You MUST try a California role at your local Japanese Restaurant (that is, if you indeed live near a Japanese Restaurant).

It's a thing that's cut into 6 pieces. It's prepared as such.

They take a pice of seaweed, spread some rice on it, and pat it down, then they add some imitation crab meet, some cucumber, and something else (nothing is raw, the crabmeat is cooked). OH, they put a bit of avocado in this thing.

Then the guy rolls it up, using this bamboo think, until it's this long rolled up thing. Then he cuts it into 6 pieces.

It's put in a little container and they put a little piece of wasabe in it. (I don't like wasabe).

Then they serve it with some low-sodium terriyaki or soy sauce).

You have never tasted anything so delicious in your life.

My neighbor told me "go and try the Philadelphia Roll".

Same method of preparation, but they use smoked salmon and a bit of creamcheese rolled up in the rice and seaweed. I know what you all are thinking, cream cheese on seaweed, and then you dip this in low-sodium soy sauce????

Let me tell you, it's the most delicious thing I ever ate. It doesn't impact my weight, it doesn't impact my sugar whatsoever. I only do this once a week but oh my goodness, it's a nice light lunch, with some Miso Soup (not for the low sodium watchers).

I have never eaten Sushi or Sashimi (this is raw). I only go for the California Roll. I'm trying to get my friend to try this. She says 'oh my god, it's raw". She doesn't believe me.

Oh, another cool thing to know about diabetes. Whenever I eat fish, my sugar is below 100 the next morning (my first sugar reading upon awakening).

Never fails to happen. I've tested this numerous times. I watch my diabetes like a crazy person, so I eat healthy every day.

But to really make it go to 95 or 93, all I have to do is eat fish for dinner. It's absolutely amazing. And I have no idea why.

I eat chicken (grilled, over a bed of salad greens) for lunch, or I have a plain turkey burger with a small salad), but for dinner, I can eat any kind of fish I want to eat, with a veggie and a salad, and nothing after 7 p.m. and lo and behold, I wake up and my sugar is 95.

If I eat chicken for dinner, or turkey, or any-non fish item, my sugar can read 123 or 135, but the fish really brings it down. I have no idea why this is so.

Maybe it's my body reacting to the fish. I eat flounder, sole, catfish, turbot fillet, shrimps (occasionally). It's all good, and it works every time.

I wonder why this happens.???

Melody