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Backcountry Menus For Diabetics

Feeding a diabetic hiker takes planning and professional advice, but not necessarily a special menu.

by: Michele Morris

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Snack suggestions

• 1 large apple and 2 tablespoons peanut butter (14 grams protein, 22 grams carbohydrates)
• 6 graham crackers and 1 tablespoon peanut butter (7 grams protein, 30 grams carbohydrates)
• 1/3 cup soy nuts (11 grams protein, 19 grams carbohydrate); mix with raisins for extra flavor and more carbohydrates
• Low-sugar nutrition bars, such as Mead Johnson's Choice DM (6 grams protein, 19 grams carbohydrates). Contact (800) 247-7893 or www.choicedm.com to find out where you can buy them.

  Three-Day Menu
  Nutritional values are for one serving of the "Or Even Better" suggestion.
  
  

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  Instead of	Use	Or even better	Protein (g)	Carbos (g)	Calories	Fat (g)
  DAY 1, Breakfast
  Corn flakes cereal	Raisin bran cereal	1 cup Kellogg's All-Bran cereal with 2/3 cup nonfat powdered milk and 1 ounce almonds	23.4	77.1	436	16.6
  DAY 1, Lunch
  Flavored crackers	Plain saltines	2 ounces whole wheat crackers	6	30	226	0
  		3 tablespoons peanut butter	21	0	300	24
  		1 orange	0	15	60	0
  DAY 1, Dinner
  Instant rice and sauce packet	Instant white rice	Nutty Rice (see recipe below)	18.3	78.5	651	30
  		1 3-inch fig bar(see recipe below)	1	20	99	2
  DAY 2, Breakfast
  1 sweet, flavored bagel	Plain bagel	Wheat bagel with Mushroom Omelette (see recipe below)	22	44	387	13.4
  		1 orange	0	15	60	0
  DAY 2, Lunch
  1 high-sugar energy bar	1 flavored granola bar	1 plain granola bar	4	23.7	173	7.3
  		3 tablespoons peanut butter	11	9.9	282	24
  		1 medium apple	0	21	81	0
  DAY 2, Dinner
  Prepackaged pasta and sauce	Instant vegetable soup	Spicy Italian Pasta (see recipe below)	26	78	681	33
  		1 3-inch fig bar	1	20	99	2
  DAY 3, Breakfast
  Flavored instant oatmeal	Plain instant oatmeal	1 cup prepared oat bran with 2/3 cup powdered nonfat milk	23.5	59	327	6
  		2 envelopes sugar-free instant breakfast	14	46	260	0
  DAY 3, Lunch
  Jerky	1 4 oz. can of tuna	4 oz. can of chunk chicken	25.6	2	146	4
  		8 dried apricot halves	2.4	40	155	0
  Flavored crackers		3 oz. wheat crackers	11.3	79	339	15
  DAY 3, Dinner
  Flavored instant potatoes	Lentil soup	Easy Beans and Rice(see recipe below)	31.3	81	666	25

  
  
  

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