Zastic! Laminated 8.5″x11″ Diabetes Food Chart & Meal Planner for Diabetics – 345 Grocery Foods List – Diabetic Food List Planner Chart w/Serving Size, Carbs, Calories, and Glycemic Index

WORTH the $10 for a a few pages of laminated lists of food
This list *should* be handed out with new diabetes diagnosis. It helped me more than anything else that has been said or read in mt first week of absolute panic. Snacks should be about 20 grams of carbs or less and meals 30 to 40 grams of carbs. This sheet helps you figure out exactly what you can have. For example, for a snack you can have 12 saltine crackers with peanut butter smeared (or globbed) onto them. However, your crackers should be whole grain. Or it tells you how many cups of berries or pineapple or bananas or rice that you can have. SO many foods listed with everything you need in an almost indestructible, easy format,For the new diabetics that are searching for help before your first Endocrinologist/Nurse Practitioner visit: the other really helpful things I have found are your new mantra: NO NAKED CARBS and to eat your protein and healthy fat first before your carbs, if possible. No naked carbs means that all of your carbs need to be “dressed” in protein and fat. You should NOT have 12 saltines alone. But you can totally have them with guacamole, cheese, or a nut butter. The fiber in beans cancels out the carbs. I can eat a full bowl of sugary baked beans mixed with brown rice.Also: Smoothies. I have found this to lower my blood sugar and make me feel full at a time when I am now always feeling like I am starving: 6 to 8 oz of high protein milk, half a serving (or a full one) of protein powder (we like Premier), 2 handfuls of fresh spinach or kale (you won’t even taste it), a couple tablespoons of nut butters or half a handful of nuts or seeds, 2 TB flax or chia seeds, and frozen or fresh fruits. I like to add at least some frozen fruit instead of ice. You can use this laminated chart to help you figure out the amount of fruit that you can add. But as many berries as fits in the container after everything else is fine. Also, because of the fats and protein, you CAN add extra banana or pineapple. These are filling, will lower your blood sugar, and taste like milkshakes. My son teenage son insists on calling them milkshakes and we freeze leftovers when making big batches and eat it as ice cream. You will not miss the sugar! But you *can* add a few TB of raw honey, if you like. Feel free to add vanilla extract, cinnamon, fresh herbs and try soaking your chia seeds in water or milk for 15 minutes, it adds bulkiness and creaminess. We love a handful of cashews in them but we switch it up with our seeds, nuts, leafy greens, and fruit.You’re going to be fine. 🙂

Great Resource
Was thinking we would magnet it to the fridge but it’s huge. Finding some of the items is a little weird but if you can figure out the categories it’s alphabetized from there so that helps. Regardless- will be beneficial in helping us get to a better AC1 test result.

Great price
Fast delivery and easy to read

Arrived bent & wrinkled
Packaging undamaged. Product wrinkled and looks used. Won’t lay flat due to all the wrinkles and extra folds.

Easy to read, compact, and comprehensive in the information provided.

Product exceptionally high quality.