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Curious what is safe for gestational diabetes at McDonalds? We’ve got you covered with tons of options!
No judgement here – sometimes ya just gotta get some McD’s. Whether you’re out and about and need something quick and easy, or a craving strikes, we have plenty of options that have worked for real ladies with gestational diabetes!
Below you’ll find breakfast and lunch/dinner options. There are definitely similarities within the options, which should give you ideas on how to play around with the menu if you’re craving a little something different.
This post is all about gestational diabetes options at McDonald’s.
A few tips:
Often women skip half or the entire bun, limit fries, and/or load up on protein. It is common (unfortunately) for fries to spike women no matter how they are balanced out, so start small if you’re testing them out.
Also, you can easily check the carb counts for their entire menu here! Helpful for planning, but as I’m sure you’ve found, just because something is within the limits doesn’t automatically mean it won’t spike you. GD is tricky like that!
Walks and tons of water always help things!
Lastly, if you’re getting a sugar free drink and want to double check they gave you something actually diet or sugar free, you can test it with your blood sugar monitor! Dip a strip like you would your finger prick and it will be obvious if it’s full of sugar or not!
TONS more gestational diabetes meal and snack ideas HERE!
Lunch and Dinner
1. 2 double cheeseburgers but only 1 bun
2. 8 piece chicken nuggets with apple slices
3. Quarter pounder with no ketchup or top bun and small fries
4. 10 piece chicken nugget with ranch
5. McDouble with no top bun with McChicken patty added, small fry, Diet Coke
6. 10 piece nugget and small fry
7. Double cheeseburger
8. Double cheeseburger no bun with 10 piece chicken nuggets
9. Big Mac with no bun
10. 2 hot n spicy McChicken and 1 double cheeseburger, no buns on any and used chicken as bun
11. Triple cheeseburger with 4 piece nugget on the side
12. Double fish filet extra cheese light tartar (take one bun off) with kids size fries
Breakfast
13. 2 sausage patties and a whole hash brown (and 2 bottles of water)
14. 2 sausage patties and a hotcake
15. Sausage egg and cheese McMuffin and add bacon
16. 2 biscuits, one bacon and egg and one sausage cheese and egg, then combined them (only 1 biscuit)
17. 2 breakfast burritos
18. Sausage egg and cheese McGriddle only 1 bun
19. Big breakfast with hash brown and extra eggs, skip the biscuit with a sugar free vanilla iced coffee
There you have it! Tons of options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when that McDonald’s craving strikes. I hope this gives you some good ideas on what to test out with yourself! And reminds you that just because you have gestational diabetes doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.
