What's for Dinner?

[Sundae]

Mum & I are going on a diverticulitis-friendly detox & healthy eating plan when she comes back from hols.
Almost no cooking to start with (even I don't count wholemeal toast, porridge, eggs etc as cooking!), but settling down into proper home-made healthy meals after 3-5 days.

Diverticulitis is a medical condition Mum was diagnosed with years back, so it's not a faddy diet. It's just that more and more information is now available about how to prevent flare-ups. And she's had two quite bad ones this year where she could barely move for pain. It can be aggravated by stress and present like depression/ anxiety. The diet addresses this and is also one used for patients with liver damage. Win win win.

So short term I will be eating solo from the cupboard, but by the end of the month I should be back to posting more in this thread.

Tonight I had a Look What We Found Chicken Balti, which I had with brown rice. So yeah, not cooking, but it was healthy.

Oh and hello Ashlee.

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Good luck with the healthy eating, Sundae.

I've been making an effort lately to change my diet. I got a couple blood tests in a row with slightly elevated blood sugar. So I'm focusing on cutting way back on carbs and sweets so I don't become a diabetic in the coming years.

It's a change. I always gorged myself on carbs and didn't pay much attention to the sweets I ate. I didn't eat a lot of sweets, but man, the carbs! I'd eat a big serving of pasta and then stuff in a second big serving to fill up my belly. There was never a need for those seconds, but I'd eat them anyway. Now I'm eating smaller more moderate servings of carbs and then not having seconds. I've been doing this for about two weeks now. Trying to have a big salad with every dinner instead of a second helping of carbs. It's crazy, because I'm so skinny. I wonder if I'm going to lose a lot of weight doing this. I can't really afford to.

Anyway, I've been reading nutritional labels with serious intent for the first time in my life. I don't care much for it. And I'm realizing how much our family diet was based on pasta, rice, bread etc. Two sandwiches for lunch and a couple big handfuls of pretzels was about twice the carbs I should have been eating.