Patriotic Berry Salsa
Sweet and tangy berry salsa (served with lime tortilla chips) is the perfect summer side.
Snacks
Cheese Stick Snowmen
Even picky eaters tend to love string cheese sticks, and most have zero carb grams, making them an easy snack for kids with type 1 diabetes. It’s what you do to the packaging that makes these particular cheese sticks so fun and festive!
Festive Tree Platter
This party platter is made up of virtually carbohydrate-free ingredients. What’s even better is that you can tweak it to your children’s likes and dislikes. That said, you may be pleasantly surprised at how much more responsive kids can be when healthy foods are simply presented in a different way. Tomatoes on their own may not be as appealing, but when they crown a colorful Christmas tree, little ones may just gobble them up.
Sweet Corn Cheddar Muffins — Low-Carb, Gluten-Free
For your Fourth of July barbecue consideration: Just the right amount of that summery corn-on-the-cob taste with less carbs than regular muffins.
Prince Eric’s Deviled R-egg-atta
For a shipshape snack, deviled egg sailboats are right on course. To help create them, young skippers can peel the hard-boiled eggs, mash the yolks, and set the sails!
Cheese “Crackers”
Make these zero-carb cheese crackers with just one ingredient!
Teen Kitchen Takeover
Trying to impart more kitchen skills to your type 1 tween? Here are three beginner-friendly recipes that older kids can easily prepare themselves.
Homemade Trail Mix
Take popcorn a step further so that it becomes even more nutrient-dense, delicious, filling — and a mini lesson for tweens in carb-counting their own “cooking.”
Tough T1 Foods Transformed
by Brooke Wheeler, guest blogger, FingerPrickinGood.com
No food is off-limits to our kids with type 1 diabetes. But there are some foods that just seem to give us so much trouble with blood sugar that we tend to avoid them nonetheless. (Pizza, anyone?) Fortunately, alternatives do exist; here are three of our favorites.
BBQ Chicken Pizza Muffins
Low-carb barbecue chicken pizza muffins taste amazing, won’t send blood sugar soaring, and are super easy to make.