The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Recipes for 1 to 4 People [Paperback]

Bonnie Polin Frances Giedt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 1998

At last, great-tasting healthful food -- in thirty minutes or less!

If you have diabetes, then you're careful about your diet. But living with diabetes doesn't have to mean being limited to bland, tasteless foods, nor should you have to spend excessive amounts of time planning and preparing complicated meals. Now the same authors who brought you the award-winning Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook bring you The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook, with more than 200 recipes for dishes that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less.

Here are recipes for one to four people for every time of day -- from Breakfast Burritos to "Power lunch" dishes to delicious dinner pastas like Mushroom Ravioli with Chunky Tomato Sauce, as well as suggestions for snacks, desserts, and beverages. Nutritional analyses and diabetic exchange information accompany each recipe. You'll also find serving suggestions, advice on what to eat when you're away from home or relying on restaurants, and a section on commonly asked questions about diabetes and nutrition.

Once again, Frances T. Giedt and Bonnie S. Polin, both living with diabetes, have created, in conjunction with the Nutritional Services Staff at the world-famous Joslin Diabetes Center, a delicious array of healthful recipes that will satisfy people with diabetes or anyone in search of quick nutritious meals.

Editorial Reviews

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If you have diabetes or cook for someone with diabetes, and you have a busy life, this cookbook will solve several problems for you. All 200 recipes follow the low-fat, high-fiber, moderate-protein guidelines, and all can be prepared in 30 minutes or less with familiar ingredients from your pantry or supermarket. These recipes are tasty, providing satisfying, healthy eating for the whole family, not just the person with diabetes--no more separate meals. Imagine a breakfast of Asian Omelet with Crab (like egg foo yong without the fat and salt), Breakfast Burrito (10 minutes to prepare), or Potato Pancakes (baked instead of fried). Lunches include a variety of soups, sandwiches, and salads. Dinners emphasize pasta, seafood, poultry, and lean meats, sometimes with an ethnic flair, such as Mushroom Ravioli, Spicy Halibut Fillets with Pineapple, Sausage and Mushroom Pizza (only 16 percent fat), Shrimp Fajitas, Cajun Grilled Chicken on Yellow Rice and Peas, and Turkey Sloppy Joes. Nutritional breakdown is provided (calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, cholesterol, sodium), along with exchange information. Designed to feed one to four people, the book includes savory dishes for all meals, plus exchange lists, answers to medical questions, and two weeks of menus (for both 1,200- and 1,800-calorie daily allowances). --Joan Price

About the Author

Frances Towner Giedt is a coauthor of The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of an IACP and James Beard Award; The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook; The Joslin Diabetes Healthy Carbohydrate Cookbook; The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook, Low-Carb Quick & Easy, and Low-Carb Slow & Easy. She is a food consultant and author of several other cookbooks. She lives near Dallas, Texas.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (November 17, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684839237
• ISBN-13: 978-0684839233
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #62 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Diabetic & Sugar-Free

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95 of 96 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy eating never tasted so good, April 22, 2000

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Barb Kish-Young (Big Flats, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Recipes for 1 to 4 People (Paperback)

In the wake of the recent flood of no-carb and low-carb diet plans, the Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook lives up to its name and then some! The recipies included are truly simple to make without a trip to the grocery for new and unusual ingredients. Since each recipie is given for 1 to 4 people, you can try as many as you like without fear of unwanted leftovers. The complete nutritional information given is also a boon for people watching their heart health as well as their blood sugar. Written in a quiet, common-sense tone, this book is a great respite from the hype of many other low-carb volumes. My mother-in-law and I have both enjoyed the ease and good taste of many of the dishes, which makes it much easier for our respective husbands to stay on the health track, too.

69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK....., October 5, 2002

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Dianne Foster "Di" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Recipes for 1 to 4 People (Paperback)

Diabetes is a family disease, and all six siblings on my dad's side, including my dad, have been (or were before they died) diagnosed with Diabetes. As I watch my aunts and other members of our family cope or fail to cope with this disease, and my husband and I deal with symptoms of "insulin-resistance" I am taking steps to tackle the problem head on. Part of this effort is learning more about diet and putting what I learn into practice. I recently read, and am using THE INSULIN-RESISTANCE DIET, by Hart and Grossman and find it very helpful. I bought THE JOSLIN DIABETES QUICK AND EASY COOKBOOK with the hope of finding more information that would fit the scheme outlined by Hart and Grossman. I find Frances Giedt's book very useful, however, many of her recipes contain higher levels of carbohydrates than I am allowed with the insulin-resistance diet. In some instances I can make substitutions.

Good features of Giedt's book include - 1) recipes for 2 servings, a brilliant idea since Type II diabetes attacks older folks in greater numbers and the average household size for householders over 50 is less than two. I find dividing a recipe for six can be annoying. It's much easier to double or triple the recipe if you want extra servings for freezing. 2) a pantry list at the front of her book which allows one to assess current stocks. As many recipes call for the same items, and it's nice to have a "core" list. 3) a discussion of storage arrangements. Smaller households find big ingredients a hassle. (Giedt does not mention this, but Giam sells special storage bags and "keeper" disks for the refrigerator vegetable drawer, and they work well.) 4) calorie counts, content measures for protein, carbohydrates, fat, etc. and "Joslin" exchanges are listed beside each recipe. (The latter explained in an appendix.) 5) good ideas such as preparing a beef onion mix that can be frozen and used as an ingredient when a single bowl of Chili or some other meal that includes cooked and crumbled beef is desired.

For me, the annoying aspects of this book are these - 1) Although the recipes are low calorie, many of them are high carbohydrate. 2) While the book is loaded with gems of information, the reader will have to extract them. For example, I had to read through a number of recipes before I found the egg = egg substitute equivalencies. As many of the recipes call for eggs or egg substitute, it would have been good if she had included this information in an index. (If she did, I can't find it!!) Neither of these complaints are a "big deal" however, hence the 5 stars.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help Fight Off Unwanted Pounds, January 4, 2006

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Virginia Allain "(retired librarian)" (Poinciana, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Recipes for 1 to 4 People (Paperback)

This time of year with Christmas and holiday parties there are so many temptations. With rich foods offered at every turn, one struggles against adding unwanted pounds. It can be more of a problem than just excess weight to work off after the holidays. For diabetics, holiday foods pose an immediate threat to their health.
Before setting off in the usual cookie baking frenzy and planning the 2,000+ calorie Christmas dinner, look at ways to keep the flavor while saving on sugar, fat and cholesterol. Sugar-free doesn't have to mean unappealing. Non-diabetics will finds those recipes better for their waistline as well.
Here's old-fashioned bread pudding made "lite". Two hundred recipes give lots of choices. To use up the leftover turkey, try the French sautéed turkey sandwich.