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.
