Cook'n For Diabetics

by DVO Enterprises

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002CF8X
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,714 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #98 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Cooking & Health
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Billing itself as a personal home nutritionist, Cook'n for Diabetics helps you plan diabetes-friendly meals for the whole family. With a particular focus on children living with the illness, counting carbohydrates is simplified while you compile nutritious and delicious menus that will please even the choosiest young palates.

Unlike many cooking programs, which come with a massive archive compiled from a number of cookbooks, Cook'n for Diabetics has a tight focus and a smaller set of recipes. All of its meals come from Kids, Food and Diabetes by Gloria Loring, a cookbook which focuses on making foods children will enjoy while accommodating the specialized dietary needs of diabetics. To this end, the electronic version of Loring's work makes extensive use of features that analyze the nutritional content of recipes--not only the ones provided in the book, but any recipe you care to enter into the program. As long as the ingredients are in the Cook'n database, this program will give you the good and bad news on any proposed dish.

Cook'n for Diabetics can also be imported as a single chapter into the larger recipe archive of Cook'n 2000. The two programs' interfaces are identical, with function buttons at the top and the core data below in the remaining screen. It is simple to use, for the most part, but lacks the flexibility and powerhouse features of better-known cooking software. Its recipes cover the full nutritional spectrum--from breakfast to dessert--and offers some excellent tips for involving children in meal preparation.

Parents looking to simplify the nutritional challenges of feeding a diabetic child will find the information in Cook'n for Diabetics to be both entertaining and useful. --Alyx Dellamonica

Product Description

Cook'n for Diabetes software provides you with six complete cookbooks on one CD and over 1,000 recipes from the American Diabetes Association - everything you need to prepare healthy, balanced meals for people with special dietary needs. It's the ultimate diabetes software! Use Cook'n to automatically create shopping lists from your menus with data from 10,000 food items. Cook'n organizes your shopping list by store aisle and makes grocery shopping a breeze. Have ingredients in the fridge but don't know what to make? Tell Cook'n what items you have on hand and it will instantly suggest several delicious and nutritious recipes.

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55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Help for Diabetics, June 10, 2000

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R. Rhoades (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cook'n For Diabetics (CD-ROM)

This will be a help to any Diabetic that counts their Carbohydrates to control their blood sugar. I was disappointed that there were not more recipes, but the program allows you to add your own recipes. It also calculates all of the nutritional information for all of the recipes that you add. Now I don't have to guess the amount of carbohydrate grams in my favorite recipes.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Tool for Diabetics, August 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cook'n For Diabetics (CD-ROM)

As a diabetic of 21 years, I recently decided to go on the insulin pump. In order for me to do that my doctor told me I would need to plan out my meals and county my Carbs. This great software program has been instrumental in helping me achieve my goal. After a year of learning how to plan my meals and count my Carbs, I finally got my pump and I am loving it! This program has helped me more than I can say. It allows me to plan my meals ahead of time and know that I am getting the proper amount of Carbs, fat etc... This has also proven to be a useful tool for my family. Being married to someone who is NOT a diabetic makes it a little tough when it comes to meal time. It has helped my husband keep his diet in check as well. I would be lost without this program.