ms.peachy
08-01-2010, 11:44 AM
Right, As some of you know, I'm in FL for the summer. I'm helping out my sister mainly. She is very, very overweight and as a result developed diabetes a few years ago. Continued to live in a pretty unhealthy way, and consequently has developed other health problems, and a couple months ago, she had to have one of her legs amputated at the knee.
Hopefully, finally, this has all been a big wake up call for her, and she is trying to make changes in her life. She quit smoking in December, and she was quite a heavy smoker, so I'm really proud of her for that. Now that she is in a wheelchair though, her opportunities for exercise are very limited. She wants to get fitted for a prosthesis and learn to walk again, but this will almost certainly not happen unless she can shift some weight first.
So, I'm trying to help her put together a collection of easy, low cost, low fat, low carb recipes. Stuff she can make a lot of in one go, and then freeze, for example. She was given a handful of 'healthy eating' diabetic cookbooks and they're ok except most of the recipes are somewhat complicated and I think will just cause her to get frustrated and give up. (She has learning disabilities on top of everything else, and gets overwhelmed very easily.) Also she is on a fixed disability income, so she can't splash out on things like wild capers collected in the light of the full moon by Franciscan nuns or any foofy crap like that.
Any suggestions? She has a slow cooker, and she also has a number of little single-serving type casserole dishes she picked up at a garage sale ages ago.
Hopefully, finally, this has all been a big wake up call for her, and she is trying to make changes in her life. She quit smoking in December, and she was quite a heavy smoker, so I'm really proud of her for that. Now that she is in a wheelchair though, her opportunities for exercise are very limited. She wants to get fitted for a prosthesis and learn to walk again, but this will almost certainly not happen unless she can shift some weight first.
So, I'm trying to help her put together a collection of easy, low cost, low fat, low carb recipes. Stuff she can make a lot of in one go, and then freeze, for example. She was given a handful of 'healthy eating' diabetic cookbooks and they're ok except most of the recipes are somewhat complicated and I think will just cause her to get frustrated and give up. (She has learning disabilities on top of everything else, and gets overwhelmed very easily.) Also she is on a fixed disability income, so she can't splash out on things like wild capers collected in the light of the full moon by Franciscan nuns or any foofy crap like that.
Any suggestions? She has a slow cooker, and she also has a number of little single-serving type casserole dishes she picked up at a garage sale ages ago.