People with diabetes can eat pork belly and bitter rice stew. Pork belly is sweet, slightly warm and non-toxic. It can replenish deficiency, strengthen the spleen and stomach, treat weakness due to fatigue, diarrhea, and quench thirst. Bitter bamboo shoots, commonly known as small garlic, are slightly cold and slightly bitter in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving bloating and smoothing the qi. Stewing the two together can clear away heat and detoxify, nourish the spleen and stomach, warm the middle and regulate qi, and is especially suitable for the elderly, children and those with weak constitutions. Note that people with diabetes generally don’t need to eat too much, but they must control their intake.