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I'm going by the as prepared. There's 5 servings in one box, and I measure out exactly 1 cup, sometimes I'll have two cups, if that's all she's fixed and then my family gets the rest.
I keep trying to tell her that stuff like that isn't a healthy or nutritious meal and I've taken a diabetic nutrition class with her, and she still didn't get it, and so I scheduled all four of us for another class, and she won't listen and now she's refusing to go to the class cause she'd rather go to her knitting class .
Like today the only thing she made to eat was hamburger helper and cake, in her mind that's all we need to eat. There's no need for anything else. Or another favorite is a can of bushes baked beans, and then she adds brown sugar and pineapple to make baked beans and a huge potato salad. She just will not listen or put in the effort. And I hate that cause she decides well I am going to cook today, and then she makes things that I can't or shouldn't have and then gets mad when I won't eat it. It's an on going battle, and she knows how to cook diabetic because my grandma was diabetic, and her diabetes was being mis managed when my aunt was watching grandma, so she was over weight and on tons of insulin, and my mom got her down to a correct weight and off insulin. for some reason she just refuses to make the effort now.
and then she has the gall to say mean things to me about my weight like when we pass a 500 pound person in a wheel chair she says that'll be you if you don't stop eating, , or make snide comments about my diabetes/ weight.
And we don't really have the option to fix anything else, it's eat what she fixes or eat nothing at all. Or eat stuff like crackers and peanut butter, or canned tuna and crackers, or just plain old canned tuna.
We have odds and ends like canned tuna, and pb, and cans of fruit or beans, but not whole meals. Being able to politely refuse the meals she makes and fix our own is something we're working on.
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ORIGINAL: angelikaJ
Tfb,
On the box there are 2 different nutrition panels: one is for just "as packaged" (whatever one serving is) and the other is for the "prepared" version.
You go by what the prepared version is... and remember that is for one serving, in this case 1 cup and about 1/5th of one box.
If your mom makes more than one box... .
It won't change much in terms of carbs because the added milk is then divided by the number of portions.
And yup, whatever extra is in or on the cake has to get added in.
As for to have or not to have?
I would go with your gut on this one and skip it.
However, simple carbs like potatoes, pasta made with white flour (such as what is in Hamburger Helper), white bread and white rice, get converted to sugar in your body very quickly.
As far as spiking blood sugar they are not much better than the cake.
Plus the fat in the cake will slow down the absorption of the sugar; that is not to say that having cake is a good option for you.
Some dietitians will tell you, you can have anything "in moderation" and that having a little taste will head off binge-ing later.
For some people though eating sweets makes them crave more sweets and sets them up to 'cheat'.
Skipping the cake and seeing it as an unnecessary item to your meal seems like a good choice for you.
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