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The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook: Favorite Foods to Fit Your Meal Plan

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The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook is aimed at people who want to eat more healthily while explicitly avoiding high sugar and high starch meals. I certainly laud that mission! However, be aware that many of these pages come down to being eating ideas rather than actual recipes. For some cooks this is great! For others it might be a bit frustrating.

Pretty much every recipe is a single page. You get recipes broken out into breakfast, lunch, dinner, sides / appetizers and desserts. As with any recipe book, there are going to be recipes you adore and others you just aren't personally fond of. Some of us love scallops, some of us hate scallops. It's not a bad thing, it's a nice thing that we all have different taste buds.

So in that sense, we went more for a general style sense on the cookbook rather than praising or disliking specific recipes.

So first, many of the recipes are on the vague side. They include things like "get some frozen waffles and put berries on top". Or perhaps "get some frozen fish fillets - cook them according to the package - and put them on hamburger buns". Yes, other of the recipes are more complete, but sticking with the one-page theme they tend to have brief descriptions.

Because of these situations, we were extremely curious how the nutritional information was calculated. After all, if you use different pre-made frozen waffles, they can vary wildly as to their nutritional content. The same is true for tortillas, mentioned in another recipe. One recipe said the salt was optional - but was the salt included in the nutritional value, or not?

Now, that all being said, we really like a lot of the ideas presented here. It's not as much that they give you a "real recipe" to follow as much as they give you a cool idea. Mexican tuna salad? That sounds rather delicious! I don't need to follow their exact recipe - I can use their cool starting point and go from there. Cheesy cauliflower mash? I can easily do that, but not use their fat-free half-and-half.

However, I didn't really need their ice cream sandwich idea of "take a scoop of ice cream - put it between two low carb cookies" :) To me that doesn't deserve a full page of it's own. How about including several ice cream ideas all together, to make it a little more complete?

So, if you get stuck for ideas, then definitely use this book to help you get some new ones! Eating healthy is a VERY delicious way to live and you can eat delicious new things every day. If you already have a number of low carb cookbooks and have a variety of recipe ideas, then you probably can grab this at your library and just skim it for another idea or two.

This is a decent cookbook with recipes that are simple and many contain ingredients that you probably already have on hand. The nutrition content is in large print and easy to read and understand, and there's enough variety in the recipes that just about anyone can find at least one dish they're interested in.
My biggest issue with this cookbook is that in many of the recipes, the serving size is not specific; it will say that the portion is "1/5 of recipe." Without measuring the entire dish out, I have no idea if that is one cup, 1/2 cup, etc. I think the authors could have been more specific, as they were in other recipes, as to what exactly a serving size consists of.

I bought this as a gift to my father-he has recently discovered that he has diabetes. My family loves this book it has helped them stay healthy and eat the things that they love just with a different twist.

Love it! I don't have diabetes, however, I like to watch my carbs and this book helps me cook at home and feel good about what I'm eating.

This book is very informative,healthwise. Also, many good sounding recipes. Will be trying some soon. I feel that this book is a good book for anyone. Glad I bought it.