In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> "Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
> eb.com...

> > It's a sceintific fact that carbohydrate consumption affects blood glucose
> > levels. We are at the ARRP convention, On of the vendors gave us a
> > cookbook with "diabetic" recipes. Stuff like a caserole with 47 g. of
> > carbs per serving, are not friendly to my diabetic.
> >
> > Further, foods labeled "diabetic friendly' ofteh substiture artificial
> > sweeteners and leave in the high carb ingredients like flour. They ae
> > still high n carb. Fat free dairy products are often higher than full fat
> > or low fat.
> >
> > Bottom line, use your meter and read the lables.
>
> I bought every diabetic cookbook I could get my hands on when I was
> diagnosed. I got rid of them.

> The other thing I discovered with the diabetic cookbooks is that for some
> strange reason they think we want to go overboard on sweets!

More and more, I just want to use regular recipes. Some are fine, some
aren't, and I just ignore (or modify) them. There have been too many
changes in diabetic dietary theory in the last few decades to rely on
many cookbooks.

> More recently I was given a diabetic cookbook by a well meaning person.
> There actually is one doable recipe in that book. It's for enchiladas. But
> really, how hard is it to make enchiladas? I had a recipe that I used a
> couple of times that I got from the Internet for cheese and onion
> enchiladas. The sauce is made from scratch. But most of the time when I
> make them, I just wing them. My sauce doesn't contain flour or anything
> else to thicken it. It's easy to figure the carb count of a tortilla. But
> usually I lower the carb count even further by making them in the form of a
> casserole with the tortillas being flat. And I add thick layers of meat and
> vegetables.

I like flat enchiladas. My wife doesn't. One thing I like is that each
person can prepare theirs to suit. You get plates that are a little
bigger than the tortilla, and put down layers of stuff. If each person
makes their own, then they get what they want, and how much they want.
You can put them in the microwave before eating to do final warming (and
melt the cheese, if used), or a regular oven, not too hot.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA