Diabetes Direction

Archive for August, 2010

I’m sure this happens to all Diabetics, but sometimes I eat something that I haven’t had since becoming a diabetic, and it sends me on a spike to the moon! I have found something that will help bring this down. Pickle juice! Vinegar, actually. I can drink pickle juice much easier than I can drink plain vinegar though. For example, the other day I was very bad. I ate a couple of rice crispy treats, which I have loved since I was a child, and it did horrible things to my blood glucose. It shot up to 189! It is rare for me to go above 140 even on my worst days, so this was an eye opener, for sure. I knew that I wasn’t going to have good results from eating those sugary delicious treats, but I really didn’t expect it to go that high. Having experienced a drop from eating pickles before, I headed to the fridge and took a few good swigs of juice from the pickle jar. An hour later my blood sugar level was down to 95. That is more like it! I guess that I can no longer eat rice crispy treats. Especially not for breakfast! haha!

Most of us love smoothie type drinks. Well, I don’t really know what makes a “smoothie” a smoothie. Is it perhaps that they are made with yogurt? I don’t make ours with yogurt, so maybe they are just delicious drinks instead of smoothies!

I have been taking advantage of the fresh fruits that are available now and am freezing some for using this winter. Some of it though, has been wonderful in refreshing fruity drinks during this horrible heat.

My recipe is simple and easy to make using a blender. For this drink I tossed into the blender: