• Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Diabetes
  • Pantry
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Book a Consultation
  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Diabetes
  • Pantry
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Book a Consultation
  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Diabetes
  • Pantry
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Book a Consultation
Share

Creamy Garlic Cauliflower

  • Vegetables & sides
The creamy garlic sauce in this dish makes a very rich, low carb and filling side dish. This is an...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

December 18, 2018
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Low Carb Courgette Bread

  • Baking
  • Cake
  • Low carb
  • Low Carbohydrate
  • Recipes
This is between a bread and a cake and has no wheat flour or added sugar (it does have sugar...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

November 8, 2021
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Low Carb Cauliflower and Broccoli Bake

  • Entertaining
  • Low carb
  • Mains
  • Recipes
  • Vegetables
  • Vegetables & sides
Spruce up cauliflower and broccoli with this simple cheese sauce.          
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

April 8, 2018
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Carrots with Orange & Cardamom

  • Recipes
  • Vegetables
  • Vegetables & sides
I’ve included this very simple recipe because I get asked for it all the time – carrots that keep their...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

April 1, 2017
Like 27
Read More
Comment
Share

Bacon and egg muffins

  • Breakfast
  • Diabetes
  • High blood sugar in the morning
  • Insulin dependent diabetes
  • Low carb
These ‘muffins’ are a change from the usual eggs and bacon. They are filling and very low carb. A great...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

December 1, 2020
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Wholemeal scones

Cooking Time: 50mins
  • Breakfast
  • Recipes
  • Snacks
Bread has got some bad press in recent years and a diet containing white bread, which usually contains sugar and...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

January 12, 2017
Like 48
Read More
Comment
Share

Best Hummus Recipe

  • Entertaining
  • Packed lunches
  • Recipes
  • Salads
  • Snacks
  • Vegetables & sides
This Hummus recipe couldn’t be easier to make and is healthier and more economical than shop bought versions. Chickpeas (also...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

April 26, 2020
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Lemon and Yogurt Cake

  • Cake
  • Recipes
  • Treats
Natural yogurt, ground almonds and lemon zest give this cake a lovely flavour and a moist texture. I have used...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

January 16, 2018
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Tomato Salsa

Cooking Time: 10
  • Entertaining
  • Recipes
  • Vegetables & sides
This salsa is great with meat, fish, cheese and salads. Why not make extra and keep it in the fridge...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

March 10, 2020
Like 8
Read More
Comment
Share

Cheesy Courgette Bake

  • Low Carbohydrate
  • Vegetables
  • Vegetables & sides
This cheesy low carb courgette recipe makes an ideal lunch or supper dish. Courgettes are blood sugar friendly due to...
Avatar

The Artisan Diabetic

September 30, 2019
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Chocolate Ganache Recipe

  • Baking
  • Desserts
  • Entertaining
  • Recipes
  • Special Occasions
Naughty, but nice! Ideal for dipping or drizzling over fruit or a cake when warm. It gets quite stiff when cold. If you want a runny ganache, just reduce the...
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Fruity Chia Jam

Cooking Time: 15 minutes
  • Breakfast
  • Recipes
  • Treats
Why buy sugar laden jam when you can whip together a much healthier fruity chia jam in less than 15 minutes? Traditional jam, whether homemade or store bought contain at...
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Tomato Salsa

Cooking Time: 10
  • Entertaining
  • Recipes
  • Vegetables & sides
This salsa is great with meat, fish, cheese and salads. Why not make extra and keep it in the fridge for packed lunches and to add to dinners during the...
Like 8
Read More
Comment
Share

The best meatballs

Cooking Time: 60
  • Mains
  • Meat
  • Recipes
  • Italian Italian
Meatballs make a handy lunch or dinner. They can be served with roasted vegetables or salad. Alternatively, you can immerse them in a homemade tomato sauce.  
Like 18
Read More
Comment
Share

Flourless Chocolate Brownies

  • Baking
  • Desserts
  • Entertaining
  • Recipes
  • Treats
These gluten-free chocolate brownies will go down a treat with everyone. Great for dessert, with a coffee or as a treat. They are delicious eaten on the day they are...
Like 0
Read More
Comment
Share

Traditional Rich Cake

  • Baking
  • Cake
  • Entertaining
  • Recipes
  • Treats
    I used to make traditional fruit cakes for weddings and special occasions in a previous life. I really enjoyed icing and decorating the cakes and spent many hours mulling over...
    Like 0
    Read More
    Comment
    Share

    My favourite and most used ingredients – eggs

    • Baking
    • Blog
    • Breakfast
    • Diabetes awareness
    • Entertaining
    • Low carb
    • Mains
    • Packed lunches
    • Reduce the risk of type 2
    • Salads
    • Snacks
    Over the next few weeks I am going to share my most used and favourite ingredients and tell you why I think they have contributed to my health and well...
    Like 0
    Read More
    Comment
    Share

