Don’t Read This Hungry

May 15, 2015

Taking a cue from Adam Brown’s recent post, write a post documenting what you eat in a day! Feel free to add links to recommended recipes/shops/whatever. Make it an ideal day or a come-as-you-are day – no judgments either way. (Thank you, Katy of Bigfoot Child Have Diabetes for this topic.)

I like to think that I have the self control to always eat what will make my diabetes easier to manage/stabilize. However, I am not that kind of person. I don’t buy ice cream to keep in the house because I have no self-control, therefore ice cream stands are my favorite. Since I have no self-control, I work really hard to keep healthier foods around. Sometimes I’m successful, sometimes I’m not. Here’s a “day.” (I’ve been sick this week so this is a combination of days, which might look like a real day on a healthy day.)

Breakfast

Every day starts with coffee.

If I’m feeling exceptionally healthy, I’ll have yogurt & fruit for breakfast. Peanut butter toast is usually my go-to.

Lunch

I try to have salads or other various combinations of vegetables for lunch.

Sometimes the vegetables are cooked

Snacks

My desired snack in the middle of the afternoon is chips & dip. Instead I make things like this grapefruit salsa to make me feel better.

Almonds (especially flavored ones) are another of my go-to afternoon snacks.

Another snack choice is fruit. Typically berries, but I eat those too fast to take a picture for you.

Dinner

My new favorite dinner vegetable is baked broccoli.

I’ve even made an entire chicken a time or two. (Chicken is a common dinner protein source, though generally not this fancy.)

Sometimes at dinner I like to combine my protein and carbs, like taco night.

Sometimes I get hungry after dinner and popcorn is my snack of choice.

Here are a few other tid-bits you might find important/interesting.

All day I drink water. I typically add lemon or lime to it as well (sometimes both).

This would be breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner if I could.

This is NOT a typical day for me, just examples of how I like to eat. I try to eat a well-rounded, balanced diet. I can get pretty bored with foods, so I vary from day to day. If you have questions about any of the foods I’ve mentioned, don’t hesitate to ask. If you have questions about how these food affect my blood sugars, then I can’t really answer your questions. I do try to pay attention, but I don’t keep enough logs or data to know exactly how any food affects me. This is what works for me, and I hope that you have things that work for you. I think that cookbooks and Pinterest are the greatest things in the world to keep variety in my diet.

Here is what other people are eating!