Special diet recipes

So, diabetes runs in my family. My pops has recently been diagnosed and now it seems just about everything he eats makes him ill.

Anyway in doing some recipe searches I came across the Quaker Oats Recipe Site that includes low sugar recipes as well as recipes for those allergic to nuts, peanuts, dairy, wheat flour, and eggs.

Quaker Oats is a brand of oatmeal but I'm assuming you can exchange it out. I'm going to try out the banana bread - if anyone tries something out- or has a good but bland recipe for a diabetic with a super sensitive stomach - post up would you?

Happy eating peeps
jml

jml, diabetes runs in my family too.
You can get Quarker brand oats at the little Asian shop in Hauptbahnhof (opposite Hertie food hall) because that's where I bought mine.
I'll dig out some recipes but a lot of the low-carb recipes can be adpated too (if your dad overweight? If it is type 2 that he has, then weight control is a big part of his diabetes management).
Diabetes UK (the biggest UK Diabetes charity) has 150+ recipes online.
Diabetic Gourmet is a US site with nice stuff on it too.

I have a great Lactose Free Cook Book, so if anyone needs certain recipies let me know I can email them to you or make copies-

But a side note- the New English Hugenduble at Salvator Pl has a huge selection of cook books. Picked some up a few weeks ago. Spend some time browsing, you might find a treasure.

I'm diabetic too, was diagnosed a few years ago back in NZ and thought my life was over. Came to Germany and now I can EAT! The range of stuff here for diabetics or people on low sugar diets is FANTASTIC, especially the Schneekoppe brand- chocolate, fruit yoghurts, fruit juice, chocolate, muselis, chocolate, biscuits, cake, chocolate, all those forbidden foods are here in abundance. Rock on Germany! The only problem is you can't eat too much...I had a German friend in NZ and her parents came over laden with diät gummi bärchen for me. Ate half a packet straight away and ended up in hospital that night with major stomach pains and another slightly embarrassing problem

Quaker Oats are also available at the Hong Kong Markt in Motorama, Rosenheimerplatz, if you want them.

Any particular reason for Quaker Oats, as compared to the regular oats (hard and soft) that are sold in every grocery store in town?

It's probably self-promotion as it's their own website which the recipes are on. But who knows.

I like my brands Madame Showem (and you haven't had your "economy cook n' shop with Madame Showem" classes yet - plus they are cut slightly differently).

Quaker just happened to be the one providing the kind of recipes she's looking for, I don't see that she's drawn to it at all. I grew up with Quaker, so am drawn to its "consistency" , though there is a purportedly Irish brand they used to sell in the US that was also quite good.

And I believe her folks live in the US, so I assume this is just a matter of testing recipes for her pop. Or are you worried bout yourself, homegirl?

Once you put them into banana bread, the cut won't make any difference. Yeah, I got that JML didn't mind the brand, but everyone else was saying where she could get that specifically.

yeah. I didn't get why that was either, unless just going for accuracy...

You mean there is more than one kind of oats in North America??

no, not really. the Irish stuff is sold at Trader Joe's, a store I love.

Can never go wrong with the Mogwai diet.

Never, ever eat after midnight.

If you´re concerned about diabetes, try Diät Bier:

www.diabetespartner.de/patienteninfo/ ernaehrung/spezielleernaehrung/alkohol.htm

Ooh, you're getting me excited for my move back. Trader Joe's, Costco, New Leaf, Safeway even!

Both my father and my brother are insulin dependent. My mom did some fiddling with recipes after my dad was diagnosed, and she's got a mean turkey loaf recipe. If anybody is interested, I'll ask her for it.

Hey peeps, thanks for all the info and links. @Katrina...Nope pops isn't overweight - he's lost quite a few kilos actually. I've got loads of recipes, just about everything makes him sick right now. He's never been sick a day in his life...never even seen him pop a tylenol or advil...so hopefully its just a temporary adjustment change. Anyhoo, I'm trying out stuff for them..I'm going to pick up a book called "diabetes cookbook for seniors" since older peeps have different nutritional needs than youngerish peeps... But I'll probably try other recipes for myself just to be on the good side.

PS @Carm...do you know if they sell a product called lactaid in Germany? I just pop that if I really want some serious dairy. Well, I'm not supposed to have the milk proteins either but I figure if I can only get half as sick...

Lactaid help with the digestion of Milk sugar, its the enzyme that is missing from the body so you can digest milk sugar (lactose), but milk protein is a whole different ball game. I am allergic to the Milk protein, so I cannot use Lactaid (and there is a german version avail now! at the pharmacy- ask for it). Just to clear up any confusíon, but you can get now Soya milk and soya products very cheaply now. Aldi even has Soya milk for .99cents a liter. And its yummy!!! Okay, in my opinion, but I can no longer have a glass of cold milk, so soya milk is as good as I can get (yes, that sounds desperate in more ways than one!).

