It's easier than you think to create delicious
desserts for your diabetic husband. When I had to get right down to it the
ideas came flying at me out of my kitchen cupboard!
Here's a few of his favorites:
Easy Orange/Banana Parfait
1 pkge Lite Orange Jello (no sugar)
2 cups vanilla yogurt (fat free, no sugar but artificially sweetened)
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp Splenda
1 banana
1/8 cup Lite cream cheese
Makes 4 servings
Prepare the jello per the package directions.
When it is partially set, slice and drop your banana pieces into the jello and
mix gently so the banana pieces are covered by the jelly. Leave to set firm in
the refrigerator.
Beat the remaining ingredients well together
and set aside in the fridge.
Just before dinner put your dessert together. I
use parfait glasses, they add to the fun and look of the dessert.
Drop a dollop of yogurt mixture into the
bottom of each of 4 dishes and a scoop of the jello and then the yogurt mix
again and so on to the top.
I have tried different flavors and different
fruit, but, hubby likes the orange banana the best.
Faux Apple Crisp
3 large apples (jona golds are the best, in my opinion)
Cinammon
Sprouted wheat bread (I use Ezechial cinammon raisin from the health food store
- 2 slices, they are small)
9" square casserole dish
Makes 4 servings
Preheat oven to 375F. Spray your casserole
dish with a non stick spray.
Peel, core, and slice your apples thinly into
your baking dish. Sprinkle with cinammon (as much or as little as to your
taste).
I take my bread from the freezer and grind it
into crumbs in the blender. Now sprinkle evenly over your apples. Take a spoon
and dish down here and there through the apples, so that some of the crumbs
fall between the apples.
Bake uncovered in your oven 40 mins. or until
your apples are cooked tender.
Cool and serve with flavored yogurt,
artificially sweetened.
You can swap out the apples for blueberries,
fresh or frozen. Just coat the berries first with 2 tsp flour.
It's not been as hard an adjustment as we
thought it would be and we are both eating healthier than before, that has been
a bonus for us both.
Abigail Baker is the webmaster and editorial
manager for Country Mall Place at http://www.acplace.com/
