Your evenings shape your next day. This 3-Day Low-GI Dinner Plan focuses on nourishing, high-fibre dinners that support insulin resistance, blood sugar balance, hormones, and overall wellbeing, using simple ingredients you can actually find.
Tag: Vegetarian
Low-GI Recipe: Roasted Zucchini, Red Cabbage, and Cowpea Salad| Insulin Resistance Eating
This roasted zucchini, red cabbage, kale, and cowpea salad is a colourful, low-GI meal perfect for insulin resistance. Packed with fibre and plant protein, it supports steady blood sugar, hormone balance, and everyday energy, showing that healthy eating can be simple, delicious, and part of your daily lifestyle.
Caring Through Food: Supporting Elderly Nutrition During the Festive Season
South African festive food is more than what’s on the plate—it’s memory, culture, and care. Dishes like pap, slow-cooked stews, morogo, samp and beans bring families together and offer comfort, especially to our elders. During the festive season, the goal is not to remove these traditional foods, but to prepare and serve them in ways that support ageing bodies.
Small, thoughtful adjustments—such as softer cooking methods, generous vegetables, gentler spices, and mindful portions—can help older adults enjoy familiar festive meals without digestive discomfort or blood sugar spikes. When we cook with intention, food becomes an act of respect, nourishment, and love.
What Is Low GI Eating — and Why It Works for Real Life (Not Diet Culture)
Low GI eating isn’t a diet — it’s a smarter way to fuel your body. By choosing foods that release energy slowly, you can stay full longer, balance your blood sugar, reduce cravings, and enjoy meals without guilt. Discover how simple swaps and mindful choices can transform your relationship with food, one plate at a time.
Bulgur Wheat & Mediterranean Veggie Salad | Healthy, Low-GI Recipe
A low carb salad with bulgur wheat and vegetables for added nutrition and fiber.
Zuccini & Mushroom Cabbage
A flavourful Cabbage dish with hints if Asian flavours.
Brown Lentil, Red Cabbage and Swiss Chard Salad
A cruncy filling salad featuring brown lentils.
Bulgar wheat, baby spinach and sundried tomato salad
A crunchy salad with a bit zing from the sun-dried tomatoes with a touch of savory flavours from the mango and olives.
Red Lentil and Pumpkin leaves Curry
My family enjoyed this. I don’t tell them we are having a meatless meal anymore. I have prepared them well enough. I just cook and dish up. They were happily surprised with this dish. Ingredients: 1/2 medium red onion finely chopped 1/2 white onion finely chopped 1 tablespoon ground coriander 1/2 tablespoon Garam Masala 1…
Vegetables oh vegetables!
In an effort to get my body back to when I like it the most, I’m trying to get back to eating clean. Let see how it goes one day at a time! In this bowl: Blanched long stem broccoli. Butter lettuce from my garden. Rainbow cherry tomatoes. Carrots and red onion.
Black Eyed Beans and Wheat Berries Curry
A mild, warm vegetarian curry that is is great as a lunch or dinner.
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