Topic: Diabetic
Is there any way of making mince pies without using conventional mincemeat?
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Re: Diabetic
Hi,
Baking Mad does not currently have any recipes for your request. It would be great is any member had one they could submit!
Baking Mad Kitchen
Re: Diabetic
I would be greatfull to have recipes for diabetics thaks
Ladydi
Re: Diabetic
http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-dia … es/Recipes
The above is a link to the recipe section on the UK Diabetes page. It doesn't have a specific mincemeat recipe but it does have lots of suggestions.
Hope it helps.
Re: Diabetic
Presumably the sugar could be reduced as it can with most recipes. I use half the amount of sugar any cake recipe demands without problems.
Re: Diabetic
Remember diabetics don't have to be sugar free, we just need to be careful not to have much sugar and not to have too much ar once (a small slice of cake, that sort of thing).
One example of this is smoothies, a very healthy drink but all that fruit sugar in one go is far too much for a diabetic. We need to spread our sugars out through the day and where possible reduce them, also complex carbs are essential and foods which release carbs slowly (such as oats and seeded breads) are also useful.Experoiment and you will find that you need much less sugar in your baking than you thought.
Re: Diabetic
I make my friend cakes using normal recepies and what I do sugar wise is weigh up normal sugar then measure it out into a jug and then use canderal to the same measurement. It's done this way as canderal is so light that if you weigh it you would end up with a sweet mess.
Re: Diabetic
Oh thankyou Jezzicat7, yeah I have had some great fun trying to figure out how to measure sugar substitutes because of the fact that they dont weigh as much!
That is reallyhelpful thankyou hun!
Does anyone have a recipe for Lemon drizzle cake? It is my 11 year old daughters favourite but she is now type one insulin diabetic and wants me to try and make her one for her birthday!!
Thanks
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Can someone tell me please ...............just how much can I reduce the salt content for machine bread making. As one with high blood pressure and diabetic I need to control the salt as much as the sugar.
Re: Diabetic
[Wholemeal bread, makes 1 loaf or 12 slices
Ingredients:
300g wholemeal flour
150g strong white flour
1 sachet (7g) fast action bread yeast
2 tablespoons olive oil/ rapeseed oil
½ pint warm water
Method
Place the flours in a large bowl together with the yeast, olive oil and warm water. Mix to a dough adding a little bit more water or flour if necessary. Transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead for 5-10 minutes, until smooth and elastic. Leave in a warm place until it has doubled in size (about 30 minutes).
Turn out the dough and knead again for a few minutes. Lightly oil a 450g loaf tin or baking tray and shape the dough to fit the tin or make an oblong shape and place on the tray. Leave it for about 10 minutes.
Heat the oven to 220C (Gas mark 7) and bake for 30-40 minutes until golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped underneath. Cool on a wire tray.
If the bread is not eaten on the same day it is a good idea to slice it when absolutely fresh and freeze it.
The same recipe applies if using a breadmaker - place all the ingredients in the container, choose a programme and let the machine do the work
Re: Diabetic
My hubby being a diabetic plus high blood pressure, its a job in its self to weigh out the pros and cons of adding sugar and salt..he has changed his tastes from NO added substitute sugars and No salt.we all have to have some form of salt but to be fair there is plenty in a lot of convenient foods,all tho i will stress here not to much of them as the salt levels are very high..there is no need for suagr/substitutes as a persons taste buds will soon get used to foods with out sugar..as myself at an early age i gave up sugar in tea,coffee,hot choc.etc and drink low cal juices..Fizzy drinks should be passed by 
Re: Diabetic
I am a type2 diabetic and make a low GI mincemeat using low GI dried fruit.ie. dried plums, apples, apricots and pears. If you chop them very finely they make a really nice substitute for the usual raisins etc. Youncan also use them to make a fruitcake using ground almonds to keep the GI down, just adding a bit of flour to make it rise.