SCHM Diabetic in patient meal plan (Blank)

Diabetes meal plan
If you have diabetes or need your blood sugar checked:

• Your blood sugar needs to be checked before you start eating

• Tell your nurse when you order a meal or when it arrives

• If needed, your nurse will give you insulin or other medicine

The diabetes meal plan helps you eat consistent amounts of carbohydrate at meals and snacks.

• Women: 45 – 60 grams of carbohydrate at each meal

• Men: 60 – 75 grams of carbohydrate at each meal
If you need insulin:

• Rapid-acting insulin is best taken just before or after meals

• Short-acting insulin is best taken 30 minutes before meals

Please ask your nurse if you have questions
Dial 5-0202 from your room telephone to place
your order anytime from 6:30 am to 8 pm

snacks
Chips (Sunchips®, baked potato chips )

Rice cakes with peanut butter

Raw vegetables with hummus or ranch dip

Cottage cheese
String cheese
Kashi® Granola Bar
Fruit leather
Trail mix
Yogurt (fat-free, low-fat, Greek)
Crackers (saltines, graham crackers, rice cakes)

desserts
Fruit smoothies (mixed
berry, strawberry-banana)
Sugar-free cookie (lemon
crème cookie, chocolate
chip cookie, lemon bar)
Gelatin (strawberry, orange,
lime, sugar-free )
Pudding (vanilla, chocolate,
butterscotch, sugar-free )
Banana bread
Angel food cake
Cookie (chocolate chip,
oatmeal raisin, sugar)
Cheesecake (plain or with
chocolate sauce)
Pie (apple, pumpkin, cherry,
lemon meringue)
Frozen Desserts
Frozen yogurt (vanilla ,
chocolate, strawberry)
Sherbet (raspberry,
orange)
Sugar-free sorbet
(orange, strawberry)
Milkshake (vanilla,
chocolate, strawberry)
Frozen fruit bar
(very berry)
Popsicle (regular ,
sugar-free )
Fruit ice (orange, cherry)