Complete Diabetic Cookbook (Hardcover)

by Mary Jane Finsand (Author), Edith White (Author)

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Review
"Sound, scientific, yet homey and commonsense...An invaluable aid in providing a wide range of delicious, nutritious meals for diabetic food management and regulation. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Description
This huge collection of more than 2000 recipes ensures healthy delicious meals for the whole family that are safe for diabetics.

Innovative sugar substitution techniques make "special meals" a thing of the past.

Recipes are organized by breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes. A large portion of the book focuses on diabetics biggest problem area, desserts. Tasty cakes, puddings, pies - practically every type of sweet that is usually out-of-bounds for diabetics is included.

It's the Joy of Cooking for diabetics.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 746 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579120644
• ISBN-13: 978-1579120641
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,079,248 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than most 'Regular' Cookbooks, July 1, 2000

By	Edwin Rhoden (Carmel, IN USA) - See all my reviews

One would not know that these recipes were designed for a diabetic, until they looked at some of the ingredients. These are tasty, flavorful, and creative recipes for the whole family, designed to lower the sugar/carbohydrate intake grams for diabetics. The recipes are simple, and made with the 'usual' ingredients with the exception of the sugar substitutes. And, there are handy conversion charts that show how to convert 'sugars' to sugar substitutes.

Anyone will enjoy the foods that they make from these recipe's. This is truly a 'gourmet' cookbook, with literally thousands of recipes for everyday living. There are entree and side dish recipe's, but my favorite section are the hundreds of 'dessert' recipes. You have to try those Cream Puffs!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Complete Diabetic Cookbook, October 16, 2001

By A Customer

By Finsand, Caldwell, and White - This book has thousands of recipes and they are good. I don't think I will ever grow tired of using it. However, if you or someone you are cooking for has just recently been diagnosed with diabetes, this is not the book to get you started. It does have useful charts, but it has very little educational material about the disease. I would recommend this book as a companion to a book with comprehensive information about diabetes. I think the most prominent chart in the book deals with sugar substitutes. (The Simply Gourmet Diabetes Cookbook by Mary Donkersloot is a great place to get started. With this book and the book you are reading about, youu will never lack in information and choices.)

Personally, I would prefer less recipes about desserts. There are hundreds and hundreds of these recipes. I've never really craved daily deserts or sweetened foods. After spending time in the hospital, and meeting other diabetics, this may be exactly what you need, though. Some people do eat sweet dishes frequently. I plan to use these recipies in cooking for my aging parents and myself, in order to provide things that we can all eat. I doubt I will use more than a portion of this book in my own home.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very complete (or accurate) after all, July 9, 2007

By	newT1DM (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Diabetic Cookbook: Healthy, Delicious Recipes the Whole Family Can Enjoy (Hardcover)

I was very recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and need accurate information on grams of carbohydrates to determine my insulin use. I had to send this book back - the nutritional information was incorrect for the couple of recipes I looked at (For example, one recipe stated it had over 100 grams of carbs. I couldn't tell if it was missing a decimal or what the problem was. Even if that was the carbs per recipe rather than per serving, when you divided it by the # of servings it still ended up being more carbs than most diabetics should eat at a meal).
In addition, the majority of the recipes were for desserts - which doesn't make a complete meal in my diet!