Can I just make a suggestion though? (hope i'm not out of line) Dont give her too much potato, they are too high in carbs for a diabetic, she should only have 1 small-medium potato a day. Also portion control her pasta to 1 cup per serve.
pasta is to a minimum (and i use wholemeal so will be encouraging her to do the same)
when i do "mash" it's a combination of white spud, sweet spud and pumpkin, which i'll encourage her to do. she is normally a "snags and mash with peas" kinda girl - lots of white potato - which i know isn't good so trying to change that habit. i hate white mash - gotta have extras in it - so i'm hoping she'll take my lead! everything i cook is very low GI
am also trying to get her to make other small changes - basmatti rice instead of white (i can't do brown rice so i doubt she will), multigrain bread (instead of white). i think if we can get her changing in small increments (like doing this) it won't be such a shock.
Some quick suggestions for easy options to compliment your SC meals - omelettes, also baked beans on toast are a great fill in meal (without too much toast!).
Mak - no choice but to be organised - my DH lives in a truck so we do a lot of precooking and freezing (usually have three slow cookers on the go when he's home for a weekend every month) - but we had a freezer (or two) FULL of food before Black Saturday (and the fires that hit our town the weekend before) and the power outages meant we lost all of it. this weekend is my opportunity to finally catch us up on all of the cooking and get ourselves ahead again. esp seeing i won't be doing much cooking after Gremlin arrives!
my aunt doesn't consider baked beans a meal (cos my grandparents didn't) so she won't eat them. i've talked to her about omelettes, quiche, scrambled eggs (i've survived on stuff like that while pg cos it's so easy) but she's not a big fan of eggs. i'd love to get her to cook a zuchinni slice with a heap of veg in it and freeze some for alter, but she isn't interested in that kinda thing (fussy wench!)
she was seeing a dietician but wouldn't tell us what they were telling her, but i KNOW it wouldn't be to have takeaway coffee and vanilla slice every few days, so we've decided to take it on ourselves again. fun fun fun
She is really lucky to have people around her that care so much - I had GD so pretty much lived on eggs and tuna with heaps of veges - but sounds like you have a bit more of a challenge on your hands. The dietician I saw was a big fan of beans!!! Some other snacks I used were Diet yoghurt, nuts (almonds especially) and peanut butter or cheese on 9 grain vitaweets. But a bit of a change from vanilla slices....We also made homemade pizzas on pita bread as a quickie also!
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