Making changes to your lifestyle can be a challenge at times, but with healthy eating habits and regular exercise you can prevent getting diabetes and manage the disease, if you already have it. It’s very important not to eat foods that will cause blood-sugar levels to rise or fall too drastically. Limit sugar intake, check portion size, make sure you read your food labels and take in a variety of nutrients.

This recipe – from Cooking from the Heart 3 (A joint initiative with Pharma Dynamics and The Heart and Stroke Foundation SA) by Heleen Meyer and Ashleigh Badham-Thornhill – is a fab side dish to add to any dinner table for four. Or serve it as a vegan dinner for two.

You can mix it up by adding some roasted sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds. You can even add this to cooked pasta to bulk it up. It is #GreenMonday after all, so stick with going #MeatFree!

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