[Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

Sat Jun 23 20:57:29 UTC 2012

Hi Julie and Channelle,
I like Cooking Without Looking and Food At Your Fingertips.
They are oldies but goodies. They don't deal with Diabetes or watching your weight but they are good basic cookbooks.
With a little tweaking you can make a recipe with fewer calories. The thing I like about these books is that they give you recipes made from scratch which are pretty basic. They also include substitutions and equivalents.
Of course we all know that cooking from scratch is better. 
I also have been collecting recipes from Blrecipeexchange.
I have also adapted some recipes that I have used for years.
Julie you know how you feel about cooking after working all day. Personally I can say that when I worked and came home I didn't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. My daughter needed some attention after I got home and that was more important than long period of prep before dinner.
Besides I want to cook the meal and then have some time with my daughter before I got her ready for bed.
You can still make quick meals without buying a lot of processed foods.
As long as you are eating healthy don't worry about what others say. They are not you and I bet they don't go home and cook a big meal every night. Some of these people probably grab fast food.
Rehab People probably don't take the bus back and forth to work if they don't have to, they probably can stop at the store any time and they can probably grab fast food with ease if they desire.
Just do what works for you.
Colleen Roth

----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Kline <julie.kline at rochester.rr.com>
To:  <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Saturday, Jun 23, 2012 04:08:43 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

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> Hi all,
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> 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.
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> David Zinczenko & Matt Goulding do a series of books called Eat This Not
> T.  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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I hope these ideas help and people don't have to go through what I did.
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> Julie
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