Diabetic Food Ideas for Chrsitmas Eve Dinner

If you are looking for a side dish with low carbs...you could do a veggie quiche primarily egg/cheese base, or a veggie gratin(primarily veggie base with cheese) made with either broccoli, califlower or spinach. Stay away from dishes with potatoes, rice, noodles.

If you are looking for a dessert item there are some great crustless, low sugar cheesecakes or you could do a simple fruit salad, or bake pears with a marscapone cheese with a little almond extract mixed in the cheese.

try the American Diabetes Association website:
http://www.diabetes.org/

I was also going to suggest www.diabetes.org. They have a lot of recipes. The main culprit during holiday dinner is the dessert. Even that is okay, if he is only eating a small amount (which is hard to do for all of us). I would suggest making your traditional dinner and finding some dessert recipes from the website that everyone can enjoy. Have a Merry Christmas.

I got some good ideas on the Splenda website. The cheesecake is wonderful and easy!

My dad is a Type 2. My mom has a great no sugar added apple pie recipe.

4-6 apples(read the labels at the grocery store to find a variety that bakes well)
2 frozen pie crusts, thawed
1/2 cup of raisins
1/4 cup of all purpose flour
1 tablespoon apple pie spice
1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice

Peel and cut the apples into chunks. Mix the apples, raisins, flour, spice, and lemon juice together. Put the mixture in one pie shell, then flip the other one over on top of it. Press the edges together and bake until the pie shells are golden brown in a 375 degree oven.

Hi G.,

Please dodge the artificial sweeteners. They actually cause blood sugar numbers to rise. Look into the glycemic index diet and find some really-non sugar items. My husband controls his diabetes with diet and one of his favorite things and healthiest is a baked sweet potatoe. Non diabetics can add the sugar and cinnamon...my husband simply adds butter and salt (my favorite too). The traditional green bean casserole is okay. the breading on the onions is the only thing bad so I cut the number of those in half....or you can double the cheese to add more protein. The key is to have more protein to balance out the sugary things like breads, white potatoes and rice.

If you are going to make mashed pototoes (my yankee relatives say it's tradition) use red potatoes instead of white ones. Fresh cranberries instead of sauce...

I feed my whole family with the glycemic index as a guide. It's great for diabetics but it can also help prevent diabetes as well.

Hope this helps.

M.

My mother is insulin dependent (Type 1/Juvenile Diabetes). She makes roast turkeys, roast beef, etc etc. She makes lots of boiled/steamed veggie dishes (green beans, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, etc) or grilled vegetables (asparagus with a drizzle of lemon, zucchini, peppers). She roasts potatoes with skin on, cut into wedges and seasoned with a little steak spice (sodium free). She has a small bit of gravy and when it's roast beef she has a Yorkshire pudding with it.

For desserts she has sugar free recipes and sweetens with small bits of fruit (ie sugar free cheesecake topped with warm strawberries).

As the previous poster said, check out the diabetes websites, they'll have great recipes!

A diabetic can eat the same things everyone else is eating (with the exception of sweets). They just need to balance what they eat, a good combination of protien, and veggies, with moderate carbs and dairy.

What type of dish are you looking to bring? I'm guessing some type of side dish or an appetizer. Veggies are going to be your best bet - reminder potatoes are not a veggie in the diabetic world they are a carb. You'll also want to stay away from rice and pasta.

do some internet searches for low glycemic foods/meals. there are a lot out there. the fewer simple carbs the better, so you will want to watch things with bread, crusts, too much sugar, white potatoes and white rice.