Diabetic daily diet chart

General guidelines for a diabetic diet chart are as follows:


A cup of coffee or tea without sugar is taken on rising.
Breakfast comprises of any one of the usual items, such as wheat tortilla, steam rice cake, pan cake, khichdi and so on. Spicy condiment, vegetables, lentils or Sāmbhar is taken as an accompaniment. The quantities of the items are based on the caloric requirement.
Intermediate snacks are recommended in between the breakfast and lunch. This helps in decreasing the appetite as well as prevents low blood sugar or hypoglycaemia. This is in the form of a salad, buttermilk and so on.
Lunch is a combination of cereal and pulses. This ensures the supplementation of amino acids that are deficient in each other. Vegetables that are yellow and orange are provided in addition to green leafy vegetables. Buttermilk is preferred to yoghurt. Skimmed or fat free yoghurt is helpful.
Clear soups or salads or a fruits is recommended at tea time with a cup of sugar free tea or coffee. Skimmed milk is used for the same.
Dinner is the same as lunch, though the quantity is reduced. Avoid sleeping right after meals. A brisk walk after meals proves helpful.
About four or five meals are recommended, instead of the usual three large meals. This is to prevent hyperglycaemia. It also prevents overeating, as the appetite is suppressed.

Vegetarian Diet Chart for Ideal weight management

A diet chart that can be followed are:-

BREAKFAST
Whole wheat porridges with low fat milk and a fruit.
Or
Brown bread sandwiches with raw vegetables and fruit juice.

LUNCH
Whole wheat pancakes with no fat added and pulse and vegetable preparation. A glass of low fat yoghurt. A piece of chewable vegetables like cucumber, carrot or tomato.
Or
A bowl of mixed pulses sprouted and added with vegetables, light soup made with single vegetable or mixture of vegetables, fruit juice.

DINNER
Soup made with leafy vegetables, wheat pancakes with vegetable, a small amount of rice and low fat yoghurt.
OR
Pasta sauce with various vegetables like mushrooms, capsicum and cauliflower with pastas.

A light snack can be consumed in between to avoid the pangs of hunger.

Karadayar Nombu Savoury Adai

Aplutter mustard, curry leaves, red chillies in a teaspoon of oil and 1/2 cup of water. Add a handful of pre-soaked black-eyed beans, a tablespoon of grated coconut and one spoon of salt and let it come to a boil. Dry roast a cup of rice flour, till it turns slightly pink and add this to the boiling water and turn the stove off. Set it aside to cool and then mix the dough well. Make the adai following the same instruction as sweet adai, and steam cook it for about 10 mins

Karadayan Nombu Sweet Adai

To prepare karadayar nombu sweet adai, cook 1/2 cup of jaggery with 1/2 cup of water. Add a pinch of cardamom powder, handful of pre-soaked black-eyed beans and a tablespoon of grated coconut.

Dry roast 1 cup of rice flour, till it turns slightly pink and add this to the jaggery water, and turn the stove off. Add a teaspoon of ghee and set it aside. Once it cools down, mix it like chappathi dough.

Roll the Karadayar nombu adai dough into golf ball-sized balls, then flatten it on your palm and make a hole in the center. Steam the adai for about 10 mins.

Nombu sweet Adai is ready for serving with butter.