"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
...
> yeah-sure wrote:
>> Just talking to an aunt on the phone. Am going to visit in
> June and
>> she told me about restaurants she wanted us to go to. Told
> her I'd
>> skip the italian fare because of the diabetes... maybe
> just an
>> antipasto. She told me she was, also. diabetic but didn't
> worry about
>> it. She just finished a spaghetti dinner. Her doctor told
> her that her
>> fbg was just a little high - 159 - nothing to worry about
> cause 130
>> was normal.
>
> I haven't given up eating in Italian places. Minestrone soup
> doesn't do me any damage, ymmv. I can get an Italian salad
> (lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onion, tomatoes, fetta cheese
> and nice juicy black olives). Garlic prawns, yum. Oysters.
> They do nice meats or seafood with vegetables, can request
> no potato. Dessert is the only thing I can't find a
> substitute for.
>

I would kill for a huge lasagna

John