Diabetic friendly recipes please

Dear Ladies,

I am very sad and depressed of late worry about my DH. We recently (infact accidentally) found out that my DH has very high sugar. He is only 31 years old. I think he inherited this. His family background: His dad died of heart attack at the age of 38 (nobody knew if he had sugar or not). It was a huge shock to the entire family. His maternal grand mom had extreme sugar and lost her eye sight and legs due to it during her final years.

I had gestational diabetes during pregnancy and I am now completely normal. My sugar levels are normal even after high carb/sugar intake. None in my family (both sides) had diabetes though. I still had the apparatus that I used before to check blood sugar and just tried on my DH to have an idea about his readings. They said we are not supposed to share the apparatus on more than one person; hence did not try before. i am glad we did check now at least. We were shocked to see his reading as 330. His fasting is 200. Not even once his reading is below 200 and after food it is always above 300. He must have had high sugar for a while I believe.

Is this extremely high? Do anyone have experience in controlling high sugar by diet?

It is hard to convince him to book a doctor appointment. He totally dismisses it saying we will worry about it later (after a few years). But I am loosing my peace over this. Even last night he had ice cream. Not at all serious about this. His health is utmost important for me and I want to do everything I can to make him healthy.

Could you ladies suggest diabetic friendly vegetarian food recipes especially idly recipes (i.e. without rice)? My DH likes idly a lot.

Also how can I use flaxseeds in my daily food? I came to know this reduces bad cholesterol. He doesn't eat cereals and so I have to include it in idly/dosa etc. Can I just add powdered flax seeds to the idly/dosa batter just before preparing idly/dosa? Or should I add it before fermentation?

My sincere thanks to @Shanvy for opening a thread on Lunch ideas sans rice. I cant put in words how grateful I am for this. I have so many recipes in one place which is awesome. How could you come up with so many ideas without rice? I am speechless. You are extremely talented and have excellent culinary skills. Perhaps this thread has the idly recipes I am looking for. I have just started reading the threads. So many pages to go through...

But these posts do not have the actual preparation steps. I guess I will Google the name of the dishes and try to find out. I think some of them are easy enough to prepare without having to see the preparation steps.

P.S: Moderators, please move this to appropriate forum incase this is not the place for this. I was confused whether to put it under one of the sub-forums for Food or under Health.

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Diabetic friendly recipes please