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CHEMED Diabetes Care Management

Eating Healthy Meals

Updated: Aug 1, 2022

Eating healthy while living with Diabetes does not mean starving or avoiding carbohydrates (breads) entirely. Ultimately, you are in control of your diet. Lab results every 3 or 6 months simply show the types of choices you have made.


There are many ways to keep track of what you eat, including a commonly called Plate Method. This is a quick way to tell if a meal is balanced by looking at your plate.


The plate is divided into 3 categories; vegetables, meat, and grains/rice or bread.


1/2 (half) of the plate greens, vegetables

a fist size is meat

a fist size of carbohydrates








When eating carbs


 

Ideas for Meals


Ideas for Meals



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