Diabetic Diet Food, Exactly What Does The Kitchen Look Like

The Well-Stocked "Longevity Kitchen" for Diabetics Might Look Like This

So on tusday morning, you have just been told that you are Pre- or a type 2 diabetic and that need to take Metformin and eat healthy. Oranges, Wild Honey, Peanut Butter and Healthy Choice Meatloaf with Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans and Apple Crisp are Healthy, right?

"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." They understand that a severe type 2 will have a much more restricted diet than a type 2 diabetic who in on the way to becoming a "Success Story."

The Well-Stocked "Longevity Kitchen" for the Successful Diabetic, managing there life-style to control diabetes Might Look Like What?

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, where they are with controling the diabetes, 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 Chilie
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,BUT REAL wild rice not white rice died BROWN) Barley

SITTING OUT
Bowls of: Ripening Fruit; Bag of Potatoes; Bag of Onions; Garlic

A secret to making that last, and 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.