Sichuan cuisine:

From high-end banquets to home-cooked restaurants, Sichuan cuisine restaurants are popular all over the country. Unfortunately, Sichuan cuisine is not suitable for sugar lovers. It’s really a minefield.

Sichuan cuisine generally uses heavy oil. The classic boiled series, pickled fish, Maoxuewang, Mapo Tofu, spicy chicken, and saliva frog are all bathed in fat, while the fish-flavored series and dry pot series Various stir-fried dishes are also high in salt, sugar, spicy, and fat.

Moreover, the heavy-flavored Sichuan cuisine is also famous as a rice killer. It is easy to overeat carbohydrates without realizing it when eating a Sichuan cuisine meal. Therefore, people with diabetes must be careful when going out to eat Sichuan cuisine and be prepared to deal with post-meal blood sugar spikes and subsequent spikes.

In fact, Sichuan cuisine is not just red oil and spicy, there are also some dishes suitable for us to order.

Some soup dishes are unexpectedly light and delicious, which is in sharp contrast to the spicy and sweet main tone of Sichuan cuisine, such as boiled cabbage, chickpea flower, bamboo fungus liver paste soup, bamboo fungus pigeon egg soup, They are all good choices for sugar lovers.

Stews are also relatively friendly to people with diabetes, such as chicken stewed with ginkgo and old duck stewed with sour radish. Pay attention to skimming and controlling oil before eating. Remove chicken and duck skins and do not eat them, which can reduce fat intake. quantity. Leshan Qiaojiao Beef uses beef bone soup to blanch beef, offal and beef tendons. It is similar to hot pot, light and delicious, and is also a good choice.

Steamed vegetables in Sichuan cuisine are also very famous. There are three main techniques: steaming, dry steaming, and powder steaming. Among them, steaming is the lightest and most suitable.

If the menu includes shredded whole duck, milk soup hodgepodge, ginkgo duck breast, cordyceps duck tongue, steamed duck strips, steamed skirt, steamed mullet, steamed glutinous rice balls, steamed catfish, hibiscus eggs, etc. Steamed dishes, quickly order two for yourself.

Steamed rice dishes have a high content of starch and fat, and the ingredients need to be fatty and oily. Pork belly and ribs are the main ingredients, so they are not suitable for us to eat.

Dry steaming is mostly used for fresh and glutinous dishes such as chicken cakes, fish cakes, meat cakes, shrimp cakes, etc. Some of them are fried and finally made into dishes, such as Babao Duck, Ginger Sauce Elbows, rice with eight treasures, pear stuffed with eight treasures, lotus root stuffed with honey, salty roasted white, sweet roasted white and longan roasted white, etc. also have high fat and starch content, so they are not suitable for sugar lovers.

Sichuan and Hunan cuisine are close relatives, by the way, Hunan cuisine. Many famous dishes in Hunan cuisine are also characterized by heavy oil, heavy salt, thick and spicy sauces, and there are many stir-fried dishes and cured meat dishes.

Due to the tight texture and strong taste, some dishes with high fat content do not taste juicy at all, such as stir-fried yellow beef, salted duck with soy sauce, etc., which often make us relax our vigilance.

In Hunan cuisine, steamed, stewed, and simmered dishes are relatively friendly to sugar lovers, such as fish head with chopped pepper, braised native chicken with chopped pepper, catfish pot, braised fish with tube bones, etc.

If you encounter greasy dishes while eating Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, you should remember to use boiling water or rice to remove some of the floating oil before eating.

When eating vegetables, pay attention to the selection of dishes. It is better to give up leafy vegetables, mushrooms, eggplants, etc. that absorb too much oil. It is better to eat less vegetables than to eat so much fat in the stomach.

In addition, pay attention to controlling food intake. Even if you eat spicy and delicious dishes, don’t forget to measure the proportion and portion of food using the meal plate method.

The amount of staple food in Sichuan cuisine meals is often large, and rice usually appears with the main dishes. Therefore, it is recommended that everyone take insulin before the meal according to the regular method, and 3 times after the meal. Pay attention to monitor the blood sugar trend for 5 hours, and then give additional injections if the blood sugar level rises.

Cantonese cuisine

Cantonese cuisine is generally light, and the boiled, steamed, stir-fried, and soup-based dishes are all low. It is fat and low in salt, fresh but not greasy, and there are many choices of dishes based on seafood, poultry, and lean beef. Low-fat vegetable dishes are also relatively abundant. There are fewer minefields in ordering, so it is more suitable for people with diabetes. Dinner cuisine.

When choosing dishes in a Cantonese restaurant, you must first pay attention to choosing low-fat main course ingredients.

