Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Education Kit
for People with Diabetes
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English available (Spanish in revision).

Here's an effective, easy-to-use method for staying on your doctor's prescribed meal plan. The Diabetes Place Mat is a sturdy, heavily laminated, 11" by 17" place mat that can be easily used over and over to apply your meal plan on a meal-by-meal or daily basis, as your doctor requires.

Here's how it works:
One side of the Diabetes Place Mat lists food choices and individual portion sizes for each food category on your meal plan. This list replaces easily misplaced or damaged paper lists, which are often given to diabetes patients.

When planning your meal, use the wipe-off marker to write down the number of servings for each food category, as indicated on your plan. Then circle or tally your food choices in each category to track your progress toward your plan's targets. Carbohydrate categories - starch and bread, fruit, milk and other carbohydrates - which affect blood sugar and which can be exchanged for each other, are color coded in yellow for easy identification and proper selection. Other food categories - vegetables, meat, fat and free foods - are individually color-coded.

When you're finished with a meal, simply use a dry cloth or tissue to erase the Diabetes Place Mat. Then it's ready for use at your next meal or snack.

The food groups shown on the top half of the Plate Method side are carbohydrates, which affect blood sugar - fruit, milk, and starch & bread. These are colored in yellow to distinguish them from the other food groups that don't significantly affect blood sugar (meat, vegetables, fat and free foods). The food categories are shown in proportion to how much of each might be eaten in a healthy, balanced diet.

To sum up… The Diabetes Place Mat Works!

• It’s easy to use – the large 11” by 17” size can accommodate all vital information on one page
  
• It’s durable – heavily laminated to last
  
• It’s reusable – wipes clean easily so it’s ready for the next use
  
• It’s visible – making it a constant reminder to stay on the plan
  

Nutrition Place Mat for Diabetes Education Kit
DME-Ed Kit
Includes:

1. Write-On/Wipe-Off Diabetes Place Mat It's an excellent guide for keeping you on your healthy meal plan! Why? Because the Diabetes Place Mat is far more durable and easier to keep handy than the pieces of paper commonly given out. This laminated 11" by 17" mat can stay right in sight on your dinner table or refrigerator, and it features a color-coded foods list where you check off food servings for each meal.
   

2. Dry Erase Marker For use on the Diabetes Place Mat to check off portions for each meal or snack.
   

3. Calculated Meal Plans One each of the most commonly prescribed daily diets of 1250, 1500, 1800, and 2250 calories to review with your health care professional.

4. Instruction Guide For correct use of the Diabetes Place Mat.
   

5. Nutrition and Diabetes Management Tools Many helpful sheets include: Nutrition Information Guide, Monthly Diet Tally sheets, and 4 new diabetes managment forms (two-sided Diabetes Management Record Form, Your Diabetes Management Plan, Diabetes Education Visit Summary)
   

6. Carbohydrate Conversion Work Sheet The "hidden gem" of the kit! Makes it easy to convert carbohydrate information on packaged food labels into portion sizes used in your meal plan.
   

Spanish Version Available
DMS-Ed Kit Updated version is currently under construction! This Education Kit is available in the 2001 version of the Food List for Diabetes.