When you were first diagnosed did you see a Regiestered Dietitian? If not perhpas you might want ot ask your doctor for a referral to one, prefereably one who is a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE). This person has specialized training in helping people who are diabetic to determine how many carbohydrate servings they should have for each meal and snack, and help you to devise a meal plan that incorporates the foods you iike to eat. There are 15 grams of cabohydrate in one serving. Controlling the carbohydrates is key to keeping your numbers down. I am on insulin so control is a ltitle easier. I like apples, blueberries, and tangerines. I wil put blueberries in the microwae for 30 seconds, them mash them and add them to a small container of plain greek yogurt. I never liked yougurt, but I do like the greek. If you need it a little sweeter you can add a packet of artificial sweetener. Other good snacks are a reduced fat cheese stick with a few wheat thins. The fat in the cheese helps to slow down the absorption of the carbs, allowing it to bee spread over a period of time. Hope ths is helpful.

portion of peanuts, small piece of fruit, pretty much almost anything if you keep it about 15 carbs or so...

yeah, what mzizgayle says... count the carbs

Everyone is different, and my advice is to definitely count carbs--but also to test often so that you know which foods adversely affect YOUR blood sugar.

Just me, but I try to eat only no-carb snacks between meals: cheese sticks, jerky, pork rinds, sugar-free jello, etc. At bedtime, I eat a balanced protein/carb snack such as some nuts or peanut butter & a low-carb cracker of some kind.

I eat a much lower carb diet than the American Diabetes Association recommends, so you might want to take this with a grain of salt. I take insulin and a pill, but I still need to eat very low-carb too keep my numbers in control.

Everyone is different, and my advice is to definitely count carbs--but also to test often so that you know which foods adversely affect YOUR blood sugar.

As an example of how everyone is different--I have to get my vitamin c from a vitamin because citrus of any kind makes my blood sugar skyrocket.

You are right. We are all different and the only way to know how food affect your numbers it to test, test, test. I kno w that many doctors tell their patients that they don't need to test a lot. My PCP told me this in the beginning but I was going to the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and they insisted on tight control and testing. I test before getting out of bed in the morning, before and after each meal and snack, and before and after exercising. I'm on Social Secuity Disability and I don't pay for my strips anymore but even when I did I still tested. But for this purpose you should at least test before eating and two hours after eating. This will let you know how the food (and the poriton size) affects you. if something makes you go high, it doesn't mean you can neever eat it, just try a smaller porton.

thanks everyone!