had meatzza for dinner today. 100% beef burger topped with whatever pizza toppings you’d like, we had sour cream, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and mozzarella tonight. Your kids might like baked beans for quickness with theirs if they don’t like salad. My son enjoyed his, but he’s 23 so might not count as a kid!

Rachox said:

We just had meatzza for dinner today. 100% beef burger topped with whatever pizza toppings you’d like, we had sour cream, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and mozzarella tonight. Your kids might like baked beans for quickness with theirs if they don’t like salad. My son enjoyed his, but he’s 23 so might not count as a kid!

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What a simple but great idea.

I have to cater for a vegetarian carb monster husband (extremely active and good hb1ac around 30 -so far!) and three teenage boys all with various genuine likes and dislikes as well as the usual fussiness if I give an inch.

The easier meals are those where I can cook a meat dish, (a vegetarian alternative as close as possible to the meat one with as many ingredients the same but in separate pots or something dead simple eg open a packet and throw it in the oven) with lots of veg sides for me especially and add a separate carb for the others.

I dream of one meal to rule them all!

Make a vast vat of bolognaise sauce. Eat first meal with salad or veg, add spaghetti for kids. Second meal , layer it up with grilled aubergine, put creme fraiche and grated cheese on top-instant mousaka, serve with salad and or green veg and jacket potato for kids. Third meal, add cumin, chilli and kidney beans-now youve got chili con carne, set aside a portion for yourself without beans if they spike you, serve with rice for the kids and salad or green veg. Freeze spare portions of these as you go and then you've got 3 instant meals for use another week.

I try and cater for a low carb (meat) option main meal then the carb version topping or side - pasta, rice or potatoes I give the family while I’ll have courgettie, cauliflower rice or cauliflower cheese. Yesterday I cooked a meatzza- mince base with pizza topping - they had chips and I had a side salad. Tonight it was Mexican chicken - they had rice and I had cauliflower rice (which I now buy frozen in single potions and throw in the microwave). If it’s burgers and chips then I don’t have a bap and salads instead of chips. If it’s a mixed grill At the moment I don’t a hash brown but I’ve found a recipe for them made out of cauliflower and am going to try that. When we go to a carvery for a Sunday roast I’m bad and I have a very small Yorkie but I don’t have potatoes as there’s usually cauliflower cheese. I honestly don’t find it difficult these days.

MonicaST said:

Thanks everyone for the great suggestions! The meatzza was a great hit (and I could put the kids meatzza on a bun so they got the bread and carbs they love, lol. It was almost like a meatball sub for them and a great option for me to stay breadless).

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I just saw m&s are selling prepared meatzza. Haven’t checked the carbs yet but will be taking a look for a quick occasional meal idea.