I need your help

[volchef]

My sister is having a baby and has gestational diabetes. I'm looking for some new and inspirational ideas that contain very little carbohydrates...even whole wheat pasta and brown rice are setting her sugar through the roof which is dangerous for the baby. She's worried, sad and bored with food right now and I'd really like to help her, but am kind of uninspired myself. Whose got a good protein and veg dish?

[10 uh C VOL]

I am sure if you google gestational diabetes recipes, you will find something

[GhenghisVol]

Way beyond me. Good luck with that.

[birminghamvol]

you can really get creative with the filling too ... chicken, tofu, seafood, beef ... to change the flavor up.

[Napervol]

you can really get creative with the filling too ... chicken, tofu, seafood, beef ... to change the flavor up.

I go to PF Changs for those dang lettuce wraps, almost as good as poontang

[tebowisgay]

Paging Dr. Atkins. Just make sure you don't go too overboard on fish. Too much mercury and you will be Forest Gumps aunt.

[real turf fan]

You've had the chemistry, you've had the CIA education.
You need a list of complex proteins, etc. and general guide lines as to match them with others so that metabolism is spread over a period of time. This is what you can do best, once you come up with the basic list.
Contact your state university (Gag, prob. Gainesville) for their diet and nutrition specialists to give you an ingredients list.
Then you know how to create.
You mentioned going to French Laundry. I envy you that meal. You can probably borrow the cookbook from the Library as well as his Bouchon and Achatz' Alinea all have recipes with alginate and other 'esoteric' ingredients that may make for slower digestion.

Have you made oriental style milk jello with the gelling ingredient a clear, sheet algae and skim milk and some pureed fruit as a swirl in it. No sweeters at all.

Good luck and you are the person to do the research for this project because you have the knowledge to sieve out the potential problems.

[volchef]

Ha! Other than Birminghamvol's post this is the singularly least helpful thread ever posted on this board. It makes me laugh my ass off, which to be perfectly honest is a great relief and you sumbitches actually did help me inspite of your utter laziness.

Tig you are without a doubt a complete and total asshole. Which is why I can't help but quite like you.

Real Turf Fan, you give me far too much credit..I am not nearly so inspired and I admit I partly went to culinary school because I HATE Chemistry. I'm good at it, but I hate it. Anyway, she is due in a couple of weeks and I'm afraid nausea takes its unfriendly toll as well so anything asian, seafood, or basically with any smell whatsoever is out. This baby needed to come yesterday.

[GhenghisVol]

With all due respect, I think that you have lost your mind.

[volchef]

With all due respect, I think that you have lost your mind.

Ha! Where you are wrong Ghengis is in your implication that I ever had possession of a mind to lose.

And yes, laughter does help...even though it's not necessarily what I was looking for. If you don't think I understand the compassion behind 10 in c vols post or real turf fan's you are wrong. It's just that I've done google and it's mostly crap and real turf fan is so kind to believe in me, but my background fails...this is very hard for me, but you all mostly inspire me everyday & I meant no offense. For me it is kind that you made me laugh and that is what I meant to convey.