Stuffing, mash, gravy and pie, portioned so your guest can enjoy all of it.
Thanksgiving is the hardest food day of the year for many people with diabetes. The table is full of bread, potatoes and pie, and it's easy to end up with a plate of turkey and green beans while everyone else digs in. This book keeps the classics on the table, makes them lighter, and works out a plate that fits.
The classic plate for a guest with diabetes:
About 31 grams of net carbohydrate and 5 grams of added sugar for the whole plate, with room to spare under the meal's 45 grams. For a dessert lover, the book offers two plates, and either fits: turkey, stuffing, mash, a cup of green salad, a little gravy and a sliver of pie; or the same plate without the gravy, with a quarter cup of the apple-cranberry crisp in place of the pie.
You might be wondering
All of it, in the right amounts. In this book every dish fits a guest with diabetes, and two of them (the rolls and the pie) fit at a smaller portion: half a roll, a small slice of pie. The plate pages put those together into a full plate, so nobody has to count.
Yes, two of them. The lighter pumpkin pie uses less than half the usual sugar and fat-free evaporated milk, and has about 6 grams of added sugar per slice, against about 13 in the traditional pie. The apple-cranberry oat crisp is sweetened with a single tablespoon of brown sugar for the whole dish; it's tart, warm and crunchy. The book's dessert plate offers either one, and both versions also fit a guest with high blood pressure or heart disease.
A plate of every dish made the traditional way comes to about 254 grams of net carbohydrate. Made the lighter way in this book, the same full plate is about 142, which is still a lot for one meal. The classic plate for a guest with diabetes, portioned to fit, is about 31.
Yes. Our stuffing has about 14 grams of net carbohydrate per half cup, against about 30 in a traditional recipe, and it fits at a full half cup on its own. The half-cauliflower mash fits at half a cup too. On the plate, with turkey, gravy and pie alongside, the book gives a quarter cup of stuffing and a third of a cup of mash.
The book covers that combination at every stage. For kidney disease at stages 3 to 5 with diabetes, the plates follow the kidney guideline's protein range for people with diabetes and keep every diabetes rule as well, set out by body weight from 99 to 220 pounds. On dialysis, the plates carry the diabetes rules too.
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