I have type 2 diabetes and am always looking for ways to lower my blood glucose numbers. My problem is that I love, love, love sweets. While I don’t have to have bread or pasta or potatoes, my addiction to pie, cake, ice cream, chocolate anything, is and has been a lifelong problem. Right now I am drinking a glass of water (which I don’t care for) because I know that early in the day my levels are higher even though I haven’t done anything.
Next, 2 tablespoons of this tonic. Finally, I’ll have my coffee with cream and sugar and start to think about breakfast.
Cinna-power is a blend of cinnamon bark, ginger root, green tea, kelp, aloe vera, cranberry extract, pomegranate extract, and blueberry extract. I get it from Vermont but it is made in Canada. It doesn’t taste bad, so I just take it plain.
Now for the best part of the morning, coffee. I like mine strong and rich, with sugar and half and half. I use sugar in packets because that keeps me honest, and helps me regulate exactly how much sugar I’m getting. I used to use the yellow packet artificial sweetener but was told that it isn’t so good for me. So now I use 2 packets of this in my coffee.
And now for breakfast. I’m thinking of huevos rancheros. I have eggs, flour tortillas and chili. Easy. I need corn tortillas but ate them all in chicken tortilla soup, so I will make do. I heat the tortilla in a skillet, top it with warmed chili and a fried egg. Bliss.
This was my dessert last night, after my early dinner of chili. Blueberry streusel cake. Because I’m living in temporary housing, I don’t have my entire kitchen available. This began with a box of blueberry muffin mix. I couldn’t find any paper muffin cups, so I used a disposable pan. I made the mix according to directions, added a little vanilla, some lemon peel, a bit of cinnamon and nutmeg, and a 16 oz. package of fresh blueberries. My cake is more blueberry than cake – there is just enough cake to hold the blueberries together.
It was great. I still couldn’t quite overcome the faint box mix taste, but came very close. It was more than enough for me last night. I went to bed with my sweet cravings satisfied.