I am a really bad cook and want to attempt an easy meal for my husband for Valentines Day. He is diabetic so I am unable to cook anything with too much sugar in it, he also does not eat pork or ham so that is out as well.

I need to have some snack ideas. My daughter is having a party so she is having lots of friends over. A few of her friends are diabetic so I need some sugar-free snack foods and locations in which to buy them or sugar-free recipes. If you could help me with some snack foods and maybe a few recipes. ( not to many cause i don’t like cooking for parties).

I live with a diabetic child… I need quick, not too much cooking, (as it is 105 degrees today and most days this summer) low’ish carb Summer recipes. Also, as always is my life, on a tight budget please! Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Hope you all have a happy and fun summer!

My husband is a extremely picky eater and a type 1 diabetic. His food interests are extremely limited. And a lot of food smells make him sick. I come from a home where we love to cook and eat most foods.

Any good ideas for a recipe’s that involve plain/blan food topics? Or perhaps you know someone like this in your life where you could share how you dealt with it?

Thanks!

am a type 1 diabetic and have been for over 10 years. I have been trying to control my evening time sugar levels and just wondered if anyone had any tips on what is a good evening meal, or any recipes that they would share as i am lacking enthusiasm at the minute and am stuck for ideas. I have 2 young children so cannot afford to spend too long cooking in the kitchen. Any advice and tips welcome, thanks

HELP!!!!!! I’m handling hospitality for a nonprofit interfaith conference next spring; some folks begged for chai. We’ve PREVIOUSLY done instant coffee/tea with hot water pots—but want to shift towards serving brewed Fair Trade Certified coffee, per-bag FTC teas, and Fair Trade Certified cocoa.
(BTW, anybody got a good recipe for homemade hot cocoa mix? The kind that uses BAKING cocoa (not Nestle’s Quik or similar product), and where you add your own dry milk & maybe nondairy creamer to the mix?
I can get a FTC cocoa mix with the milk already in it, but can undoubtedly make homemade stuff cheaper & better,,,,especially in the quantities this bunch will probably go through. The food & beverages are free to attendees (donations JOYOUSLY accepted), so cutting costs (and staying as Green as doable!) are important for us.

For the chai, well, some people want honey and others do different sweeteners (some are diabetic, some are health nuts or dieting, some want sugar) …..and don’t even ASK about the creamer/alternative choice problems, when you’re dealing with such a diverse bunch!! (Moan and grin.)

So was hoping someone who knows about chai (absolute rookie here) could provide a good recipe. Want to brew/simmer quite a lot of FTC loose-leaf tea and spices in advance at home and pour it into a really big thermos, label the contents, then let people add their own per-cup sweetener and milk/creamer as desired (and re-nuke as necessary).

Have sources for FTC chai teabags and such, but they’re expensive!!! My guess is that this group will probably go through 50-60 servings of chai in the course of a weekend conference. But looseleaf FTC tea is not that costly, and good spices are cheap.

Our capacity to “cook” onsite is severely limited, so pre-making the chai is important. We figure that adding the “brewing” capacity of the 30-cup percolator for the real coffee is about as high as we can go, and that’ll have to be in sequence after heating tea/cocoa water. (The other power in the room is tied up with the soup crockpots and microwaves; we’re already using powerstrips and stretching cords.)

Can’t see any “instant” teas working here….unless you can provide me with a link to a source for FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED instant tea. (And would LOVE a source for FTC instant decaf coffee, which looks to be a nightmare to find! We may be **stuck** having to serve general market decaf instant this year—-sadface.)

i cook a great deal and I look for healthy sweets or semi low sugar. I always get the peanut ball recipe-lol. i even tried diabetic sites and i tried allrecipes and epicurious etc etc. really not coming up with anything other than that one
any ideas?
“fruit” isnt’ what im going for, i want recipes, theres got to be some goodies that can be conjured up

please dont answer this question with cook books and web addresses. im looking for meal ideas for me and my boyfriend. can be quick and easy or things that take time to cook. does anyone have family recipes i could try? im just bored making the same things all of the time. what makes it hard is i just found out im diabetic and im on a carb restricted diet. but any meal ideas you have could be paired up with salads and veggies. anything different with chicken or ground beef? any other meats would be fine, im just not sure how to cook much else. any different seasonings? things i could make in a crock pot that i could throw in before work and be done when i get home? im just so bored with my dinner routine lol helpppp…

My boyfriend of the past 8 months is diabetic and has been for 20 years. I am not in charge of the food we eat as I do all the cooking. I try to cook as healthy as possible … but need some tips on what is good and or bad for him. I do as much low fat good as possible … I try to find sugar free recipes for cakes and cookies – but has a real hard time finding them or the ingredients … where do you shop to get these things.

He wont eat it if it is boring and I dont think it should be … there has to be some hidden secret that I dont know about … on where to find good sugar free ingredients ?

What types of diet plans do you or someone you love follow.
I just want to make sure I am helping him with his condition …

There has to be more I can do with what I feed us ?

Please any help or suggestions is REALLY needed. Thank You.

My dad was diagnosed with diabetis just months ago. And this Christmas I am giving him the best present in his life. I want to collect recipes for diabetics, that are delicious and inovative. I am a great cook, but to tell you the truth, have not thought about food low in sugar, fat etc. Does anyone know, what would be the best recipe book out there or web site where I could get resources for great diabetics food? I want to start trying out the new way of preparing food as we speak, so if you have a good portion of knowledge or you are diabetic yourself, please help me out. Our whole family will thank you saving my dad.