Trying to eat your greens can feel like a chore, it’s the end of the week and you’ve not been shopping, and your belly needs filled but the veg tray is a bit sparse. Time for a buddha bowl! This is a concept that took hold in Canada in the…
Author: Melanie
Recipe: Herbie Mini Roll
Ingredients: Method As part of a meal of celeriac and curried cauliflower soup, with cheese for desert, the impact was minimal with a global +12mg/dl increase 1.5 hour after the meal.
Recipe: Three Shot Chocolate Muffin
This muffin has the chocolate turned up to 11. A treat for the weekend, or when you’re not watching your calorie count too much. Ingredients 80g of almond flour 40g of wholewheat flour 20g of psyllium husk 70g of Stavia 20g of no sugar cocoa powder 10g of baking powder…
Recipe: No Wheat Seeded Bread
You can’t keep a Frenchman away from his bread, and here’s one way I keep him happy: Ingredients 200g of flaxseed meal (I put the seeds in my coffee grinder and made the meal myself) 50g mixed seed (pumpkin, sunflower and pine nuts) 20g psyllium husk powder Half a teaspoon…
Recipe: Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake
One of my favourite Starbucks treats is the skinny lemon and poppy seed muffin, and because lemons are one of the few fruits good for diabetics, I love to make these little bites of citrus fun. I’ve adapted this from a traditional French yoghurt cake recipe. Ingredients 150g of natural,…
Recipe: shortbread
There’s nothing a Frenchman likes more than a coffee at the end of a meal, and with the short, strong coffee we add a little piece of my Scottish heritage in the form of shortbread, and I’ve adapted it to make it diabetic friendly recipe. See below for the recipe.…
Recipe: the easiest diabetic pizza
Doing a 180 degree pivot away from your every day diet can be difficult, so sometimes it’s better to modify what you like to your new requirements. If you love pizza night, it’s still possible to indulge in your favourite toppings on a modified base. The good news is that…