Do you enjoy cooking within your dietary restrictions?!
Answers: Both me and my husband must follow a strict diet. Last night we entertained much younger family members, so I cooked foods they would like. I dug out my old recipes and cooked foods I used to be "famous" for before my special diet days and used ingredients we can't eat any longer like dairy, sugar, flour and potato chips and Cool Whip. I cooked for two hours and had So Much Fun. I had forgotten how much I love cooking. Anymore, cooking is a science and math project and doesn't take long because the foods we eat are simple, unprocessed and/or raw. Are you on a special diet, and have you learned how to cook good food for yourself and others and still have fun, or do you just suck it up like we do and eat what the doctor tells you to?
Yes, I am very strict on my diet and tend to go towards low fat foods, and because of that I have developed many recipes geared towards this.
No, I don't follow that.
I'm not on a STRICT STRICT diet so I cut out things like sugar, oil. and use subsitutes like splenda, applsauce/bananas or just leave them completley out. I still cook like I did before but what I'm eating is different. I enjoy it. Hope this.. answers your (not) question
My husband is diabetic, and I've found that I can substitute Splenda in almost any baking recipe that calls for sugar. HE can't tell the difference, but I can, but as long as HE'S happy and satisfied, that's fine:) ... Too many carbs also raise blood sugar, so I've made "mashed potatoes" with cauliflower, instead, and it isn't bad(: I also found that if he eats some soy, or tofu, that it will counteract the effect that the carbs have on his blood sugar! So, sometimes I'll put some smooth tofu into spaghetti sauce, etc. If you stir it in, it doesn't have any flavor and thickens the sauce too... I prefer the old-fashioned way too, but you do what you have to do:)