Diabetes Diet Guidelines - How to use the plate method for controlling diabetes
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Hi, I'm Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and owner of Life Skills Nutrition. In this
segment I'm going to talk about eating out and using the plate method. This is a great
method to use when you're out and you are not sure how many carbohydrates or how much
sodium or fat is in the food, so you can just use this as an estimation. Over here you'll
see that I have a plate and in the plate method, one fourth of the plate should be filled with
meats. This is a lean meat of pork with some sauce over the top. Then one fourth of the
plate should contain a grain, hopefully whole grain like rice. This is pasta called Orzo.
Potatoes or corn or peas is also appropriate because they are starchy vegetables. The other
half of your plate should consist of non starchy vegetables like asparagus, broccoli, carrots,
cucumbers, a salad, tomatoes, cauliflower, any of those are appropriate. You also may
want to consider having a glass of milk. This is skim milk and there is eight ounces here,
this is a sixteen ounce glass but it is only full to a half to eight ounces. And then also
some fruit on the side. That is the plate method. You may need to count the carbohydrates
or your exchanges depending on the type of plan you have decided to control your diabetes.
By rating your plate, will get you started and get you where you need to be when you
are dinning out.
