what do i use to get my candy to turn out good when i cant use regular sugar. i am a diabetic.?
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Hi there, my mom is diabetic and she and I are both in medicine and we both love cooking so we have pondered this for years.\nThe best answer I can tell you is use natural concentrated fruit juice instead of sugar, I know....carbs, but they will be so diluted and the flavor will be delicate and not harming to your body.\nIf you can use as little of artificial sweeteners, the better. They are harmful in a cumulative effect.\nGo to a Natural Food Store and get a great book on natural cooking for the diabetic, also the Natural Food person will have helpful tips for you when you are there.\nlike use melted butter instead of oil when baking, same amount, you will not BELIEVE how light, fluffy and great your food tastes.\nGod Bless and Happy Hunting!
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Use fresh fallen snow to make snow cones or homemade ice cream.  \n1-3 C. snow (make sure it's clean!) \n1/2 C. whipping cream or other cream of choice\n1 T. sugar \n2-3 drops vanilla flavoring\nPREPARATION:\nIn a separate bowl, mix cream, sugar and vanilla. Slowly add snow to desired consistency. Eat (slowly--it's cold) and enjoy! \nAll ingredients can be adjusted to suit your particular preferences. \n\nYou might want to try some other flavorings: cinnamon, butterscotch, almond, or eggnog mix. For the more daring, add rum. \n\n\nCollect pine cones and burn them in the fireplace to give your home a fresh pine scent.  If you don't have a fireplace you can place a pine cone in the oven 250 degrees on a foil covered cookie sheet. \n\nBooks and board games.  Movie marathons.  Ann of Green Gables series, Godfather series, Rockie series, etc\n\nPeace
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Sugar cubes and white glue work pretty well... you end up with a white Alamo though instead of a brown one...
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Metformin has worked wonders for me, but if you want something different, the best way is exercise, eating frequent, small meals (I eat 6 little meals a day instead of three big ones (this keeps your sugar levels at a more steady rate instead of big peaks and valleys), and change what you eat. ( I am a chef, if you want some ideas on what to eat, or where to find ideas, let me know)\nAlso, Splenda is a marvelous thing. Sweet, without the sugar, and , most importantly, without the nasty aftertaste.\nSnacks? Sugar free jello. Cures your sweet tooth, yet no carbs, no fat, no nothing.
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Make cherry chrisp:\n\nyellow cake mix (diabetic)\nlite cherry filling (or no sugar type) - 2 cans.\nno fat margarine or butter substitute\n\nMelt a stick of margarine in the microwave.\nMix the yellow cake mix into the butter with a fork.\nPut the cherry filling into the bottom of a glass pan (8x11)\nSprinkle the cake-butter crumbs onto the cherry filling to cover the cherries.\nPut into oven for 1 hr. @ 350 degrees and take out of oven when the cake-butter sprinkles start to turn light brown.\nServe with no-sugar vanilla ice cream if desired.\nYum....Enjoy!
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My Grandmother also was a diabetic.  There are all kinds of "sweets" that are safe but not made with sugar.  In the candy isle or the specialty foods section of the grocery store there are sugar free candies.  In the bakery they have sugar free pies.  Ask the baker if there are deserts that they can make that would be easy to transport.  They even have sugar free ice cream.  I used to love to bring these special treats to her.  She really appreciated them.
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i am a severe diabetic and this advice is the best. dont listen about sugar free snacks...they still have carbs and that is what messes up diabetes. CARBS. listen, ask your doctor about the insulin pump by medtronic mini-med. it saved my life and i feel like i am cured from that crazy disease. keep your head up
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Believe it or not, a spoonful of sugar works for me...  You could also try bitters.
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Cut back on sugar and fats. Sugars become fat if you don't burn them off. Also, try to exercise more. If you are type 2, chances are you can control your sugar with diet, exercise and maybe some prescriptions. But you have to be careful because you don't want to become insulin dependent. Also, diabetes can lead to other serious health problems if not taken care of. But most people with Type 2 live normal lives.\nGood luck!
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have you tried to ask your local bakery to substiute sugar for splenda,  I'm not talking about wal-marts "almost Bakery". im talking about a real bakery.... they are cooks and should have knowledge of how to replace the sugar with splenda . if not in your area then look... this would be considered must have knowledge for any "real" baker or cook .
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what kind of glucometer machine do you have?? Every machine is different. I have a One touch and I use strips and once the correct steps are followed I obtain my sugar level. No machines don't get blood into them unless inproper steps have happened.
