Nothing Kraft Dinner can’t fix.
One thing you’re used to do when you’re diabetic is to eat ‘healthy’. Pack up on nice proteins, eat a lot of vegetables, fruit is very good for you and please, stay away from the white rice. But when you think about it, isn’t this what everyone should be following as a healthy lifestyle? I am not saying that you can’t have your weekly Ice cream cone at that favourite diary place of yours, or even to have McD’s once in a while (McDonald’s is one of the worst foods you could put in your body… But so delicious!), but having a healthy lifestyle should be something everyone to follow. And while I applaud those who can follow it, I find it extremely difficult to maintain it.
Let me explain; I have been working non-stop on Chronicles Of Tyria and CoT’s forums for the past week or so. To a point where spending 45 minutes in the kitchen was impossible. So often this week I would have pork or chicken slow cooking for 8 hours.
Slow cooked anything:
Directions: Place meat, veggies and broth in Slow cooker. Add spices. Wait 8 hours. Place in plate, add salad. Eat. Keep left-overs for next diner.
But then, you run out of ingredients, and you ‘forget’ to go grocery shopping. What’s in the cupboard? Goldfish, oatmeal, canned goods, dried gravy sachet and Jello package. Oh. But what’s this? Kraft Dinner! (Or Mac-And-Cheese)
While Kraft Dinner was seen as a -very- bad processed food in the past, I’m not sure it is, anymore. At least not the one I buy as a back-up meal plan. The ‘smart’ Kraft Dinner’s noodles are actually made of cauliflower. Yes, you read right. Cauliflower. With no artificial colours or preservatives. The ingredient list isn’t confusing. They are actual words I can read and recognize. The original Kraft Dinner, not so much.
So eating right all the time is a hard thing to do when you’re extremely busy and I’m thankful for the 10 minutes preparation some things offer.
What are your back-up meals?
DiabeticallyYours 
Really? I ought to look for that stuff. I’m sure it’s not “good for you”… any cheese that comes in the form of a radioactive-looking orange powder can’t be healthy… but it’s better than the high-carb alternative. I wonder if it’s available in my neck of the woods.
As for your first thought, it brings to mind something my mother-in-law always says to me: “you eat the way we ALL should be eating!”. I wouldn’t quite go that far, but you’re right: the basic rules of healthy versus unhealthy is pretty much universal. Things like diabetes, celiac, allergies, etc. just throw a few more restrictions in the mix.
Of course allergies is much different! I wouldn’t dare eating anything with peanuts if I were allergic to them Haha!