06 March 2007

Breakfast: South Beach Diet&trad; Breakfast Wraps All American (Scrambled Egg Whites, Reduced fat Mozzarella & nonfat Cheddar Cheeses, Tomatoes, Smoked Turkey Bacon & Cheese Sauce in a while wheat tortilla and a can of D.P. This is quite good!

Later: A banana and Cheeze-It Baked Snack Crackers...and water!

Lunch: Arby Southwest salad and part of an order of "onion pedals" plus a small glass of "Diet Pepsi".

Dinner: Three scrambled eggs and two slices of dry toast. This was to see if my high blood sugar reading of last week was due to me "feeling kind of rough" (to steal a line from "My Shit's Fucked Up" by Warren Zevon). I had been nausious that day.

My score was higher than it was last week...

Having put it off for a week or so, I finally made that homemade chocolate pudding recipe from the Diabetes Cook book. In the spirit of "Fair Usage" here it is:

I'll have to put this in later...Here is the recipe called:

"Post-Halloween Chocolate Pudding", taken from:

The ULTIMATE DIABETES COOKBOOK by Carol Gelles

1. 3 tablespoons cornstarch
2. 2 or 3 tablespoon sugar
3. 2 tablespoons cocoa
4. 2 cups milk, divided
5. ½ cup (3 ounces) milk-chocolate pieces

1. In a 1½-quart saucepan, stir together the cornstarch, sugar, and cocoa. Stir in ½ cup of the miilk until all lumps are dissolved. Sitr in the remainding milk.

2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly (and I mean that!), about 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in the choclate pieces until melted.

3. Pour into 6 small bowls and cover with plastic wrap. Chill at least 2 hours.

Diabetic Exchanges: ¼ bread; 1 other carbohydrate; ¼ milk; 1¼ fat