Baking snacks for a diabetic - scones

I have done a lot of reading in the last few weeks, learning about low GI products, what a diabetic can safely eat and what is best avoided. Been looking at adding more fibre into the diet as well as fibre is usually has a low GI  and maintains more regular blood sugar levels for longer.

Spent a lot of time looking at food labels on packets in supermarkets as well. My normal is looking for Bob friendly allergy free foods and I have never really taken much notice of fibre and sugar levels cos if we were to do that the poor boy would probably starve to death.

 Been looking for healthy snacks to encourage OH to eat regularly as he is terrible for eating an unhealthy breakfast and then going six or eight hours eating nothing, Spent time looking at some of these breakfast biscuits, and so called healthy snack bars most of them are high in fibre designed to sustain for four hours, but the amount of sugar in them is horrifying.

So with that in mind I made two different varieties of scones and a prune  loaf.

Cheese scones

2 oz stork margarine ( virtually dairy free so low cholesterol)
6 oz light brown self raising flour ( note when sieving this for lightness in scones the healthy fibrous bits dont sieve, so I just stir them back through)
2oz  oatbran and oatgerm
pinch salt
1/4 teaspoon mustard powder
1 oz cheese grated
5 fl oz semi skimmed milk ( I used lacto free so I could eat them with the cheese in)

Method

• Sieve flour into a large bowl, add oatbran and oatgerm and rub in margarine.
• add pinch salt, mustard and cheese and mix gently
• stir in milk to achieve a soft dough
• roll out on a lightly floured board and cut out using pastry cutter. 
• place on a greased baking sheet, brush the top with milk and
• cook for approx 12 mins at 200 oC

Cherry Scones 

4 oz stork margarine

dried fruit and the cherry milk

12 oz light brown self raising flour ( note when sieving this for lightness in scones the healthy fibrous bits dont sieve, so I just stir them back through)
4oz  oatbran and oatgerm
3 oz coconut sugar
1 oz freeze dried cherry powder
12 oz semi skimmed milk
1 oz dried cherries chopped

1 oz mixed vine fruits
6 apple rings cut into pieces 

Method

• stir cherry powder into milk
• Sieve flour into a large bowl, add oatbran and oatgerm and rub in margarine.
• add sugar, and dried fruit and stir through
• add cherry milk to achieve a soft dough
• roll out on a lightly floured board and cut out using pastry cutter. 
• place on a greased baking sheet, brush the top with milk and
• cook for approx 12 mins at 200 oC

cherry on the left and cheese on the right