Nov 11
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Thanksgiving 2011
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Every once in awhile it’s a good idea to update your soup recipes. Try making a few of these recipes prior to Thanksgiving Day get-togethers and test out whether or not they will fit into your special dinner.
Chicken Broccoli Soup
1 bunch green onions, diced
1 sweet red onion, diced
1 pound chicken breasts, cooked and diced
2 cups cooked barley
4 carrots, sliced
5 cups broccoli florets cut into bite-sized pieces
2 turnips, diced
1 teaspoon sage
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon Poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon savory
1 bunch fresh parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
Sauté the onions in the olive oil in a medium sized sauté pan.
In a large soup pot, combine the diced chicken, barley, carrots, turnips, sautéed mixture and seasonings. Turn flame to medium high and bring the soup to a boil. Then turn down and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the broccoli and simmer for five more minutes. Then cover the soup and let it steam for 10 more minutes. Serve.
White Asparagus Soup
Serves 4 to 5 people.
2 cups Greek yogurt, plain
3 cups 1% or 2% milk
2 pounds white asparagus spears, chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1-12/ cups Napa cabbage, shredded thinly
3 to 4 sprigs fresh tarragon or 1 teaspoon dried
4 cups vegetable broth
Add milk and broth to your large soup pot. Mix.
Add asparagus, Napa cabbage and potato; bring to a boil. With heat on medium, simmer for 20 minutes.
Add fresh minced garlic to the soup.
Puree the soup with the tarragon, and then pour back into the soup pot. Serve it with yogurt.
Let me know if you like these recipes!
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What you can propose to everyone at the big Thanksgiving Day meal is that they space out their food properly and wait until the big meal digests a little before eating dessert. Why get stuffed or act like a glutton anyway? It’s uncomfortable and unhealthy.
The challenge is to see who can space out the food well enough during the day to not gain the extra ten pounds that most people gain during the holidays.
All that’s required is that everyone engages in cleaning up all the dinner dishes and stick around to play the after dinner games and engage in stimulating intellectual conversation for a few hours, and then desserts are brought out three hours later.
Now three hours can be really stretching it so two hours is okay, but three hours really is better. This way your body has time to deal with the high blood sugar from the Thanksgiving Day meal.
And when you eat the desserts, you’ll count the carbs. Do not exceed 35 grams of carbs. This may mean a spoonful of ice cream on top of a sliver of apple pie along with a sliver of pumpkin pie, but it will be enough. The trick is to simply not fill up your spoon and take very small bites and savor each bite. That way you’ll make it last.
So do it. Take the Thanksgiving Day Challenge with your guests and win this year at the holidays!
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Many people with Type 2 diabetes are worried about the dessert table at holidays. Will they be tempted too much? Will they overeat and cause problems to themselves?
Some diabetics are willing to take risks and think it’s important to act like everyone else.
But I would ask you to consider the consequences. First of all, the damage from too much blood sugar is thought to be irreversible. If the sugar is deposited in the tissues of the eye, the proteins become cross-linked and the development of cataracts is sped up.
If the sugar is deposited in the skin, you end up looking older than you really are. And who wants to undergo cosmetic surgery anyway?
If the sugar is deposited in the nerves, peripheral neuropathy results or worsens your present condition.
It’s just not worth it. It’s self-sabotage and for what purpose?
So here’s what you can do instead:
Eat just a few of those carbs but don’t exceed 40 grams carbs in any 2-hour period of time at Thanksgiving. So get to the party two hours before the big meal and eat some snacks – but no more than 30 grams worth.
This means you may have to ask the host what will be served so you can look up the carb content ahead of time. Then you’ll know how much you can snack on before the meal.
Next, keep your carbs during the meal at 30 grams. This may mean only a spoonful of stuffing and a spoonful of mashed potatoes and do have a salad with vinaigrette dressing to lower the blood sugar level. Don’t forget your cactus jelly to lower your blood sugar level as well.
Finally after the meal announce that you challenge anyone for desserts. More on that in my next article.
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Nov 11
8
What To Do With The Turkey!
How will you cook the turkey? Will you roast it in the roasting pan? This is probably the best method of cooking for a diabetic.
Frying a turkey adds an extra burden on the diabetic body. Frying uses vegetable oil that oxidizes fast. This oil ends up being consumed along with the turkey and as a result, you have all this extra-oxidized fat in your body to deal with.
That means your vitamin E levels will plummet just trying to stay ahead of the game. The oxidized fat that isn’t dealt with by the body will end up as oxidized fat that can easily get deposited in your arteries, which is a weak point in the health of any diabetic.
So if you want to preserve your arteries, forget the idea of deep-frying the bird this Thanksgiving.
What’s that you say – it’s only once and it won’t hurt?
I disagree. Once can hurt and create enough oxidized cholesterol that leads to a heart attack. And you really don’t want to keel over at the Thanksgiving Day meal, do you? Don’t take a chance! You’re a diabetic and until that diabetes is gone, don’t eat deep fried turkey.
Another way to cook the turkey is grill it. Grilling is known for its production of cancerous chemicals – but we also know that just by marinating the meat in a sauce containing rosemary, oregano, mint and other culinary herbs, you can neutralize these carcinogenic compounds. So grilling is “a-OK” for diabetics when the necessary precautions are taken.
Marinating the turkey that is roasted is a good idea … even for roasted turkeys. Otherwise, you can coat the bird with olive oil and sprinkle your herb combination onto the skin of the bird. Mine always includes red crushed pepper, sage, savory, thyme, oregano, basil, a pinch of curry and mint, salt, and pepper.
If you’re afraid of trying a new combo of herbs, experiment with an herb combination and roast a chicken between now and Thanksgiving. If you like the new combo you created, it will generally work on the turkey!
You’re probably quickly learning these methods to stay positive and on track with where your health is going are really no different than what successful people use to get what they want in life.
Successful people who don’t give up tune out the negative people in their life.
Successful people keep track of everything they do that works and doesn’t work. If they don’t do this, they may easily end up retrying something that won’t work again, wasting time.
Successful people stay abreast of changes in the field of what they are studying.
Successful people take action and don’t wait and don’t put off things to do to reach their goal.
Successful people who have negative family members stop talking about the things that light up their life with the naysayers.
Successful people know that once they achieve success, the naysayers will say, “I knew you could do it. I supported you every step of the way!” How quickly the naysayers reverse their thoughts about you once you achieve your goal!
Today’s next step towards reversing your diabetes is this:
Use your intuition to determine which method you will try first to reverse your diabetes.
Trust your intuition more than you trust anyone or any expert. Your intuition will keep you safe in life. Even the best-intentioned human in your life can never do that.
Step #6. Trust your intuition totally is your next step.
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