Slow Cooking for Diabetics

Tips on Eating Healthier with Diabetes

1. Make one healthy eating change at a time. You need to stick to one change before moving on to the next one. This will help you build on your success. 

2. It is recommended that you space out your meals and plan to eat every 4 to 6 hours. This will help you have better control over your blood sugar.

3. Don't skip meals to save your calories for later in the day. You need to eat some food at each meal. If you are at a party or larger function with a lot of food, you still need to try to hold your food intake to the normal amount you are used to eating.

4. Low carb and low sugar slow cooker recipes can help you on the road to eating healthier meals. 

5. Checking your glucose level before and after particular meals can help you determine which types of foods negatively impact your blood sugar and which do not. 

6. Fiber that is found naturally in foods tends not to change into glucose and will not raise your blood sugar. 

Regulating the Food You Eat With Slow Cooker Recipes

1. Take some time to look at the carbohydrate count in each of the slow cooker recipes you are planning to cook. You need to strive to keep your carbohydrate count at a lower level, preferably below 45 carbohydrates for your entire meal. 

2. Cutting down on critical carbohydrates, such as bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice is incredibly important. These foods are the ones that typically produce the largest amount of carbohydrates in your body. 

3. Lowering your portion size when eating your slow cooker dish or any other dish, in general, is critical to keeping your blood sugar down. You should think about cutting back one-half to two-thirds of what you eat at a normal meal.
    

4. Balance your plate at each meal. Fill your plate with a healthy amount of proteins, healthy fats, and carbohydrates.

5. Stay away from sugar alcohols such as maltitol, xylitol, and erythritol, which are used in diet foods like sugar-free candy. Counter to what you may think, some of these ingredients, including malitol, will actually raise blood sugar levels for people with diabetes.  

6. Be careful when reading labels to obtain the carbohydrate count. Sometimes there are other chemicals that add to the carbohyrate count that are not counted in the grand total. You may be eating more carbohydrates than you think.

Bonus: 5 of Our Favorite Low Carb Recipes

1. - Bell Pepper Steak
   - Asian Slow Cooker Pork Roast
   - Quinoa Mexicana with Black Beans
   - Tossed Salad with Lemon Peppered Chicken
   - Mango Lime Margarita Oatmeal

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