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Christmas Celebration » Christmas Recipes » Diabetic
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Christmas Diabetic Recipes |
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It seems that Christmas is all about eating sugar and carbs! For those preparing for this annual festive gathering, Christmas often means: - roast turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, holiday, plum pudding, traditional Christmas cake, cookies, stollen, punch and too many snowballs!
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Plan for a healthy Christmas 2010 and look for recipes that you can enjoy eating during Christmas. Make an effort and fix to the rule of having your plate filled in the following proportions: - vegetables (50%), protein/meat (25%) and potatoes/carbohydrates (25%).
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For us Christmas used to be a catastrophe and we were determined to make every year better - we could not seem to keep away from sugar-filled puddings and plates piled high of carbohydrates. When Christmas was at last over after all the propaganda and the crazy food eating that accompanies it we were left wondering how diabetics are believed to live through and enjoy this Christmas.
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For pudding, leave out the traditional plum pudding and in its place try a fresh fruit salad served with custard or ice cream. We have also come up with a dessert idea that will delight your guests as well as being easy to make earlier.
Here one recipe is given below:
You need cognac, heavy cream, chopped semisweet chocolate, baking chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, confectioners' sugar for preparing Cognac-Laced Truffles. Line the baking sheets with waxed paper. Heat the cognac in a small saucepan for simmering. Remove from heat. Add cream. Keep all the chocolate and confectioners' sugar in a food processor and whirl until finely chopped. With machine running, add cream mixture in a steady stream. Process the mix until smooth. Scrape into a medium-size bowl. Refrigerate just until thick enough to hold shape. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets. Place in freezer. Make the coating by sift cocoa powder and confectioners' sugar into a small bowl. Add truffles, toss to coat.
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