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Date issued: November 2022

Review date: November 2024

Ref: A-511/LF/Dietetics/Lower Carb Snacks

PDF:  Lower Carb Snacks final November 2022.pdf [pdf] 131KB

When you have diabetes, you may choose to have lower carbohydrate snacks in between meals. These types of foods are less likely to impact your blood sugars.

Savoury Options

• Vegetable sticks such as carrots, cucumber, pepper

  • Try with hummus, peanut butter, or soft cheese

• A handful of nuts and/or seeds (30g portion)

• A 15g portion of plain popcorn

• Cooked meats

  • Slices of cooked chicken or turkey (or meat free alternatives)

  • Mini cocktail sausages (meat or plant based)

  • Cured meat selection

• Cheese

  • Soft cheese

  • Cheese triangles

  • Babybels © or other single portions of cheese

• 1 small slice of bread (e.g., Nimble©, Kingsmill Crustless©, Warburtons Milk Roll©)

  • Spread with olive-based spread

  • Try peanut butter

  • Add cheese spread

Savoury Options

2 Crispbreads or cheddars with cottage cheese

A handful of cherry tomatoes

Olives (with or without feta cheese)

Seafood sticks

Boiled eggs

Skips©, Wotsits©, Quavers©

1 jumbo rice cake

Sweet Options

Sugar free jelly

2 Rich tea fingers

2 small clementines

10-12 cherries

A portion of raspberries, strawberries, or blueberries

Small pot of low-fat natural yoghurt

12g pack of cinema sweet popcorn

One low calorie hot chocolate sachet

Dark chocolate

• 70% Dark chocolate: 30g

• 85% Dark chocolate: 40g

• 90% Dark chocolate: 60g

Small cereal bar such as Alpen Light©, Weight Watchers chewy wafer©, Kind Dark chocolate and nuts Bar©, Nature Valley Protein (peanut and chocolate)