Food & Drink

Welcome to our Food & Drink section.

Here you will find all kinds of resources to help manage type 1 diabetes alongside food and drink.

There are some scrummy European meals that are easy to make at home and great for all the family brought to you by Frances Hanson (Frances’ Kitchen). Salma Mehar introduces you to some popular, mouth wateringly delicious South Asian dishes and these are available in both English and Urdu (Salma’s Kitchen). Our third series introduces ways to help strike the breakfast spike that can be a real challenge, and this is brought to you by Francesca Annan and Frances Hanson.

All the recipes here are carb-counted to make things easy for you when making and serving these lovely meals for your family.

Bon appétit

Carb Counting

Here you’ll find films and resources to help with counting the carbohydrates in the food that you eat.

Frances' Kitchen

Frances is a diabetes dietitian at Leeds Children’s Hospital and here she shows you how to make some simple, family friendly meals and how to carb count them.

Strike The Breakfast Spike

In this series, Frances Hanson and Francesca Annan take you through some simple recipes and present some ways to help strike the breakfast spike.

South Asian Foods

Salma Mehar is a community dietitian and she introduces a series of popular and simple to make South Asian meals. These are carb-counted recipes that you can easily create at home.

جنوبی ایشین کھانوں

یہاں آپ کو مشہور اور سادہ جنوبی ایشین کھانوں کی تراکیب ملیں گی۔ آپ کی آسانی کے لیے ان تراکیب میں موجود نشاستوں (کاربوہائیڈریٹ) کی گنتی کی گئی ہے ۔ یہ تراکیب سملیٰ مہر نے تیار کی ہیں اور وہ لندن میں مقیم ایک ماہرِ غذائیت (ڈائیٹشین) ہیں۔