Can diabetics eat pasta sauce

2. Make Veggies the Star of Your Bowl

To make your pasta bowl more diabetes-friendly, just add color — from veggies, that is.

Specifically, centering your pasta dish on nonstarchy, naturally low-calorie vegetables increases the amount of food and adds vitamins and minerals, Smithson says.

“Nonstarchy vegetables are very high in fiber and have few carbohydrates, which means less effect on blood sugar,” says Anderson-Haynes.

How to make diabetic pasta

She recommends filling roughly half of your plate or bowl with options like kale, collard greens, arugula, broccoli, asparagus, cucumber, spinach, carrots, or mushrooms.

3. Skip Creamy Sauce in Favor of an Oil- or Tomato-Based Sauce

Like other “white” foods to swap out of your diet (think: white bread, white rice, and yes, white pasta), ditch white sauce when preparing a more diabetes-friendly meal.