The Diabetes Seafood Cookbook

I am not a big seafood eater but I live in South Carolina and am determined to become one. Barbara Seelig-Brown of Stressfreecooking.com has written a new cookbook for the ADA called, The Diabetes Seafood Cookbook, fresh, healthy, low-fat cooking. With over  100 recipes that range from mango tuna salad to salmon with black bean [...]

Food: punishment or reward?

the attitude of health professionals toward diabetes and food continues to amaze me twenty five years later…….I am so glad that I’m no longer a teenager struggling with disordered eating issues so that I don’t have to flinch every time a doctor, nurse and or educator says something offensive about eating. Here is my most [...]

Krispy Kreme

Before we had kids, our pantry was fairly sterile. My husband and I both worked and usually went to the gym in the evening. Dinner on those nights often consisted of a salad from the salad bar at Earthfare. I didn’t cook much before kids, but whatever we ate was a good balance of protein, [...]

motherhood

I feel like I’m getting a cold, or as my mom likes to say, “I’m fighting something” as if being sick is a war. I mentioned to my 3-year-old this morning that I didn’t feel good, and he said, “Is it because your blood sugar is low Mommy?” It was one of those things your [...]