Festive Meal Plan: A List of Foods for Diabetics to Eat

It’s the season to give thanks, count your many blessings and eat some mouth-watering food, too. This delicious holiday meal plan is sure to please your family’s taste buds, as well as keep your diabetes in check. Try the entire diabetes-friendly meal plan or make one or two recipes for diabetic friends and/or family members who are watching what they eat.

(Just so you know: this holiday menu is so good and good-for-you that you could make it whether you’re trying to follow a diabetic diet or not!)

Appetizers
Potato Carrot Soup
Sweet Potato Bread

Main Dish
Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Vegetables
Green Peppers Stuffed with Black-Eyed Peas and Smoked Turkey

Side Dishes 
Wild Rice with Broccoli
Corn Pudding
String Bean Salad
Kale with Smoked Turkey

Drinks and Dessert
Golden Party Punch
Banana Pudding 

On behalf of the Beehive, we wish you a very happy holiday season!

These healthy recipes were adapted from “The Family Style Soul Food Diabetes Cookbook” (2006) by Roniece Weaver, and "The Healthy Soul Food Cookbook" (2005) by Wilbert Jones, both are nutrition and healthy lifestyle experts for the Beehive.