5 Top Meal Delivery Services for Type 2 Diabetics

If you have Type 2 diabetes and struggle to find the time and energy to meal plan, grocery shop, and prepare meals, you may want to consider trying a prepared meal delivery service to help you. With the popularity of meal delivery services, you want to find one with many healthy diabetic-friendly options.

Choosing the Best Diabetic-Friendly Meal Service

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 34.2 million Americans with diabetes. If you have Type 2 diabetes, it’s critical that your daily diet is well-balanced and portion-controlled to keep your blood sugar levels stable. It is essential to find meal delivery services that offer diabetic-friendly options that are high in fiber-rich vegetables, protein, and healthy fats to promote healthy blood sugar management.

Suppose you can afford to add regular meal deliveries to your budget. In that case, meal delivery services are a simple way to have everything you may need for healthy prepared diabetic-friendly meals for the week.

Here’s a look into the top 5 meal delivery service options for people with Type 2 diabetes.

Diet-To-Go

Diet-To-Go offers fully prepared healthy meals designed by nutritionists. The meal plans include breakfast, lunch, and dinner options.

The Balance Diabetes meal plan is designed to help you control your blood sugar levels naturally. It follows the American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines on low cholesterol, carbohydrates, fat, and sodium. The meals prepared in the Balance-Diabetes plan contain more than 15 grams of protein and less than 45 grams of carbohydrates. Red meat is not included in this meal plan unless you request it.

The price: Meals are $9.99 each, before tax. You can choose to get just lunch and dinner or three daily meals, for a frequency of five or seven days a week.

Sample menu: The Balance Diabetes meal plan includes dishes such as waffles with blueberry cream cheese and peaches for breakfast, lemon herb chicken, broccoli, and zucchini timbale for lunch, and turkey Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, and green beans for dinner.

Magic Kitchen

Magic Kitchen offers fully prepared, flash-frozen meals designed by dieticians and chefs for people with diabetes. Each meal comes with a main dish and two sides. There are lunch and dinner options available, and each meal is low in sodium and contains less than 65 grams of carbohydrates.

Individual a la carte meals are also available to mix and match main dishes, sides, soups, and desserts.

The price: Meals range from about $11 to $12 per meal. Pricing varies depending on the number of meals you want per day.

Sample menu: Meals include beef lasagna with peas and carrots, breaded parmesan chicken patty with red skin potatoes and mixed vegetables, and chicken teriyaki rice with sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts.

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