I basically never put much effort into eating well, so in the beginning I was King of No Carbs. Then one day I realised I was so hungry I may not have enough strength to stand up and it all kind of fell away to the sidelines.
Ideally I am looking for a book, with good and basic ideas for diabetes friendly meals
I am type 1
I could use the same thing! Because I am a single parent and I work 50 - 70 hours per week and am sleep-deprived because I try to keep tight control of my Type 1 daughterâs BGs and am old (a going-on-58-year-old mother of a 13-year-old is an old mother), I do extremely little shopping and/or cooking. Hence, we eat like crap. Letâs put it this way: without MickeyDâs, Taco Hell, Booger Fling, and Fairy Queen, my daughter and I would starve. Unfortunately, Iâm serious.
Iâd be all over a simple meal, low-ish carb cookbook (not low carb; Iâm a firm believer in the necessity of carbs for normal brain growth and development in children) if someone would like to recommend one⌠
same here iâm looking for a good book for diabetes friendly meals. & i found 3 http://www.amazon.com/Diabetic-Living-Diabetes-Meals-Plate/dp/0544302133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450337772&sr=8-1&keywords=diabetes+cook+books & http://www.amazon.com/Diabetic-Cookbook-Two-Perfectly-Heart-Healthy/dp/1623156076/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1450337802&sr=8-6&keywords=diabetes+cookbooks & http://www.amazon.com/Diabetic-Living-Quick-Easy-Meals/dp/0470872802/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1450338017&sr=8-11&keywords=diabetes+cookbooks.i got the last one on my Kindle & been beging my mom to let me cook one thing out of it.
I have to be honest, cookbooks can be totally all over the map. Since much of the âmainstreamâ dietary advice from organizations like the ADA and AND (and Diabetic Living) have recommended a low fat high carb calorie restricted diet most of the cookbooks on the market follow this model. They will give you a recipe for pasta with a tasteless fat free sauce and then tell you that the serving size is a half cup. And then half the cookbook is desserts, but the desserts are all non-fat/low fat treats, perhaps made without sugar but very high in carbs. I personally consider 300-500g of carbs a day to be really, really, really bad for those of us with diabetes. So I think most âdiabetesâ cookbooks to be totally useless. What we really need are cookbooks that help use with carb restricted cooking.
That is not to say there are not cookbooks out there. But what I have found is that with my diet looking for âLow Carbâ or âPaleoâ leads to cookbooks that are much more suited to my dietary needs. Early on I became a fan of anything from Dana Carpender and George Stella. More recently Iâve appreciated authors such as Maria Emmerich, Judy Barnes Baker or Michelle Tam. But over time cookbooks are increasingly something I read for inspiration and I just cook. And I often search in websites like epicurious.com rather than searching in a cookbook.
If you want a good low carb cookbook with fast and easy meals you might consider the âNew Atkins for a New You Cookbook.â
i going give the "New Atkins for a New You Cookbook2. a try. i have it on Kindle to.
I remember this interview being particularly good (Franziska Spritzler)
she also has a website here
she is a RD and CDE
Iâm kinda like Brian, I like to cook and read cookbooks and magazines for inspiration. I love Fine Cooking magazine and all their recipes have the nutritionals
I often find good recipes on âRecipes for Healthâ,Martha Rose Shulmanâs column on the New York Times. Available on-line, very searchable,and all recipes include nutritional info.
Hi @rgcainmd,
I found your names of fast food places hilarious! I thought my husband was the only one that did that. People always find it funny. Here are some of ours: Dead Robbin (red robbin), Anal mart (walmart- its not fast food but its a joke we share. My husband used to work their in high school), Booger King, Jack in the crack just to name a few. My husband used to work at Pizza Hut and Dominos. We called Pizza Hut, Pizza Hell or Jabba the Hut. Its too easy to make fun of the that. We have others but right this second iâm drawing a blank on the others.
Good laugh. 
Busybee
You donât even want to know what I call Starbucks⌠
Many, many years ago, we were sitting in the drive-thru line at McDonalds. It was a busy time and we were about the 5th or 6th car in line. For some reason, the line was stopped and not movingâI mean, not at all. Maybe it was everyoneâs break, or maybe the computers were down. Whatever. Anyway, after sitting for 6 or 7 minutes with nothing happening, someone a few cars ahead of us rolled down their window and shouted loud enough for the entire neighborhood to hear, âHey! I thought this was supposed to be fast food!!â
Speaking of MickeyDâsâŚ
Many, many years ago when I was a college student living in the dorms, a young woman who lived on my floor had a part-time job at a nearby MickeyDâs. At that time there was a television commercial with a jingle whose lyrics included the phrase âYou deserve a break today, âŚâ Shortly after this commercial began airing, someone spray-painted on the wall of this particular McDonalds âYou deserve a brick todayâ and proceeded to throw a brick through the glass.
It wasnât me, I swear!