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11-04-2009, 01:15 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| | | looking for recipe
Hiya
I'm looking for a low-carb (or low-carb version) recipe for a traditional Mexican dessert.
Anyone?
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A1C on dx (Feb 11 2009): 8.9
A1C (May 6 2009): 6.6 — getting there! 
A1C (July 7 2009): 6.2 — getting closer...!
AIC (Sept. 8 2009): 5.9 — yeah!! 
AIC (Nov. 5 2009): 5.7
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11-04-2009, 01:23 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
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| | | What exactly? Like a flan? Fried plantains?
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11-04-2009, 01:29 PM
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| | | anything that's good ;-)
or a few different ideas.
something that's not too tough on blood sugar though.
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A1C on dx (Feb 11 2009): 8.9
A1C (May 6 2009): 6.6 — getting there!
A1C (July 7 2009): 6.2 — getting closer...!
AIC (Sept. 8 2009): 5.9 — yeah!!
AIC (Nov. 5 2009): 5.7
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11-04-2009, 01:34 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: KCMO
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| | | I make fake "sopapillas," using low-carb tortillas, butter, cream cheese and splenda/cinnamon.
Melt 1 TBS butter in pan, add 1 tsp splenda and 1.4 tsp cinnamon. Fry tortilla in this and turn over. Spread cream cheese on top and when second side is done, roll up.
I suspect there are more elegant ways of doing this, mine looked artless ... but it tasted good!
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
11-04-2009, 01:41 PM
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| | | Or you can just do the cinnamon-sugar walnuts --
I do 2 oz walnuts, sauteed in 1 T butter, 1 packet splenda and 1/2 tsp cinnamon ... yummy. But again somewhat artless.
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Linda Initial A1c Feb 6 09: 12%
Aug 24 A1c (MD office) 5.5%
Jul ... C-pep 1.3, GAD-65 > 30
metformin 1000 mg BID
Simvastatin 80 mg
Ramipril 5 mg
T4 125 mcg
baby aspirin
Vitamin D3, 2000 IU (blood values normal, advised to continue this dose by endo)
CoQ10 100 mg
Eating 70 - 90 g carb per day
Interval training on recumbent cycle
BMI is down to ca. 25.8 According to Joslin's Diabetes, 2005 ed., 5 - 30% of those diagnosed as Type 2 actually have LADA. |
11-04-2009, 01:51 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri Ozarks
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| | | Fried bananas (plantains) are resistant starch, so would be easy to fix & easy on BG.
Just get the absolute greenest bananas you can find - so green you can't peel them, but have to cut the peels off.
Slice them in half once lengthwise & then in half crosswise.
Fry them in butter until golden; then add some cream, splenda, orange flavoring and/or orange zest and simmer for about 10 minutes.
__________________ "Reputation is what others know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself." Lois McMaster Bujold "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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11-04-2009, 01:52 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| | | awesome! maybe i can do sopapillas and sprinkle them with the walnuts! LOL
the plantains sound awesome too!
now, for the truth: can you REALLY taste the splenda or does it just taste sweet?
i'm not a big fan of sweeteners myself...i find the after taste appalling!
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A1C on dx (Feb 11 2009): 8.9
A1C (May 6 2009): 6.6 — getting there!
A1C (July 7 2009): 6.2 — getting closer...!
AIC (Sept. 8 2009): 5.9 — yeah!!
AIC (Nov. 5 2009): 5.7
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11-04-2009, 02:01 PM
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| | | If you've had any luck with agave syrup, a little of that goes a long way. It will still spike me if I get carried away, but it's so sweet, you don't need much & there's no aftertaste - it's completely natural.
__________________ "Reputation is what others know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself." Lois McMaster Bujold "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go;
it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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11-04-2009, 02:07 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada
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| | | i haven't tried agave syrup, but i might...
before D, i used to use brown rice syrup, which has a lovely rich but not too sweet taste... but i haven't tested it out on my BS yet...
those recipes do sound delicious though!
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A1C on dx (Feb 11 2009): 8.9
A1C (May 6 2009): 6.6 — getting there!
A1C (July 7 2009): 6.2 — getting closer...!
AIC (Sept. 8 2009): 5.9 — yeah!!
AIC (Nov. 5 2009): 5.7
MDI with Humalog and Humulin-N
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11-04-2009, 02:21 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South Carolina
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| | | How about Mexican wedding cookies?
Mexican Wedding Cookies
Ingredients:
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened
1/3 cup Splenda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
1/2 cup vital wheat gluten flour
1/2 cup oat flour
1/4 cup whey protein powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted, ground (or toasted ground pecans)
1 cup powdered (Steel's) Nature Sweet
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Beat butter, 1/3 cup Splenda, vanilla and orange zest in medium bowl until fluffy. Mix in combined flours (gluten, oat & whey), salt and cinnamon. Mix in pine nuts or pecans. Refrigerate dough until firm, 2 to 3 hours. Roll dough into crescent or round shapes, using about 2 rounded teaspoons of dough for each.
Place 1 inch apart on lightly greased (PAM) cookie sheets. Bake cookies until lightly browned, 8 to 12 minutes. Do not overbake. Roll warm cookies in powdered Steel's Nature Sweet and cool on wire racks. Makes about 2 dozen.
Approximately 1 carb gram per cookie.
__________________  Barrie
DX T2 Sept 1999
Metformin 1000 mg
Lantus 16 units
Prandin based on carb load
Ramipril 10 mg
Crestor 20 mg
Multivitamin, B-12, D-3 daily
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11-04-2009, 03:22 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: South Florida
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| | | How about a refreshing granita? I served it with a very aurthentic Mexican meal and used cantalope to flavor it. It was a wonderful dessert and palate cleanser after having a meal of Chicken and Yellow Rice Wraps with Roasted Chile Peppers and a Oaxacan Style Mole Sauce. It hit the spot. It's posted on my blog and indexed as a dessert.
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