Hi all and thanks of you that responded to my last post it is really nice to that there are others out there feeling excatly the same as me. I have another question if you an help, since her diagnois and commencing on insulin my daughter is hungrey all of the time I have been reasured that this is her body in `starvation` mode and it will settle down once she has regained some wait. I am after any suggestions as to what i can fed her that will fill her up and wont screw with her BG too much !!
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Low carb snacks
- Thread starter shellyk
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If your daughter is on a multiple daily injection (MDI) regime then she can eat any sort of snack and inject rapid acting insulin to cover the carbs for that snack. This might be more satisfying for her whilst she's going through the "hungry phase" shortly after diagnosis. But if you're looking for some low carb snack ideas to avoid that extra injection then here are some listed below:
Cheese
Sliced raw vegetables with a dip (peppers, cucumber, celery, carrots, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli)
Tomatoes
Green salad
Tuna salad
Olives
Avocado
Cold meats/chicken
Eggs (hard boiled, scrambled, poached)
Sugar free jelly
Not carb free but fairly low in carbs:
Melon
Berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries)
Popcorn (plain, not the sugar coated type)
Almonds
Plain yoghurt
Cheese
Sliced raw vegetables with a dip (peppers, cucumber, celery, carrots, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli)
Tomatoes
Green salad
Tuna salad
Olives
Avocado
Cold meats/chicken
Eggs (hard boiled, scrambled, poached)
Sugar free jelly
Not carb free but fairly low in carbs:
Melon
Berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries)
Popcorn (plain, not the sugar coated type)
Almonds
Plain yoghurt
also I found when I was going through that starving-all-the-time phase that low GI carbs (like oats and pasta) helped a lot... I don't mean as a snack, I mean as part of the main meal. Stops the all-engulfing hunger so you don't need a snack so much.
But for snacks, I used to eat a LOT of carrots. Great for filling you up with very few carbs. Not so great for those around you who have to smell the farts.
sorry to lower the tone.
But for snacks, I used to eat a LOT of carrots. Great for filling you up with very few carbs. Not so great for those around you who have to smell the farts.
sorry to lower the tone.
