Has anyone any tips for sweet things that a diabetic can eat?
Ive just been diagnosed and I love sweets and biscuts but they are off the menu now. what can i eat as a diabetic- what is safe?
products fromm uk or rieland not american products please!
Sugar free products. Checkout Holland and Barrett – they’ll definately do some stuff for diabetics. Boots and Superdrug do stuff as well.
You can even buy pick n mix online if you like to buy online: http://www.sweetsandrock.com/cats/sugar_free_sweets.asp All on that page are suitable for diabetics.
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sugar free jello is pretty good. and anything sugar free. they make sugar free ice cream and everything. just limit yourself.
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Sugar free products. Checkout Holland and Barrett – they’ll definately do some stuff for diabetics. Boots and Superdrug do stuff as well.
You can even buy pick n mix online if you like to buy online: http://www.sweetsandrock.com/cats/sugar_free_sweets.asp All on that page are suitable for diabetics.
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Yeah!! I have the same problem!!
the sugar free chocolates and things sweetened with SORBITOL will give you digestive upsets and severe gas if you have more than one tiny taste!
the sugar free stuff with the other synthetic sweeteners can give you the severe munchies if you eat them. A munching that cannot be satisfied by anything so you tend to overeat everything.
My solution to this problem is to portion out any sweet or candy bar or whatever. One small biscuit is about 15 grams of carb or less. This fits for my snack break with half an apple!
I also have one bite of chocolate per day!
You can eat any thing you wish, but must have it in extreme moderation! Learn to count the grams of carbohydrate in foods. Plan your daily foods around about 100 to 125 grams of carbohydrate per DAY! And this includes all carbs not just the non fiber ones. This way you can include little "cheat treats" more frequently.
My Endocrinologist said to NEVER get to the point of craving anything. He said if you want a bit of chocolate cake, to make sure it is full of fats and nuts and only have a half serving!
Atkins has carbohydrate gram counting booklets on most grocery shelves where they have their magazines. Invest in one of these and use it til you figure out the amounts of carbohydrate you can get away with and how much is in each food. NOT all carbos are created equally!
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There’s no reason you can’t have a small amount of these things from time to time. As long as you keep your carbohydrates at less than 30-35g per meal, with a couple of 15g snacks spread out through the day, you will be fine. Get in the habit of reading the carb counts on the nutrition labels. You’ll find that you can have a couple of small cookies at bedtime with no problems. Don’t get the sugar-free cookies with sorbitol/xylitol. They have almost as much carb as the real stuff, and it gives you diarrhea. I also like sugar-free hot cocoa – sweetened w/aspartame and only 10g of carb.
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Type 1 for 25 years
You can still have sweets and biscuits from time to time. But you have to be more mindful of the carbohydrates that you consume. Beware of sugar free products because they still have carbohydrates – read the lables! A pound of flour has no sugar but is loaded with carbohydrates – so a sugar free biscuit will still have carbs. If you really don’t understand what you can – can not eat, speak at length with your doctor about this topic. Arrange an appointment with a dietician or nutrition expert to go over this with you.
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Agave Nectar
Don’t know if its where you are but you can get it at amazon.com amongst other places, this is like sugar but is natures kindness for all of us likely sweets now and then, you can make something Homemade with this instead of sugar and use less plus I think you are suppose to reduce the cooking temp…But its not going to raise your glucose and I might add if you change your diet in general you can RID yourself of diabetes all together!! RAW Milk/Dairy, Raw foods, local and organic, slow cooking verses microwaves and high temps, plus avoid eating out as much as possible and avoid SOY/GMO’S
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I like sugar free popsicles, sugar free jello with whipped topping.
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