The Joslin Diabetes Quick and Easy Cookbook: 200 Recipes for 1 to 4 People - Softcover

Frances Giedt, Bonnie Polin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684839237 ISBN 13: 9780684839233

Publisher: Atria Books, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

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 and Bonnie Sanders Polin, Ph.D., are the coauthors, along with The Joslin Diabetes Center, of The Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook, winner of the James Beard Award. Giedt, a type 2 diabetic, is a food consultant and author of several other cookbooks. She lives near Dallas, Texas. Polin, a type 1 diabetic, is a retired psychologist who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Together, they publish Diabetic Lifestyle, an on-line magazine for diabetics located on the World Wide Web at www.diabetic-lifestyle.com. The Joslin Diabetes Center (www.Joslin.Harvard.edu), now in its one-hundredth year of operation, offers state-of-the-art treatment at its Boston facility and in affiliated centers around the country. The Joslin Guide to Diabetes is also available from Fireside Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684839237
• ISBN 13: 9780684839233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288