Can anyone suggest a good source for Diabetic recipies or share any you may have?  Have recently been diagnosed with Diabetes Type II so am trying to arrange diet and such to keep pace with it.

Several magazine type books at checkstands in markets. The main thing is portion control, elimate the carbs. No white bread, (try Sarah Lee, multi grain 45 calorie) has only 9 grams of carbs per slice. No white rice, no potatoes, not much white onion either.Brown rice and wheat pasta help. When dining out be sure to ask for whole wheat everything. Most restraunts will have something. Thin crust wheat pizza at Dancing Tomato, whole wheat buns at Applebees (portobello chicken sandwich or can ask for a hamburger) Hamburgers at home on whole wheat buns work. Small portions of sourdough bread are ok.  Baked fish of any kind, salads with low fat, low sugar dressing, I like yams not potatoes. There is even yam french fries. If you can eat small portions with a low carb snack in between, you will get it under control. Nuts are a good snack, celery, cheese sticks, popcorn is great, boiled eggs. Anything that is small portion and low carb. We eat a lot of veg's, lots of them on the BBQ. Stay away from BBQ sauce (lots of sugar)Bryers has a 5 carb per service ice cream. It is really critical you read labels now! Might try to google diabetes and look for recipes. Bet you will find some. I've been at this since 2008, pretty much got it worked out now!

I have also been recently diagnosed with Type II diabetes.  My doctor recommended a great book called Sugar Busters.  The book outlines what the previous poster stated but in more detail. It also has an accompanying cookbook and shoppers guide.  I found my book online through Target for less than $10.  Good luck!

I followed my own advise yesterday and went to google.com. When I googled diabetes I was taken to a google page with lots of entries like google does. Saw over in the lower right a place for recipes. Clicked on it! I searched chicken, got over 1300 recipes complete with carbs, calories, fat etc. Tried port, got over 500. Great site.

Thanks for the replies.  I also had a suggestion from a friend of mine which worked out pretty well last night.  That is to use cinnamon in place of sugar.  I didn't think too much of it until I my wife tried it the other night and it turned out pretty good, didn't taste at all bad or make the food taste noticably different.

That is very good for your diabetes. Also vinegar also helps lewer blood sugar. Try seasoned rice vinegar on your salads. Lowers blood sugar and tastes good too.  Use sugar substitutes anywhere suger is called for. Just make sure it isn't Equal. Equal contains acetane which is cancer causing. Sara Lee has a multi-grain bread (45 calorie) that is low in carbs, makes a great sandwich for lunch. All the others that are wheat, grain etc are very high in carbs (read sugar).

I am also a Type 2 diabetic and had a hard time finding recipes that are actually flavorful and easy.  Diabetic Connection is a great website to subscribe (free) too.  It not only has recipes but it has a lot of information about medical things about diabetes.  The website is
www.diabeticconnection.com.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.  Good luck!!

You will find some great info on realage.com.  My husband was diagnosed recently and his doctor recommended this web site.  Lots of good recipes and info.  Also, whole grain wraps are good replacements for bread.  Lettuce, meat, cheese( try Havarti), balsamic vinagrette, all rolled into a wrap.  Remember, Type II is a way of life.  Little changes add up!  Best of luck!

Just an update. was doing good until we moved and thatof course interupted the whoile routine so am starting over from scratch again, also I got lazy with it as well. Anyhow, have used Stevia off and on but was not exactly happy with the results (taste was off) so I don't know if I used it wrong or if it has a definiite different flavor (tasted like a sugar substitute). On the plus side, have been reading labels more and have been surpised some of the stuff I thought I'd have to drop I didn't have to, and some surprises as to so called healthy food having way high sugar levels. Biggest routine breakers have been holidays, but that was expected. Definitely been harder than I thought though, and I can tell more easily now when things start to get oout of balance.