When you're diabetic, it's obviously vital to make sensible food choices to maintain and support your health. It can be very beneficial to follow a low-carb diet as a diabetic and there are some fantastic recipes out there to help you do it.

In fact, with delicious stir fries, cookies and ranch chicken on the menu, it's a pretty easy call to make! Diabetics should always consider seeking the advice of their healthcare provider before switching to a new eating plan.

1. Chicken and peanut butter stir fry (h/t Taming Diabetes)
This really is low-carb yum. Peanut butter, soy sauce, veggies and tender chicken come together in the perfect stir fry. Packed with mouthwatering flavor, this will easily make it onto your weekly rotation.

2. 3-ingredient peanut butter cookies (h/t Everyday Diabetic Recipes)
With just three ingredients and 20 minutes, you can have a batch of mouthwatering peanut butter cookies cooling (don't worry, they won't take long) and ready to eat. Low carb diabetics needn't miss out on the fun stuff!

3. Low-carb keto bread
I’ve tried a lot of low-carb keto bread recipes and more often than not, I end up disappointed. But the recipe below is different. This one yields a light, fluffy loaf that is perfect for toasting, making sandwiches, or turning into French toast. Get the full tutorial here.

4. Baked tilapia with spicy tomato and pineapple relish (h/t Joy Bauer)
This bright, zingy fish dish can be on the table just 20 minutes after you walk through the door! The naturally sweet pineapple and warming chili is so good with the clean taste of white fish!

5. Low-carb mini omeletes (h/t Momables)
Okay, we have a confession. We're probably gonna make these every day for...I don't know. A long time. No one is going to get tired of eating these super-cute little muffin-lookin' omeletes. You get to decide your favorite fillings as well!

6. Italian keto meatballs with mozzarella (h/t Diet Doctor)
If eating low carb as a diabetic can be this good, then we live in good times, right? All the flavors you want from Italian-style meatballs with a brilliant suggestion to switch out half the meat for spicy Italian sausage. Mamma mia!

7. Chicken cobb salad with cobb salad dressing (h/t Low Carb Maven)
We just LOVE the way this classic salad looks. Who knew that food in lines could look so darn tasty and inviting? With some awesome ideas to tweak the recipe to make this cobb salad just perfect for you, this lovely dish will become a summer favorite!

8. General Tso's chicken (h/t Diabetic Foodie)
With it's mouthwatering sticky and sweet spiciness, this is one of those dishes that has you checking again and again that yep; it's really low carb, and yep; it's suitable for diabetics. You could serve this over courgette noodles for a fabulous Chinese-style feast!

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