    Spicy Pumpkin Soup

    Cooking Time: 50 minutes
    • Child friendly
    • Recipes
    • Soup & Starters
    This is a lovely warming soup to enjoy at any time. Pumpkins are low in calories, but high in Vitamins A, C, E and some of the B Vitamins. They...
    Like 0
    Read More
    Comment
    Share

    Cheesy Courgette Bake

    • Low Carbohydrate
    • Vegetables
    • Vegetables & sides
    This cheesy low carb courgette recipe makes an ideal lunch or supper dish. Courgettes are blood sugar friendly due to their high water content. They contain potassium, which helps reduce...
    Like 0
    Read More
    Comment
    Share

    Tips to help you avoid or treat colds & flu

    • Aussie flu
    • Blog
    • Diabetes
    • Flu and diabetes
    • Glucose testing
    • Insulin dependent diabetes
    Colds and flu season is upon us. They can make diabetes management more difficult than usual. There is a lot of talk about a more virulent flu strain, the Australian...
    Like 32
    Read More
    Comment
    Share

    Tea Brack

    Cooking Time: 70 minutes
    • Recipes
    • Treats
      The Irish traditional Halloween or Barmbrack (bairín breac) contained various wrapped objects. The brack was carefully cut to avoid displaying the objects or charms, so that the recipient didn’t see they had...
      Like 52
      Read More
      Comment
      Share

      Low Carb Seed & Wheat Bread

      • Bread
      • Low carb
      • Packed lunches
      • Recipes
      When I started experimenting with low carb bread recipes I was shocked at how low carb I could make them. All wheat bread contains a considerable amount of carbs, whether...
      Like 0
      Read More
      Comment
      Share

      Holiday Soup for the soul!

      • Blog
      • Diabetes
      • Diabetes awareness
      • Recipes
      • Vegetables
      It’s great to get away from it all but it’s important to get back on track when you get home. With a little planning and about 1 hour of your...
      Like 17
      Read More
      Comment
      Share

      Dawn Phenomenon

      • Blog
      • Diabetes
      • High blood sugar in the morning
      • Insulin dependent diabetes
      • raised blood sugar
      What is it; does it affect you and what can you do about it? Dawn phenomenon is a rise in blood sugar due to a surge in hormone secretions during...
      Like 0
      Read More
      Comment
      Share

      One of my favourite ingredients

      • Blog
      • Diabetes
      • Diabetes awareness
      • Flu and diabetes
      • Insulin dependent diabetes
      ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’ Hippocrates   I am sharing one my favourite ingredients and why I feel it has contributed to my health and...
      Like 0
      Read More
      Comment
      Share

      Green Salad with Feta

      • Packed lunches
      • Recipes
      • Salads
      • Soup & Starters
      • Vegetables
      This green salad is ideal as a light meal or a packed lunch. The feta cheese and nuts reduce the impact of the carbohydrate in the vegetables.
      Like 14
      Read More
      Comment
      Previous Entries
      Next Entries

      About

      About

      Thank you for visiting “The Artisan Diabetic ”. This is my website about living well with type 1 Diabetes for over 50 years. I would like to share some of my recipes and tips with you.

      As well as having experience of the everyday ups and downs with Diabetes I am a qualified Nutrition and Health Coach.

      A couple of one to one sessions will put you on the right track whether you have Diabetes, Thyroid disease, other conditions or just want to improve your general health.

      I'm looking forward to meeting you!

      To find out more please email me at anne@theartisandiabetic.ie. Include your telephone number if you would like me to call you.

      Alternatively give me a call on 085 2534897.

      Categories

      Breakfast

      Breakfast

      Chicken

      Chicken

      Desserts

      Desserts

      Fish

      Fish

      Mains

      Mains

      Meat

      Meat

      Salads

      Salads

      Snacks

      Snacks

      Soup & Starters

      Soup & Starters

      Vegetables

      Vegetables

      Popular Tags

      #diabetesawareness apple Aussie flu Aussie flu and diabetes Australian flu BBQ beef beef burgers beetroot birthday cake blood glucose Blood samples breakfast brown rice carbs carrots Celeriac chicken colds and flu Cork diabetes eggs feta Flourless galway garlic green lentil Lentils low carb mushrooms newly diagnosed orange restaurant review salad salmon smoked salmon soup Tomato tomatoes Treat type 1 diabetes type 2 diabetes vegetables vegetable soup wholemeal flour

      Archives

      Instagram Feed

      This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

      Error: No connected account.

      Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to connect an account.

      Facebook Friends

      © THE ARTISAN DIABETIC | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | DISCLAIMER | SITE BY Boon Agency