When my husband was first diagnosed, I remember feeling at a loss as to selecting cookery books and how to change our diet. I thought it might be helpful to other newly diagnosed diabetics, or just those looking for a new cookery book, if we shared reviews. Here are some of my favourites:
Anthony Worral Thompson - I've found something to like in every one of his books. If you want to be able to entertain other people and want some nice dinner party food, then I recommend his book Healthy Eating for Diabetes. It has replaced my Delia book and is far less faffy. It has a great recipe for individual rice puddings that has been adored by all our friends.
Stella Bowling's The Everyday Diabetic Cookbook is my baking bible. With Christmas coming I can recommend her mincemeat, christmas cake and christmas pudding recipes. This is a great everyday basic book, full of familiar food, not focussed on exotic ingredients. Her only other book I've found is a small one by Sainsbury's which has very similar recipes to this one. This book is a great first book as it covers a range of meals with chapters on meat, fish, baking, cooking for children etc etc.
Rose Elliot's Fast Fresh and Fabulous has now been released under a new title referencing low GI, but both books are exactly the same. This is fantastic for vegetarians, as all recipes are vegetarian and some are vegan. Some great, quick and simple pasta dishes for supper, along with nice oriental tofu dishes. Her food feels really healthy.
The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook by Dr J Brand-Miller, K Foster-Powell, K Marsh & P Sandall has some similar recipes to Rose's book above, but I think the recipes tend to have more ingredients and feel a bit more of a faff. That said, again a great source of midweek pasta dishes/meals.
The Diabetes Lifestyle Guide: Lifestyle Tips & over 80 recipes by A Claydon, D Markham & G Toms is an NHS & Diabetes UK publication that has recipes from health professionals and patients along with loads of info that is quite a good read for the newly diagnosed. The recipes are culturally diverse - shepherds pie, carribean stew, samosas, indian sweets etc. I've found some great chicken recipes which I've used quorn in instead.
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Anthony Worral Thompson - I've found something to like in every one of his books. If you want to be able to entertain other people and want some nice dinner party food, then I recommend his book Healthy Eating for Diabetes. It has replaced my Delia book and is far less faffy. It has a great recipe for individual rice puddings that has been adored by all our friends.
Stella Bowling's The Everyday Diabetic Cookbook is my baking bible. With Christmas coming I can recommend her mincemeat, christmas cake and christmas pudding recipes. This is a great everyday basic book, full of familiar food, not focussed on exotic ingredients. Her only other book I've found is a small one by Sainsbury's which has very similar recipes to this one. This book is a great first book as it covers a range of meals with chapters on meat, fish, baking, cooking for children etc etc.
Rose Elliot's Fast Fresh and Fabulous has now been released under a new title referencing low GI, but both books are exactly the same. This is fantastic for vegetarians, as all recipes are vegetarian and some are vegan. Some great, quick and simple pasta dishes for supper, along with nice oriental tofu dishes. Her food feels really healthy.
The Low GI Vegetarian Cookbook by Dr J Brand-Miller, K Foster-Powell, K Marsh & P Sandall has some similar recipes to Rose's book above, but I think the recipes tend to have more ingredients and feel a bit more of a faff. That said, again a great source of midweek pasta dishes/meals.
The Diabetes Lifestyle Guide: Lifestyle Tips & over 80 recipes by A Claydon, D Markham & G Toms is an NHS & Diabetes UK publication that has recipes from health professionals and patients along with loads of info that is quite a good read for the newly diagnosed. The recipes are culturally diverse - shepherds pie, carribean stew, samosas, indian sweets etc. I've found some great chicken recipes which I've used quorn in instead.
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