If you are a diabetic, have just discovered that you are a diabetic or someone in your family is one, you more than likely think that you suddenly have to give up everything, however, that is not true, you can find some good diabetic snacks out there to help keep your diet interesting. You don’t have to stop enjoying the foods you use to love to eat. At least not all of them. Our purpose here at Healthy Diabetic Snacks is to inform you as well as let you know you can still enjoy food.

There is no reason why you have to deprive yourself of all the wonderful foods out there that make eating more than something to do to keep your body functioning it, it’s social and something that should be enjoyable. Here you will find a variety of different recipes that are specifically targeted towards you, the diabetic.

The recipes we offer are ones that are specifically designed for the diabetic and anyone else that wants to try and cut down on the amount of sugar that they take into their body. They are recipes that remind you that you can enjoy different kinds of diabetic snacks without feeling like you are on a special diet that makes you different from everyone else.

Not only do we offer you tasty diabetic snacks but you will also find different articles offering you a variety of different tips about proper nutrition as well as tips on how to snack healthy. You also will discover a host of low carb snacks to enjoy as well. As a diabetic you know that it is important to have carbohydrates as long as they are the complex type and you will be able to easily find those here on our site as well.

It’s important as a diabetic that you not just concern yourself with diabetic snacks and other goodies, but the whole picture and we try to help you with that as well. You will discover that we also offer all of our visitors the opportunity to sign up for our free newsletter that is filled with valuable information to help you better understand and cope with diabetes in your life whether you have it or a family member has it.

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Are you not only a diabetic and have to worry about how much sugar that you take in on a daily basis, but also sensitive to any kind products with gluten in them? This combination might think that you have to give up all the yummy treats and desserts you see others around you eating. That doesn’t have to be the case however. There are things that you can make that will satisfy that sweet tooth of yours. For example, lemon meringue pie, always a favorite with almost anyone, can be a great sugar free and gluten free dessert. That’s right. You can have a delicious lemon meringue pie by substituting gluten free flour and honey and agave nectar for the regular flour and sugar that is found in a traditional recipe.

Making the Crust

1. First preheat the oven to 350 F.
2. Add 7 ounces of gluten free flour and a 1/3 cup of honey to a mixing bowl. Blend them together with a spoon, preferably a wooden one. The mixture will be sticky as the honey works into the pie dough.
3. Cut up 4 ounces of chilled butter and add it to the bowl and then add 4 tablespoons of water. Mix the ingredients with your mixer on low and then gradually increase the speed to medium, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl.
4. Put your dough in your refrigerator and cover with a damp paper towel.
5. Now take a handful of the gluten free flour and sprinkle it on your counter top to keep your dough from sticking as you roll it out. Take the dough and then roll it out evenly with a rolling pin. When you are done, gently peel it off the counter and put it in a pie pan. Pat it gently down evenly into the pan.
6. Bake your crust for 10 to 12 minutes. Don’t let the crust brown because you will be returning it to the oven once you put the filling in it.

Making the Filling

1. Pour ½ cup of agave nectar into a mixing bowl. Fold in 2 tablespoons of corn flour and stir with a wooden spoon.
2. Add 6 ounces of water and 2 tablespoons of cut up butter to the mixture.
3. Take and separate 4 eggs. Add the yolks of the eggs to the bowl and then reserve the whites in a smaller bowl for the meringue.
4. Now add ½ cup of lemon juice to the mixture. Take a cheese grater and scrape the peels for some lemon zest. Scrape enough lemon peel to make one tablespoon of lemon zest and add this to the bowl and blend on medium speed for about two minutes.
5. Put your filling into a saucepan and heat the mixture over a medium heat. Make sure to stir constantly with a whisk until it starts to get thick. Continue stirring until it thickens to the consistency of thin pudding.
6. Put the lemon filling into your pie pan and spread evenly over your crust.

