How our food works for you

Every recipe in Diabetic Living is carefully created to help you enjoy a healthy, balanced diet

Our Nutrition Info boxes sit alongside each recipe. Use them to track your nutritional requirements, as well as count carbs, carb exchanges and find out whether a recipe is low-, mediumor high-GI, or gluten-free. Easy!

Serves 2 (as a main)

We show you whether a food is designed to be a between-meals snack, breakfast, lunch (a lighter main) or dinner (the main meal of the day). When we say, “as an occasional dish”, it should only be eaten as a treat, such as once a fortnight.

Brand names

We often use product names to make it easier to find nutritionally suitable brands when shopping.

Sugar or sugar substitute

In some dishes, you can use either sugar or a sugar substitute. In these cases, we give you the nutrition analysis for both.

Granulated sugar substitute Most sugar substitutes on the market measure spoon for spoon, rather than weight. For example, if the recipe uses 220g (1 cup) of sugar, you would replace this with 1 cup of granulated sugar substitute.

Optional ingredients Whenever we list an ingredient as optional, it isn’t included in the nutrition analysis and it’s up to you if you want to use it.

Choice of ingredients

When we give you the choice of two different ingredients, we analyse only the first one.

Carb exchanges

Using exchanges makes counting carbs easier: one exchange = 15g of carbs. Aim for 1-2 exchanges in every snack and 1-4 exchanges in each meal.

Lower-carb option

When possible we will provide an ingredient substitution from the main recipe to reduce the carbs to less than 2 carb exchanges for a main or light meal and less than 1 carb exchange for a snack or dessert. Nutrition information for this variation will be included, but please note the finished product will vary slightly from what is presented in the recipe picture.