Balanced Diabetes Plate with Meal Ideas

This product is intended to use when educating individuals with Diabetes. It includes a total of four handouts:

• Balanced Diabetes Plate Visual tool including example foods that fall within each food group and appropriate portion sizes (ex: 1/3 cup brown rice = 15 grams carbohydrate)
• Two example meals that follow the plate and describe which meal components fall into each food group.
• Balanced Plate for Breakfast which excludes vegetables (for those who don’t eat vegetables at breakfast).
• Two example breakfast meals that follow the plate and describe which meal components fall into each food group.

Use this product to:

• Enforce the importance of balance when eating to better manage blood sugar and
• Explain how foods with fat, fiber and protein can slow the release of sugar into the blood preventing drastic spikes in blood sugar

I also find this useful in having the client/patient give me a few of their own examples meals they would cook when using the plate as a guide to creating meals at home.