Making the Meringue

1. Add some salt to the egg whites and then beat the mixture until it gets thick. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar free, gluten free vanilla extract and keep on beating the mixture. Next you will gently spoon the meringue over the filling and use a knife to gently create small peaks in the meringue.
2. Put the pie in the oven and bake at 350 F for about 18 to 20 minutes or until the meringue is lightly brown on the peaks.
3. Take the pie out of the oven and let it cool. You should either refrigerate it for about four hours or overnight before you serve it.

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If you are a diabetic, then you know that snacks play a really important role in your daily life. Especially for those with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes that requires insulin. For those that fall into these categories, your between meal and bedtime snacks are essential in keeping your sugar levels as close to normal as you can possibly get them. They are also needed in order to keep you from experiencing extremely low levels of sugar in your blood, known as hypoglycemia.

Below, you will find some suggestions for some quick and healthy snacks that you can have at home to help you maintain your glucose levels.

Peanut Butter Grahams

Take some low fat peanut butter and spread it on a graham cracker. You can then top it off with a banana slice and you have your protein and your starch exchanges covered in one snack.

Fruity Jello

Make your favorite flavor of sugar free Jello and then add some small pieces of fruit before you chill the Jello. The Jello is considered a “freebie” and depending upon how much of the fruit you put in, this snack will count as a good healthy fruit exchange.

Baked Chips and Salsa

Even though baked chips will still have carbs in them and will count against your starch exchange, it’s OK because the salsa usually is a “freebie” and it will also give you some extra zip without having to worry about extra fat or extra calories.

Make sure that if you are out and about that you always have a supply of good snacks for you to eat in case you get low blood sugar. Below you will find a list that covers snacks that you can buy at most stores. These are great ones to take with you whenever you are on the go. All of them have approximately 12 to 15 grams of carbs or equivalent to one carb exchange.

• One small apple
• Eight animal crackers
• Four medium fresh apricots or seven dried halves
• ½ a banana rolled in two tablespoons of Grape Nuts
• One cup of cubed cantaloupe
• Twelve bing cherries
• Two sugar free fudgesicles
• Three gingersnaps
• 36 Gold fish
• Three graham crackers
• 15 grapes
• One small nectarine
• One small orange
• One small peach
• One small pear
• Two small plums
• Three cups of popcorn
• 15 fat free potato chips or tortilla chips
• ¾ ounce of pretzels
• Two tablespoons of raisins
• Seven Ritz crackers
• One tangerine
• Six Vanilla Wafers
• 12 Wheat Thins
• One cup of low fat or non-fat yogurt

Remember, these are just suggestions, there are a lot more snacks out there that you can purchase at the store and that you can make at home. The key is to try and be creative so that your snacks don’t get boring.

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With summer quickly approaching, it is always nice to have a few refreshing and delicious dessert recipes up your sleeve. You never know when you might be entertaining family and friends, especially since it is the best time of year to have outdoor affairs like picnics and BBQs. Being a diabetic shouldn’t get in the way of serving up some yummy desserts. Here are a few recipes that everyone should enjoy.

Watermelon Smoothie

Take two cups of sliced watermelon and put it in your blender and then add one cup of ice. Add one tablespoon of your favorite sugar substitute to the mixture. If you have an ice grating setting on your blender then use this option to mix everything together. If not then just blend the entire mixture for at least two minutes. Stop periodically and stir the mixture a bit to make sure it is all blended well. Add a fun garnish if you wish and serve.

No Bake Strawberry Pie

Take one package of graham crackers and crush them up. Put them in a plastic bag to keep the crumbs from going everywhere. Then smash up the crackers, this is what is going to make your pie crust, so make sure they are crushed up really good.

Take the crumbs and mix in one stick of margarine. Use a mixer to beat the crumbs and the margarine together until it makes a sticky pie crust dough. If it seems too sticky then add more graham cracker crumbs until it gets dryer. When you are done, take the dough an press it into an aluminum pie pan. Use a rubber spatula to scoop out a chunk of the dough, press it down with the spatulat to flatten it and continue to do this until you have formed the entire pie crust.

