The diet recommended for people with diabetes is the same healthy eating diet recommended to everyone. It should be low in fat, salt and sugar, with plenty of fruit and vegetables.
If you are preparing a hamper to give someone with diabetes at Christmas, then you might want to use some of the suggestions from the list below.
- Christmas or Dundee Cake (not iced) and mince pies, mini Christmas pudding
- Cocoa
- Dried fruits, eg dates, apricots, cranberries, figs
- Dried pasta – different shapes and flavours
- Fresh fruit
- Granulated artificial sweetener, eg Sweetex, Canderel, Hermesetas
- Jars of dried herbs
- Jar of passata or tomato puree
- Jar of sundried tomatoes or artichokes
- Mini jars of fruit conserves or reduced sugar jam
- Olive oil, nut oil, stir-fry oils
- Other grains, eg cous cous, bulgar wheat
- Pickles and pickled vegetables eg gherkins, onions, olives
- Rice – different varieties eg wild, arborio, red
- Sachets of sugar free jelly and sugar free custard
- Savoury biscuits eg oatcakes
- Shortbread or fruit biscuits
- Speciality tea, coffee
- Speciality tinned soups based on vegetables and pulses, eg carrot and butterbean
- Tinned fruit in juice, eg cherries, mangoes, pineapple
- Tinned vegetables, eg tomatoes, sweetcorn, asparagus, borlotti beans, kidney beans
- Unsalted nuts
- Wine