Just joined tudiabetes – this site is going to be great. In my search for information and stuff to help manage my diabetes….i was looking at diabetic cooking magazine and found a free diabetes cookbook. Just got it the other day and it is called “Eating Well with Diabetes” had to register to get the book - but it is all free. It’s a real book and has 350 recipes…good stuff. Just wanted to share with my new friends – i got the book at cornerstones4care.com/cookbook1 it is a info page that you fill out and 2 weeks later I got the book. Good Luck. I love free stuff.
Well, I have to tell you, I got this book for free, unsolicited in the mail last year and I was unimpressed. I wrote about it last september. Personally, I found the book to be outdated using the exchange system and dietary concepts from the 1950s and 60s, and to really not be very interesting from a cooking point of view. I consider myself a experienced and savvy cook, so combined with my views of proper diet, so in the end I didn’t even feel good about giving it away to another diabetic.
I certainly understand the thrill of getting something free. My wife is always on my case, sometimes I shop and find that I can get something for free. Last time it was 12 pounds of breakfast sausage. In then end, I think this book was such a loser that they are just giving it away and writing off the loss.
That’s sort of how I feel about most diabetic cookbooks, bsc! They either aren’t truly good for diabetics or they just aren’t truly good! I’d rather pick and choose among good recipes and modify them if needed.
But thanks for the recommendation; I love free stuff too, even better than garage sale bargains!
Thanks for your perspective. I’m a simple guy. I’m always on the go and a couple of easy to make recipes can’t hurt. Last night I tried the bean dish and salad it worked out great. But i do love breakfast sausage, so send some over.
Have a wonderful day.
Sometimes I need to remember that not everyone has the exact same needs/interests as me. I’m a vegetarian and a foodie and have time for making complex recipes, which is one of the things I enjoy most!
When I was first dx’d over 4 years ago I made the mistake of buying diabetic cookbooks. I love to cook and thought wow I can eat all these great recipes. Once I started to browse through the cookbooks I found they use very high carb ingredients and usually cut portion size to make it seem it is low carb. I finally realised the best cookbooks are the Low carb cookbooks like Dana Carpender’s or go online to low carb sites for free. My favorite are www.genaw.com/lowcarb/ or www.lowcarbdiets.about.com
I guess for me, I don’t like “low carb recipes” so much as “recipes that are low(er) carb.” That’s another reason I don’t go truly low carb, I’m just not big on all those substitutions and “make-do’s”. If I can’t eat the “real thing” I’ll just do fine without it (like I do with desserts). I think it would have to take somebody sitting me down and feeding me something with substitutions for me to believe it was as good. And maybe not telling me ahead of time…lol.
My endo gave me an ADA published cookbook.
Nothing particulary low in carbs, or even sugar, in there, and most of it I probably couldn’t eat without significantly raising my BG. But wow they are low in fat. Like that does me any good.
I think the ADA will just put their logo on anything.