[Healthy_Recipes_For_Diabetic_Friends] Carbs to Protein Ratio For Diabetics

Friday, October 2, 2009

[Healthy_Recipes_For_Diabetic_Friends] Carbs to Protein Ratio For Diabetics

Carbs to Protein Ratio For Diabetics

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By Linda Carol Wilson Platinum Quality Author
Linda Carol Wilson
Linda is a wife and grandmother in North Texas. She and her
husband Steve have three children and 7 grandchildren. She
is diabetic and is devoted to helping other diabetics enjoy
food and stay healthy. She has a very large cookbook and
recipe collection that she has inherited and collected over
the years. She loves sharing her recipes with others. Her
favorite pastime is cooking with her grandchildren and
watching The Food Network with her 4-year-old granddaughter.

Diabetics should generally eat snacks and meals having one-third as
many proteins as carbs! For example, if you have a snack that contains
21 grams of carbs you want to balance that with 6 to 8 grams of protein.
This is not a hard and fast rule but something that should be done as
often as possible. It will help you control your blood sugar in almost
all cases.

When eating a cookie, brownie, etc. choose one with nuts or eat a couple
of nuts with the sweet. This applies to regular or sugar-free cookies.
Even sugar-free sweets have carbs.

At birthday parties, weddings, showers, etc. when you have cake, ask
for a small piece and get some nuts to go with it. These occasions
almost always have a dish of nuts on the cake table. If not, ask if
nuts or peanut butter are available.

Add some chopped or sliced hard-boiled egg to salads, especially if
they don't have meat. Use only the whites if you need to be careful
about too many yolks for health reasons.

Add chick-peas to meatless salads, especially if you don't like or
have a diet restriction on eggs.

Don't like chick-peas? Add kidney beans to salads.

Eat some low-fat cheese, string cheese is great for this, as a snack.

Use low-fat (Neufchatel) cream cheese on bagels.

If eating a high-carb meal, drink some low-fat or fat-free milk as your beverage.

Have some cheese when snacking on fresh fruit.

Fill a pear half with a tablespoon of cottage cheese for a salad or a
snack.

As you can see, it is easy to add the necessary protein to your carb
snacks and meals. And you can do this without eating meat. I know this
is especially helpful for those who don't like meat or choose not to
eat it for whatever reason.