[princessbelle]

Thank you all for the wonderful welcome!!!!!!

I'm learning how to cook healthy. Tonight's dinner was Pork Chops and i substituted some things and it really turned out great. Instead of cream in the glaze i used 2% milk so it consisted of milk, mustard, parsley leaves, salt and pepper and a small amount of margarine. It was so good OMG. It really was.

With that we had green beans and 1/2 of a sweet potato. No bread and i'll tell ya what, i was so full i didn't miss it. I think that was a good start to healthy dinners. Lunch was salad with Zesty Italian dressing.

I am so excited about cooking healthy and eating healthy and am looking at all the healthy recipes i can find and again, substituting things. It's like a game and i've got my own recipe file that is just so fun!!!!

About diabetes, i'll tell ya, the older we *all* get it is pretty much the smart standard to think and eat like a diabetic. I'm cutting out so much sugar in my life. Even, just with tea that we had for dinner, i used sweet n low and it was just as good.

Again, thanks for the welcome. There are so many wonderful tips here and i can't wait to read more!!!!!!