Ingredients such as suckling pig, pork belly, barbecued pork, sausage, squab, foie gras, etc. have high fat content. We should eat less of these dishes.

When choosing dishes, you should also pay attention to the cooking method. Braised, stir-fried, fried and sizzling dishes are relatively greasy, such as three-cup chicken, beef brisket pot, dried vermicelli pot, Hakka eggplant pot, and winter bamboo shoots. Roast pork, garlic bone, cumin squid, pineapple ribs, sweet and sour pork, fried eggplant slices, fried stuffed eggplant, fried chicken, dry-fried pulp, etc., all have a high fat content and are often wrapped or thickened, so it is not suitable to use rice. To absorb the fat, we should pay attention to the amount of food we eat and order more "plain" dishes for ourselves, such as steamed fish, boiled shrimp, boiled chicken, soup with seasonal vegetables, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, etc.

Cantonese cuisine has many choices of main dishes for us, but the staple food is often difficult to choose, either greasy or delicate, and there are few cereal options. Most of them are not very friendly to sugar control.

Claypot rice, fried rice, Sin Chew Fried Noodles, fried shrimp roe noodles, and dry-fried beef river have a very high fat content, which can easily cause high blood sugar levels, especially since we have probably already eaten the big dishes before. It consumes a lot of protein and fat, so this kind of staple food is not recommended for everyone.

Eat fresh porridge, small fat cakes, etc. in moderation after the main dishes. Generally, the impact will not be great. You can try it. Due to the popularity of Cantonese snacks, buns, wontons and various rice cakes have also entered the staple food menu.

Everyone should pay attention to eating as little fried snacks as possible, such as durian cakes, shredded radish cakes, high-sugar desserts, such as red bean cakes, coconut milk water chestnut cakes, custard buns, and high-fat meat fillings. Desserts, such as barbecued pork buns and shortbread cookies.

Rice cakes with meat and vegetable fillings such as spinach dumplings are relatively balanced and can be enjoyed by everyone as a staple food.

When eating a Cantonese meal, the protein intake is generally relatively high, and the fat intake is sometimes not low. In addition, the staple food and snacks are often served last, which can cause blood sugar to rise. It is relatively slow, and blood sugar may rise 3 hours after a meal.

You can try to use the square wave mode to inject a large dose at meal time. People with diabetes who are injecting can choose to inject short-acting insulin or use the minute-injection method to inject fast-acting insulin.

In order to make the amount and time of the staple food easier to estimate, we can also ask the waiter to serve the staple food in advance. In this case, we can use the double wave mode or the minute needle method to give a large dose during the meal, and consider distributing more before the meal. Some proportions.

Buffet

Finally, let’s talk about the buffet that we love to hate! What I love is its freedom and enjoyment, but what I hate is the tangle of not knowing where to step on the brakes and the threat it poses to blood sugar.

Buffet dishes are often high in starch, high in oil, high in sugar, and heavy in flavor. They are deliberately designed to make people not eat much, and they will get tired and full after eating a little.

High-fat dishes, fried foods, fried rice, fried noodles and other greasy staple foods, desserts and drinks are always placed in the most conspicuous position. If you are attracted to them, you will suffer a big loss, not only If you fill your stomach with the cheapest and low-quality dishes, your blood sugar will run out after the meal.

In fact, most buffets still have some dishes and staple food that are suitable for us. We need to keep a cool head and find them out. Vegetable salads, steamed dishes, aquatic seafood, steamed grains, they are dim in color and do not easily attract everyone's attention, but they are our true love!

The buffet has so many choices that it is easy to eat too much and forget how much you have eaten.

Everyone should remember the plate method, master the proportions of vegetables, proteins and starchy foods on each plate, write down how many plates you have eaten, and estimate the intake of carbohydrates and protein.

Even if it is self-help, everyone should not let themselves go too far, and the total amount should be controlled.

Be selective when picking up dishes. You don’t have to taste everything; don’t take too long to eat. After eating a few plates, make up your mind to seal your chopsticks when you are seventy full. The key to controlling the total amount is to resist temptation and open up the knot, and never charge into battle with the belief that you will get back your money.

Buffet meals take a long time, and sometimes you have to fight for several rounds. You can use the eating order we have mentioned before that is more conducive to sugar control. Eat the vegetables first, Then eat meat, and finally eat the staple food with vegetables. In this way, we can use the square wave mode to inject a large dose at meal time. People with diabetes who inject can use the minute injection method or switch to short-acting insulin.

When we eat at a buffet, we usually eat more than usual, and the intake of protein and fat is relatively high, so we must monitor the blood sugar trend after the meal. If we find that it rises, we need to take a supplement in time.

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