The diabetes weight loss diet - Anthony Worrall Thompson et al.

[Stuart B]

My husband gave me the above book for my birthday this week, not as a diet but for recipe ideas. I have been reading the book so far and it seems to offer information that seems a bit contrary to everything I have learnt so far. For instance, when talking about eating fruit, it does not say favour veg over fruit, it includes dried fruits and one glass of unsweetened juice is fine. I have been advised as one of your five a day to eat one portion of fruit, that dried fruit are like eating pure sugar, and squeezed juice is like having sugar from 12 oranges.

Like I say I am only going to use it for recipes, but what are others views? I worry when famous people use their name/brand people may just believe them unconditionally.

 

[Northerner]

I'd say you are pretty much spot on with what you thought Stuart. Fruit juice doesn't need to be 'sweetened' to spike your levels, it can do it on its own - many people on insulin will use it to raise their levels very quickly if they drop too low (hypo), so that probably tells you all you need to know 🙂 Also, dried fruit has all the sugar of the original fruit, but concentrated into a tiny piece, so again likely to raise your levels quickly, and high.

I believe Tom Kerridge is widely respected though, so it might be worth looking into some of his books for recipes 🙂

 

[Stuart B]

Thanks Northerner

 

[AndBreathe]

I'd say you are pretty much spot on with what you thought Stuart. Fruit juice doesn't need to be 'sweetened' to spike your levels, it can do it on its own - many people on insulin will use it to raise their levels very quickly if they drop too low (hypo), so that probably tells you all you need to know 🙂 Also, dried fruit has all the sugar of the original fruit, but concentrated into a tiny piece, so again likely to raise your levels quickly, and high.

I believe Tom Kerridge is widely respected though, so it might be worth looking into some of his books for recipes 🙂

Much as I enjoy some of the Tom Kerridge food, his recipes seem all to have a gazillion, ingredients and 27 million processes. I'm far more of a lob it in, ignore it awhile, then see what has happened sort of cook.

 

[KARNAK]

Spot on Stuart, I know Tom his parents live up the road from me. He also worked in a restaurant in Torquay but too complicated menu for the average person to prepare. By the way I missed you're birthday Wednesday so happy belated birthday🙂.

 

[Stuart B]

Thanks Karnak

 

[mikeyB]

Much as I enjoy some of the Tom Kerridge food, his recipes seem all to have a gazillion, ingredients and 27 million processes. I'm far more of a lob it in, ignore it awhile, then see what has happened sort of cook.

I use Tom Kerridges Dopamine Diet book fairly regularly. His recipes don’t contain a gazillion ingredients, just substitutes for the carbs. For instance, if you make his cottage pie the cauliflower mash is just as easy as potato mash. In that book at least, there aren’t any recipes with millions of processes.

I admit that cottage pie isn’t a lob it in and ignore it awhile recipe, but it’s easy to do. You have to put a bit of effort in.

The alternative is buy a pressure cooker, but even then you have to do some preparation.

 

[AndBreathe]

I use Tom Kerridges Dopamine Diet book fairly regularly. His recipes don’t contain a gazillion ingredients, just substitutes for the carbs. For instance, if you make his cottage pie the cauliflower mash is just as easy as potato mash. In that book at least, there aren’t any recipes with millions of processes.

I admit that cottage pie isn’t a lob it in and ignore it awhile recipe, but it’s easy to do. You have to put a bit of effort in.

The alternative is buy a pressure cooker, but even then you have to do some preparation.

Mikey - I haven't looked at the Dopamine book, but if you have a look at say, the BBC recipes site, some of his recipes

https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/beef_stroganoff_16029
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/corn_on_the_cob_with_88227
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/pulled_pork_tacos_26019

Frankly, a lot of the time he over complicates things, but that's just my view.

Although my OH is the major cook in this house, I am very competent and can be left in charge of most things from the electric pressure cooker, to the BBQ, to sous vide to plain old oven or microwave.

At the moment, I have some pea and ham soup in the pressure cooker, just cooling a little, before blending a little.

 

[Sally W]

I looked at Dopamine diet but found the recipes fiddly with lots of ingredients. I am using Sarah Flowers - EveryDay Sugar Free Family Cookbook and Michael Mosley Blood Sugar Diet Cookbook, which I find are more straightforward. Also I don’t like pork and Tom K seems to have plenty. @KARNAK Tom comes from my part of the world 🙂