We're shopping for what now?
Jan. 25th, 2007 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogBecause of the blood sugar problem, mom is on a strict diabetic diet.
It's sorta odd and I don't know what to make of it. Thing is is that it's connected directly to the infection; following the surgery, the blood sugar bottomed out. We've gone from a 19 on Friday night to a 9 today in the afternoon. However, because the remains of the infection can cause the blood sugar levels to go completely out of wack, everything has to be strictly controlled for the next 8 weeks. Afterward, we might be able to get back to normal.
Shopping for this kind of diet, though, is something in and of itself. It's not really too hard, but it opens your eyes to the oddness that is the modern grocery store. For example, mom's allowed juice but the doctors stress pure fruit juice over cheap fruit punch. Punch often has a lot of refined sugar in it. Which is completely fine, except that I could not for the life of me find pure cranberry juice tonight. I know it exists, because I used to drink cranberry juice all the time in college and it was pure juice, not punch. There had to be every form of cranberry cocktail in the store. After reading all those labels, I now know more about the contents of cranberry drinks than the average man.
Top it off with a pile of IV bags in the fridge creeping me out and I think this is going to be a looooong 8 weeks.
So, anyone have any good recipes for cooking for a diabetic? I know that you aren't supposed to cook with Equal, but that's the collective sum of my knowledge here.
BTW: We learned the hard way NOT to go into No Frills tonight. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Janet and I somehow managed to forget that Dollar Days started this week!
Dollar Days is that magical time of year when various food products start going for a buck. No, I'm not talking about old or spoiled food, but normal food that the store gets in massive amounts to sell to customers in massive amounts. We were crowd surfing up and down some of the aisles.
Now, if the past holds true, this will start a minor price war. Usually No Frills starts, followed by Price Chopper and then by higher end stores like A&P. It ends with a burst of complete and total chaos, where you wonder why you bought 10 cases of peanut butter in a fit of frugal passion.
It's sorta odd and I don't know what to make of it. Thing is is that it's connected directly to the infection; following the surgery, the blood sugar bottomed out. We've gone from a 19 on Friday night to a 9 today in the afternoon. However, because the remains of the infection can cause the blood sugar levels to go completely out of wack, everything has to be strictly controlled for the next 8 weeks. Afterward, we might be able to get back to normal.
Shopping for this kind of diet, though, is something in and of itself. It's not really too hard, but it opens your eyes to the oddness that is the modern grocery store. For example, mom's allowed juice but the doctors stress pure fruit juice over cheap fruit punch. Punch often has a lot of refined sugar in it. Which is completely fine, except that I could not for the life of me find pure cranberry juice tonight. I know it exists, because I used to drink cranberry juice all the time in college and it was pure juice, not punch. There had to be every form of cranberry cocktail in the store. After reading all those labels, I now know more about the contents of cranberry drinks than the average man.
Top it off with a pile of IV bags in the fridge creeping me out and I think this is going to be a looooong 8 weeks.
So, anyone have any good recipes for cooking for a diabetic? I know that you aren't supposed to cook with Equal, but that's the collective sum of my knowledge here.
BTW: We learned the hard way NOT to go into No Frills tonight. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Janet and I somehow managed to forget that Dollar Days started this week!
Dollar Days is that magical time of year when various food products start going for a buck. No, I'm not talking about old or spoiled food, but normal food that the store gets in massive amounts to sell to customers in massive amounts. We were crowd surfing up and down some of the aisles.
Now, if the past holds true, this will start a minor price war. Usually No Frills starts, followed by Price Chopper and then by higher end stores like A&P. It ends with a burst of complete and total chaos, where you wonder why you bought 10 cases of peanut butter in a fit of frugal passion.