Take 15 strawberries and slice them. Cut off the green tops and then slice them into very thin slices.

Now take some sugar free strawberry ice cream that has been softened and fill your pie crust with the ice cream. Fill and spread it around until it reaches the very top of the pie crust. Use the slices of strawberries that you cut to cover the top of your pie.

Put the pie in the freezer for about two hours or until the ice cream is firm. Once it is firm, remove from the freezer, top with some sugar free whipped topping and it is ready to enjoy as a delicious summer dessert.

Sugar Free Popsicle

Tropical Fruit Popsicle

Add a cup of mandarin oranges, one cup of crushed pineapple and one chopped mango to your blender and use the juice option on your blender to blend them together. Mix them together until they are nice and smooth. Pour your mixture into some Popsicle molds and simply freeze the molds and once frozen, take them out and enjoy.

Watermelon Popsicle

Put two cups chopped watermelon and one cup of unsweetened apple juice together in a blender and blend the two ingredients until they are smooth. Pour the mixture into your Popsicle molds and freeze. When frozen, you have yet another yummy Popsicle to enjoy.

Jello Pops

Take some sugar free Jello and put into a bowl of boiling water and let it dissolve. Once it has dissolved let it cool. Stir in one cup of vanilla yogurt and ½ a cup of low fat milk. Mix the ingredients together in the jello and then pour the mixture into your Popsicle molds and freeze.

Juice Pops

Mix one cup of orange juice and one cup of white grape juice together, make sure neither have sugar added. Then simply pour the mixture into your Popsicle molds and freeze and enjoy.

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Sometimes when you are trying to find just the right diabetic snack bar in the stores you run into the problem of expense. The premade ones can be quite expensive. But you can avoid that expense and make yourself some homemade diabetic snack bars that will provide you with all the nutrients that you need as well as the fiber needed. Here are three different snack bars that you can make yourself at home.

Maple Raisin Oatmeal Bars

Take a hand or stand mixer and beat together ½ cup of margarine with ½ cup of sugar substitute like Equal or Splenda. Beat until the mixture is fluffy and light. Then add 2 eggs, ½ cup of sugar free applesauce, 1 cup of sugar free maple syrup and 2 teaspoons of vanilla. Next, slowly beat in 1 ½ self rising flour and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon until a dough forms. Take a spoon to stir in 3 cups of old fashioned oats and 1 cup of raisins. Press your dough into an ungreased 13 by 9 inch baking pan and bake it for 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until the center is cooked all the way and a toothpick when inserted comes out clean. Cool and then cut into 24 bars.

Vanilla Nut Bars

In the bowl of a food processor combine 1 tablespoon of soy powder, 2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds, 2 tablespoons of almonds, 3 tablespoons of arrowroot powder, ¼ cup of whole oats, 4 prunes, 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and 1 tablespoon of raisins. Pulse the mixture several times to break up the mixture into a powder that is fine. Turn off the processor and then add 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 ½ tablespoons of peanut butter or nut butter, 1 ½ tablespoons of honey, 1 tablespoon of chicory syrup, 2 teaspoons of vegetable glycerine, 2 tablespoons of milk and 1 tablespoon of fruit juice of your choice. Pulse this mixture several more times until it forms a dough. Remove it from the bowl and put it onto a square pan that is lined with parchment paper. Refrigerate for at least one hour before you cut it into squares.

