Diabetes is not a death sentence. A person with such a disease has every right not to limit himself in everyday things. Moreover, everyone in the midst of the holidays wants to treat themselves to gourmet dishes.

You don't have to put your health at risk to do this. It is enough to know how to prepare special salads for diabetics. For all types of this disease, you can cook fruit, vegetable, fish and meat salads.

The main thing is to pay attention to the fat content and calorie content of the products added to the dish at the time of creating a culinary masterpiece.

Vegetable salads are important because they have a high concentration of dietary fiber, which prevents the entry of glucose into the blood.

List of vegetables useful for cooking with diabetes:

1. Cabbage. It is useful in raw, boiled, pickled form. Sauerkraut juice lowers sugar levels, charges the body with vitamins and microelements.
2. Carrot. It lowers glucose if consumed in unlimited quantities in its raw form. However, boiled this vegetable, on the contrary, increases the level of sugar.
3. Cucumber. This vegetable strengthens the walls of blood vessels, thereby making them more elastic. You can use it as an independent dish, or as part of salads.
4. Onion. It has such useful properties as: prevention of infections, improvement of blood circulation, fight against cholesterol.
5. Beet. In diabetes, it should be consumed boiled.

Salad recipes for diabetics

For the Greek salad you will need:

• 200 grams of tomatoes;
• 500 grams of grated cheese;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 250 grams of sweet pepper;
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Peppers and tomatoes should be cut into cubes, and garlic should be chopped. Mix all this and pour over with oil, then sprinkle with grated cheese.

Summer salad:

• 100 grams of head lettuce;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 fresh cucumbers;
• 100 grams of radish;
• 3 tablespoons of soy sour cream.

Lettuce leaves should be washed with water and dried. Cut cucumbers into strips, grate radishes and carrots. Mix cooked and pour over sour cream.

To prepare a salad of cucumbers with potatoes and carrots, you will need:

• 1 fresh cucumber;
• 2 small carrots;
• 4 potatoes;
• 1 medium pickled cucumber;
• a bunch of green onions;
• 2 tablespoons of sour cream.

Boil potatoes and carrots, then cut potatoes, cucumbers and carrots into cubes. Mix the resulting products in a bowl, then add green onions and sour cream.

Such delicious salads for diabetes do not take much time to prepare and do not require any special culinary skills. Also, such low-calorie salads for patients with type 2 diabetes are simply necessary.

Delicious meat and seafood recipes

Seafood and meat are also necessary for the nutrition of a person with diabetes.

Instructions for cooking salad with squid. Need to purchase:

• 200 grams of squid;
• 5 olives;
• 3 cucumbers;
• 100 grams of lettuce leaves.

First you need to clean the squid and remove its insides. Later, put the chopped pieces of carcass into the pan and fry for three minutes. Then add cucumbers, olives and lettuce. Put the squid in this plate and mix gently. Drizzle with lemon juice or oil.

Salad "Marine" is perfect for both festive and everyday table. For its preparation are used:

• 100 grams of apples;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.5 kilograms of shrimp;
• 0.5 kilograms of squid;
• 120 grams of cod caviar;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking starts with dressing. Caviar, oil, apple cider vinegar, chopped yolks are taken. All this is well whipped and infused until the preparation of the main ingredients. Boiled squid cut into slices, add chopped apples and shrimps to them. Add dressing and mix everything.

For a salad with meat and vegetables you will need:

• 65 grams of meat;
• 1 pickled cucumber;
• 1 potato;
• 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil;
• 2 tablespoons of natural vinegar.

Chilled boiled meat, fresh salad, boiled potatoes and pickles cut into slices and mix. Prepare a dressing sauce from the yolk, vinegar and vegetable oil.

Dishes from fruits and berries for diabetics

Fruit and berry salad for diabetics can be filled with kefir and other fermented milk products.

For such diabetic salads use:

• pears, apples;
• apricots, peaches, nectarine;
• strawberries, wild strawberries, raspberries;
• cherry, cherry;
• blueberries;
• pomegranate.

With such a list of products, it is not necessary to use a specific recipe. You can show your imagination and combine fruits and berries to your liking. Also, in a strictly limited amount (50 grams per day), it is allowed to add nuts to food for diabetics.

Meals for pregnant women with diabetes consist of the same ingredients, which makes this diet universally applicable.