Sample Diabetic Menus

Before anyone is led to believe that diabetic menus are bland, tasteless and unexciting, let us better get some sample diabetic menus to see that this is farthest from the truth.
The best source of diabetic menus is the American Diabetes Association (ADA) which provides ample resources based on established guides to healthy eating, the glycemic index, the diabetic food exchanges and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) food pyramid.
Sample diabetic menus can also be readily found and downloaded from numerous websites that are solely dedicated to diabetic nutritional health and lifestyles.

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Numerous medical publications, magazines and books also dedicate chapters or volumes for diabetic dietary requirements.
It would please you to know that some of the diabetic menus even feature menus that you can find in restaurants. These helpful menus are designed to help you in making more informed choices when you dine out with your family or friends. Alongside these menus are ADA’s warnings of the dangers of high fat, high sugar or carbohydrate content, and over-indulging.
While you are warned against food items to avoid, you are also given some other interesting choices to have as alternatives. And what if you over-indulge despite the warnings? ADA did not discount this possibility: they also educate you how to make up for the occasional cheating.
Sample diabetic menus also did not leave out items that might be useful in preparing Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner, New Year’s Eve party, birthdays, and even Hanukkah.
As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, check out a sample diabetic menu we have downloaded from diabeticmenu.net. See for yourself, try these out and find out how bland and tasteless and unexciting they are. Or, are they really?

FOOD ITEM                                                 AMOUNT TO SERVE                      CARB
BREAKFAST
Great Starts Scrambled Egg Breakfast 1 Pkg                                                   17.0
Milk, fat-free                                                    1 Cup                                                   11.9
Orange Juice, frozen, reconstituted                    1 Cup                                                   26.8
Total 55.7                                                                     LUNCH
Pasta, cooked                                                  1 Cup                                                   36.8
Spaghetti sauce, meatless                                  3/4 Cup                                                22.5
Garden salad                                                    1 Cup                                                   3.0
Salad dressing, Italian, lite                                 1 tbsp                                                   1.0
Diet soft drinks, sugar-free                                1 Can                                                   0.3
Total 63.6
DINNER
Chicken Breast, roasted, no skin                       3 ozs                                                    0.0
Potato, baked with skin                                    3 ozs                                                    21.4
Corn, frozen, cooked                                        3/4 Cup                                                24.0
Margarine, lite                                      1/2 tbsp                                                0.1
Bread, whole-wheat                                         1 slice                                                   12.9
Diet soft drinks, sugar-free                                1 Can                                                   0.3
Total 58.7
EVENING SNACK
Crakers, saltines, unsalted tops                         10 Crackers                                         21.0
Peanut butter                                                    1 tsps                                                   4.2
Milk, fat-free                                                    1 Cup                                                   11.9
Total 37.1

The above sample show how a diabetic meal is planned. There are websites that customize diabetic menus according to the type of diabetes a patient has, his food preferences, etc.

The sample diabetic menus presented here are just for illustrative purposes only, and must not be taken as a professional advice. For your diabetic menus, you may be best served by consulting with your registered dietitian or doctor.

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