Food & Diet In Diabetes

Cyber Kitchen Glycemic Index Carb Counting Carb Challenge Satiety Index Weight Control

Welcome To The Diabetes Cyber Kitchen!

Sometimes we want to stay home and enjoy a special dinner. This menu is easy to execute and when your friends or family tastes it, they will probably encourage you to quit your day job and open a restaurant. View the separate recipes or view the entire meals below.

My Story

Forty years ago, while busy being a rebellious teenager, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I didn't know the difference between a carrot stick and celery rib, and all that really mattered was how I could sneak a hot fudge sundae. 

My years of living with diabetes timeline has spanned the dark ages of testing urine for sugar spills with Benedict solution, an eye dropper and lab tube, and boiling steel needles and glass syringes for that OUCH shot of NPH insulin each morning, to the bright lights now on the horizon, and to joy and amazement as new discoveries emerge. Then a convenient roll of litmus paper, called Testape, revolutionized the old eye dropper method of testing for sugar in the urine, disposable syringes replaced glass, multiple injections replaced that one shot in the AM, insulin analogs swallowed old pork-derived impurities, and the truly pivotal home blood glucose meter changed all our lives.

These days it's Miss America sporting an insulin pump, successful pancreas transplants, 4th and 5th generation pills served up in a cocktail of combinations to the ever growing multitudes of Type 2?, and, soon to arrive noninvasive BG monitors that have entered our collective consciousness, tempering the burden of living with diabetes day in and day out.

But until someone figures out a way for us to really take a vacation, we can enjoy good food, robust exercise and enjoy an occasional Diet Pepsi or diet Snapple, instead of the No-Cal cream soda we guzzled in the dark ages.

One of the great lessons I've learned in forty years of living with diabetes is that, it's not "you are what you eat", but rather your blood sugars are what you eat. This axiom remains an integral part of how well we feel as we continue to witness progress and developments and hope for more. So I invite you to stop by and visit me in the Diabetes Cyber Kitchen, where we will discuss cooking as stress buster, restaurant adventures, whole foods, the vegetarian diet, the glycemic index suicide watch list, and how to treat ourselves well with delicious, healthy, nutritionally balanced recipes that feed appetite and hunger, strengthen the body and satiate the spirit.