But with my milk allergy, I can still eat Yogurt, but only with enough living bacteria in it! It helps the digestion.

One of my uncles was diabetic and he had bittergourd juice. Tough, actually impossible for me to drink. A glass is enough for a day and when you have that its also possible to eat a little bit sugar.

Special BBC diabetic recipe section

Bittergourd juice is quite foul - however, bitter gourd makes an absolutely wonderful curry - think about how good aubergines can be in a curry, and you are on the right idea; aubergines can be quite bitter. Bitter gourd can be purchased in most of the asian supermarkets here.

On topic, diabetes friendly food that will help out with somebody who feels sick eating food, or has a bit of a jaded appetite generally - soup. Sounds obvious and silly, but works every time. Propüer soup though, and only clear soups. Boil up a shitload of beef bones with some garlic, onion and ginger. Simmer for several hours, and strain. What you have now is basically beef tea - a high protein liquid, that will settle the stomach, make you feel a bit more hungry, and work wonders. Go vietnamese style, add a few rice noodles, some beansprout, a few wafer thin pieces of beef, and a bit of mint or coriander, and you have a good little dish that should sit well in even the most unstable of stomachs.
Even a good vegetable stock will go down well, but the added benefit of the protein that you get in a decent beef stock honestly helps.

I never read much about the nutritional content of food to be honest, but I know my fodder, so fortunately cooking to a particular set of dietary rules is not really that hard for me
With diabetes, the focus is always on sugars - but we have found that the most beneficial diabetic-friendly diet is simply to use NOTHING from a can, packet or tin, and make sure most of the carbs are "dinkel". Any oko shop here has dinkel pasta and shit like that. Its alot of work at the beginning, cooking EVERYTHING from absolute scratch, but lets face it, thats pretty much the case when cooking anyting in Germany (unless you go to the Karstadt food hall thing with a gold card). The forzen foods here are abysmal, so using fresh meat and veg is the best way forward anyway. If a sweetness is required, you just have to coax it out of the veg - and they are full of "good" sugar man. The problem is that the SECOND you pick a vegetable, the natural sugars start to turn to starch straight away - so you really need to either grow, or source really good vegetables. Making any tomato based dish using the insipid red bits of crap that they sell as tomatoes in Aldi is never going to be easy, but there are ways.

I saw Carm mentioned a cookbook with lactose-free recipes.. does anyone know of one in German or maybe with a list of 'safe' German products? The same goes for wheat.

Thanks!

Look at Libase - I dug this out for our Brenda (she's also no wheat, no lactose).

Great, thanks Katrina!

Yes, the Diet products have Splenda type sweetners in them. They act as laxative!

If you eat to much especially the Gummi products, it can be incredibly painful and you get the runs from them!

WATCH OUT!

Lindl also makes Diet chocolate bars with the same products...eat all in moderation and its great!

Chris

Has anyone done a detox diet yet? I know nothing about diets. I checked on the internet and found loads of detox diets with some, IMHO, really silly suggestions. For instance, the one diet says that you are allowed to eat contiments in your food, including salt, you are allowed to have nuts etc. and then later on they say you are not allowed to have salted nuts. Another one suggests avoiding all milk products, but tells you how healthy yogurt is on account of all the good bacteria in yogurts which promote digestion. So, instead of googling and linking me to websites with detox diets, which I did the whole of yesteday, has anyone actually done this or have experience with it? Or any other suggestions for detoxing?

I was badly ill for a month and unable to do sports or go out. I would like to cleanse my body now that I am almost completely healthy.

Thanks for your replies.

The idea that your body is harbouring any 'toxic' waste products because you have been ill is pure nonsense, as is the idea of a 'detox' diet. There's nothing to detox. Some nice fresh fruit and veggies, some nice protein source (milk, meat, soya, whatever), some carbohydrates (wholemeal stuff if you like) and not too much fat, sugar and alcohol, that's about it. As long as you don't have other metabolic problems like food allergies/ diabetes etc. there's no need to stick to a certain diet

Well, to be honest, I am having some digestion problems at the moment because of having taken antibiotics. My good bacteria got killed as well and my poor old colon knows shit, pardon the pun, about digesting without these bacteria. So I thought I might as well give my body a break and do something good for it for a change. Hence the detox-diet idea. So you think it's a load of bollocks?

Ah, if you want to boost your gut flora go to the pharmacy and buy 'Parenterol'. No recipe needed for that one, it's just the friendly gut microbes in a capsule. Also great when traveling, prevents Montezumas revenge.