Support Team HugABug As We Walk for A Cure

The Reno Junvenile Diabetes Research Fund Walk for the Cure is on Sunday, October 12th at the University of Nevada, Reno campus on the main quad. Each years it’s a fun even with plenty of activities and diabetes-friendly food for the whole family. Each year after I was diagnosed at the age of 3, my team and I walk and raise as much money as we can to find a cure for diabetes.

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Please support my team this year with any sort of donation you can afford

Excellent gluten free cookies!

I now have 2 favorite healthy cookie recipes I can make.  I don’t need insulin when I eat these cookies!

 

Peanut Butter Macroons

 

1 cup natural peanut butter

1/2 C agave nectar

1 egg

1/2 tsp baking soda

dried coconut-just dump in one cup and stir, continue adding more a little at a time until the batter acts like real cookie dough and rolls around the bowl in a large clump, then make semi flat cookie shapes on an ungreased cookie sheet

Bake for about 8 miutes at 350, let cool for 15 min on sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack

make about 14 cookies

 

Coconut carob cookies

melt one package of unsweetened carob chips in a saucepan

add unsweetend dried coconut (about 2 cups) slowly while stirring until the mixture acts like cookie dough and rolls around in a big clump.

place spoon size cookies on wax paper and let harden

once again, no reaction on my bloodsugar!

Celiac disease

I was just diagnosed with celiac disease which tends to be fairly common among diabetics.  Celiac disease is a gluten intolerance, which means I can’t have any wheat products.  It acts like an allergen in my body, causing my intestines to swell and then they can no longer absorb nutrients so I actually stop growing.  I can’t tell if it happened because of diabetes, or was a cause of it that was just discovered.  We opted out of the invasive intestinal biopsy, and instead are going the alternative route, but most importantly are excluding gluten from my diabetes.  Diabetes can be limiting, celiac disease even more, add to that thefact that I am a vegetarian and the food is even more limited, but I love fresh veggies and fruit and and we are looking into rice and other alternatives.  More on this as it progresses.

Recipes for diabetics

As you know, diabetes is not about sugar, its about carbs.  I have some favorite recipes that don’t affect my blood sugars and are very tasty!

 

Peanutbutter balls

1/2 cup all natural peanutbutter

2 cups unsweetened coconut

mix well, form into balls and keep in the fridge for quick snacks anytime

 

Homemade Chocolate

6 cups raw, unsalted cashews

4 cups coconut oil, warmed to liquid

2/3 cup xylitol

1/2 cocao or carob powder

mix in a blender, pour into a pan and keep refrigerated.  Cut into bite size chunks and eat anytime1

 

Some excellent alternatives for sweeteners that don’t affect my blood sugar are

xylitol-can be used just like sugar

Agave nectar-use like honey