when i was first diagnosed I was dismayed to realize I had to think about food all the time. I had never thought about what I was going to eat from one minute to the next and now it had to be my life...I hated that part--the other part that was hard was as I got older I realized that I had to cook or eat raw most of the food that I eat because my body is so sensitive to HFC's, Soy, corn syrup, preservatives etc that I can't eat any of that stuff...HFC's mean blood sugars that won't come down ---preservatives and soy turn my gut into a war zone and I haven't ever been able to drink soda and when I did the war zone was multiplied by 10...I don't have anything else but Diabetes---no gluten intolerance but when I eat white flour my blood sugars rise so fast I have a hard time bringing them into normal ranges without bottoming out.
When I got married, my husbands parents gave us some Diabetic cookbooks...Month of Meals...some of you may be familiar with them. I didn't cook out of them for a very long time.--I didn't know how to cook. I didn't start really cooking until we had been married for 6 months. My husband had been cooking a lot and when he told me I would have to cook, I said: how? His response was: you can follow a recipe can't you? I hadn't ever tried except making chocolate Chip cookies when I was ten...too much salt--ruined the whole batter....nuf said.
So I started cooking and learning. After I had cooked for a few years I tried making bread...many times I would try and fail. I had a friend that I worked with who brought a couple of loaves his wife had made. The bread was really good...still made with processed flour. I tried for a few years to add a little whole wheat with mixed results.
Then I was reading about flax...Did you know it can slow down absorption of glucose in the body from wheat? The ratio is 3:1 for fat added to a recipe.
Of course I had to try it and put it in some chocolate chip cookies that I made. I ate a couple of cookies and took the insulin I would need and within 20 mins was low.
I really hate going low...
