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 Choice + ProteinChoice = Satisfying Snack

Pears & Cheese

Carb: pear

Protein: Light Brie Cheese

Easy Veggies

• Carb: raw kohlrabi sticks• Proein: edamame

Raisins & Seeds

• 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

Cheese Toast

• Carb: Whole GrainToast

• Protein: low-fat ricottacheese

garnished with fresh black pepper

Apples & Peanut Butter

• Carb: small apple, cut into wedges

• Protein: Peanut Butter

Rice Thins with Sunflower Seed Butter • Carb: Whole Grain Rice Thins• Protein: Sunflower Seed Butter

Sunflower seed butter is a super source of the

antioxidant vitamin E.

Cottage Cheese & Carrots • Carb: raw carrot chips• Protein: Small Curd Low fat Cottage Cheese

Get 100 percent of yourdaily vitamin A in oneserving of carrot chips.

Crackers & Cheese

• Carb: Reduced-Fat Wheat Thins crackers• Protein:

Weight WatchersNatural Reduced-FatCheddar Cheese Snacks

Mini Tuna Sandwich

• Carb: 100% Whole Grain Cocktail Rye• Protein: canned light tuna in water

Add: Cherry tomatoes& cucumbers to getdifferent flavors and textures without the calories

Fruit & Nuts • Carb: Brothers-All-Natural Fuji Apple Fruit

Crisps• Protein: dry-roasted

pistachios

Strawberries & Yogurt

• Carb: sliced strawberries• Protein: Plain Nonfat

Greek Yogurt

Mini Pizza • Carb: 100% Whole Wheat Thin Bun– sliced veggies– pizza sauce

• Protein: shreddedpart-skimmozzarella cheese

The biggest culprits of added sugars:

• regular sodas• Fruit drinks• Sports drinks• Coffees• Sweetened tea• Pastries• SweetsOn average adults consume an extra 22 teaspoons of sugar a day!

Instead, get your carb grams from nutrition-loaded sources: •vegetables•fruits•whole grains•low-fat dairy foods.