People with diabetes must choose their foods carefully to keep their blood sugar from going dangerously high. Each meal and snack must contain a balance between protein and carbohydrate and should avoid refined flour and sugar to maintain safe blood sugar levels.
Breakfast
If you have high blood sugar, a breakfast scramble is a nutritious way to start the day, with protein and complex carbohydrates. First, you can finely chop 1 cup of vegetables of your choice. Onions, zucchini, spinach, broccoli and green peppers are all good choices for a breakfast scramble. Crack 3 eggs into a small bowl, and mix thoroughly. Spray a pan with vegetable oil, and add the chopped vegetables. Cook on medium heat, stirring frequently until vegetables are tender. Add the scrambled eggs, and mix until the eggs are combined with the vegetables and fully cooked. Finally, turn off the heat, place slices of cheese over the eggs and put a lid on the pan until the cheese is melted.
Lunch
A Cobb salad is a lunch for a diabetic that contains many nutrients and will not cause a drastic increase in blood sugar levels. Romaine lettuce should be washed thoroughly and chopped before being placed on a plate as the base for your Cobb salad. Cold cuts, such as turkey, chicken and ham, should be chopped and placed around the edges of the plate. Arrange thin slices of hard-boiled egg, bacon bits and chopped tomato, next to the chopped cold cuts. Finally, add slivers of ripe avocado to the plate to finish your Cobb salad.
Dinner
A low-carb stir fry will end the day without raising your blood sugar. Slice 1 boneless, skinless, chicken breast. Add 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and 1 tbsp. sesame oil to a pan, and heat. Thinly slice 3 cloves of garlic, dice 1 small white onion, and shred 1/4 head of cabbage. Add the chicken to the pan, stir for 5 minutes and add all the vegetables to the pan. Stir the combined ingredients until the vegetables are tender. Add 1/4 cup soy sauce and stir. Using the sweetener of your choice, add the equivalent of 1 tsp. sugar and stir once more before serving.
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