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Sheet Pan Chicken, Green Beans & Potatoes
This budget-friendly family meal is made with just 6 ingredients and a sheet pan for minimal clean up. Perfect for busy weeknights when you need to get dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes. You could use any fresh or frozen vegetables. Italian dressing mix is a great "shortcut" seasoning, but you could use other seasonings you have on hand. This recipe includes a step for "leaching" the potatoes—a process that reduces the potassium. This is useful for people managing kidney disease or otherwise on a potassium-restricted diet. If you do not need to limit potassium, you can skip this step
Mushroom Burger
If you’d like, you can add a slice of reduced-fat Swiss cheese to these burgers. Cheese will add extra calories and fat, but not too many carbs. For a lower carb version, serve the burger in a lettuce wrap instead of a bun.
Marinated Grilled Chicken with Zucchini
This delicious dish is perfect for a busy weeknight dinner. Just remember to marinade the chicken the night before if you want extra flavor.
Berry Crisp
This delicious and mouth-watering dessert is full of antioxidant rich berries, vitamin C and fiber from the oatmeal.
7 Easy Swaps to Add More Plants to Your Plate
Plant-based eating is popular, and for good reason. Plant foods can add color, texture, taste, volume, and overall appeal to meals. But more importantly, eating more plant-based meals can provide significant health benefits, especially for people with diabetes. Two of the most well-known plant-based eating patterns include the vegetarian and vegan eating patterns.
Diabetes-Friendly Meal Planning for 1 or 2
Ever notice that most recipes make four or more servings? This makes planning diabetes-friendly meals for just one or two people a challenge. Sure, you can eat leftovers, but eating the same meal several days in a row can get boring . And simply cutting recipes in half doesn't always work. Well, Diabetes Food Hub has just what you need! We have tons of recipes designed for one or two people. Below is a round up of three full meals that will have you wasting less and enjoying more.
Budget-Friendly Cod Provencale
This light, delicious seafood dish may look fancy, but it's an easy and budget-friendly option for a lower carb main dish that's designed specifically for those with diabetes. Pair with a side salad and you have a restaurant quality weeknight dinner at a fraction of the cost. This recipe is from the Budget-Friendly Fresh and Local Diabetes Cookbook , by Charles Mattocks. To order this title and other great ADA cookbooks, please click here .
Chicken Curry
The warm and rich flavor of curry transforms chicken breasts into an exceptional main dish. The chicken and vegetables simmer in your slow cooker or use your electric pressure cooker for an easy main dish, then serve it on hot cooked rice. The various toppings on curry means you can customize your dish just the way you like it. This one is topped with tomatoes, pepper, and cilantro; but another time, top it with chopped apples, chopped bananas, slivered toasted almonds, chopped avocado, or a small dollop of fat-free, plain Greek yogurt.
Broccoli and Apple Salad
This kidney-friendly recipe is a kid favorite. Dice, chop, and stir—that’s all you need to create broccoli and apple salad. This healthy recipe is low in sodium and high in flavor. Caution: this recipe contains walnuts.
Ask the Experts: What is the ADA Diet?
Nutrition information in the media around diabetes meal planning is complicated and constantly changing. Type "diabetic diet" into a search engine and you're going to get thousands of confusing results. Should you be vegan? Low-carb? Keto? Should you cut out fat or eat nothing but fat? Everyone seems to be suggesting something different. So what is the American Diabetes Association diabetes diet?