Seth's Amazing Asian Wraps

Last year my good friend Liz came to stay with me for a few days.  While she was in town she made me Asian Wraps.  They were so fast and easy and YUMMY.  I have been obsessed with them every since.  I make them whenever I have a little extra lunch meat. My husband makes them a little differently than I do.  He made them last night and they were beautiful and tasty.  I'm going to show how he does it, as it is easy and fast.  I make my own sauce, but he used a bottled sauce.  For right now that is okay with me, because the carbs, sugars and calories are already counted for me on the bottle.  I will go to work at making a sugar-free sauce soon.  If anyone is interested I'll post that at a later date.

This is what we are making.

So delicious.

 Basically just chop your favorite veggies and some lunch meat, and mix with a peanut sauce.  You can use any Asian sauce but we like peanut. spoon into large leaves of lettuce and enjoy.  It is that easy.  It is a yummy summer meal, as it doesn't heat up your kitchen.  My boys will even eat this, and they are meat eaters, not rabbits. lol 

Seth used shredded carrots, broccoli slaw mix, and I think he forgot the celery, but normally, he would add that.  I would also add sliced almonds and cucumbers, but Seth doesn't like cucumbers, and he was cooking. :)  I would also add green onions.

This is the sauce he used.  After chopping the meat and adding the veggies, he added almost the entire bottle of peanut sauce. I would say 3/4.

I like turkey best in Asian wraps.  Seth chopped his and added to the veggies. I normally just add a few slices to the top of each wrap.  What can I say? I'm lazy that way.

Seth likes ham, so he added that too.

It's Easier With Support

My husband, who we can all agree is the sweetest man on earth, made me dinner last night.  He also did the grocery shopping.  He bought all sorts of diabetic friendly food.  Then he ate the same thing as me.  Now that is sweet.  He also bought me things to make smoothies that are diabetic friendly, since I was lamenting my loss of summer ice cream cones.  And he brought me Soy Milk and Almond Milk to try.  I had to ask him why on that one. He has a friend who lives a vegan lifestyle, since he was pre-diabetic, and is controlling his sugars quite successfully.  So my DH bought me the type of milk that this man drinks. Seriously- sweetest man EVER!

Honey-Comb is not the best choice for a diabetic or someone watching their weight.  However I had a serious craving.  I did what I used to make my kids do with their sugary cereals; I had 1/2 portion of Honey-Comb and 1/2 portion of Cheerios.  I got the taste, but 1/2 the sugar. And I should point out, that Honey-Comb is actually not too bad on the sugar scale.

Mid morning snack was an egg.

I made this for the night's dessert.  It was hard to wait.

Whole grain crackers with peanut butter was actually lunch.  Once again, I forgot to eat, and then noticed that I was sleepy and moving slow. Peanut Butter to the rescue!!

This is the AMAZING dinner that my husband made for me.  Asian lettuce wraps and a few chips. I had 4 of these wraps.  I probably wouldn't normally, but of course I forgot to eat lunch, so I was starving.

2- yup 2 chocolate chip cookies.  Funny thing- they didn't taste as good as they used to.  I tried to eat them slowly and really enjoy them.  I just didn't get the joy out of them that I used to.  Yeah!!!!!  If my tastes are changing, this will become easier. Since I need this to be a lifestyle, I am relieved to see this happening.

My late night snack.  Yes, it was delicious. Sugar-free can be satisfying.

I decided to get brave and try the almond milk. It tastes like milk. I like it.

So the almond milk made me brave- so I decided to try the chocolate soy milk.  It's actually pretty good.  I'm starting to feel like I can do this.  Now, this still has sugar, because it is chocolate, so I can't go crazy, but a little bit now and then is reasonable.