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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WuTwo" data-source="post: 2100490" data-attributes="member: 87354">He is 70,  his HbA1C has travelled between 36 and 41 over the past 15 years - sometimes at the high end of those figures, others at the lower.  His weight stable for the last 20 years or so, doesn't smoke, drinks very occasionally and he's very active.  Great cook - he's retired and I'm at work so he runs the home etc. and does a very thorough job.  He runs around like a blue**** fly. I tell him to rest but he doesn't often.  It's easier to list the veg he doesn't like than the veg he does ('cos he's always loved veg!)  He takes account of the diabetes (both my T1 and his T2) i the cooking, and doesn't do meals with lots of carbs because we stick to about 100-120 g per day.He does like sprouts, sweetheart cabbage, white cabbage (in the coleslaw), pak choi, fennel bulbs, celeriac - take a mental trip round the greengrocers and if it's not on the "don't like" list then yes, he eats it.  Every variety of mushroom, those huge fresh garlic bulbs (yum), beanshoots a favourite.  Oh stop me .... I could just keep adding to it all.Doesn't like kale, spinach, that dark green leather cabbage, spring greens.  We don't bother with the very dark green bitter veg any more.  Spinach can be buried in the cooking but not served as a side. Or that rocket stuff.He doesn't like actual tofu unless it's in the cooking, but he does like my home made seitan.  Never ever had a sweet tooth.  Doesn't eat biscuits, cakes and things like that. He likes oat crackers - the Nairns ones, with something savoury on top.Doesn't eat sweets - snacks on unsalted nuts and sometimes the Veggie protein mix (dreadful name for a really tasty snackfood). Doesn't eat chocolate; he likes dark chocolate (very) at Christmas but doesn't eat it at other times.Forgot to say - blood pressure was 120/80 and I can't remember cholesterol type figures. No signs of any eye troubles or anything else.</blockquote>

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