One thing about dealing with social situations and living in a group home in the South and having others cook your meals is that you can’t always be nice because a lot of the Southern US menu involves food you cannot have. Sometimes I’ll eat something that I shouldn’t because I don’t want to be impolite. It’s a problem I’ll have the rest of my life because I’m stuck here. I am allowed my own snacks and I have told most of the staff about my situation. You do what you have to.
I’m from Appalachia. My grandmother cooked everything in grease and she would feed us like 5 times a day.
I had an Appalachia grandmother who died a few months before I was born and a Tennessee grandmother who was crippled by rheumatoid arthritis so I missed out on that. I must say that my Grandfather in Tennessee made really good burned toast. When I was growing up my mother was working much of the time and although she was the primary cook eventually it was the men who did most of the cooking. (she made great yeast bread but that’s the old days.) There has been an explosion of females entering the family in the latest generation and one of them is beginning to show an interest in cooking. My poor twin brother and his wife were neither very good cooks so they went to Moe’s a lot. My younger brother and father are and were great grillers and my brother cooks all the meals at family get togethers. At one of my work places there always was Sprite, Coke, and Diet Coke, and traditional cooking. Almost all of the cookers here at the group home are women and traditional Southern cooking is the rule.
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I would eat what you like and not worry about being polite
I grew up do wn . south and my family was full of diabetics. There was always sugary stuff on the menu for family gatherings, my mom ate what she wanted and played with her insulin. She died at 59 with multiple amputations.
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I’m from Appalachia but some people consider us southerners. We eat bacon, pinto beans cooked with pork jowls, corn bread, ramps. Broccoli casserole at family dinners, cheese cake, fried chicken, mashed taters, green beans cooked with bacon. Biscuits and gravy.
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Mountain people all over eat like Southerners. I live in the Mountains of New York and see a lot of dishes like down south. Good, rib sticking simple food.
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Amen to that!!!
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Diabetics can’t just eat what they like. It’s not that simple.
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My favorite breakfast is biscuits and milk gravy.
My blood sugar has been dropping a lot lately. I get the shakes and dizzy if i miss meals.
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Yeah. My mom was a Type 1 diabetic. My dad says she ate what she wanted then just took extra insulin. She was 35 when she died. My great uncle was a type 1 diabetic and he watched everything he ate. He lived into his 90s
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My husband was just diagnosed. He watches his sugar and food like a hawk. His sugar for his lab test was 733! We have it down on the 100s now.
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Holy crap!!! I think normal is between 84 and 120 non fasting right?
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