Free Recipes

Recipes! Yes! We can all use some encouragement in the kitchen once in a while. The diabetic alkaline lifestyle is often challenging in the kitchen, but always rewarding. We hope you find recipes here that are helpful in your journey of discovery on the road to better health. These recipes are low on the glycemic index and high in nutritional value.

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Recipes

• Health-e-Tip: Calculating Carbs For Health-e-Solutions Recipes If you are calculating carbohydrates for our recipes, please be mindful of the following: Be sure to subtract all of the fiber grams from carbohydrate grams. Be sure to test blood sugars before and after trying any new recipe to see how you respond to the food...
• Health-e-Recipe: Mint Tea My dear friend, Katy graciously brought some delicious mint tea over to our home the other day. Our children raved about it, so I asked her for directions.
• Gabe’s Birthday Party Cupcakes Sally made healthy, alkaline cupcakes instead of acidic, sugary cake and put candles in Gabe’s so he could blow them out. They were the talk of the party!
• Health-e-Recipe: Alkaline Doughnuts We used Nathan’s Brownie recipe, and we patted the dough mixture just up to the level of the pan. We baked it in the oven at 300 degrees for 30 minutes. After cooling, we iced the top with the frosting recipe.
• Health-e-Recipe: Fresh Lemonade – Healthy & Delicious We really like to make fresh lemonade. It is so healthy and delicious – and alkaline! Here is the recipe:
• Health-e-Recipe: Diabetic Eggplant Parmagiana Recipe Demo Online Tova demonstrates one of Sally Roman's recipes. This is a great eggplant parmigiana and an easy from-scratch marinara sauce. Take a look if you would like to see this recipe demonstrated.
• Health-e-Recipe: Garlic Toast As part of a meal, we make garlic toast. We take slices of pH Almond bread (from recipe book) and cover it with extra-virgin olive oil, freshly crushed garlic, Real Salt, basil and oregano
• Health-e-Recipe: Even Better Brownies!! My friend sent me a new version of Nathan’s Brownies recipe that we really like. It is more cake-like. It kind of reminds me of Texas sheet cake. We hope you will try it, and please tell us what you think.
• Health-e-Recipe: Yummy Kale Chips! One of our children’s favorite snacks is kale chips. They are so easy to prepare, even though they do take a while to dehydrate
• Health-e-Recipe: Michelle’s PH Friendly Lemon Nut Bars We thank Michelle in Georgia for this delicious pH Friendly Lemon Nut Bars recipe. She and her husband are great cooks with lots of great ideas for new recipes.
• Health-e-Recipe: Focaccia Bread from Canada! (Transitional Recipe) A big THANK YOU to Ailsa in Canada. She sent in this delicious recipe for Focaccia bread she makes for her son, Callum. We made some, and the boys really liked it. For one batch, we mixed some garlic, basil, oregano and salt together and sprinkled it over the bread before we baked it. That really added some extra flavor.
• Health-e-Recipe: Green Beans with Sun Dried Tomato & Black Olive Sauce THANK YOU to Michelle, from Georgia, for this yummy green bean recipe. We use the kalamata olives that are vinegar-free.
• Health-e-Recipe: Broccoli Shirataki Noodle Soup THANK YOU to Michelle from Georgia for this new Broccoli-Shirataki Noodle Soup recipe. You could add some tofu in this recipe to make it more filling.
• Health-e-Recipe: Coconut Pancakes (Transitional Recipe) Start your morning off with these scrumptious pancakes. Michelle from Georgia sent us this recipe. I bet these taste great!
• Health-e-Recipe: Awesome Onion Rings! Our son, Daniel, made up this easy and yummy recipe for onion rings. Two pans of these were gone within 5 minutes. They were a hit!
• Health-e-Recipe: Roasted Red Pepper and Zucchini Salad We tip our hats again to Michelle Knight for this wonderful, therapeutic recipe. We hope you enjoy it! You must log in to your Health-e-Solutions free member account to download this recipe. Once logged in, look for it under “Recipes” on our Free Recipes page
• Health-e-Recipe: Sizzling Lemon Kale As the cooler weather approaches (not here in Arizona), maybe something with a little heat can warm you up. Here is a recipe for Sizzling Lemon Kale. You can make this as hot as you like. We hope you enjoy the extra heat! It is alkaline and therapeutic.
• Health-e-Recipe: Lemon Coconut Chia Seed Pudding For a tropical treat try this delicious recipe sent in by Michelle in Georgia. If any of you are battling high blood glucose levels, make sure you check your BG level after using coconut milk. For some, it causes a rise in their blood glucose level. Enjoy this yummy recipe!
• Health-e-Recipe: “Cinless” Cinnamon Rolls “Cinless” Cinnamon Rolls are made with ingredients that will have very little impact on blood sugars. Our two type 1 diabetic boys eat them with almost no change in blood sugars. These are part of a natural, healthy approach to managing diabetes, the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle.
