The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook : More Than 200 Healthy Recipes from Homestyle Favorites to Restaurant Classics
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Scrumptious, healthy, crowd-pleasing recipes for people with diabetes and their loved ones
The editors of Diabetic Gourmet Magazine understand that although people with diabetes must carefully monitor their eating habits, they still crave their favorite sweets and savory dishes. Now, with this all-new collection of healthy recipes that are perfect for everyday meals as well as for entertaining, you can enjoy making tasty dishes for yourself, your friends, and your family that are as good for you as they are delicious. The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook features more than 200 original gourmet recipes complete with detailed nutritional information and diabetic exchanges for easy meal planning. By featuring healthy versions of traditional favorites-from pot roast to macaroni and cheese to banana cream pie-this mouthwatering collection shows how you can safely and effectively eat well if you have diabetes or special dietary needs and still enjoy wonderful food. You'll find easy-to-prepare recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, breads, desserts, sauces, and more along with a host of healthy cooking techniques-which makes The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook essential for every health-conscious cook's kitchen. Pecan Winter Waffles • Huevos Rancheros • Blueberry Blintzes Topped with Lime Crema • Cranberry Apple Muffins • Baked Onion Rings • Brazilian Smoked Black Bean Soup • French Onion Soup • Refreshing Spring Tabbouleh • Spicy Thai Chicken • Crisp Cornmeal-Coated Catfish • Greek Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce • Chicken Francese • Creamy Coleslaw • Ginger-Lime Sugar Snap Peas • Cranberry-Orange Biscotti • Key Lime Cheesecake Squares • Georgia Peach Pie • Baklava • And many more tasty recipes! |
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Satisfying, delicious food for family and friends
The editors of Diabetic Gourmet Magazine understand that while people with diabetes must carefully monitor their eating habits, they still crave their favorite sweets and savory dishes. That's why this collection of mouthwatering dishes includes healthy versions of crowd pleasers like potato skins, pot roast, veal piccata, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter cookies, banana cream pie, and pecan waffles. Each of the more than 200 recipes makes meal planning easy by including nutritional information and diabetic exchanges, making this cookbook essential for every health-conscious kitchen. Diabetic Gourmet Magazine is the premier online magazine dedicated to diabetes-related health issues and diabetic-friendly cooking. Their critically acclaimed publications reach over 2.5 million readers monthly. |
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| 08-13-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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Being a diabetic, I am always looking for great recipes. This cook book is an answer to my prayers. It gives me a broader spectrum of selection instead of the normal recipes. I don't feel like I am tied down to every day foods. With the recipes in this book, I feel like I am not diabetic and am eating sinful foods.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-27 00:30:08 EST)
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| 12-18-07 | 5 | 1\1 |
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A great book with lots of good food. Very healthy, and good for you even if your not diabetic!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-14 00:27:40 EST)
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| 07-11-06 | 5 | 2\5 |
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For me , it was really a very good choice to get this book, and I recommend it to averyone who has to follow a special diet for diabetic, and also anyone who want to learn to eat better.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 01:10:04 EST)
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| 09-29-05 | 5 | 14\14 |
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I was impressed with the extent of information about diabetes and cooking that preceeded all of the recipes. What a great resource this has turned out to be for me. I have enjoyed several of the recipes very much and was especially pleased to find that they include more nutritional analysis than other cookbooks I have (including saturated fat, sugars and fibre). Lots of recipes low in fat, sugar, salt and cholesterol and lots of real, whole food instead of processed foods and chemicals. I think this book was worth every cent and recommend it.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 01:10:04 EST)
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| 08-31-05 | 5 | 14\15 |
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My mother loves it and I love it too. I first ordered this book as a gift for my mother who has type 2 diabetes. After enjoying the recipes that she made, I went ahead and picked up a copy for myself at the local store seeing as I can use a good dose of healthy eating. Of the main dishes we tried, I found the servings to be quite filling and the recipes were easy enough to make. I also found the sections about diabetes to be very helpful and easy to understand. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid getting diabetes like my mom by following the advice of cookbooks like this. Definitely gets a thumbs up from us.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-10-14 00:26:12 EST)
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| 08-30-05 | 5 | 5\6 |
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My mother loves it and I love it too. I first ordered this book as a gift for my mother who has type 2 diabetes. After enjoying the recipes that she made, I went ahead and picked up a copy for myself at the local store seeing as I can use a good dose of healthy eating. Of the main dishes we tried, I found the servings to be quite filling and the recipes were easy enough to make. I also found the sections about diabetes to be very helpful and easy to understand. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid getting diabetes like my mom by following the advice of cookbooks like this. Definitely gets a thumbs up from us.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 08-13-05 | 3 | 26\33 |
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I think the recipes are fairly good; however, the serving sizes are a joke. FOUR raspberries to split among FOUR people for a dessert with raspberry in the name? ONE olive per person in a salad... gimme a break. Other 'BIG serving' recipes allow one cup of soup, or one half a sandwich. I don't believe in super-sized servings, but I do think more than three bites is appropriate. And, of course, if you eat more than the suggested serving, then the nutritional information isn't really all that useful, is it.
