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We keep growing like crazy. Thank you, we all hope that we are filling a need for interesting ideas and information. Please send us your thoughts and we will continue to search out information about these subjects. Many of our readers are far down the path to better health and the questions become more sophisticated. For the last 8 weeks the top question we hear is, "Give me a list of diabetic friendly foods that I SHOULD KEEP IN MY KITCHEN so I can easily make my own healthy meals." This IS NOT the same question as "give me more recipes." This question is from those diabetics who are very successful and looking to take complete control, and move the sugar and weight numbers down even further. These people are at the heart of the group of "success stories." The Well-Stocked "Longevity Kitchen" for Diabetics Might Look Like This Let's face it. There's no such thing as the perfect "properly" stocked kitchen. What's proper for one family will not necessarily be proper for another. Individual food preferences, family size, budgetary limitations, and many other factors will influence what ought to be in any kitchen. But just so that you can see what healthy foods a diabetic's "longevity kitchen" might contain, we present the following lists of the BASICS that you can add to and build those outstanding healthy meals. IN THE REFRIGERATOR: Vegetables; Fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and mushrooms. Other vegetables in season; Leftover cooked vegetables Grain Foods: Sourdough Starter; Fresh cornmeal, fresh wheat berries; Leftover pancakes; Leftover cooked rice and beans Fresh and hard-boiled eggs (only the whites are used) Dairy Products: Skim milk; Fresh Cheeses; Cottage Cheeses; Cream Cheese; Sour Cream; Yogurt Miscellaneous cheeses: Echtarharkase cheese, green cheese, moldy blue cheese (used in small quantity to flavor Blue Cheese Dressing) Beverages and Fruits: Lemons and limes and bananas etc.; Orange juice (easy on the OJ) apple juice, tomato juice, Whey Lemonade, etc. Condiments: Hamburger Sauce; Chili Salsa; Taco Salsa; Leftover canned California green chilies Pimientos IN THE FREEZER: Fruits and Vegetables: Bags and cartons of frozen of vegetables: corn, limas, peas, broccoli, etc. (Some of the most amazing STAPLES for meals are found here); Bags and cartons of frozen berries: blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, etc. Meats: Lean Beef steaks (sirloin, round, etc.); Leanest ground beef; Fish filets; Chicken and turkey breasts; Lamb bones; extra lean Beef Sausage; Mock Pork Sausage Soups: Stocks, Sauces: Bags of ice cubes of frozen Bean-Thickened Gravy, beef stock, Chicken Stock, etc.; Jars of spaghetti sauces, soups, stocks, salsas, etc. Cheeses: Cottage Cheese; Homemade Hoop Cheese; Fresh Cheese Breads: Pita Bread; Sourdough Bread and Biscuits; Corn tortillas Miscellaneous Items in Baggies: Chopped onions; Chopped green peppers; Lemon peels IN THE CUPBOARDS Spices: Dried Chilies; Canned Goods (packed without simple carbohydrates gremlins); Condensed skim milk; Tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato juice; Canned California green chilies juices (fruit and vegetable); Canned fruits (mandarin oranges, pineapple, peaches, etc.); Vegetables (beans, green beans, corn, potatoes, etc.); caned Meats (tuna, salmon) Crackers: (Norwegian flat bread, matzo crackers, etc.) Pasta: (Macaroni, spaghetti, noodles, etc.) Cereals: Hot cereals (Wheat Hearts, Quaker Oats, etc.); Cold Cereals (Shredded Wheat, Grape-Nuts, etc.); Grains (oats, wheat berries, etc.) Staples: Flours and starches (all kinds); Special staples: (yeast, junket, pectin, gelatin); Vinegar Dried Foods: Beans (red, black, navy, pinto, kidney, etc.); Rice (brown rice, wild rice)Barley SITTING OUT Bowls of: Ripening Fruit; Bag of Potatoes; Bag of Onions; Garlic A secret to making that last, winning half mile in the Diabetic race might be a dietitian who is skilled at supporting a healthy diabetic can be of great help in finding your top gremlin foods that do the most damage, and giving them the deep six.
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