As many of you know from other posts I've made, my daughter has Type 1 Insulin Dependent Diabetes. That said, we try to follow a healthy but lower carbohydrate diet (not a weight loss diet).
Every once in a while you just need to go off those food fasts and eat something you really enjoy. So Melen has been doing really well with her eating, and really well in school and so my wife decided that she could have an end of the year celebration meal, any food she wanted, no matter what the carb count.
Melen's choices:
So Melen decided to make up the Sweet Potato topping and omit the brown sugar (she was not told to do this).
She took a 1/2 stick of butter,
4 packets of "Nutra Sweet" based artificial sweetener,
and couple healthy shakes of ground cinnamon out of the spice jar.
Melted it together, stirred, and then tossed in the freezer for just a few minutes to firm it up and make it into a spreadable mixture. Clearly you can adjust these quantities to your tastes.
I have to say, it was AWESOME.
While the sweet potato probably had 80 carbs, the cinnamon/butter/fake sugar did not add any and tasted GREAT. It took much of the "guilt" out of the guilty pleasure that the meal was supposed to provide. Yes, she had to inject a good sized dose of insulin to offset the sweet potato but still, I think she came up with a new family favorite in the cinnamon/butter/fake sugar spread and it will very likely find its way onto toast and toasted bagels too.
Every once in a while you just need to go off those food fasts and eat something you really enjoy. So Melen has been doing really well with her eating, and really well in school and so my wife decided that she could have an end of the year celebration meal, any food she wanted, no matter what the carb count.
Melen's choices:
- Rib Eye Steak, grilled, rare.
- Grilled Veggies (peppers, onions, mushrooms)
- Sweet Potato (a big one!) with brown sugar cinnamon butter
- Diet IBC Root Beer to wash it all down
So Melen decided to make up the Sweet Potato topping and omit the brown sugar (she was not told to do this).
She took a 1/2 stick of butter,
4 packets of "Nutra Sweet" based artificial sweetener,
and couple healthy shakes of ground cinnamon out of the spice jar.
Melted it together, stirred, and then tossed in the freezer for just a few minutes to firm it up and make it into a spreadable mixture. Clearly you can adjust these quantities to your tastes.
I have to say, it was AWESOME.
While the sweet potato probably had 80 carbs, the cinnamon/butter/fake sugar did not add any and tasted GREAT. It took much of the "guilt" out of the guilty pleasure that the meal was supposed to provide. Yes, she had to inject a good sized dose of insulin to offset the sweet potato but still, I think she came up with a new family favorite in the cinnamon/butter/fake sugar spread and it will very likely find its way onto toast and toasted bagels too.
