JGE 79 – FBS Down 4 Points – Chicken, Chinese Eggplant, Carrot Stir-Fry

Good Day,

Four (4) points down to 108 mg/dL, early morning blood sugar count. Slowly but surely without a spike in either direction. This is good. The supper showdown continues.

Supper last night was Chicken Breast stir-fried with Chinese Eggplant, Baby Bok Choy Tips, Carrots and Garlic. I thought I was going to be making a repeat from the night before but this time the tastes were very, very different.

Carb count – Chicken Breast = 0 grams; Eggplant = 4.8 grams; Carrot = 6 grams; Baby Bok Choy = 1.8 grams; Garlic = 1.8 grams; Sauce = 10.0 grams; Hoshi Maru Udon Noodles = 36 grams; Total ≈ 58.6 grams.

And my B&J’s Karmel Sutra Core; 1 cup is about 64 carbs.

Total carbohydrate count last night approximates 122.6 grams.

Looks like I should be staying away from the B&J but I am weak. Yes I do exercise, continually 6 days a week. Can you imagine what my numbers may be if I didn’t exercise? And I am still not taking any diabetes medications. I’m counting carbs in my supper showdown.

Results –

FSB – 108 ↓ down 112 (Normal range 100 – 125 mg/dL)
A1c – 5.37 ≡ 5.37 (Normal range 5.7 – 6.4 %)
eAG – 107.4 ≡ 107.4 (Normal range 117 – 137 mg/dL)


Tune in tomorrow to Jim’s Gotta Eat to see the comparison of the results...and the set up a new Supper Showdown.

Food for thought - I am trying to control my diabetes with exercise and food.  I have eliminated all diabetes medication.  I am keeping my weight stable, and Jim's gotta eat.

Enjoy.

Jim

JGE 78 – FBS Down Another 2 Points – Chicken, Broccoli and Soba Noodles

Good Day,

Down another 2 points. Early morning blood sugar count at 112 mg/dL. This is the direction I want it to go, downward.

Supper last night was Stir-Fried Chicken, Broccoli and Soba (Spelt) Noodles. The supper was fabulous and it is something that I would make again…and again, and again. Everything from scratch excepting the Spelt Soba Pasta, which was from Québec, Canada.

It was the amount that I downed. The dish was so good that I ate about 2 helpings. And one helping has about 37 grams of carbs, but the chicken and the broccoli probably was minimal. On the other hand the sauce was made with Soya Sauce, Oyster Sauce, Garlic Ginger, Banana Pepper Sauce, Brown Sugar which approximated 15.9 carbs. 10 grams for the Broccoli and 0 the Chicken Thighs. So my double helping may have targeted around 125.8 grams of carbohydrates.

Of course there was the B&J’s Cherry Garcia. 1 cup is about 56 carbs.

And hell what do you know? I’m counting carbs in my supper showdown.  Last night = 181.8 grams.

Results –

FSB – 112 ↓ down 114 (Normal range 100 – 125 mg/dL)
A1c – 5.37 ≡ 5.37 (Normal range 5.7 – 6.4 %)
eAG – 107.4 ↑ up 107.3 (Normal range 117 – 137 mg/dL)

Tonight I'm going to try something with Chicken Breasts, Eggplant, and Carrots.

Tune in tomorrow to Jim’s Gotta Eat to see the comparison of the results...and the set up a new Supper Showdown.

Food for thought - I am trying to control my diabetes with exercise and food.  I have eliminated all diabetes medication.  I am keeping my weight stable, and Jim's gotta eat.

Enjoy.

Jim

JGE 11 - Quick and Easy Ground Beef and Sweet Potato Supper

Good Day,

This day I didn't want to spend too much time in the kitchen nor did I want to spend an excessive amount of time at the stove. I just wanted to make something quick, good, and easy.  I figured that I would from the gathering of the ingredients to the sit-down-to-eat take about one hour.

Max always sits patiently for me to drop some morsel.  Please some more...

Today's ingredients... Ground beef in the freezer, sweet potatoes and onion on the butcher block, broccoli and baby spinach in the crisper, and Jasmine rice in the pantry. Also to add - garlic, salt and pepper, cornstarch and water.  Ground beef was thawed earlier. I peeled and cubed the sweet potatoes and chopped the onion and garlic.

No, this is not a baby bottle sterilizer, even though I think those contraptions went by the wayside many, many moons ago.

This is my steamer gizmo. It has three individual layers and compartments. For this meal I only needed two of the layered compartments; one for the rice and one for the broccoli.

While the rice and the broccoli were steaming I cooked the ground beef, the onion, the sweet potatoes with the garlic, salt and pepper.  I added the mixture of cornstarch and water and then the baby spinach. The only thing I had to do after preparing my ingredients was to make sure that I timed the starts and cooking of each.

Everything done and cooked, we ate in one hour.

And I enjoyed,

Jim