MIL ill and needs rest. FIL a muppet, ideas for food to take her

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It's got to be

Diabetic friendly - all FIL can make is a sandwich or beans on toast - neither of which she should be eating whilst her diabetes and cholesterol are so bad.

Keep well - preferably freeze and reheat in microwave or be designed to be served cold.

She told me last night that because she needs rest (she had a horrible reaction to her cholesterol meds which has wiped her out) they were going to eat meals from the supermarket and takeaways.

They don't have much money at the moment so she won't look for suitable things she will buy whichever is cheapest. If FIL goes he will just buy what he fancies and then shrug his shoulders and look hurt when she says she can't eat it.

So I want to take them a weeks worth of food, along with instructions to FIL on how to cook the veggies. He manages to grow these, but his talent does not extend to cooking the bloomin things.

Anyone know about diabetic food?

what about ....

steak and mushroom pie cooked and cut into slices to either eat individually or as part of a meal.

liver and bacon with mushrooms cooked in butter ,put into meal sized containers.

omelettes can be made and frozen

stew

spag bol

some hard boiled eggs and cooked meat

cooked chicken drumsticks

curry and rice

home made soup

beef (frying steak) fried up in chunks on ciabatta with honey and mustard.

bacon

pork chops cooked to be served with veg.

Nickschick, I could be wrong but I think a lot of those would be bad for diabetics or cholestrol (pastry, honey, butter etc all bad for diabetes and egss, fried food, red meat in large quantities etc bad for cholestral).

I'd say that general casseroles are a good idea, especially ones you can make and then give FIL instructions to add the veggies to the dishes while they're heating up?

Any kind of chicken casserole (skinless chicken legs/thighs), made with stock and possibly v dry wine (not too much because of sugar), herbs etc. Then he can pop carrots/potatoes/green beans/courgettes/chunks of squash in while he puts it in the oven to warm through for 30 minutes?

Grilled chicken pieces and boiled vegetables (keep that in the fridge probably rather than freezing)

Agree completely on soup - any soup that's blended would be brilliant as long as you haven't added any cream. So buttnernut, mixed vegetable etc? Lentil is nice but not sure if you can freeze cooked lentils but can be easily kept in the fridge (apparently cinnamon is good for diabetics so soup with some of that is probably good too).

Collect veggies from him and use them to make a veggie curry with chickpeas?

For bread, try finding diabetic friendly rye breads (I think it's rye - they're marked at the super market I think and you can ask if you're buying from a baker). The key is it needs to be as little processed as possible with as little sugar as possible.

You could also do some kind of beef stew but use very low fat beef and reduce the quantity of beef to vegetables significantly.

Smoked mackerel? Keeps well in the fridge or freezer and can be served with vegetables or salad (not sure if that's high in cholesteral though?).

Oh sorry - id be killing them with kindness wouldnt I?

These are the sort of thing I cook for my elderly fil -sorry again.

my mum is diabetic and she HATES eating appropriately so I kind of have the whole thing clear in my mind! "normal" people don't have to worry about this stuff!

Those are wonderful suggestions. I will make a whole heap of casseroles, low fat curries etc. and keep some for us to each next week and take individual portions around to them.

Now that is a good question. I would say Fonzie Bear - nice but useless and always bumping into things.