501 Delicious Diabetic Recipes: For You and Your Family

by Anne C. Chappell

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501 Delicious Diabetic Recipes features nearly 500 pages of recipes from registered dieticians, cooks, and diabetics. The diabetic exchanges make meal planning easy, and step-by-step directions ensure low-stress kitchen time. Simple ingredient lists make food preparation fast. There is a review of sugar substitutes and a quick guide to reading food labels. The complete nutritional analysis included with each recipe makes it easy to count caloric intake, as well as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, cholesterol, and sodium.

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Diabetics have a special challenge when it comes to cooking. You can't create separate foods for yourself or a diabetic family member at every meal, so how do you create tasty dishes that are reduced in fat, sugar, and salt and then get your family to eat the same thing? With 501 Delicious Diabetic Recipes, you can develop menus that your whole family will enjoy while still following a healthy diet.

501 Delicious Diabetic Recipes is divided into 11 chapters that cover such topics as appetizers and beverages, breads, desserts, fish and shellfish, meatless main dishes, meat, poultry, salads and salad dressings, soups and sandwiches, starchy side dishes, and vegetable and fruit side dishes. Each recipe features dietary exchanges per serving based on "Exchange Lists for Meal Planning," developed by the American Diabetes Foundation and The American Dietetic Association, and the amounts of calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, cholesterol, fiber, and sodium per serving. This allows you to plan your meals with an eye on your insulin levels. Try Clams with Angel Hair Pasta and Salad Niçoise or Turkey Cutlets with Caper Sauce and a side of Mediterranean Orzo. Gone are the days when diabetics had to eschew dessert altogether--501 Delicious Diabetic Recipes offers up sweets like Blueberry-Pear Cobbler, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Milk, and Applesauce Spice Cake. Most of the recipes were tested using Sugar Twin instead of sugar, and the editors give suggestions on which type or brand of sweeteners should be used in recipes calling for sugar substitutes (for example, NutraSweet loses sweetness in high heat, so another product should be used for recipes with longer baking times). The book also lists sugar equivalencies (1 teaspoon of Sugar Twin equals 1 teaspoon of sugar, while one packet of Equal is the equivalent of 2 teaspoons of sugar). --Dana Van Nest

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Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2 out of 5 stars

Looks May Be Deceiving, 2002-01-28
I was excited to get a cookbook with so many recipies...until I looked at them. On first glance, the recipies do not have "real life" ingredients or quantities listed!

For example, "Homesytle Apple Pie", p. 128, serves 8 and is 1 Bread, 2 Fruit & 1.5 Fat/serving. This is within my plan, so I go to make it, then stop at the ingredient: "1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, undiluted". Who is going to buy a whole can of apple juice concentrate, then not be able to use it all? I doubt that there is another recipie I could find to use that up during the week, and day 5 of "Homestyle Apple Pie" would get a bit old.

If I have dibbles & dabbles of all these ingredients (Neufchatel cheese? p. 129; 1/4 cup chopped Avacado--what do you do with the other 3/4 vegetable? Tofu?, 1/2 14oz Can No Salt Tomatoes?) I will be looking at things that I can't use, and just waste precious space in the refrigerator or pantry until I can find another recipie that calls for these tiny amounts again or let the ingredients spoil. I already have that problem with basic celery and all the other veggies I have to buy!

I normally plan my meals so I can use the 1/2 can of corn or beans in a different meal, and I have leftovers like most people. 4-8 Servings is normally not a problem, and I can freeze leftovers. It is frustrating to see a recipie that serves 20 (Applesauce Spice Cake, p.122) that can't even be easily divided in half so you don't make as much. This book is going into the "Maybe for a Pot Luck Idea" stack, but I'm almost afraid to use it because I haven't tasted it myself. Many Diabetic recipies are often bland or taste really bad, so why would I want to torture my co-workers with "healthy" food, too?

This cookbook looked like a good idea, but save your money unless you have a big refigerator and lots of small containers and want to spend a lot of time going through everything. The pictures look good, the recipie titles sound yummy, but the ingredients are not realistic. I may try some of the chicken dishes, but at least half of this book isn't usable.

So far, the cookbooks I've gone to for most of the "good, we'll use this again" recipies are the Diabetic 4 Ingredient Or Less Cookbook or one of the many cookbooks from JoAnna M. Lund. It is hard enough being Diabetic, and trying to cook for someone who isn't. I don't need to have a full refrigerator with nothing to eat, too.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5 out of 5 stars Great Recipes!, 2001-04-18
Of all the diabetic cookbooks that I have tried, this is my favorite. The dishes are generally easy to make and extremely tasty. Even my family raves about the meals that I have made from this book. Ms. Cain has definitely made my adjustment to life with diabetes much easier.

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