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| 08-12-05 | 3 | 5\11 |
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I think the recipes are fairly good; however, the serving sizes are a joke. FOUR raspberries to split among FOUR people for a dessert with raspberry in the name? ONE olive per person in a salad... gimme a break. Other 'BIG serving' recipes allow one cup of soup, or one half a sandwich. I don't believe in super-sized servings, but I do think more than three bites is appropriate. And, of course, if you eat more than the suggested serving, then the nutritional information isn't really all that useful, is it.
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| 06-21-05 | 5 | 16\18 |
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I bought this book and have made at least 20-30 of the recipes. I have enjoyed all of them. My favorite has to be the "Refreshing Spring Tabbouleh". The Diabetic Gourmet Cookbook has a variety of recipes for all types of food styles: Mexican, Italian, Southwestern, American, Asian. I highly suggest that if you are a diabetic, that you buy this book. You won't regret it. And even if you aren't a diabetic, the food is delicious and healthy!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 01:10:04 EST)
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| 01-25-05 | 5 | 20\20 |
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One of the things I like about this cookbook is that it has recipes with different numbers of servings instead of just recipes for 2 or 4 or 6 people. Most are for 1, 2 or 4 servings and they tell you whether it is easy to double or half them for more or less people. There are many recipes to choose from and they are easy to follow. I have made several and they turned out great and I am not the most talented cook in the world LOL!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-10-14 00:26:12 EST)
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| 01-24-05 | 5 | 10\10 |
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One of the things I like about this cookbook is that it has recipes with different numbers of servings instead of just recipes for 2 or 4 or 6 people. Most are for 1, 2 or 4 servings and they tell you whether it is easy to double or half them for more or less people. There are many recipes to choose from and they are easy to follow. I have made several and they turned out great and I am not the most talented cook in the world LOL!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 01-22-05 | 4 | 12\13 |
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As anyone who reads Diabetes Association literature and diabetes publications like Diabetic Gourmet should know, not every recipe is right for every diabetic. There really is no such thing as a diabetic recipe. But there are healthy recipes designed to make it easy for diabetics to include them in their diet. If a recipe doesn't work for you or fit into your diet, don't make it. Never assume any recipe is okay just because it's in a "diabetic" or (especially) a "no-carb" cookbook, which BTW are two different things. The bottom line is, test your sugar levels, make a note of how certain foods affect you and go for a healthy, nutritious diet with lots of variety that works with your meal plan. This cookbook helps you do that and the recipes are not complicated and the ones I tried were quite good.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 01-19-05 | 1 | 11\21 |
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I have never felt compelled to write a book review before. However, after purchasing and reading this book, I thought it necessary to provide other diabetics with the knowledge that the recipes in this book are primarily low fat, high carbohydrate based. While this may be healthy eating for many people and many of the recipes, indeed, looked good, most of the recipes in the book would be inappropriate for me, an insulin dependent diabetic, who limits (but not eliminates)carbohydrate consumption. I was astonished that the primary focus of this book was to be low-fat with really minimal adaption for lower carbohydrates, merely the substitution of artificial sugar for the real thing. While lower fat is healthy, it it hardly the primary and only goal of a diabetic diet.
I love cookbooks, but this was a complete waste of my money and went directly into the trash bin. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 11-21-04 | 1 | 5\16 |
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I've read through these recipes thoroughly and find I would be in a diabetic coma if I ate the amounts of sugars in them.
I would not recommend this book for the true diabetic. It's more a diet weight loss book with recipes for low fat foods than it is for diabetics. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 11-21-04 | 5 | 11\11 |
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This cookbook provides recipes for a balanced diabetic diet and I recommend it greatly. It offers many different recipes and styles like Asian, Italian and southwestern, so you won't get bored anytime soon. It also provides very detailed nutritional info especially useful for diabetics that for some crazy reason other diabetic cookbooks don't have, like fiber, cholesterol, sugars, starches and a breakdown of different types of fat. It makes it really easy for me to fit the recipes into my meal plan. I'm also happy to see that it doesn't avoid complex carbs, grains, or fruit. Way too many diabetics are confused about carbs and sugars and end up not eating a balanced diet or they freak out over the mere mention of fruit, sugar, rice or pasta because they think they can't eat it (even though the ada revised it's position on carbs and sugars). Except for a few of the desserts, this book uses very little added sugar and a couple of recipes use fruit, preserves or juice. It uses some pretty neat substitutions that you can use in other recipes and it also keeps sodium, fat and cholesterol in check, which is perfect for me! A great cookbook for anyone, but especially diabetics :).
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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| 06-21-04 | 5 | 11\11 |
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Very glad I ordered this book. Many good recipes that are easy to read and follow. The first few chapters are informative and I found them very useful. Definitely has a wide enough selection of recipes so there is something for everyone. The refried black beans are great and so is the fiery curry tilapia. The mock mashed potatoes were so good I though I was eating mashed potatoes!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 18:00:26 EST)
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