Healthy diabetic snacks are essential to a diabetic diet. It is commonly recommended that a diabetic snack between meals so that they do not over-indulge during meal times. Snacking on the wrong foods, however, can cause your blood sugar levels rise too high and cause a person to gain excess weight. Eating healthy diabetic snacks, on the other hand, not only helps you meet your nutritional needs and helps you to avoid temptations as you move along your day.
Planning your snacks in advance helps ensure that you make healthier choices and that you don’t overeat, according to EverydayHealth.com. You should also take the time to educate yourself about your basic nutritional needs and how to use food labels to keep your blood sugar levels under control and keep yourself from gaining weight. As a general rule sugary snacks, or those high in trans fats should be avoided. Diabetic healthy snacks with some fat and protein have been shown through research to slow food absorption. These are recommended because they help you to stay fuller for longer periods of time.
Healthy Snacks for Diabetic Adults
The dietitians of Diabetic Living recently scoured a number of super markets to find the best tasting, healthy diabetic snacks. They then created a list of the top 25. You can find the complete list by visiting DiabeticLivingOnline.com. The website also explains why each one was picked. Some of the healthy snacks for a diabetic that made the list include:
- Sun Chips Harvest Cheddar 100 Calorie Mini Bites
- Honey Maid Cinnamon Roll Thin Crisps
- Orville Redenbacher’s SmartPop! 94% Fat Free Butter
- Quaker Snack Mix, Baked Cheddar
- StarKist Solid White Albacore Tuna in Water
- Dannon Activia Dairy Drink, Strawberry
- Planters Harvest Dark Chocolate Forest Blend
- Sun-Maid Mediterranean Apricots
- Dannon Activia Light Nonfat Yogurt, Rasberry
- Triscuit Thin Crisps, Quarttro Formaggio
Healthy Snacks for Diabetic Children
It is important for parents and caretakers of diabetic children to teach them to eat healthy diabetic snacks from the start. This isn’t easy. Luckily, Disney’s Family Fun website provides some fun ideas to make some healthy snacks for kids. This is in no way a complete list, so visit FamilyFun.Go.Com to find these recipes and more ideas for healthy diabetic snacks, desserts, lunch, dinner, and more! Some of the ideas that you can use for healthy diabetic snacks are as follows:
Vegetable Flowers – radish slices, cucumber rounds, spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, celery sticks, and baby carrots arranged to create flowers on your plate.
Carrot Patches – Baby carrots planted in a tasty dip.
Three Rice Mice – Tiny mice sculptures created from cooked rice, whipped cream cheese, green peas, and corn.
Edible Hangman – A hangman game made with squirtable cheese, wholegrain crackers, carrots, bell peppers, baby tomatoes, celery, and raisins.
