We are proud to announce the opening of our "Online Cooking School"!
Celebrity Chef Peter Howard and MediaVisionz, mediavisionz.com.au have filmed a series of 14 recipes from Peter’s Diabetes Cookbooks, which you can view, enjoy and then try out at your leisure!
Food is of course vital to our survival as our fuel. It also provides great social connections and is part of many festivals, traditions and experiences. Good food is always welcomed and without the pleasure of food, many people feel something is missing in their lives.
In Australia, most of us are blessed to be able to access a variety of healthy foods. We are very lucky indeed.
When you get diabetes, food becomes tied up with many negative experiences. Often there are restrictions placed on you, food can become an enemy and something to be measured, avoided and taken away from you.
People with type 2 diabetes who are overweight have often struggled with food most of their lives. They are told that it is their history with food that has led them to this point in their life and food equates to guilt. People with type 1 diabetes are often told that they must measure and count every morsel and it is tied up with hypos and hypers. There are increased rates of food related issues such as eating disorders.
We want to bring back the happiness and enjoyment of food, whilst learning to eat in a way that enables the best health you can have. All people, diabetes or not, need to eat a healthy balanced diet.
Here, at our "Online Cooking School", we believe in "everything in moderation"; that food should be explored; that you should look outside the square in developing a healthy and interesting diet; and that you should NEVER feel restricted or tied down by what you "can" and "can not " eat.
So, click on the link below, sit back, relax and enjoy these videos AND give the recipes a go!
This programme has been supported by Peter Howard; Ray Hawkins – Media Visionz; Australian Apples and Pears Growers;Helen Edwards and Helen Wilde; Animas Insulin Pumps; Vmedia; and Diabetes Counselling Online.
Apple and Pear Growers Australia
We aim to build on the recipes over the coming year.
Enjoy and Bon Apetit!
