How to change a favorite recipe.

1. You can start by checking the recipe ingredients against your preferred sheet.
2. If there is a LIKE or ACCEPTABLE list item and it is followed by a serving size, ie: cheese (1 oz.) and your recipe calls for 8 ounces of cheese for 4 servings.  Then the amount in your recipe is approximately 4 ounces in excess of the standard.  THIS IS NOT A HARD AND FAST RULE.  ITS SIMPLY A GUIDE TO A POSSIBLE CHANGE.
3. In my case I used 4 oz mushrooms very thinly sliced to layer in with the cheese.  Mushrooms having no serving size limit and they are on our LIKE list and they deliver a smooth texture.
4. In a typical Lasagna there are layers of broad pasta “noodles”.  In the FPS all pasta types are treated the same way with (2 oz raw weight) per serving.  Your recipe may well show 4 to 6 oz raw weight of pasta.
    
   I found that the white stalks of Bok Choy a large (or sometimes small) tender white stalked cabbage like vegetable with dark green leaves; when stripped of the green (the leaves can be cooked separately as a side dish) are quite good when added in place of an inner layer of pasta.  It gives a good texture and taste to the finished dish.
   
5. Changes like this will substantially reduce the extra calories that can wind up as body fat.  They can also help to reduce negative (LDL) cholesterol and can assist in keeping blood glucose* levels at reasonable levels.
6. When once you’ve made your adjustments, you w9ll have added preferred foods to preferred foods and chances are . . . everythingabout your finished dish will have improved.

We do a post prandial check on a blood glucose monitor to check out the response to Treena’s Diabetes II.  We time exactly two hours from the first bite of the new dish to the time of “testing.”  We test on the forearm (less sensitive) with a special almost entirely painless pin prick we draw a tiny drop of blood that is scooped up on a test strip fitted into he monisor*.  The result is on a read out window in five seconds.  If it is under 140 we would be satisfied and approve the new recipe as suitable (we now have dozens of these).  If its over 150/160 then we’ll revisit the recipe and trim some more carbohydrate/starches out and/or add some high fiber like beans to slow down the conversion of carbohydrate to glucose.

It really ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE and before long you will have educated yourself to the effect that various foods have on YOUR unique system at this time.

* Our monitor is the new “One Touch Ultra Smart” by LifeScan a Johnson & Johnson Company that also sponsors our television series “The Gathering Place”.

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