• Health-e-Recipe: Raw Thai Toss Enjoy this refreshing raw salad as a main or side dish. You can leave out the nuts for a lighter version, but they do add great nutritional value to the salad with their healthy oils and minerals. This salad is so colorful and delicious!
• Health-e-Recipe: Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding While chia seeds are alkaline and therapeutic, chocolate is considered transitional in the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle and should only be used in moderation when on the transition diet. Enjoy!
• Health-e-Recipe: Luscious Lemon Cheesecake How about a totally healthy lemon cheesecake for dessert on Thanksgiving? This recipe is gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar free, raw, alkaline, low in glycemic impact, healthy, nutritious and delicious – and more!
• Health-e-Recipe: Better “Butter” This is a great and healthy buttery spread to use in place of butter and margarine. You will quickly come to savor it’s “buttery” flavor, especially knowing that you most likely are protecting your health while enjoying it.
• Health-e-Recipe: Avocado Hummus This recipe was created by Fiona Johnston, also known as the Cleansing Diva. This is very filling and delicious. Make a meal of this with red pepper slices. You can also dip cucumber spears, tomatoes, celery sticks or green pepper slices.
• Health-e-Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower in Lemon-Tahini Sauce I found this recipe online at The Vegetarian Times. It is therapeutic and absolutely scrumptious! It is a great addition to the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle arsenal of recipes for sustainable living. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
• Health-e-Recipe: Holiday Orange-Cranberry Salad Recipe I have adapted my grandma’s recipe to make this Holiday Orange-Cranberry Salad. It is a part of our Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. This is a transition recipe for those with well-stabilized blood glucose levels.
• Health-e-Recipe: Christmas Cocktail Nuts To get you into the spirit of the season, we posted another holiday recipe. This recipe is not alkaline-forming due the slightly acidic mix of nuts. It is raw & therapeutic, which makes it a great, healthy addition to your snack table!
• Health-e-Recipe: Hemp Seed Tabouli This recipe meets all of the criteria for the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle. It can be a very nice addition to your list of recipes that are “raw, Right-Carb, low-glycemic, alkaline-forming, antioxidant rich and adequate protein.
• Health-e-Recipe: Smoky Zucchini Dip This is an easy-to-make yet impressive looking dip that would be perfect at a party table. Because it contain cooked ingredients, it is not alkaline-forming. However it is still therapeutic for those on the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle.
• Health-e-Recipe: Almond Cinnamon Shake Here is a luscious recipe from Ailsa in Canada that can be for any time of day. It is alkalizing, therapeutic and tastes great! The hemp powder and walnut oil add protein and omega-3 to make this drink extra nutritious.
• Health-e-Recipe: Goddess of Greens Smoothie Fiona, the cleansing Diva has a wonderful green smoothie recipe for all of us to enjoy. It is alkaline, raw, very low in glycemic load, nutritious and hydrating to the body.
• Health-e-Recipe: Onion Bread This is a recipe that has some versatility. You may want to try it for pizza crust, sandwich bread or as cracker for dipping. All of the ingredients are healthy and therapeutic for the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle. This recipe requires a dehydrator.
• Health-e-Recipe: Walnut-Crusted Eggplant Cutlets This is another delightful recipe from Michelle in Georgia. I wish she lived closer to us so I could go over for dinner each night! This recipe is not alkaline because it is cooked, but it should be good for blood sugar control. As always, check blood sugars before and after the meal in order to establish your own response.
• Health-e-Tip: 4 Simple Detox Steps for the New Year New year resolutions can be challenging at times so why not simply start by adding more good things into your diet as opposed to taking things out. Add these 4 simple detox tips to your day and you'll be sure to feel great in no time.
• Health-e-Recipe: Chocolate Candy for Valentine’s Day Happy Valentine’s Day! Our son, Nathan made up this recipe for chocolate candy. Although cocoa is very acidic and contains a significant amount of caffeine, we will use it in small portions for very special occasions - only rarely, not often.
• Health-e-Recipe: Moroccan Vegetables This recipe looks absolutely delicious! We have not tried it yet, but we thank Ailsa from Canada for sharing this one. We took the liberty of eliminating the carrots to keep within the diabetic-alkaline lifestyle.