Diet Discovery

Hello! I am a diabetic and also vegetarian. I am trying to figure out good daily meal plans. I’m looking for something that is low carb and healthy. I’m not good at meal planning and am trying to get better control of my type one diabetes. Thanks for any help!!

I am a vegan with type 1 diabetes. I eat high carb and my last A1c was 6.2%. I don’t think high or low carb is necessary to treat type 1 diabetes.

With that said, here are some low-er carb vegetarian options:

-soy milk, unsweetened. Total carbs – fiber per cup = 1 gram.
-fried vegetables. The oil adds fat calories and no carbs. Depending on the vegetable, this can either be low carb or very low carb. I am fond of stir fried vegetables. It will be lower in carbs if you stir fry tofu and not vegetables. If you stir fry vegetables, in general you’ll get 5 grams of carb per cup, but this varies a bit by vegetable. A lot of vegetables, like cauliflower, have more digestible protein than carbohydrate.
-tofu, tvp, and other high protein forms of soy
-beans in general are low carb for caloric content, but if you are looking for a very low carb diet, beans won’t do it.
– Eggs have no carbs. I don’t eat them. Don’t know if you do.
-I love avocados. About 7g of carb in almost 400 calories.
– Depending on the seed or nut, they vary from lowish carb to no carb. Peanuts, for instance, have an appreciable amount of carbs. Pumpkin seeds’ carbs are so close to being all fiber that you can count them as having no carbs (but some fat and protein). If you eat seeds, say, sunflower seeds, getting them with the shells on can slow you down enough while eating that it makes the difference between causing and not causing a spike in blood sugar.