Italian FoodExploring Italian Food & Resturants

Easy Healthy Kids Snacks Recipes

Meal replacement
When students return to Kingston-area high schools in September, there’s a good chance they’ll be carrying more than books, pens and calculators in their backpacks.[...]
Diabetes Menu | Diabetic Diet | Info on Diabetes Types | Di

Healthy Recipes for Kids – Pizza!

Sugar Free Diabetic Cake Recipes

Pre-Diabetic Menus | Diabetic Diet | Info on Diabetes Types

Best Cake Dessert Recipe – Cupcake Poppers

Does anyone have a great recipe for diabetic coconut cream pie?

I’m not diabetic but my neighbor is and I would like to make him one of his favorite desserts, coconut cream pie. It must be a heart-healthy, diabetic recipe, preferably a tried and true recipe. Thanks.

Coconut Dream Pie

The most ‘un-diet-like’ diet friendly dessert ever!
Ingredients
2 envelopes Kraft Dream Whip Topping – dry mix (unprepared)
2 3/4 Cup Milk, nonfat
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp Coconut Extract (optional)
2 (4 serving) boxes Kraft Jello-o Brand Fat Free Sugar Free Pudding, Vanilla
1 cup Coconut, toasted
Pie crust, graham cracker, 1 pie shell (9″ dia) (may use any type shell you wish, or serve this as a mousse without a shell)

Directions
Beat whipped topping mix , 1 cup of milk and vanilla on high for 6 minutes till very stiff (6 minutes … don’t under beat)

Add remaining milk and pudding mixes, and coconut extract (if using) beat on high for 2 minutes. Fold in coconut, pour into pie shell.*
Reserve 2 TBSP of coconut for garnish if desired.

Chill at least 4 hrs. Sprinkle with reserved coconut or a few very fine chocolate curls to garnish.

*** To save almost 100 calories per serving … do not make in a pie shell. Instead, fill individual dessert cups with pie filling and sprinkle ligtly with low fat graham cracker crumbs (toasted).

Number of Servings: 12
********************************************************************************
Sugar-Free Coconut Cream Pie (Diabetic)

Sweetened with stevia.
SERVES 8 , 1 pie (change servings and units)

Ingredients
4 teaspoons stevia (blend) or 3/4 teaspoon liquid stevia or 1/2 teaspoon pure stevia
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 1/4 cups milk
1 cup unsweetened coconut

1 (9 inch) baked pie shells
whipped cream
toasted coconut

Directions
1Mix together stevia, cornstarch and salt in saucepan.
2Stir in milk gradually. Add coconut.
3Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils; boil 1 minute.
4Remove from heat. Blend in 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla.
5Cool 10 minutes; pour into pie shell. Refrigerate.
6When cool, top with

Diabetic Recipes – Low Carb Burger

Do you ever have trouble trying to figure out exactly how to get the perfect color from food colorng for icing?

I just got this email from “foodNow” and it came with a color wheel from McCormick food coloring. Click on the color your looking for and it tell you how many drops of each color to use, whether its for icings or easter eggs. It also gives recipes and really cute cookie ideas. Thought some of you may really like this.

Thanks, Libby……..I didn’t even know that they made “neon” food coloring these days…..

I thought you had to buy it already made in Cheetos……….

Christopher K.

How to Make Deviled Eggs – Happy Easter Recipe

Diet for a pre-diabetic? Suggestions?

I don’t have a lot of money to go on an expensive diet? What can I eat and not eat? Any meal plans online someone can give me a link to? Thanks.

The best known for us diabetics and pre-diabetics is a Low Glycemic diet. http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm This is a great way for all the family members to eat.

This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The “Serve size (g)” column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

And being Pre-diabetic you need a daily Exercise program. Walking is fine . Nordic Walking is Great.

Do it Now. Please .!!! Avoid this terrible disease. It’s all Consuming

Tin

Pre-Diabetic Menus | Diabetic Diet | Info on Diabetes Types

I’d like to have some ideas/recipes for snack food for the beach.?

Maybe some kind of snack mix that’s kid-friendly and easy to pack.

my kids love the cheez-it party mix. sometimes we add m&m’s.

Easy Snack Recipes For Kids – Fun Snack Food Ideas