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Turkey Chili Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Fresh chili and baked sweet potatoes are a great combination! This recipe is easily customized to fit your flavor style. Add a dash of cayenne or pepper to take up the heat a level or two. Try topping your sweet potato with green onions or a dollop of plain non-fat Greek yogurt (instead of sour cream). The options are endless to make this recipe your way!
Sheet Pan Dinner: Easy Meals with Minimal Cleanup
Managing diabetes often means paying extra attention to meal planning and preparation, ensuring meals are balanced with a focus on lean protein and non-starchy vegetables. One of the easiest and most convenient ways to achieve this is through sheet pan dinners. Like the name suggests, the entire meal is cooked on one sheet pan! These meals require minimal effort, involve little cleanup, and can be tailored to fit a diabetes-friendly diet. Here’s how you can simplify your dinners and maintain a healthy lifestyle with the magic of sheet pan cooking. The Benefits of Sheet Pan Dinners Convenience
Sausage, Bean and Quinoa Soup
This hearty soup is a play on red beans and rice made with the whole grain quinoa.
Buffalo Chicken Legs with Blue Cheese Salad
A tangy, cool salad topped with blue cheese dressing balances the heat of buffalo drumsticks. You can add more or less cayenne pepper, depending on how hot you like. Try making your own dressing with this Light Blue Cheese Dressing recipe. Double Up: Double the buffalo chicken in this recipe and use the leftover chicken in this Panzanella Salad. Find this recipe and weekly meal plans in our book, The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook by Linda Gassenheimer. To order directly from the American Diabetes Association, click here.
Budget-Friendly Deluxe Chicken Nachos
You can make these nachos as spicy as you want by purchasing the salsa at the heat level you prefer. If you like it even hotter, top the yogurt with a couple dashes of hot sauce.
Diabetes-Friendly Grilling with Pork
Did you know that grilling is a diabetes-friendly cooking method? Cooking over an open flame doesn’t require adding any oil, and fat can drip off whatever you are cooking, making for a lower fat meal. Read on for more grilling tips from the National Pork Board and some of our favorite grilling recipes.
Tips and Recipes to Stay Healthy While Staying Home
COVID-19 is causing closures, quarantine, and “social distancing” protocols across the nation. For many, this means eating more meals at home, and possibly limited access to grocery stores. Eating healthy in this situation can be challenging, but it is possible! We’ve got tips on what to buy at the grocery store, and easy recipes that you can prepare with low cost groceries that you may already have in your pantry. We'll be updating this article with more tips and recipes over the coming days, so please check back often. You can also visit the ADA's primary COVID-19 information page here to see FAQs, sick-day tips, and diabetes-related updates.
Grilled Pork and Cheese Quesadillas
A Mexican favorite can now be yours. When a quesadilla is grilled rather than prepared in an indoor oven, the result is smoky, rich-flavored quesadilla. If you can’t grill outside, this works great prepared on a stovetop grill pan.
Chicken and Bean Cassoulet
Want winter comfort food? Try cassoulet! This recipe for slow-cooked French casserole replaces the traditional pork and duck ingredients with turkey kielbasa and chicken thighs. Note: This meal is slightly high in sodium, so those on a low-sodium diet should adjust their meal plan accordingly.