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Sample Menu For Diabetic Diets

By Mumtaz Khalid Ismail

More Links Sample Menu for 1800 kcal Diabetic Diet Sample Menu for 2100 kcal Diabetic Diet Diagnostic criteria based on glucose tolerance test (WHO)

Dietary habits are an essential part in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. I hope these sample menus will help the diabetics.

Sample Menu for 1800 kcal Diabetic Diet

	Diet Plan A	Diet Plan B
	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)
	Skim Milk - 1 cup Dhalia or ragi Porridge -1/2 cup	Skim Milk - 1 cup Whole Wheat Bread Egg sandwich - 2 slice and 1 egg
	Any citrus fruit - 1	Butter milk - 1 glass
	Rice -1 cup Chapathi - 2 nos Dhal - 1 cup Cauliflower sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Paneer - 2 - 3 pieces Salad - A good helping	Chapathi - 3 nos Fish curry - 2 -3 pieces Ladies finger sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A good helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Snax biscuit - 2 nos	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Mosambi - 1
	Bajra roti - 1 Or Jowar roti - 1 Sprouts - 1/2 cup Brinjal sabji - 1 cup Salad - A helping	Rice - 1 cup Spinach dhal 1 1/2 cup Tindli sabji - 1/2 cup Salad - A helping
	Skim milk - 1 cup	Skim milk - 3/4 cup

1 chapathi / roti = 40gms

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Sample Menu for 2100 kcal Diabetic Diet

	Diet Plan A	Diet Plan B
	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)	Tea / Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar)
	Skim Milk - 1 cup Idli - 2 Sambhar - 1/2 cup Apple	Skim Milk - 1 cup Wheat flakes - 3/4 cup Papaya
	Butter milk - 1 glass	Butter milk - 1 glass
	Veg pulao - 1 cup Bajra roti - 1 Dhal - 1 cup Cabbage sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1 cup Salad - A good helping	Rice - 1 cup Jowar roti - 2 Chicken - 2 pieces Methi sabji - 1 cup Curd - 1/2 cup Salad - A good helping
	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Roasted bengal gram - 50 gms	Tea/ Coffee - 1 cup (with out sugar) Marie biscuit - 2
	Chapathi - 2 Dhal - 1 cup Parwal sabji- 1 cup Salad - A good helping	Chapathi - 3 Sprouts - 1/2 cup Bitter gourd sabji - 1 cup Salad - A good helping
	Skim milk - 1 cup	Skim milk - 1 cup

These menus are calculated considering 15 ml of oil is used for cooking per day. It is important to remember that these values will change according to the amount of fat used in cooking.

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Normal values of blood sugar

Fasting glucose - Normal 80 to 100mg / dl
2 hours after food - 110 - 140 mg / dl

Diagnostic criteria based on glucose tolerance test (WHO)

	Venous plasma	Venous blood	Capillary blood
Diabetes mellitus
Fasting	>140	>120	>120
2hr post glucose	>200	>180	>200
Impaired glucose tolerance
Fasting	>140	>120	>120
2hr post glucose	>140	>120	>140

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