How To Cook Inexpensive Diabetes-Friendly Recipes Year Round

Yes, it is possible to buy and cook inexpensive diabetes-friendly recipes all year long.
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Healthy diabetes-friendly grocery shopping and cooking doesn't have to be difficult, time-consuming, and overly expensive. We'll show you a few tricks to maximize your dollar and your time so that you and your family can eat right all year long.

1) Eating healthfully isn't just about carbohydrates, it's also about finding the right proteins and fats.

2) There are many foods that are high in fat which are also high in protein. The trick is to find the best quality, natural versions of these foods, and to keep your portions in check.

3) Carbs are sugar, but there's a difference between simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. You have to know where to look to find the best quality complex carbohydrates while learning to drastically cut down on your simple carb intake.

4) It's also important to get fiber, both soluble and insoluble, into your everyday diet as much as possible.

5) Learn to pair your foods. When you eat carbohydrates of any kind, attempt to also eat a healthy amount of protein in the same meal. Protein will slow your body's insulin response to those carbs racing through your bloodstream.

6) You must learn to avoid second helpings. This all goes along with cutting down your portion sizes in general. To get an idea of appropriate portions of the healthiest food types to get on to your plate, look at choosemyplate.gov.

7) A great tool in portion control is to drink water regularly. Water not only hydrates you, it helps fill you up. And high sugar drinks like sodas and juices have the opposite effect – they actually make you more hungry. So switching to water will help in many ways!

8) Learn to grocery shop efficiently. This isn't just about the time you spend in the store, but how you show, which will save you money and aid your health. Avoid the middle aisles, and learn to shop just around the edges of the store as much as possible.

9) Learn to cook efficiently as well. This means cutting down on your cooking oil amounts, and using only the healthiest varieties of cooking oils, like extra virgin olive oil.

10) When thinking about the high cost of natural whole fruits and vegetables, you must consider the much higher long-term costs to both your wallet and your health if you continue to eat a highly processed, fast-food-heavy diet.

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