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Permalink Reply by raisingainsley on February 17, 2011 at 5:43pm

I would like to hear suggestions on this topic as well. My daughter's favorite free foods are sliced salami and turkey dogs but I feel bad giving her too much of those because of the saturated fat. She doesn't like eggs. She will sometimes eat raw veggies with dip which is almost free. We use the yogurt dip which is only 1 or 2 carbs.

Permalink Reply by Patti on February 17, 2011 at 6:39pm

When we first started, the kids were eating lots of cheese and turkey wraps (so you could do just turkey), small portions of carrots and strawberries too. Just be careful, because too much "free" food adds up! Now that we are pumping, they bolus for everything - our endo's motto is "there's no such thing as free food"!

Permalink Reply by Misty on February 28, 2011 at 12:35pm

That's our endo's motto too!

Permalink Reply by Alissa on February 17, 2011 at 6:47pm

My daughter enjoys the "free" snacks/treats listed below, most of them drive me nuts so I usually give her cheese, sliced deli meat (no nitrate or msg) or a few pistachios. Sometimes I just tell her to grab a piece of gum and it does the trick until the next meal or snack. My girl has never liked vegetables, maybe some day.

Any type of diet soda w/ a small scoop or two of Regular Cool Whip
SF Jello
SF Jello with a dab of Cool Whip

Permalink Reply by Emily B on February 17, 2011 at 8:11pm

My 11 year old is very picky, too. Very little meat, no cheese.
sugar free popsicles, sugar free jello by itself or with cool whip or whipped cream, pork rinds (crunchy like chips, but no carbs), scrambled eggs, bacon, cucumbers, salad, pistachios, soy beans.

Permalink Reply by Tracy Greene Mintz on February 17, 2011 at 8:28pm

My daughter likes olives. There are many varieties, and her favorite is kalamata. She also eats cucumbers. The persian cukes are excellent. She snacks on almonds, which are very low carb, and also come in many varieties (as well as have many other healthy qualities). I believe most nuts are very low carb, have protein, are filling and come in many varieties: roasted, raw, salted, plain, etc. She's not much of a meat-eater, but I give her bacon with the fat trimmed off.

Permalink Reply by lindanu on February 18, 2011 at 10:23am

My son loves slim jims and they are great to keep in back packs and binders. You could also give him a spoon of peanut butter. My son doesn't love cheese, but I have been able to get him to eat the white string cheese. He also likes bacon and eggs. I will say that he ate alot of free foods when first diagnosed, for about the first month or two, now four months in he rarely needs a snack unless he is low.

Permalink Reply by carb101 on February 18, 2011 at 4:00pm

You can see a lengthy discussion on this topic here http://www.tudiabetes.org/forum/topics/the-top-23-low-carb-snacks

Permalink Reply by WI_Snowflake on February 20, 2011 at 1:27pm

Thanks for all the great ideas. I will definitely try some of these. Thanks for the support!

Permalink Reply by shzowie on February 21, 2011 at 7:24pm

My son does lots of cheese, turkey, pork rines, pickles, SF jello, sf popcicles, pepperoni (just recently) ham squares, small amt of popcorn. He's on a pump now, so things are quite as a big deal as before. We just put in how ever many carbs and go.

Permalink Reply by WI_Snowflake on February 22, 2011 at 9:33am

Thank you for all of the great ideas!