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Choosing the Right Snacks for Your Diabetic Diet

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Choosing the Right Snacks for Your Diabetic Diet

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  1. 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!

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. Pears & Cheese Carb: pear Protein: Light Brie Cheese

  5. Easy Veggies • Carb: raw kohlrabi sticks • Proein: edamame

  6. Raisins & Seeds • Carb: 1 mini box Raisins • Protein: 2 tablespoons Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

  7. 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

  8. Open-Face Bagel Melt Carb:Whole Wheat Bagel Thin, toasted Protein: reduced-fat swiss cheese + oven roasted turkey breast

  9. Cheese Toast • Carb: Whole Grain Toast • Protein: low-fat ricotta cheese garnished with fresh black pepper

  10. Apples & Peanut Butter • Carb:small apple, cut into wedges • Protein: Peanut Butter

  11. 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.

  12. Cottage Cheese & Carrots • Carb: raw carrot chips • Protein: Small Curd Low fat Cottage Cheese Get 100 percent of your daily vitamin A in one serving of carrot chips.

  13. Crackers & Cheese • Carb: Reduced-Fat Wheat Thins crackers • Protein: Weight Watchers Natural Reduced-Fat Cheddar Cheese Snacks

  14. Mini Tuna Sandwich • Carb: 100% Whole Grain Cocktail Rye • Protein: canned light tuna in water Add: Cherry tomatoes & cucumbers to get different flavors and textures without the calories

  15. Fruit & Nuts • Carb: Brothers-All-Natural Fuji Apple Fruit Crisps • Protein: dry-roasted pistachios

  16. Strawberries & Yogurt • Carb: sliced strawberries • Protein: Plain Nonfat Greek Yogurt

  17. Mini Pizza • Carb:100% Whole Wheat Thin Bun • sliced veggies • pizza sauce • Protein: shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

  18. The biggest culprits of added sugars: • regular sodas • Fruit drinks • Sports drinks • Coffees • Sweetened tea • Pastries • Sweets On 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.

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