What are some easy changes to make my diet more diabetes-friendly?

Chef Sam Talbot shares helpful adjustments in the kitchen for people with diabetes to maintain a healthy diet while still eating wholesome meals.

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I love to stock the pantry with stevia. And whether it's in a powdered form or a liquid form, it's actually 200 times sweeter than sugar.

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So, just a tiny, little bit, like a dab, will do ya. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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The first step that I like to do when making my house a more diabetes-friendly place to be able to cook healthy, wholesome, nutritious food,

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the first place I like to start is in the pantry. And I like to take out all the processed foods and, you know, the white refined flours and the white sugars

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that have no business being really in anyone's household, let alone a person living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. And I try to fill it with alternative flours

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and sweeteners. For example, if we're talking sugar, I love to stock the pantry with stevia. And whether it's in a powdered form or a liquid form,

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it's actually 200 times sweeter than sugar. So, just a tiny little bit, like a dab, will do ya. Same thing with like the white flours,

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the cake flours, the all purpose flours. Get rid of it, and just fill it with the high antioxidant flours, such as, like, a coconut flour and almond flour.

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I'm a huge fan of chickpea flour, fava bean flour, artichoke flour. The list can go on. There's so many different alternative things

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out there for us who are living with diabetes, who are trying to take our health and wellness to the next level. Same thing with dairy and the different cheeses.

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I like to swap out all of the whole milks and the 2% milks. There's a really great yogurt probiotic cheese that you can put in your refrigerator.

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There's nut cheeses. There's different hemp milks and oat milks. Hemp milk is actually lower in carbohydrates, lower in sugar

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than-- and higher in protein than a regular whole milk. Those are the types of things that I like to do. It's really just about taking a bird's eye view,

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stepping back, and then getting rid of all that stuff that you don't need and just replenishing with the heart healthy stuff that you do need. [AUDIO LOGO]