Quick & Easy Diabetic Recipes for One

Not as easy as it sounds on the cover but the recipes are good and it has helped me with portion control, content and a bit of adventure into things I don't usually eat.

This book contains about 50 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert that have low-cal, low-sodium, and low-fat themes. My biggest complaint about the book is the simplicity of some of the recipes--for instance: there is a recipe for a spread that you put on a bagel and the recipe says, take a knife and spread (that's not really a recipe). The dinner options are the best choices with everything from pasta dishes to stuffed peppers--treats I wouldn't have considered all that healthy before I got the book. The recipes are easy to read with the ingredients identified on the left and the exchange rates on the bottom. However, only a few of the recipes are actually for one--many are for two or four. In any case, a good choice for a beginning cook or a new diabetic.

I bought this book for my Mother who is a Type 2 Diabetic and was very disappointed. The ADA is about 30 years behind on nutrition education. The recipes--besides being overcomplicated and not very appealing--relied on processed foods; white flour, pasta and rice; artifical sweeteners; added sugar; food coloring(?!); and more artifical chemicals and ingredients in the form of lite, low fat junk. No wonder everyone is still fat.

My advice is to skip the whole "diabetes recipes" ruse and buy a normal healthy cookbook. You'll be much better off.

My nutritionist told me about the cookbook Quick & Easy Diabetic Recipes for One." The recipes don't make you feel like you need to eat more. They put in your mind that you have eaten enought for one meal, and that is what I like.

I thought that I would really like this book, but I found that once I started to go through the recipes there were not many that I would use. Might be my palate... but it is now sitting unused as a coaster.