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Sweet potato revelation

peps1

peps1

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Only been diagnosed for a month, so have been totally lamenting about how I will never be able to eat anything stodgy and filling food again.

But last night I had mashed sweet potato with chicken, and not only was it delicious, it had zero impact on my BG :clap:

Any other stodgy diabetic safe mash, swede, celeriac, turnips, butternut squash?
 
I can eat sweet potato (try them as chips!) also celeraic chips.

Swede is OK and so are turnips and butternut squash.

New potatoes are better than old and parsnips, sweet corn, and peas (if you have to many) can push BGs up.

Try sweet potatoes mashed with cheddar cheese and returned to the skins (you should have roasted them) then grill until browned.

Delicious.

H
 
sweet potatoes mashed with cheddar cheese and returned to the skins
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yumyumyum! that sound soooo good!

Think I may go with fish pie with a grilled sweet potato and cheese topping tonight :crazy:

Shame as parsnips, sweet corn, and peas are in my to 5 (and the girlfriend grows them at her allotment)
 
'mashed sweet potato'
Sweet potato
most tests on boiled sweet potato show it to have a lowish GI (around 46)
Be careful about baking or roasting it, much higher GI (about 80 for barbecued sweet potato)
Boiled parsnips have a similar GI to sweet potato, but I would think that roasting would increase it again.
Celeriac
quite low carb:(2.3g per 100g
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vege ... d-celeriac
Jerusalem artichokes
Are on paper higher in carbs (17.46 per 100g ) but the carbohydrate is inulin (not insulin as some websites seem to think)which is not broken down by the body
( NB: they can give some people 'gastric distress' though note the 17th quote in the wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_artichoke )

Slightly different but also sort of comfort foods :
chana dahl (also known as Bengal Gram) Very low GI.
http://www.mendosa.com/chanadal.html
dried lentils ( when rehydrated and cooked about 12g in 100 gm ;cooked weight ) but low GI. (around 26 so lower than sweet potato)
 
Thanks phoenix, that really handy info,

So Jerusalem fartichokes will be OK in moderation? (girlfriend grows them at her allotment too)
 
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