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During the fall season, there is a wide variety of winter squashes that can be used on your menu. These squashes can make meal prep easy with a three-step process for cooking them—wash, bake, cool. Let the prep for these seasonal quality carbs give you ideas for nutritious, fall-themed dishes for you and your loved ones to enjoy. Spaghetti Squash Pasta Unlike other winter squash, the flesh of spaghetti squash is stringy and fibrous, making it look like spaghetti noodles. This makes it a great low-carb substitute for pasta in your favorite spaghetti recipes. How to roast spaghetti squash

Diabetes management is more than just counting carbohydrates (carbs) and monitoring blood glucose (blood sugar) levels, it’s also making healthy decisions that fit your culture and traditions. Many cultural foods, such as tacos, pastas, stir-fries, and regional desserts, go beyond the food itself. They are often the focus when you celebrate holidays, birthdays, accomplishments, and so much more with friends and family. However, these cultural foods may not always be the best choice if you are managing diabetes because of their carb, salt, fat, and sugar content. But with a few tweaks that can

Herbs can take a dish from being plain to having pizzazz. Whether from your garden, window box, farmer’s market, or grocery store, fresh herbs add freshness, flavor, fragrance, and eye appeal to meals. For people with diabetes, fresh herbs can be a game changer. They boost the deliciousness of a recipe without needing to add excess salt or butter. Herbs, in general, provide naturally occurring polyphenols with strong antioxidant properties, offering potential benefits for people with or trying to prevent type 2 diabetes. How to Store Fresh Herbs Herbs should smell fresh and have no yellowing

During chilly months, soup is a great option to warm up and fill up. Often packed with veggies, soup offers a chance to get lots of vitamins and nutrients to help strengthen your immune system. As an added bonus, many soup recipes only require one pot to cook!

Cooking at home doesn’t have to be complicated! Following a recipe, even a simple one, can feel like a chore, but you don’t always need a recipe. Sometimes all it takes is tossing together a few ingredients to make a satisfying meal. Here are 14 “non-recipes” for super simple snacks and meals to make “cooking” at home a breeze.

Eating healthier doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Simple food swaps can fit your favorite meals and make healthy eating easier. Small changes like choosing a different ingredient can support your diabetes management goals and help you build habits that last. What is Food Swapping? Food swapping means choosing a similar food that’s lower in fat, carbs, or calories. It can be something you do at home while cooking or when ordering at a restaurant. These swaps help you make informed choices without giving up the foods you enjoy. Here are some ideas to get you started. Food Swap Ideas for Dining

With a few smart choices, you can fill your cart with foods that make healthy eating easier and help you prepare simple meals at home without spending hours in the kitchen. This guide walks you through the best foods to buy in each section of the store and shows how to turn them into quick, balanced meals that support your diabetes goals. Use the Diabetes Plate as Your Guide Use the types of food to guide you in how much to buy at the grocery store. The Diabetes Plate makes it easy to build balanced meals without any counting, calculating, weighing, or measuring. Fill half your plate with non

Tomatoes have been the subject of one of the world’s greatest debates. Are they fruits or vegetables? While technically classified as a fruit (a seed-bearing structure that develops from the fruit of a plant), tomatoes are considered a vegetable in modern cuisines because of its use in salads and savory dishes. Tomatoes, when perfectly ripe, are juicy, sweet, and great additions to any meal or snack. They’re great by themselves, too, sliced with just a sprinkle of salt! Plentiful during the summer months, tomatoes grow on vines and are at their freshest from May through October. Tomatoes come

One of the world’s most popular and healthiest vegetables, broccoli, has quite the reputation. Jam-packed with nutrition and cancer-fighting antioxidants, it’s got serious bang for the buck. Whether you enjoy it raw, steamed, roasted, or added to your favorite soup, broccoli is delicious and can be used in a wide variety of ways. Broccoli is a member of the cabbage family, of which cauliflower, kale, and Brussels sprouts are also members. Also known as cruciferous vegetables, they contain fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, iron, and potassium. Broccoli contains more protein than most other