Your 1500-calorie

meal plan

The importance of healthy eating Choose your foods:

Healthy eating is an important part of managing your Exchange lists for diabetes
diabetes. The food in your meal plan will provide the The Exchange Lists offer a large selection of foods
calories and nutrients you need each day to manage grouped together because they have about the same
your blood sugar and give you the energy you nutritional content. Each serving of a food has about
need for healthy living. Speak with your health care the same carbohydrate, protein, fat, and calories as
professional about the calorie meal plan that’s right the other foods in that list. Any food within a list can
for you. be “exchanged” for another food in the same list.
To lose weight, you will need to eat fewer calories or Ask your diabetes care team for a copy of the
use up more calories by being more active. To gain Cornerstones4Care® booklet, Carb Counting
weight, you will need to eat more calories than you and Meal Planning, from Novo Nordisk. It includes
use up. Your diabetes care team can help you figure the Exchange Lists for Diabetes and other useful
out how many calories you need to take in each day information on healthy eating. Use the Exchange
and the amount of physical activity you should get, Lists in Carb Counting and Meal Planning with this
depending on your goal. Once you know the number meal-planning information.
of calories, be sure to check the calorie counts of the
foods you eat. You can look up calorie counts online. To learn more about healthy eating and menu
You can also find them on the Nutrition Facts labels planning, visit Cornerstones4Care.com.
on packaged foods.

You may want to ask your doctor to refer

you to a registered dietitian. This person
can help you come up with a meal
plan tailored just for you. You want
to have the right balance of food,
medicine, and activity.

For more information, visit

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1500-calorie meal plan For more information about meal planning, go
to Cornerstones4Care.com and take advantage
of our online Menu Planner to create a 7-day
menu plan, including diabetes-friendly recipes
and a customized grocery list.

The following sample menu for a 1500-calorie meal plan

includes a total of 6 starch exchanges, 3 fruit exchanges,
3 milk exchanges, 4 nonstarchy vegetable exchanges,
6 meat exchanges, and 4 fat exchanges daily.

Meal Exchanges Sample

1 starch 1 slice whole-grain toast
1 fat 1 teaspoon butter or margarine
Breakfast 1 meat, lean ¼ cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 fruit 1 small orange (6½ ounces)
1 milk 1 cup fat-free milk

Snack 1 fruit 1 extra-small banana (4 ounces)

2 starch 2 slices rye bread

2 meat, lean 2 ounces chicken without skin
Lunch ½ vegetable ½ cup chopped celery
1 fat 1 teaspoon mayonnaise
½ vegetable ½ cup sliced tomato for the sandwich

Snack 1 milk 2
/3 cup (6 ounces) low-fat yogurt
3 meat, lean 3 ounces roast beef
2 starch ½ large baked potato with skin
2 vegetable 1 cup steamed broccoli
1 fruit 1¼ cup strawberries
Dinner
1 free food + tossed salad greens plus 1 cup raw vegetables
1 vegetable (for example, tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots)
1 fat 1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 fat 2 tablespoons reduced-fat salad dressing
1 starch 3 gingersnaps
Snack
1 milk 1 cup fat-free milk

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Your personal meal plan Grams Percent

Carbohydrate:
Protein:
Fat:
Calories:
Meal plan for:__________________________________ Date: _______________

Dietitian:_______________________________________ Phone:________________________________________________

Time Number of Exchanges Menu Ideas

____ Carbohydrate group ______________________________________________
____ Starch ______________________________________________
____ Fruit ______________________________________________
Breakfast ____ Milk ______________________________________________
____ Meat and meat substitutes group ______________________________________________
____ Fat group ______________________________________________

____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

Snack
____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

____ Carbohydrate group ______________________________________________

____ Starch ______________________________________________
____ Fruit ______________________________________________
Lunch ____ Milk ______________________________________________
____ Nonstarchy vegetables ______________________________________________
____ Meat and meat substitutes group ______________________________________________
____ Fat group ______________________________________________

____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

Snack
____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

____ Carbohydrate group ______________________________________________

____ Starch ______________________________________________
____ Fruit ______________________________________________
Dinner ____ Milk ______________________________________________
____ Nonstarchy vegetables ______________________________________________
____ Meat and meat substitutes group ______________________________________________
____ Fat group ______________________________________________

____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

Snack
____ __________________________ ______________________________________________

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