for yourself only, and for angela, after you educate her, your work is
done, even though she is a child she has to own her own eating habits, sad
as it is to say, there are a lot more emotions in food than just the
chenistry of it, and in the end you can only provide a good example nothing
else, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>I am getting very frustrated. I know my mom is making ham and deviled eggs
>for Easter dinner. I know there are strawberries. I just called there and
>she said my dad was fixing them. I know there will be raw veggies. She
>told Angela to fix those. But the rest? I know there are King's Hawaiian
>Rolls and there will be an ice cream cake. My mom put out at least 4 kinds
>of candy while we were there today. She usually puts out some kind of
>chips before dinner and also some bean dip and hummus. Most likely there
>will be brown rice for SIL and maybe some kind of potatoes. My brother
>will probably bring salads that I can't eat like pasta, coleslaw and
>potato. He usually does.
>
> I just put the baked beans on to cook in the Crock-Pot. I used about half
> beans and half bacon. 4 cans of beans. Little bit of mustard. Maybe 3/4
> cup of ketchup and 1/4 cup molasses. A little bit of Splenda. Not a lot
> because they didn't seem to need it. 2 large white onions well
> caramelized. This adds most of the sweetness I think. So lower in carbs
> than most baked beans.
>
> I then decided while we were at the store yesterday to bring some cheeses
> and Angela wanted some expensive dry salami.
>
> So I called my mom and said we would be bringing these. Her response?
> Oh! I guess I should get some crackers then. Honestly I didn't even think
> of crackers! I never eat crackers with cheese. I have brought cheese
> plates to countless parties and nobody ever asked for a cracker.
>
> I am trying to make sure we have a lot of low carb foods because I have a
> mom in denial about her own diabetes. She says she will always have high
> BG when tested but it is NOT diabetes. Yeah right. She is getting on my
> dad's case because he does have diabetes and may soon have to go on
> insulin. He has to go back for diabetes education and see a dietician yet
> again. My brother is now on insulin and his BG is out of control. And
> then there's me. Doing better but still some high numbers.
>
> My theory is if you don't put it out, they won't eat it. Yes, my SIL
> needs the rice. She had pre-diabetes. No longer has it because she lost
> over half her body weight but I worry because she appears to be gaining
> weight again rather rapidly. SIL is on a special and rather strict diet
> because of some odd nutritional deficiencies. She also has to eat pickled
> things for her digestion. So yes, she needs the rice. But mom will cook
> a ton of it and then everyone but me will end up eating it.
>
> The rolls, ice cream cake and candies are for my nephew and his
> girlfriend. But again because there are tons, they will all eat it. I'm
> sure there will probably be pies brought by my brother. It amazes me, the
> amount of desserts that they will eat. I bought some large egg shaped
> paper plates for dinner. I bought them last year and we used them. I
> told my mom I would be bringing them. She said she didn't think we would
> use them for dinner but for dessert. Really? I was like... Uh, I bought
> dessert plates. You know... The little ones? Uh huh. Really?
>
> Gah! So, yeah, I know when another person is serving dinner it is next to
> impossible to avoid the carbs. Not that I eat totally low carb because I
> don't. But I do try to provide options like the cheese and salami but
> then someone goes and mucks it up by putting crackers there. It also bugs
> me because Angela can't eat wheat so I don't really want the crackers
> there. She will just think that is one more thing she can't eat.
>
> So what do you do in a case like this? Or is it a hopeless cause?
> Perhaps my mom won't actually buy the crackers. We did go to the store
> today and she bought a small carton of plain ice cream for Angela but I
> didn't see her buy crackers. She did buy Peeps though.
>