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Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Nablopomo post no. 6 - I hate menu planning.

 I seriously have come to hate over the last six years of having diabetes menu planning. And yet, here we are attempting to plan Thanksgiving dinner for three diabetics and a host of non-diabetics. This started out as Beloved attempting to plan everything so that his mom didn't have to cook. Not a bad idea when she's been struggling with balance issues for a few months now. (Her doctors are mystified, she's just accepted it as part of growing older.)

Unaware that the other relatives were planning things as well, we almost had a complete menu put together for his mom to approve. It has now turned into we're making the sides and desserts for us diabetics (and a special pie for his mom). I have been scouring my cookbooks and getting rather vexed. Portions are tiny. Much of it is not very appetizing. I just want to yeet the books out the window and call it done. Looking on the internet is even worse. I'm sorry but corn syrup is not a diabetic friendly sugar sub. It's liquid sugar!

Then there are the misfiled recipes that are for people with heart disease rather than diabetes. I suppose they could be useful. If they hit both the categories, it'd be perfect. Because there are more people at the table with heart disease than diabetes. But those recipes seem to be impossible to find. *headdesk*

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