Fruit Filled Bars

Beat together 1/3 cup of margarine with 1 ¾ tablespoons of sugar substitute like Splenda or Equal. The mixture should be light in color and fluffy. Then add 1 egg, 2 egg whites and 2 teaspoons of vanilla. After they are combined good, beat in 1 ¾ cups of self rising flour to form a stiff dough. Put the dough onto a surface that is lightly floured and divide it into four different pieces. Shape the pieces into 5 inch long logs. Put the logs onto a baking sheet that is lined with parchment paper. Refrigerate the logs for at least two hours. Take and roll out the dough into 12 by 4 inch rectangles on a floured area. Spread 1/3 cup of some sugar free apricot preserves or your favorite preserves that is sugar free and put it in the center of the dough in a 1 ½ by 12 inch strip. Next you will fold the two sides of the dough over the filling, making a 12 by 2 inch roll. Put the dough onto a baking sheet that is lined with parchment paper with the seem down. Brush milk over the top of the logs. Bake the logs for 10 to 12 minutes at 400 degrees or until golden brown. Let them cool all the way before you cut them and serve.

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Just because a person has diabetes does not mean that their life is over and they have to give up everything that is delicious. This is simply not true, in fact they do not even have to give up snacks. As long as they have a well balanced meal plan snacks can be part of that well balanced plan. In fact, snacks will help to keep glucose levels from dropping or spiking. You just need to eat wisely.

Grains and Starches

The body needs energy and grains and starches contain the carbs in them that give the body energy. But, being a diabetic, you have to monitor the carbs that you eat a lot closer and your carb consumption needs to be spread out during the day. It is recommended by the American Diabetes Association that a person with diabetes have 6 to 11 servings a day. The types of snacks that fit best into that plan would include things like pretzels, whole grain crackers, bagels, popcorn, rice cakes, cereal, granola or whole wheat toast.

Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables both are low in fat and are full of needed fiber, vitamins as well as needed minerals. They are a very healthy kind of snacks for diabetics. The American Diabetes Association says that a diabetic should have 3 to 5 servings of these each day. Great choices that would be included are celery, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, apples, cantaloupe, bananas, peaches, raisins, and grapes. However, try and stay away from the starchy ones like corn and potatoes. You don’t have to give them up, they should just be limited.

Dairy

Drinking low fat milk and eating other dairy products will give the diabetic the calcium, protein and other essential vitamins and minerals that are needed to maintain good health. Plus, protein in dairy products will help a person feel full for a longer period of time and will help to curb overeating. It is recommended that you have 2 to 3 servings of dairy each day. This can include items like low fat milk, yogurt, cheese and sugar free pudding snacks, just to name a few.

Meats

Generally when we think of meat, we think of beef, pork, fish, chicken and the like, but there are other protein high foods like beans, nuts, eggs and tofu that also fall under the meat category for diabetics. It is recommended that you have 4 to 6 ounces of meat each day. Some good meat snacks would be jerky, cottage cheese, deli turkey, peanut butter as well as nuts.

Fats and Sweets

Contrary to popular belief, being a diabetic does not mean that you can never eat foods with fats or sugars ever again. But, to maintain a healthy diet, these types of foods should be saved for special occasions or special treats. For example if it’s someones birthday it doesn’t mean that you can’t share in the fun by having a piece of cake, because you can. You can enjoy the cake by cutting down on your carb intake during the day and your sugar levels should not be affected.

Daily Snacking

You should try to be as creative as you can with your snacks and keep variety in your diet so you do not get bored with it. Put peanut butter on your apple slices or pretzels. Top your rice cakes or celery with cream cheese. Add raisins or nuts to your yogurt. Blend yogurt together with some fruit juice and then freeze it. Put canned fruit that is in light syrup in a pan with some cinnamon, ginger and cornstarch then cook until it get thick and then top the mixture off with some granola or nuts for a quick homemade fruit crisp. These are just a couple of examples of how you can spice up your snacking experience.

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What screams summer more than ice cream? Not much that is for sure and just because you are a diabetic doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on such a wonderful treat. You can eat an occasional bowl or cone if you are a diabetic or enjoy it even more if you make your very own sugar free ice cream. So instead of cutting it out of your diet or teasing yourself with just a nibble here and there, here is a recipe for you to make your own version of ice cream that is sugar free and tastes as good as regular ice cream.

