What is the best Christmas treats that diabetes people can eat?
Friday, September 4th, 2009 at
2:07 am
I am doing two different kind of treats for my social club but some are requesting me to make something that people with diabetes can eat. What’s is the best treat for Christmas that is easy to make and diabetes can eat?
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I am always happy with people who bring a veggie and dip platter to anything.
Spinach leaves all over the bottom, celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, pepper rings or strips, cheese cubes and a lovely dip to go with them.
The veggie and dip platters work for any holiday or group get together. And are much healthier treats for everyone.
Being a diabetic means taking things in moderation. Depending on how severe the case, some people can have a little sugar, but not too much. Regarding what sweet treats you can get, you have two options: 1 go to the store and buy sugar free or no sugar added items. 2. you can make or bake something using Splenda. You can go online to the food network to get ideas. I do know that Splenda does have a small book (like the ones you find at the checkout stand at the grocery store) that has a lot of great ideas. I do not know where you live but Marie Calendar’s have two no sugar added pies (apple and razzleberry). Sees Candies have a few dark chocolate and peanut brittle no sugar added items. Walgreens has about 12 different mainline no sugar added items like Hersheys, Reese’s, York, Russell Stover & Werthers. You just have to ask at your bigger grocery chains. If they like jelly, you can go to the Knotts Berry Farm website and you can order surgar free or low sugar jelly. They have strawberry and boysenberry or blackberry, (never can remember ). Hope that helps!
My best friend (Who’s diabetic)
Says defiantly not those "diabetic chocolates" you can get in Thornton’s and places
They are apparently worse for you.
But how about veggies with dips or make a fun sculpture out of food they can eat.
P.s Make it fun and colorful ! =)
Turkey – high protein, low fat, no sugar.
Firstly, allow me to clarify that most foods end up in your body as glucose, and there is no way that your body will know if the glucose came from a chocolate bar, a watermelon slice or a bowl of rice.
That being said, diabetics need to control the amount of sugar in their bodies, and type 1 diabetics need to plan their meals around their insulin intake.
If I may suggest, preparing treats that do not contain refined sugar or processed flavor enhancers will be a good idea. You can certainly make use of natural fruits that contain lots of fiber that is beneficial not only to diabetics, but to people without diabetes too.
Fruit sugar can be helpful to diabetics because it can be used in exactly the same way as ordinary sugar but because it’s sweeter you need to use 33% less.
So, you can actually bake a cake but use fruit sugar instead of common, refined sugar. And don’t forget to leave out anything sugary too, like icing and stuff. Thus, you can use a little fruit sugar and enhance the flavor with other naturally sweet stuff with low glycemic index ie. berries or bananas or kiwi.
So, remember that essentially, the issue with diabetics is not the sugar content but the carbohydrate values. Sucrose and glucose, both found in common sugar, produce a rapid rise in blood sugar levels which gives rise to the need for insulin. This means diabetics need to carefully control the amount and types of sugar that they consume.
Fruit sugar does not cause this rapid rise in blood sugar levels because it is mainly metabolized within the liver. From there, having been used to form glucose, it is released slowly as and when the body needs energy.
don t take out carbs just don t have a lot. cookies are good and you can make them festive 2! angel food cake is good and only has bout 20 carbs it makes us feel bad when ppl try to help and get like carrots and stufff this happened to me my bf in 6th grade had a b-day and his mom made a cake and she said im sorry i should have bought some carrots. (bitch) =D we can have sugar we just have to have insulin low carb stuuf are with fruits and kiquids they cancel the carbs out =D
For diet control and food to be taken by diabetics, you do not need to starve yourself because there are foods in abundance that you can take without spiking your blood sugar. A good way to choose food is to refer to the glycemic index of food which is graded on a scale 0-100.
This index is a measure of the rate at which a food releases glucose or sugar into your bloodstream. If you take food with a corresponding index up to 50, you blood sugar can be easily controlled. Do not frequent intake of food with indices between 50 to 70. Do not touch foods >70. Here your main concern is on the type and quality of food, not the quantity. There are plenty of foods that are safe.
Vegtable trays are good.
Sugar free candy and cookies
And if you make any dips try going for reduced fat mixes as diabetics tend to have to watch their fat intake as well.