Finding and Using Good Diabetic Recipes?

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Finding diabetic recipes is easy in today's computer age. Many web sites, web magazines, and personal web pages now cater to diabetics. These sites provide current information on Diabetes, and often include diabetic recipes.

Finding Good Recipes

Start your search on your computer. Go to your search engine and type in "diabetic recipes" and you will get thousands of web sites from which to choose. The healthiest recipes will often found on professional or medical web sites such as The American Diabetes Association (ADA). These recipes usually include the number of calories, carbohydrates, fats, protein, dietary fiber, cholesterol, sodium, and starch exchanges. Publishers include these numbers for diabetics who count carbohydrates, calories, or starch exchanges. Diabetic recipe books and magazines are available in the magazine section of many retail stores. Several health organizations, such as ADA, publish diabetic care magazines with recipes included and are available by subscription only.

Using Diabetic Recipes

Read through your recipes before you decide which ones to try. Diabetic recipes use some ingredients you might not have in your pantry, but are available in your grocery store. Ingredients with large amounts of starches or sugars will probably be replaced with another product containing more complex sugars and/or sugar substitutes. The companies that make these products often put recipes on their web pages, so check them as well. Always look for the recipes that include the diabetic number counts per serving, so you will know how much you are allowed to eat. After making a recipe, you may want to change some of the ingredients to suit your own taste. Having a book with a listing of the carbohydrate count of common foods will be very helpful for this. You can find your favorite food items in your book to see if they are good substitutes.

Finding and using good diabetic recipes is easy to do. Useful resources are your computer, libraries, bookstores, other diabetics, and diabetic magazines. Follow the recipe closely the first time, as making substitutes may change the carbohydrate count causing a spike in your blood sugar. There are many good diabetic cookbooks, magazines, and books on managing diabetes that will provide you with healthful, tasty, easy-to-make recipes.