What You Will Need

A glass mixing bowl

Refrigerator

12 to 18 packets of artificial sweetener

5 eggs

1 ½ tablespoon of vanilla

2 packages of sugar free pudding

1 can of evaporated milk

Mixer

Plastic container with lid

Freezer

Instructions

About an hour before you start making the ice cream take your glass bowl and put it in the refrigerator. By chilling the bowl thoroughly it is going to help you make a much smoother texture of ice cream. After an hour take the chilled bowl out of the refrigerator and put it on a flat work surface in your kitchen. Add the pudding mix, evaporated milk and the vanilla. Mix the ingredients in the bowl with your mixer until they are combined completely.

Next you will add the eggs to your mixture and mix all the ingredients on low. Add the sweetener. The amount of packets that you add is up to how sweet you prefer to make your ice cream. You can start off with 12 packets and then add one at a time until the mixture reaches your desired sweetness.

Take the mixture and transfer it to the plastic container for freezing. Put the lid on the container and then place it in your freezer. It is best that you freeze your ice cream for at least 24 hours before eating any.

Note: If you want a different flavor other than vanilla, then take whatever flavor of sugar free pudding you want for the flavor of your ice cream. You can also add fruit or some chocolate pieces to your mixture before you freeze it. However, when you add items to the ice cream it will mean that you should leave the ice cream in the freezer for 48 hours instead of 24 hours before eating it. This is to ensure that the ice cream solidifies properly. You will make your ice cream runny if you remove your ice cream any time before 24 to 48 hours, so make sure that you tell everyone in the house that it’s hands off until then.

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If you are needing to remove sugar from your diet whether it is your own choice or it’s because you are a diabetic, you will discover that it might be more difficult than you think because sugar is actually very addictive and giving it up can be tough. The worst thing about it is that it is everywhere you turn. Here are a few snacking tips on how how to remove it from your diet.

A really good way to start is to set down realistic goals for yourself. You need to train your body to get use to making it’s own real energy from real food and not from the instant energy gotten from sugar. Don’t try to give up everything with sugar at once, because that is only going to set you up to fail. Start off small.

After you have accomplished that first goal then move onto making the next goal more challenging. So instead of skipping a dessert each day go to skipping all desserts or just have something sugary once a day at a specific time of day.

There is no getting around it, you will have to start reading all the labels on the foods that you buy before you buy them. Otherwise you will never have any idea of just how much sugar is in the product that you are buying, there simply is no getting around this step. This way you will be able to set your goals to where you are eventually eliminating all the foods that have a high sugar content from your diet.

In order for your body to stop craving sugar you are going to have to give up all refined sugars as well as simple carbs such as anything made with white flour. Just go ahead and substitute the items with the healthier whole grain versions of breads and pastas.

Remember, you can start off easy by getting rid of only the snacks that have a high amount of sugar in them and stick with the ones with reduced sugar. This will make it a lot easier on your body to handle the fact that refined sugars are being taken away from it. You can even substitute more natural sugars for the refined ones, like honey for instance would be a better choice than regular sugar if you were having a cup of tea. Even maple syrup and molasses are far better to use in your cooking than refined sugar.

Make sure to always keep healthy snacks in your purse wherever you go and have some in your car as well as your desk drawer while you are at work. Make sure that you force yourself to take what you have on hand instead of going and finding something else in a vending machine or at the convenience store. Make sure to always have the healthier snacks with you when you know that you will be going to the movies or any place where the only choices you have are sugary snacks. Always be ahead of the game.

If you easily fall back to your old habits, it’s probably a good idea that you write down all of your goals and then make sure that you post them in several different places in your house, especially on the fridge and maybe even on the cabinets in which you keep food and snacks.

