[shillelagh]

Mez when my mum was alive she had diabetes type 2 and i did all her cooking for her. What i did was just buy all fresh stuff for her - for her tea i'd make her a lamb steak or a pork chop or chicken breast or roast beef, boiled spuds, carrots, broccoli and peas or some other veg and gravy. All fresh and no fat. Dinner times would be a butty or tin of soup, butty ham or beef or chicken with salad and some salad cream. Breakfast she used to eat weetabix. Supper she had 3 rich tea biscuits.

If you eat all fresh not processesed until you are stable and then introduce other items into your diet then you will know which spikes and which doesnt. My brother is a diabetic type 1 - the one with the insulin injections. Thats the kind of stuff that he eats when he's not feeling well - but he does eat a lot of fresh stuff.