Sugar Turned On Me

Last night, my lady and I ordered Chinese food. There’s a couple of places in town that do it decently and its easy to find something on the menu compatible with my diabetes. Usually, I order a meat and veggie dish and get it “sauce on the side” meaning that my foods all naked, but I can more easily control what level of sugar I’m putting into me.

When we checked a menu we’d gotten in the mail from our usual place to make our choices. I saw that they had a short list of health conscious items. All of them were meat or tofu plus a vegetable, steamed, sauce on the side.

I smiled. They took my idea. Sure, they have a gym right next to it and there are probably other people who order it that way, but I feel I can take the credit.

This is most groovy as that means there’s one less restaurant I have to explain myself to when I doctor my dishes to protect my pancreas. Admittedly, at other Chinese restaurants  it’s still pretty easy to order food with sauce on the side or minus some of the more sugary seasonings, but knowing that there are more options out there, even if it’s just at one restaurant, makes me feel better, more normal.

Now if I can get my local vegitarian restaurant to start carrying stevia in their sweetner caddies, I’ll be estatic.

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