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We all love desserts, a diabetic is no different and a diabetic shouldn’t be deprived of desserts just because of their disease. That’s why it’s always nice to have a collection of sugar free dessert recipes hanging around. That way when that urge to have a yummy dessert pops up, you’ll have something to turn to in order to satisfy your cravings. These sugar free desserts are not only for the diabetic, everyone in the family should enjoy these tasty treats.


 

Sugarless Apple Cookies

Ingredients

¾ cups of chopped dates

½ cup of finely chopped apple (peeled)

½ cup of raisins

½ cup of water

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon of flour

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 teaspoon of baking soda

½ teaspoon of salt

2 eggs

1 teaspoon of liquid sweetener

Directions

Take a large saucepan and combine the dates, apples, raisins and the water. Bring it to a boil and then reduce the heat and simmer for three minutes. Remove from the heat and then cool. Mix together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. Stir this into your apple mixture and mix together well. Combine the eggs with the sweetener and then add to the mixture. Drop the mixture by tablespoonfuls onto a baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 to 12 minutes.

Sugar Free Apple Pie

Ingredients

4 cups of sliced apples

½ cup of apple juice concentrate

½ to 2 teaspoons of tapioca, cornstarch or flour (whatever you prefer and have on hand)

1 teaspoon of cinnamon, nutmeg or apple pie spice

2 ready made pie pastry

Directions

Toss all of the filling ingredients together in a bowl. Then put them in one of the pie shells and top it with the other pie pastry to form the top crust. Seal the edges and then cut a few slits on top of the crust. Bake the pie at 425 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes and then lower the oven to 325 degrees and cook for 35 to 45 more minutes.

Sugar Free Apple-Banana Pie

Ingredients

2 pre-made pie crust

Apples peeled and then sliced thin

Bananas sliced

Lemon juice

Directions

Put the apples and the bananas in the pie crust and then cover the mixture with some lemon juice. Let this soak for about 10 minutes. Then take the other crust and put on top of fruit mixture and pinch together to seal the two pie crusts. Make slits in the top and then bake the pie at 350 degrees until the crust is brown.

Sugar Free Impossible Cheesecake

Ingredients

¾ cup of milk

2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 cup of Splenda or any other sweetener you prefer

½ cup of Bisquick

2 eggs

2 8 ounce packages of cream cheese cut into ½ inch cubes and softened

For Topping

1 cup of sour cream

2 tablespoons of Splenda

2 teaspoons of vanilla

Directions

Preheat our oven to 350 degrees. Grease your pie plate. Then put the milk, vanilla, eggs, sweetener and Bisquick in a blender and blend for 15 seconds. Then add the cream cheese and blend on high for 2 minutes. Pour the mixture into your pie plate and bake until the center is firm. This should take about 40 to 45 minutes. Mix the topping and keep it cool. Let the cheesecake cool off and then put the topping on.

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It’s not always easy to find really good tasting desserts or snacks when you are a diabetic but they are out there and there are some that make you feel like you are not being deprived or anything at all. Which should be the case. Just because you are a diabetic shouldn’t mean you should be punished and forced to eat things that just don’t taste good.

Cookie and Cream Milkshake

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups of vanilla soy milk

3 cups fat free vanilla ice cream

6 chocolate wafer cookies, crushed

Directions

In your blender, combine the milk and ice cream. Then blend until it is frothy and smooth. Add the cookies and pulse a few times. When done, you have enough for two. Pour into two tall glasses and enjoy.

Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie with Berries

Ingredients

8 ounces fat free cream cheese

2 tablespoons granulated sugar substitute

1 ready made graham cracker crust

1 can unsweetened crushed pineapple (16 ounces), drained

1 pint of raspberries, rinsed

Directions

In small bowl, take softened cream cheese and sugar substitute and mix together. Spread mixture over the crust and refrigerate for two hours.

Just before you serve it spread the pineapple over the cream cheese and then add he raspberries. Cut into wedges and serve right away.

