Snacking Saturday

I would like to start a Snacking Saturday. Parker is a snacker. And trying to find carb free/low/and healthy snacks is tough. We have a snack scale for his afternoon snack as he tends to wake up high from nap as his insulin doesn't always kick in until just before super. So I find that if he's above 11 and he has a 20g carb snack he'll be too high at super so I did a new scale for his snack. We are also just starting insulin at night and struggle to find a good snack that will keep him good all night. Still playing with the night snack as we just started doing insulin 4 nights ago at night.

So here are a few under 5 g of carbs snacks that he likes.

Creamy Cranberry-Stuffed CeleryPrep: 5 min. Total: 5 min.
MIX 1/4 cup Spreadable Philadelphia Light Cream Cheese and 1/3 cup dried cranberries until well blended.PRESS evenly into hollow centres of 4 stalks of celery.CUT each stalk crosswise into 4 pieces.Makes 4 servings, 4 pieces each

Cheesy Cracker Melts Prep: 5 min.Total: 5 min. 10 sec. great as it has protein, fat and starch!

TOP each of 2 Triscuit Crackers with 1 slice (10 g) Cracker Barrel Old Cheddar Cheese and 1/2 tsp. chopped pecans.PLACE on microwaveable plate.MICROWAVE on HIGH 10 sec.Makes 1 serving. Carbs =5g

Graham BitesPrep: 5 min. Total: 5 min.

SPREAD 2 Tbsp. Kraft Peanut Butter evenly onto 4 Honey Maid Graham Wafers.Top each with 2 thin apple slices. Each Wafer is roughly 5g carbs

TIP: Does your toddler love juice but you don't want to give them sugar subsitute filled juices? Try this - Parker loves it. I just add a little lemon juice concentrate (0 carbs) to cold water. Easy. A little sour but he just loves it. Another 'juice' subsitute I do is make a pot of herbal fruit teas (0 carbs) freeze in ice cube trays (can use fun themed trays for added fun) and then pop one in his sippy or regular cup. They love that they have an ice cube (be careful if young so they don't swallow it - safer to be in a sippy) and it adds a subtle fruity taste to their water.

Hope this helps. Do you have any other snack tips?

Thanks

Stacy

JDRF TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes

Wow!!! We decided to walk this year in the TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes and thought we would do it small this year and go big next year. I have a family blog and sent an email to all who follow it asking for their donations. Well I can't believe what happened next. Within 8 hrs I reached my $300 goal and then three aunts joined in and started fundraising as well. Along with Facebook, we have raised almost $1700 to date!!! So exciting!

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