Eating Well with Diabetes
Eating right and maintaining a healthy weight are key to managing diabetes. Here are some quick tips to reduce calories, eat less fat and sugar, and help to control your serving size.
- Use smaller bowls and plates to help control portion size
- Have skim milk in your coffee and with your cereal
- Use artificial sweeteners instead of sugar
- Add more fresh fruits and vegetables to your diet
- Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking juice or eating dried fruit
- Substitute Canadian bacon for regular bacon
- Use water-packed tuna instead of oil-packed
- Drink club soda with lime instead of regular soda
- Add dried beans like kidney, pinto or lentils to your diet
- Bake, steam or broil, never fry food
- Eat whole grain foods like brown rice or whole wheat spaghetti
- Choose a salad over fries
- Order thin crust pizza and ask for half as much cheese and more tomato sauce
- Use light or fat-free salad dressing
- Eat pork loin instead of pork chops
- Eat more fish
- Throw out the mayonnaise, use mustard instead
- Say “no” to second servings
- Have a cup of low-fat, sugar free yogurt for desert