Good Diabetic Food Plan for a Month

A good diabetic food plan should be based on the best blood glucose and nutritional management for your body. Individual sizes and amounts of portions eaten throughout each month vary, depending on your age, weight, type or class of diabetes. Your diabetes specialist will tell you what she advises is the correct amount and weight of each portion you should eat each day.

Meal Times

People who live with diabetes are required to eat three main meals every day with necessary snacks in between. If you are diabetic, you will also know that the level of insulin or medication you are required to take depends on your blood sugar levels prior to eating for successful management.

What to Eat

Store-bought diabetic foods are not advisable for diabetics, especially for type 1 diabetics. (See Resources section). If you have a look at the diabetic food pyramid within the resources section, you will see that the healthier foods start at the bottom of the pyramid and the foods at the top of the pyramid are best avoided within your regular diet plan. By following a healthy diet plan, a diabetic will be postponing or eradicating possible future blindness and other illnesses that occur within diabetics if their diet management is not good enough. It is very important to remember that even though diabetes is about blood sugar level management and treatments, each diabetic person is a human being and therefore vitamins and other nutritional elements within a healthy diet and your personal diabetic monthly food plan must also be remembered.

Sweet Tooth

It is not acceptable for diabetics to eat fried or high sugar foods if they want to stay healthy, but that does not mean your diet has to remain boring or even sour. It takes 20 minutes to make simple homemade healthy mini sponges that are not sour or fattening either. Simply add 2 cups of whole wheat flour into a mixing bowl with 5 tsps. of healthy baking powder, 1 1/2 cups of skimmed milk, 1 tbsp. of olive oil, 1 egg and 1 1/2 cups of sultanas or raisins. Mix together and place into separate muffin cases (should make 15 to 20 muffins) and bake in a pre-heated oven at 400 degrees F or 200 degrees C for 10 to 15 minutes, until the cakes become slightly golden on top. This recipe will give you a healthy homemade tasty diabetic snack option, throughout the month.