5 daily menu ideas for Gestational Diabetes

After looking everywhere for a couple of weeks, I finally found my meal log during my time with GD. I looked carefully through all the meals and my own glucose reactions to them to put together 5 daily menu ideas for Gestational Diabetes consisting in 3 meals and 3 snacks each. The guidelines I followed were Kaiser Permanente’s. If you find any meal here you’d like a recipe for, please either comment or email me and I’ll be happy to send it over.

Day 1  For packed snack and lunch.

Breakfasts

• 2 eggs, poached
• 1 whole wheat English muffin with 1 TBS ricotta cheese
• 6 whole almonds
• 1 cup decaf tea

Snack 1 – Shake

• 6 oz. fat free milk
• 1 c. blueberries
• 1/4 c, Fage or Chobani yogurt
• 10 almonds
• 1 TBS oat bran
• 1 TBS flax seed

Lunch

• 1 c. peas
• 4 oz. mozzarella cheese
• 1/2 c. broccoli
• 2 walnuts

Snack 2

• 15 gr. snap pea crips
• 1/4 c. cottage cheese
• 1 peach
• 2 pecans
• 8 oz. soy milk

Dinner

• 2/3 c. lo glycemic or rice pasta
• 4 meatballs
• 1/2 c. tomato sauce, no sugar added
• 1 TBSP Parmesan Cheese

Snack 3

• 1 oat bran pancake
• 1 tsp sugar free jelly
• 1 TBSP Ricotta cheese
• 8 oz. milk

Day 2

Breakfast

• 1 c. cooked butternut squash
• 1/2 c. cottage cheese
• 2 TBSP slivered almonds
• 1 c. decaf tea

Snack 1

• 1 apple, sliced
• 1 TBSP almond o peanut butter
• 8 oz. milk

Lunch

• 1 1/2 c. chile con carne (beans, meat and tomato)
• 1/2 c. sautéed spinach with garlic
• 8 oz. soy milk

Snack 2

• 15 gr. rice cakes
• 1 oz. cheese
• 1 1/4 c. strawberries
• 3/4 c. Fage or Chobani yogurt
• 6 whole almonds

Dinner

• 2 c. lentils (with tomato sauce, no sugar added, carrots, onions and celery and I TBS grated Parmesan cheese)
• 4 oz. Italian sausage

Snack 3

• 1/3 c. hummus
• 1 celery rib
• 1 oz. cheese
• 6 cashew nuts
• 8 oz. milk

Day 3

Breakfast

• 1 c. peas with mint and garlic and a splash of lemon
• 2 poached eggs
• 2 pecans
• 1 c. decaf tea

Snack 1

• 1 small banana
• 6 almonds
• 15 gr. snap pea crisps
• 1 oz. cheese
• 8 oz. soy milk

Lunch

• 1/2 c. Green squash and milk soup
• 1 small stuffed zucchini with rice and lamb
• 2 TBS Fage or Chobani yogurt

Snack 2

• 12 cherries
• 15 gr. whole grain bread
• 1 TBS almond or peanut butter
• 8 oz. milk

Dinner

• 4 oz. salmon, baked with soy sauce
• 1/2 c. peas
• 3 c. Kale salad with 1 TBS Italian dressing
• 2 TBS almonds

Snack 3

• 3 c. popcorn
• 1 oz. cheese
• 6 almonds
• 8 oz. soy milk

Day 4

Breakfast

• 1 large oat bran pancake
• 1 TBS almond or peanut butter
• 1 cup decaf tea

Snack 1

• 1 apple
• 5 gr. rice cakes
• 1 oz. cheese
• 8 oz. milk

Lunch

• 2 c. spaghetti squash
• 1 c. milk and cheese sauce
• 1 c. Kale salad with 1 TBS Italian dressing

Snack 2

• 2 kiwis, sliced, covered in Greek yogurt and sprinkled with almonds, frozen as popsicles.
• 8 oz. soy milk

Dinner

• 1 c. lentil soup
• 4 oz. butterflied giant prawns with butter and lemon
• 1 c. sautéed spinach

Snack 3

• 1/2 slow churned no sugar added ice-cream
• 10 whole almonds
• 1 oz. cheese
• 8 oz. milk

Day 5

Breakfast

• 2 quesadillas with corn tortillas and 2 oz. mozzarella cheese
• 1/8 avocado
• Decaf tea

Snack 1

• Small banana
• 15 gr. slice of bread
• 1 TBS peanut butter
• 8 oz. milk

Lunch

• 1 c. miso soup
• 1 c. shredded carrot and lettuce salad w. 1 tsp. sesame dressing
• 3 oz. teppanyaki chicken
• 1 c. edamame

Snack 2

• 1 plum
• 2 pecans
• 1 c. Fage or Chobani yogurt

Dinner

• 4 oz. Hazelnut crusted salmon filet
• 1/2 c. sautéed spinach
• 1/2 c. grilled zucchini
• 1/4  medium baked potato

Snack 3

• 1/3 c. hummus
• 1/2 c. fresh snap peas
• 1 oz. cheese
• 8 oz. soy milk