[Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

Sat Jun 23 20:14:47 UTC 2012

YOU GO JULIE!!!

My sentiments exactly!  That's why when I was asked to find a "Vegetarian 
sandwich for something last spring, I simply ordered something from a 
vegetarian from some outfit who already prepares those things because I 
refused to buy a whole bunch of garb that I'm only going to use once.  Then 
you have to pronounce it, much less figure out how to cook it???  Are you 
kidding???  I don't have time for that nonsense!!!

Bern

Bernadette M. Jacobs
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie Kline" <julie.kline at rochester.rr.com>
To: <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 4:08 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I wanted to respond to Chanelle's question about some favorite cookbooks.
> Here are some I like.  Most of these I got from bookshare, and a couple 
> from
> iBooks.
>
>
>
> David Zinczenko & Matt Goulding do a series of books called Eat This Not
> That.  The idea is to try and swap out higher calorie items for lower
> calorie items that still taste good.  What I like about the books is that
> they don't just take things away telling you what not to eat, but suggest
> things that you can replace those items with so you're not stuck asking, 
> ok,
> what do I do now?  I don't plan to ever get slim and toned and stuff like
> that.  I've been overweight practically all my life since about 10 or 11
> years old, and just realize the skinny minny thing isn't going to happen.
> But anyway, some of the swaps they suggest have worked out well for us (us
> being my husband and myself).
>
>
>
> Another set of books I really like (also on bookshare) is the Bob Green
> series: Living your Best Life.  He has a book geared toward managing
> diabetes, and I really like this book because he breaks things down for 
> you
> step by step and explains why things happen as they happen.  He covers 
> food,
> nutrition labels, medicine, night cravings, anything you could want.
> Unfortunately I have had some trouble accessing his website because they
> want you to create an account, but I really like the books.  Again, I 
> didn't
> take everything, but used some of his suggestions and found that they have
> worked for me and sorry to say, I learned more about my medicines reading
> that book than the information I have gotten from my doctor.
>
>
>
> The Biggest Loser has books on bookshare and at the beginning of one I 
> have,
> they break things down too and tell you how to measure things out, what a
> serving should look like, etc.  This was ok, but I didn't take much from 
> the
> meals out of it because the cooking supplies they use are more than what 
> we
> have, or lack of space to store a bunch of cooking equipment.
>
>
>
> If you're like me, I tend to try and gravitate towards things that don't
> take forever to cook.  The less prep time and fewer ingredients, the 
> better.
> My husband and I both work full time and I'm in a really high stress job, 
> so
> I don't want to spend a long time making a meal.  I want things with 
> common
> ingredients, I don't want something that I have to buy an ingredient from
> the store that I'm only going to use once, and probably never again.  The
> less work and ingredients it takes to put together, the better I like 
> making
> it and will be more likely to use the recipe.  This has drawn some 
> criticism
> from past voc rehab teachers who say I'm lazy, but telling them they can
> come over and do my cooking for me any time they want to, well, that 
> usually
> shuts their noise off.  Two books I have liked are the diabetic 4 
> ingredient
> cookbook and some separate books by Robin Webb.  Sorry I don't remember 
> the
> Robin Webb titles but one deals with kitchen organization a lot and that's
> the one I had.
>
>
>
> In bookshare and the iBooks, there is a series of books called hungry girl
> and they have some neat recipe ideas in there too, along with a 
> supermarket
> book that covers a lot of material.  It's not geared specifically for 
> people
> with diabetes, but I like the book anyway.  The website is a pain to 
> access
> though.
>
>
>
> Weight Watchers also has a new book they have come out with for people 
> with
> diabetes but about the only thing I know of that one is that it's marketed
> to seniors.  I'm not sure why they did it that way since younger people 
> end
> up with diabetes too, but it is.  I Don't know a thing about the book yet
> though because I just read the sample, so I can't say either way.
>
>
>
> Hopefully this should give some ideas for people who want them.  In the 
> past
> before I switched to someplace else, I had gotten slapped around by a
> dietician.  I was newly diagnosed at the time and after telling me a bunch
> of stuff not to eat anymore, in frustration I finally asked her, ok, then
> you tell me what can I Eat?  She was saying that it wasn't her
> responsibility to come up with a menu for me; I'd have to come up with 
> what
> I like and what I don't like and figure it out for myself.  So, these 
> books
> and another more receptive person have given me some new ideas to try.
>
>
>
> I hope these ideas help and people don't have to go through what I did.
>
>
>
> Julie
>
>
>
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