David’s Diabetes Diet

From someone who HATES cooking but LOVES vegetables - here goes.... I cut up a whole broccoli into small flower pieces, thin slices of the branches and throw away the "trunk". Peel one smallish carrot and cut it into thin sticks. Peel and mash about 5-6 garlic cloves. This can be done in advance so the garlic has time to "air". Thi is suppose to make it more beneficial, I have read somewhere. Unfreeze junbo prawns in cold water. Remove the shell and cut away the black line along the back. I usually only use four per person, but this is all a matter of tast and hunger. Use a wok. Wipe the wok with some olive oil - you do not need to leave any oil puddle at the bottom of the pan! All that oil is just not necessary - I promise. Heat the wok and throw in the shrimp until they turn pinkish and are on the way of getting cooked. Dump on the broccoli, carrot and garlic mixture. Pour on some Kikomans soy sauce so that the ingredients will not stick and burn. Add heaping 1/4 tsp of curry, cayenne peppar and ginger pwder spices. Stir it all up and let cook while you make thin slices of one yellow and one green peppar. Rinse off a large package of bean sprouts. Add the sprouts and peppars to the rest in the pan and stir. Just cook a bit more because you do not want the vegetables to loose their crispiness, crunch. Serve on rice. Well I skip the rice and just make it for my husband who is NOT diabetic. Oh yes, sprinkle some sesame seeds on the top. It looks very pretty with all the colors. You can vary the vegetables, but these are my favorites. Mushrooms are nice to add. One must like vegetables to like this recipes. Those ingredients which take longest to cook are added to the wok sooner, rather than later. Anyone can do this and it can be varied in a thousand ways.

An excellent discussion of what to look at for a diabetic diet. Eating to a logical plan is always better than just following someone else's recipes and eating list.

In all the reading I've done about food for diabetics one of my favourites is never mentioned. Onions! Are they good or bad, I love them. They are not in the GI lists. David's Response: I love onions too, John. Even more than garlic. I have heard that onions are rather high glycemic. But I don't think that it matters, because we don't eat all that much of them at a sitting.

David, your description of foods that you can't have just a little of sounds a bit like Atkins' 'trigger foods'...

Hi, I was having trouble getting my cholesterol and LDH down, couldn't take the satin's, they put me on zetia but that wasn't enough. Then my cardiologist recommended Red Yeast Rice 600 mg. I had read about this inititally on Andrew Weil's website but was VERY surprised my straight cardiologist suggested it, said he'd had good results with it. So 6 weeks after beginning it I got a new lipid panel done and Vola! the numbers came down. Just wanted to pass this on. Sara

Why is there no text when I click on the link to this diet?  I'd like to model my diet on David's but cannot locate the content on this article.

Hi, David,

Thanks for all the good info you constanty provide for us.  I was told to take 10 mg Byetta twice a day with my biggest meals.  Like you, my appetite is greatly diminished, but I feel guilty or afraid that something untoward will happen if I don't eat enough--how much is "enough"?  Often, I like a couple of part skim cheese  sticks w/ apple.  I feel like I want other foods, but when I get them I can only eat a small amounts--maybe a salad and 1/4 of a steak portion (8oz original).  Thanks!  Alice