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You should be under the care of an endocrinologist who is a specialist \nin diabetes.I am surprised that you are not on a certain amount of grams of carbs per meal and snack.You should try the sugar free pies,cakes and candy if you get a taste for something sweet.They are good.But remember to count them with your carb limit.Stay away from sodas unless sugar free.You can live a long and healthy life.The key is to check your blood sugars frequently and keep your diabetes under control.Don't let it control you
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hmm, One cup hot milk, then add Candy cane and stir! Try it, it's good!
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Depending upon which 'carbs' you are talking about.  Veggies or bread/cake types?? \nDiabetes as you know is having too much sugar in the blood(unable to use it all as energy) which causes you to need more insulin or at the very least watch the sugar intake so you don't spike.  If you don't use the sugar and over time your body has too much to process, it fills up it's stores of sugar and you get diabetes. (layman's terms).  Unused sugar becomes fat but it also can become diabetes.  So beyond exercise to burn energy it's on the diet.  Sugars, breads, starchy foods, fruits (even potatoes, esp.  sweet and yams...) turn to glucose the quickest in your body therefore increasing your blood sugar.  If you want to slow that process, retard it in any way, then watch your entire sugar/starch/refined foods intake period!!  \nHere is a list of suggestions based on my studies(I'm studying nutrition) and although I'm not a doc I am using well-respected info as a guidline.  You can recheck this and look at real statistics to see what works, not just the theory.  Look at history of how people actually eat versus what some docs might have said about earlier guidelines, that may be outdated and inappropriate.  \n\nVeggies are good.  And they are carbs.  Especially the leafy greens(high in mins/prots), cruciferous(broccoli/cauliflower/brussel sprouts), asaragus, squash, lettuces, tomatoes, all kinds etc...\nLean meats are good like turkey, chicken, deepwater fish(limit due to heavy metals in ocean-research) and occasionally red meat which is high in saturated fat but ok at times. Nuts are good too and great for when your blood sugar drops and you need a quick healthy boost(macadamia, walnuts, peanuts, almonds@! and occ. cashews(high in sat. fat).  Tofu and soy products are also good and yes they can be cooked to taste awesome!  Just try! Protein slows down the digestion process which allows the body time to go through the metabolic process and bring sugar to the endocrine system slowly...as compared to actual sugar or bready-type  foods which process the moment they are in your mouth(amylase is a carb enzyme that is in the mouth, breaking down food immediately).  The longer food takes to break down to it's ultimate form, glucose, the more time your body has to cope with and distribute safely without spiking your blood sugar.  \nSO, again, carbs is a big vague word.  Avoid processed foods like cakes, crackers, breads and instant rices/pastas.  No sugary sweets especially with pure white sugar.  Eat mostly veggies, meat, lean cheeses and WHOLE grains that have high fiber(not processed cereals and such) that also require the body more time to break them down(quinoa(high protein grain), brown rice, amaranth, Irish oatmeal... etc...) Whole grains mean you really have to cook them, they are not processed and in a box with 2 min. instructions.  Once in a blue moon is okay, perhaps with a pile of Thai veggies on top!! yum... \nThe more processed, the less your body has to break them down, the quicker the sugar is released the faster your blood spikes!!  \nSo get slow food....process slow and then digest slow.  Ultimately slowing your blood sugar spike.  \n\nIf you have to have a sweet, dulce as they say in latin.  Try something fruit-juice sweetened and eat it around another protein rich meal so that your body is not bombarded with a hit of sugar alone.  Or try an apple with a big dollup of peanut or almond or hazlenut butter on it...yum!!  It really will taste good and your body will appreciate it.   \n\nHope this helps!!\nGood luck!  \n\nOh, also go online and look up books that are low in sugar, low on the glycemic scale and higher in protein and nutrients. www.diabetes.com and other sites.  The more you know about how it works in your body, the more control you can have over what you WANT to eat so that you won't hurt yourself.
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I recommend you dont eat it at all. If you are on an ice cream kick. Ger cool whip lite or fat free and get sugar free pudding like pistatio or chocolate or strawberry etc.. and mix some into the cool whip then freeze. You just made an awesome snack with no sugar. Not bad for you at all.
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Try Vita-myr toothpaste or avoid eating sugars.\n\nhttp://www.vitamyr.com/
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I have same trouble. .  dessert has always been my favorite part of the meal.   Unfortunately, there really aren't any shortcuts;  there are four factors that will affect your sugar level   1)Food and 2)Stress will make it go up  and 3) Physical exertion and 4) Insulin will make it go down.  It's a daily chore to maintain a balance of all of these but it's really the only way.   To echo others' sentiments here on Yahoo! Answers,  even if it sounds like really excellent advice!,  Don't depend on it to determine your actions.  Talk to your Doctor or a registered Dietitian please!