[Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Sat Jun 23 21:18:44 UTC 2012 

You and me both! I like cauliflower and potatoes -- but I like them as
themselves, not masquerading as the other!

Mike


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From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of COLLEEN ROTH
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:00 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

Hi Mike,
I don't mind eating cauliflower made like mashed potatoes but honestly I
prefer the potatoes.
I'd rather eat mashed potatoes with cauliflower as a regular vegetable side
dish.
Colleen Roth



----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Bl'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Date: Saturday, Jun 23, 2012 04:17:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] favorite cookbooks

>
>
> Great ideas, Julie.
> 
> My problem is that with but few exceptions, for me substitutions such 
> as mashed cauliflower for mashed potatoes just don't cut it! C'mon! 
> Each person has "/her otwn tastes/tolerances/intolerances.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie Kline
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 1:08 PM
> To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> 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 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).
> 
>  
> 
> 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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