Diabetic Recipes for Main Meals &
Salads
Much as I love hot cooked foods, I have to confess to only
being a recent convert to salads.
When I was a child, a "salad" was a plateful of lettuce and
tomato with some saladcream on the side - I inwardly groaned
every time it was served!
Maybe you have a similar "healthy eating" experience.
With the new salad leaves available, from baby spinach,
rocket and a wide variety of other leaves, together with the
various tomatoes that are available, there's little need for
boring salads at your table.
My favourite of all was eaten in the cafeteria at Milan
restaurant, served with a bed of leaves, topped with fresh
balls of mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, olives and drizzled with
olive oil.
Authentic Greek Salad Recipe
 After returning from a vacation in Greece and
the Greek Islands, we're 100% enthusiastic about some of
the recipes we tasted there.
Here's an offering which is quick and easy to put together,
but full of flavor and bursting with health:-
Ingredients
- 3-4 tomates, cut into wedges or squares
- ½ cucumber, cut into chunky slices or chunks
- ¼ yellow or green pepper
- ¼ red onion, cut into half rings
- 125g feta cheese - cut into small squares
- a handful of kalamata olives
- extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle
- oregano
- black pepper
- salt
Place or layer the salad ingredients in a bowl, mixing with
a little freshly ground black pepper.
Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle oregano over the
top.
Garnish with the olives.
This is a lovely easy to prepare salad to eat on it's own,
or serve with chunks of warmed wholemeal bread.
More Healthy Recipes
 Here's a few of the meals which we eat
regularly at our home:-
- Jens Diabetes Blog August 2007
Hot weather, insulin & diabetes - the magic of achieving good sugar levels in the summer heat
- Jens Diabetes Blog July 2007
Summer in Ireland, Travel & Diabetes
- Jens Diabetes Blog May 2007
May 2007 - Jen's diabetes blog about being the parent of a teenage diabetic
- Jens Diabetes Blog April 07
Jen's blog on popular diabetes blogs and healthy eating for diabetics
- Jens Diabetes Blog March 07
Jens diabetes blog - on self-testing, HbA1C and your blood glucose levels.
- Diabetes Blog Feb 07
Alissa's diabetes sick day regimen, her new pump, finding free supplies, pumping accessories, pump school online, eye complications and skin care
- Diabetic Blog Jan 07
Insulin pumps & Patrick the pump, signs and symptoms of diabetes, recipe ideas and the Balance magazine
- Diabetic Blog Dec 06
Jen's Diabetes blog - Christmas, Sugar levels (bad) and the GI diet
- Diabetes Blog Nov 06
Jen's Diabetes blog on how it feels to have diabetic daughter at University, coping on her own for the first time.
Helpful Hints
I also came across an interesting variation on a
Shepherd's Pie recipe, with a topping of sweet potato
(lower GI than regular potatoes!), good idea, bet that tastes
fabulous?!
Sprinkling pine nuts on a salad or pizza can help
to give a boost to your immunity system.
Love mashed potato, but worried about your sugar
levels? Try a mix of regular and sweet potatoes which
tastes great and has a lower GI index, although you may still
have to watch your portion size!
Use spinach instead of ordinary salad leaves - they're a
superfood and SO much better for you than lettuce. Or
chop a few pieces of cabbage (red or white), they're full of
goodness too.
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