Filipino Foods And Diet Tips For Diabetics

We all know that Filipinos are one of the many people that  suffers from diabetes. This might be due to the kind of lifestyle, environment and food or diet that we follow. Diabetes complications can weaken the immune system thus making our body vulnerable from lots of bacteria and viral infection. Aside from a healthy lifestyle and daily exercise, eating the right kind and amount of food can help in terms of diabetes prevention.

Below are some Filipino food and diet tips that can work wonders in terms of diabetes. They are all based on expert advice you can find around. Check them out and ask a doctor first if they can be beneficial and helpful for your body or health condition.

Halo Halo Recipe With Pictures

Halo-Halo is a famous Filipino dessert and refreshment as well. Halo halo is quite a best selling Filipino food/dessert/refreshment during the summer season. Halo halo recipe is a mixture of sweetened preserved fruits, evaporated milk and crushed ice top with either ice cream, leche flan or ube.

Halo Halo is usually served in tall, clear  glasses (but nowadays, plastic cups are being used) that show its colorful preserved fruit contents or mixtures.

Halo-halo Recipe Ingredients:

- Sweetened red beans
- Sweetened garbanzos
- Sweetened saba banana
- Sweetened kamote
- Sweetened jackfruit
- Sweetened kaong
- Cooked sago
- Pinipig
- Macapuno
- Shaved/Crushed ice
- Ice cream
- Ube haleya
- Leche flan
- Milk
- White sugar

How To Make Halo-halo:
- Half-fill a tall glass with your choice of sweets. Fill with shaved/crushed ice. Top with ice cream, ube haleya or leche flan. Serve with milk and sugar.

Halo Halo Pictures

Filipino Dessert: Halo Halo

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13 Round And Sweet Fruits - Filipino New Year Tradition

As we all know, Filipino New Year Celebration is all about driving out bad luck or bad spirits and welcoming in good luck for the coming new year. It is a borrowed belief or tradition from our Chinese brothers and sisters. One big example of this borrowed tradition is the preparation of 13 different kinds of round and sweet fruits at the dining table.

Ever wonder why the traditional number of round and sweet fruits being served and prepared during New Year's Eve is 13? If you are a typical Filipino like me, you will think that 13 is so unlucky and is kind of associated with evil spirits or deeds. But, with this kind of Filipino tradition, its not.

For our Chinese brothers and sisters (Tsinoys), 13 is actually a lucky number and having round fruits signifies coins so having a lot will bring luck and prosperity. The first person or group of people who experience this luck and prosperity are the fruit vendors or sellers themselves. Their sales always shoots up during this kind of season.

Some Filipinos prepares 12 kinds and some do prepare 13, but whatever the number is, its the thought and true spirit of New Year that counts the most.