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You could try this tuna salad without the pasta and serve it on whole-grain bread, a tortilla or on a bed of lettuce. This quick and budget-friendly meal makes a healthy lunch or dinner.

This hearty Italian soup makes a great lunch or side dish with your holiday meal. To cut down on prep time, chop the onion, garlic, celery, and carrots quickly using a food processor.

Need a quick weeknight dinner and don’t feel like heating up the house? This 4-ingredient budget-friendly dish, cooked on the grill, is full of flavor and low in carbs. If desired, serve it with a side of wild rice or quinoa and a simple mixed green salad for a complete, balanced meal. Look for pre-cooked sausages with the lowest fat and sodium content that you can find.

This soup is a great way to use up leftover Thanskgiving turkey, or you could use cooked chicken or other cooked protein. It's quick an easy to make, and makes enough to feed a crowd (or have plenty of leftovers for meal prepping)! Barley provides a nutty flavor and chewy texture, but you could use another grain like brown rice or quinoa.

A cookout just isn’t the same without mom’s pasta salad, and NFL linebacker Dont’a Hightower would agree! The cold pasta salad recipe from Dont’a Hightower’s mother stands out because she uses whole wheat spaghetti noodles. ADA nutrition team member Shamera Robinson, RD, applauds this approach. "Adding whole grains into your recipes is a simple way to bump up your fiber intake. To give it a boost, we increased the fiber even more by doubling the chopped veggies." “[I] definitely need whole grains to keep myself fueled, especially during workouts and the season. I enjoy mixing quinoa and brown

Grain, protein, and vegetable bowls are popular now, and once you taste this one, you will understand why. It is a nourishing bowl that combines the comfort of chicken soup with the color and flavor of fresh vegetables. You can also customize the bowl to suit your preferences or what you have on hand. If you are out of brown rice you can substitute cooked quinoa, farro or whole grain couscous. You might also top your bowl with chopped cucumbers, shredded carrots, or chopped bell peppers. And, if you enjoy spicy food, increase the red pepper flakes.

This cracked olive medley is a family favorite that is popular both in Calabria and Sicily. Sicilian Castelvetrano olives are becoming readily available in major supermarkets now, and if you have access to those, they are a great choice for this salad. Many Italian-American delis sell “Sicilian Colossal” olives, which also work well. You can toss a few tablespoons of this mixture into hot pasta in the winter, or chilled rice or quinoa in warner weather. It's also a great way to dress up ordinary vegetables, seafood, and meat. This recipe comes from The Mediterranean Diabetes Cookbook.

This lower-carb stuffed chicken recipe is the perfect centerpiece of a diabetes plate method meal. Paired with a small serving of whole grain pasta or quinoa and a side salad, this is attractive dish is designed to impress. Chef's Tip: This recipe asks you to butterfly a chicken breast. If you're not familiar with this technique, don't worry! This is a simple method that makes it easy to stuff chickens or quickly cook a breast without drying it out. Our friends at the Mr. Food Test Kitchen created this video to demonstrate.