[Sca-cooks] Diabetes and Honey - substitute or not?
marilyn traber 011221
phlip at 99main.com
Sat May 6 13:19:33 PDT 2006
> I've been asked/volunteered to prepare a dinner at a local non-feast
> event for the crown and other visiting nobles. There isn't a kitchen
> on site so I was looking at prepare ahead recipes. While it isn't
> necessarily period, there is a great recipe for a lamb with honey
> and apricots tagine in the latest Cooking Light magazine. Since our
> current crown has a North African/Muslim Spain (not really sure
> which) persona, I thought I'd try a tagine as one of the dishes.
> However, they also request a diabetic friendly diet...so what do I
> do about honey? I don't think Splenda makes a good substitute so any
> other ideas? How does honey fit into the diabetic diet? Should I
> just try something else?
>
> I'm sure there are other cooks on the list that have prepared food
> for TRMs Mahdi and Valeria...any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ysabeau
Honey is just as sugary as sugar is, and apricots almost as much so. It would
be an acceptable dish, if the apricots and honey are a sauce served
seperately from the lamb, so THEY can determine how much they add, but I
think this isn't the case with a tagine.
Fruits are pretty sugary, and will up any diabetic's sugars, but the sugars
in fruits take a bit longer to be processed that something like honey or
refined sugar, so the spike is a bit slower. Carbohydrates of any type will
have this effect.
A diabetic diet is a diet that the rest of us should be eating- lean meats,
high fiber, and low carbohydrate, but if you read and understand some of the
websites, you'll discover that diabetics can eat anything, but it MUST be _in
moderation_ , and moderation for, say, a packet of sugar is one packet of
sugar in a full day's meals.
My suggestion is to present the recipes to your Crown, and ask their advice.
They'll know more about whatever program they're on, and can guide you a bit
better about what sorts of things they can and can't have. Personally, I'd
opt for a recipe with more savory flavorings, but if I just HAD to have that
recipe, I'd make sure there wasn't, say, a lot of rice and bread as well, and
have lots of fresh vegetables as sides.
Phlip
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