i want to say that portion control throughout the year is really the key to
any successful way of eating, and moving your plan in a slow and steady
towards what you want to have for a permant plan is the way, substituting
low carb for the bread and adding more of the traditional vegetables to the
stuffing is a good place to start, Lee
"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Ozgirl > wrote:
> : For one meal I wouldn't worry about choice of fats so go with what you
> : like best. Even diabetic cranberry sauce can have an impact so for
> : yourself personally go light on that. Offer the carbs because I am sure
> : everyone is expecting them but have some other low carb alternatives for
> : those who want to eat like they should. Like tossed salads, lots of low
> : starch vegetables etc.
>
> : If you wanted advice for long term eating then I would advise
> : differently but as its only one day, a very important day to
> : Americans/Canadian then I wouldn't be inclined to go overboard and stray
> : too far from tradition.
>
> I like to prepare really diabetic friendly meals even for holidays, yet
> make them as delicious as possible. i was as raised on thin grvy, so ht
> is no problem for me. substituting a diferent bread and addign specially
> god vegetalbes to a dressing recipe is fine for me adn my guests always
> eat it all up with no complaints of regrets. I have a family that likes
> broccoli or lightly cooked string beans adn we never bdid ut butter on
> such thngs for religious reasons, so that is easy. I have made cassaroles
> using mashed butternut squash rahter than sweet potato which, while still
> a bit carby is less so than the sweet potato ones. Many of our guests are
> often dealign with wieght problems so appreciate delicious holiday meals
> that don't break their dies to much. I do make apple pie, my mother;s
> crowning dessert each year, but I make it with only a top crust and use
> non-nutritive sweeteners on the apples. We have hot spiced cider to start
> the meal in the living room, but I use no sgarjus non-huritive
> sweeteneralong with the stick cinnamon, lemon slices, and cloves that I
> boil up in a small amount of water before adding he cider just to het, not
> boil it. Most now take only one small punch cup these days.
>
> Young cildren in the famiy are growing up with these foods, not the
> candied sweets, and rich vegetable and starchy stuffing tht used to be, so
> they do not miss them. It works for me.
>
> Wendy