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Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plans

Meals that keep blood sugar steadier: guidance from your diabetes team, carbohydrate awareness, a weekly plan and shop, favourite recipes reworked, and plans for festivals, travel, fasting and later life.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plans, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

Before you start: this plan is general information to help you organise your own health. It is not medical advice and does not replace a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other qualified professional. Check any change to treatment, medicine or diet with them first, and get urgent care if you feel unwell.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🥗 Food & Nutrition

Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plans

Planning meals that keep blood sugar steady, with carbohydrate awareness and recipes that suit people with diabetes or prediabetes.

  1. Eating plan brief from your diabetes team
  2. Structured diabetes education course place
  3. Three-day food and drink diary
  4. Carbohydrate map of your regular meals
  5. Plate model for everyday dinners
  6. Choosing kitchen scales and portion tools
  7. Kitchen cupboard carbohydrate audit
  8. Regular meal times that suit your medicines
  9. Hypo treatment supplies in the kitchen, bag and car
  10. Weekly diabetes-friendly meal plan
  11. Steady-carb shopping list
  12. Five-breakfast rotation for steady mornings
  13. Freezer meals labelled with carbohydrate per portion
  14. Weekly snack box with measured portions
  15. Meal response checks with a metrics log
  16. Monthly meal plan review
  17. Fibre count week each quarter
  18. Drinks swap plan
  19. Seasonal recipe refresh
  20. Reading nutrition labels for carbohydrate
  21. Carbohydrate counting basics
  22. Glycaemic index and load in practice
  23. Cooking starches for a gentler rise
  24. Sauces and dressings without hidden sugar
  25. Baking with less sugar and more fibre
  26. Estimating carbohydrate when eating out
  27. Pairing carbohydrate with protein, fat and fibre
  28. Sweeteners and sugar alternatives decision
  29. Diabetic-labelled foods and shakes review
  30. Whole grain switch for the household
  31. Rebuilding three family favourite meals
  32. Alcohol plan agreed with your team
  33. Reduced-carbohydrate approach discussion with your clinician
  34. Fruit choices and portions
  35. Festive season eating plan
  36. Holiday eating plan for travel abroad
  37. Religious fasting with diabetes
  38. Celebration meal at a restaurant or wedding
  39. Fasting before a procedure or blood test
  40. Cooking for a partner newly diagnosed
  41. Diabetes-friendly cooking for one in retirement
  42. Meals for an older relative with diabetes
  43. Prediabetes first twelve weeks
  44. Gestational diabetes meal plan
  45. Shift work meal timing with diabetes
  46. Personal food response library
  47. Remission programme discussion with your clinician
  48. Meal timing around exercise days
  49. Tested household recipe book
  50. Annual eating plan review with a dietitian

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Eating plan brief from your diabetes team

Diabetes advice varies more than most people expect: some teams favour carbohydrate counting, others a plate model or a reduced-carbohydrate pattern, and the right choice depends on your type of diabetes and your medicines. Asking your clinician or nurse for their view in writing, before changing anything at home, means every later meal plan is built on guidance that fits you rather than a magazine article.

First tasks

  • Write five questions about food to bring to your next diabetes appointment
  • Ask which eating approach the team recommends for you and why
  • Ask whether any of your medicines can cause low blood sugar if a meal is late
  • Request a dietitian referral if one has not been offered

Structured diabetes education course place

Many health services run free group courses for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes that cover carbohydrate, labels, portions and eating out over a few sessions. People who attend tend to plan meals with far more confidence, yet places often go unclaimed because nobody chased the referral. Securing a place and finishing it gives the rest of this area a shared vocabulary with your team.

First tasks

  • Ask your practice which diabetes education courses are offered locally
  • Request a referral and put the session dates in your calendar
  • Arrange transport or an online login for every session
  • Write the three most useful things you learned after the final session

Three-day food and drink diary

Before changing anything, it helps to see what you actually eat and drink, when, and how big the portions are. Three days written down honestly, including one weekend day, show where most of the carbohydrate comes from and which meals already work, which is exactly what a dietitian will ask for at the first appointment.

First tasks

  • Choose three days, including one day off, to record everything you eat and drink
  • Write down each meal, snack and drink with the time and rough amount
  • Circle the foods on each day that are mainly carbohydrate
  • Ask the agent to summarise the diary into meals, snacks and drinks by time of day

Make it yours.

Install Diabetes-Friendly Meal Plans, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Blueprints are general information to help you organise your own work. They are not medical, financial, legal or other professional advice. See the Terms.