Choosing the Right Snacks for Your Diabetic Diet Thanks to newer diabetes medications that don't provoke low blood glucose, snacking is often a matter of preference. Although snacks can help control hunger, they can also lead to excess calorie intake. Here are some healthy options for clients to try!
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Choosing the Right Snacks for Your Diabetic Diet
Thanks to newer diabetes medications that don't provoke low blood glucose, snacking is often a matter of preference.
Although snacks can help control hunger, they can also lead to
excess calorie intake. Here are some healthy options for clients
to try!
Snacking Tips Why is this important?
• If you are going to give helpful dietary suggestions you will want to know what foods pair well together for a diabetic so that they cab maintain proper blood sugar levels.
Satisfying Snacking Tips
• keep snacks between 100 and 200 calories each
• To help slow the rise in your blood sugar and satisfy hunger longer, pair a protein-rich food with a nutritious complex-carbohydrate choice
• Carb: 1 mini box Raisins• Protein: 2 tablespoons
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Quick & Easy Quesadilla• Carb: Extra Thin Yellow Corn Tortillas• Protein: reduced fat cheddar cheese• Salsa – counts as a free food ~ under 20 kcals ~ less than 5 g CHO
Open-Face Bagel Melt
Carb: Whole WheatBagel Thin, toasted
Protein: reduced-fatswiss cheese + oven roastedturkey breast