OT recipe for diabetic

Hi, I have a friend with two little ones who are diabetic. She gives them the Jello sugar-free puddings. And she whips cream with fake sweetner for the top. There are a variety of flavors for the pudding and they taste pretty good.

Sunny

You can make a home made banana pudding. Use the sugar free instant pudding mix, 2 percent milk rather than whole milk, and fewer vanilla wafers and banana slices than usual. It tastes just like normal banana pudding and usually won't spike blood sugar levels when eaten in normal amounts with a meal.

To be on the safe side I would ask the boys mother about it first. I only have experience with adult onset diabetes, and the boys would have juvenile diabetes which might react differently. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I'm sorry, I don't remember where you're from. When you say "pudding", do you mean just anything sweet at the end of the meal (the British version), or do you mean something the consistency of custard (the US version)?

Louise

Now, that's funny, Louise. I just looked at her address and still don't know which side of the pudding definition Janner is on. No matter, I guess. It seems she's already found her answer and is gone to the party. Polly

As Janner moved from the UK to France fairly recently, surely pudding as dessert - dessert is 'restaurant speak'. pudding is home/ordinary speak.

We always have pudding - Christmas Pudding, Bread and Butter Pudding, Rice Pudding (yuk!), Sticky Toffee Pudding, etc. Googled Puddings uk - pages of them!

Just to confuse things there is also Black Pudding - a savoury and relative of a sausage and Yorkshire Puddings to have with Roast Beef. But most puddings you have for pudding!

So if you have a biscuit (cookie in the US) after a meal you would call it pudding, not desert?

Debra in VA See my quilts at

When DH has finished his main course and I haven't planned a dessert I ask him 'what do you want for pudding, a piece of cake, Icecream, Yogurt or an apple'. He usually chooses the apple.

Don't think I'd have a biscuit for dessert though, unless it was something fat and chocoletty like a Kitkat. Biscuits really apply to something thin and crisp you have with coffee, and are usually bought. (now everyone will say they make their own, but I don't - biscuits come in packets!)

A 3 course meal would be Starter, Main course and pudding, so really its the name of a course (the one that follows the main course) as well as the name of a food.

The party was fine and guess what Had a phone call to bring salad as their Mum was sorting pudding!!! I certainly got you lot going with the definition of pudding - hadn't realised it had so many meanings. Something sweet at the end of a meal, sometimes called Pudding or even called The Sweet Course, just to add to the confusion.

Sorry and thanks

Janner

It was so very kind and thoughtful of you to have the needs of the little boys in mind when you were choosing a pudding. DS has a couple of wee little diabetics in the Sunday School class he teaches and he is very careful to bring treats that can be enjoyed by every tot. The muddle over 'what is a pudding?' was very interesting; I enjoyed it. Polly

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation and usage example.

Here a Kit Kat is a candy bar, but they may not be the same thing on both sides of the pond. In The States cookies (biscuits) come in all sorts of textures and thicknesses from crisp thin wafers to thick soft and cake-like. Even the ever popular chocolate chip cookie can be thin or thick and either crunchy or soft, plus they can be found as icing filled sandwich cookies or chocolate coated. If I thought an Archway cookie could get to you intact and still soft, I'd send you some. They are awesome.

Here it would be called Appetizer, Main course, and Dessert. Debra in VA See my quilts at

I chose Kit Kat because last time I saw them in the US they looked the same as ours, though they tasted different (different manufacturer?/chocolate?). Classed as chocolate biscuit, though in our family as 'Special Biscuit' to differentiate between them and the plain biscuits the children had with their midmorning milk!

I think over here we class the word 'cookie' as a US word and its really only used for a product that has that name on the label. I think chocolate chip cookie would be classed as a biscuit (maybe a big one!) though would be called chocolate chip cookie. It would only be called cookie because that is the name of that particular biscuit. I used to make them before they were called cookies here, but now they are CCCs. Also Oreos = biscuit.

Everything soft using a cake mixture is a cake whatever the size or shape. Shortbread and anything flat and crispy is usually a biscuit (except for CCC's). Doughnuts would be cake too. Twinkies = cake!

Last time we visited US I had a list of items I had heard people rave about to try. They included Oreos, Twinkies, Yumyums(?). Found they were all similar to things we had here.

I've just looked on one of the British Food in the US sites. Everything double the price we pay!