Strawberries and Cream Cheese Crepes

Ingredients

4 ounces fat free cream cheese

2 tablespoons powdered sugar sifted

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 ready made crepes

Strawberries sliced

1 teaspoon powdered sugar to garnish with

2 tablespoons of warmed caramel sauce

Directions

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. Make sure to lightly coat your baking dish with cooking spray.

In a mixing bowl, blend together the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla.

Spread half of the cream cheese on each of the crepes and leave ½ an inch around the edges. Top off with 2 tablespoons of strawberries and roll up placing them seam side down in the baking dish. Bake about 10 minutes or until lightly brown.

Cut the crepes in half and put them on serving plates, sprinkle with powdered sugar and top off with some caramel sauce.

Sauteed Bananas with Caramel Sauce

Ingredients

For the Sauce:

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon walnut oil

1 tablespoon honey

2 tablespoons brown sugar

3 tablespoon of low fat milk

1 tablespoon of raisins

4 firm bananas

½ teaspoon of canola oil

2 tablespoons dark rum or apple juice

Directions

For the sauce take a small sauce pan and melt the butter over a medium heat. Whisk in the honey, brown sugar and walnut oil. Cook and make sure to stir constantly until the brown sugar is dissolved. Stir in the milk, add 1 tablespoon at a time, cook for another three minutes and then remove from the heat and add the raisins. Set aside and keep warm.

Take bananas and peel them, cut them crosswise into three sections. Then cut each section in half lengthwise. Coat a frying pan lightly the canola oil and then put over a medium high heat. Add the bananas and saute them until they start to brown. Put on a plate and keep warm.

Now, add the rum to the pan, bring it to a boil and deglaze the pan stirring with a wooden spoon to scrape up any of the browned bits on the bottom. Cook until the rum is cut in half. Put the bananas back in the pan to rewarm them. Put bananas in individual bowls and drizzle with the sauce and serve right away.

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When you are looking for a good alternative to real sugar in your diet or you need one to use in order to make yourself a yummy diabetic dessert, Splenda is one that can not only sweeten your drinks but also can be used quite easily in baking. There are no calories nor carbs in this sweetener so it is a very healthy alternative for diabetics who don’t want to give up their sweets due to their disease.

This sugar alternative is made from what is called sucralose. Believe it or not but sucralose is actually made from regular granulated sugar. The scientists actually replace three hydrogen-oxygen groups of the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. This is what resulted in a very stable sweetener that turns out to be calorie free. Because of this, your body will not recognize this particular sweetener as sugar. So, it won’t be broken down to use for energy and it is undigested after you eat it. It also will never cause a spike in glucose levels.

Some however said you should be really careful using this particular alternative in your drinks and diabetic snacks because for some people it can cause them to crave food because the sucralose can confuse the brain, so this side effect might lead to overeating. So if you decide to use this particular sweetener in your baking and beverages you should be aware of this possible side effect.

The pros are wonderful for sucralose because it is one of the more natural tasting sweeteners out there and makes it the perfect substitute for sugar when you are baking since the amounts of sugar called for in baking are the same amounts you can use of sucralose so there is no conversion you need to figure out. Other benefits for the diabetic is that there are no calories and absolutely no horrible aftertaste like with other sugar substitutes.

By using sucralose as a sugar replacement is giving diabetics back the foods they were once told they could never have again. They can use this sugar substitute to make all of their favorite desserts by making them diabetic snacks and desserts that will please the whole family. There is one thing though that a diabetic still needs to be concerned with. Remember sucralose may be taking away the effects of sugar but some of the things you eat may still be high in carbs, so you will still need to be careful when cooking that the items you choose to make are not extremely high in carbs.

When you are considering buying sucralose for your sugar substitute, you will be happy to discover that it also comes in a variety of different forms. You can find granulated for your baking needs and you also will find a sugar blend as it’s called and a brown sugar blend. You can find it in boxes, bags and in individual packets as well. You will also find different flavored types that you can use in your tea and coffee.

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