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Grilled Chicken Sausage with Zucchini and Peppers
Need a quick weeknight dinner and don’t feel like heating up the house? This 4-ingredient budget-friendly dish, cooked on the grill, is full of flavor and low in carbs. If desired, serve it with a side of wild rice or quinoa and a simple mixed green salad for a complete, balanced meal. Look for pre-cooked sausages with the lowest fat and sodium content that you can find.
Ingrid Hoffmann's Quinoa and Beans Casamiento
Casamiento is often served as part of a Salvadoran breakfast. It is basically a dish made with leftover rice and beans. By changing out the rice for quinoa, the whole meal changes with this amazing super food that is loaded with nutrition and fiber. Find this recipe and more in our bilingual cookbook, Latin Comfort Foods Made Healthy, by Ingrid Hoffmann. To order directly from the American Diabetes Association, click here
Roasted Fall Vegetables
So easy—just three steps from start to finish. Roasting wakes up the sweetest flavors in these veggies.
Instant Pot Contest Winners!
To make the recipes more diabetes friendly, Hughes added extra vegetables, chose lean proteins, and kept the sodium in check by using low sodium ingredients. Instead of relying on salt for flavor, she added lots of herbs and spices to create tasty, healthy dishes. Looking for more diabetes-friendly Instant Pot recipes? Check out The Instant Pot Diabetes Cookbook and our Instant Pot recipe round up ! And the winner is... Hearty Chicken Italian Soup with Artichokes This winning soup boasts a wide variety of colorful vegetables. It's super easy to prepare in the Instant Pot, and budget-friendly
10 Low-Carb Soups to Try
If you are a person with diabetes, you may be trying to cut back on the number of carbohydrates (carbs) you are eating as part of your diabetes management plan. Carbs play an important role in managing your blood glucose (blood sugar) levels . These 10 soup recipes are diabetes-friendly and under 20 grams of carbs per serving. Zuppa Toscana with Cauliflower and Kale Calories: 170 | Carbs: 6g This classic Italian soup is a low-carb version of the original, replacing the traditional white beans and potatoes with fresh cauliflower. Greek yogurt adds creaminess to the broth, and chicken adds extra
Meal Prep: 3 for 1 Chicken
Diabetes Food Hub can be a great tool for meal prepping! Click here to learn how to use our recipes, meal planner, and grocery list generator to make planning, shopping, and preparing healthy meals a snap! Additionally, we’ll be rolling out a series of meal prepping articles over the next few weeks to show how a little planning can make your meal planning life a lot easier . First up—chicken, which is a meal preppers dream come true. You can cook one whole chicken on Sunday and use it in recipes throughout the week—toss it in a salad or sandwich for lunch, then shred it, and add it to tacos
High Blood Sugar and Hunger
Why do you crave food when your blood glucose is high? Without enough insulin, your blood glucose rises above “normal” levels. Blood glucose levels above 140 mg/dL are considered high—also known as hyperglycemia. The higher your blood glucose rises, the louder those cravings and hunger pangs might become. While you’d think your body and your brain ought to be satisfied by the excess sugar in your bloodstream, it’s not that simple. Without enough insulin, your brain cannot make use of that glucose. Since the brain relies on a second-by-second delivery of sugar for fuel—and your brain doesn’t
The Best Cereal for People with Diabetes
Hot vs. Cold Cereals Most cold cereals are filled with refined grains and sugars, scarce nutrients, preservatives, and lots of empty calories and carbohydrates (carbs). And you’re no doubt going to want to eat more than the suggested portion amount on the nutrition label. Hot cereal, like oatmeal made with rolled or steel-cut oats or other whole grains, are high in fiber and have a low glycemic index (GI). This means that these carbs are digested and absorbed more slowly, thus they create a smaller incremental rise and fall in blood glucose (blood sugar). For those who are trying to better
Grilled Trout With Fresh Herbs And Lemon Slices
This terrific recipe was suggested by Aviva Goldfarb's friend and food writer April Fulton. Aviva says, "I love making trout on the grill or in the oven—it always tastes wonderful, never too fishy, and adapts to a variety of flavors and preparation techniques. What makes it even better is that trout is on the ‘eco-best’ list of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Oceans Alive project. Serve with brown rice and grilled broccoli for a complete meal."
Seasonal Baked Whitefish Pouch
Foil or parchment pouches are an easy way to make perfectly cooked and seasoned fish with vegetables. By sealing the edges of the pouches, you’ll seal in all of the moistness. The result—lots of savory sauciness in the pouch after cooking, with no clean up! Serve the steamy fish and vegetables over farro or brown rice, or sop up this flavorful sauce with a whole-grain roll. Complete your meal with a crisp side salad, too.