Eating Healthy

Breakfast is your start to your diabetes self-management day, so you might suspect it’s important to get off on the right foot. My worst breakfast picks are not the absolute worst you could think up. Instead, these are breakfasts you may have every day thinking you’re making an excellent choice.

Welcome to DiabetesEveryDay, I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Toby Smithson.  Thanks for stopping by, please remember to hit the subscribe button and also go to my website to sign up for my monthly newsletter which is packed with information on diabetes management.

If you have diabetes it’s certain that someone has asked “can you eat bread?” Often the question comes as you’re preparing to actually eat bread (implying you may not know what you’re doing). Well, as with most things food not all bread is created equal. And as with most things food, of course, we can eat bread if we manage our portions and look to get valuable nutrients along with the carbohydrates.

There are many ways to define “plant-based” but if you’re not eating eggs, fish, dairy, or meat it’s important to know where to find protein.

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Just in time for the holidays, we can thank Marlene Koch for this healthy pumpkin treat. I’ll just say 9 grams of carbohydrate in this dessert and that should send you to the grocery store today.

Welcome to Diabetes Everyday. I’m Toby and I have a pumpkin season dessert recipe for you today. Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake Squares comes from my friend Marlene Koch’s book Eat More of What You Love. Marlene has a series of books, and even though they aren’t specifically for diabetes most of her recipes fit right in. Remember, eating healthy for diabetes is mostly just regular healthy eating with an eye on carbohydrates.

Thanksgiving is upon us, and it’s a certainty that this holiday in 2020 will be unique. For many, there will be no gathering of family or friends, at least in person. For those who do gather, there will likely be extra precautions and unique worries. Either way, this iconic holiday where eating is the focal social event will have some added stress. But whichever way your holiday plans go I have some strategies to share that can help you enjoy the traditional foods and manage your blood glucose effectively. And below I’m posting 7 fantastic recipes. Ready?

Here’s a fantastic and healthy grilled veggie collard green wrap recipe borrowed from my friend and fellow registered dietitian nutritionist Kathy Siegel from her new book The 30-Minute Clean Eating Cookbook. This plant-based wrap brings a variety of tastes and lots of color to your plate.

Hi everyone. Welcome to Diabetes Everyday. I’m Toby. Don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already. I’m thinking I owe you a healthy recipe video, and since I don’t develop recipes very often, we’re going to borrow one from one of my amazing recipe-developing dietitian friends. This recipe is from Kathy Siegel’s new book The 30-Minute Clean Eating Cookbook and it seems like a perfect fit for me now that I’m living in the South.