Pamela Rice Hahn - The Everything Diabetes Cookbook: 300 Creative and Healthy Recipes That Put the Fun Back into Cooking

THE EVERYTHING DIABETES COOKBOOK

300 creative and healthy recipes that put the fun back into cooking

Pamela Rice Hahn Foreword by Sally Kattau, R.D., L.D., C.D.E.

Copyright 2002, F+W Publications, Inc.

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Hahn, Pamela Rice.

The everything diabetes cookbook : 300 creative and healthy recipes that put the fun back into cooking / Pamela Rice Hahn

p. cm. (An everything series book)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-58062-691-2

ISBN 13: 978-1-60550-570-1 (EPUB)

1. Diabetes Diet therapy Recipes. II. Title. III. Everything series.

RC662 .H33 2002

641.526314 dc21

2002008442

Recipes that include smoked ingredients or sausage may be high in sodium. Consult with your doctor and use in moderation.

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Dear Reader,

A diabetes diagnosis forces a variety of lifestyle changes a major one being your need to re-educate your palate. The Everything Diabetes Cookbook is designed to ease that transition for you.

You may need to learn an entirely new way to cook. Don't let that scare or intimidate you! Granted, at first you'll make a few mistakes I'm still making them myself! I make most of my mistakes during experiments, but they lead to better ways to prepare healthier meals. My loss is your gain, because on these pages I relate what I've learned by giving you step-by-step instructions on how a few simple substitutions and changes to your usual cooking methods will produce healthier dishes that still taste great.

To help you know how to incorporate these recipes into your food plan, each recipe includes a Nutritional Analysis and Exchange Approximations. This information comes from analysis by the NutriBase 2001 software program.

Because foods like whole grain breads and pasta, beans, peas, lentils, bulgur, unrefined and less-refined rice, and oat bran are known to be heart-healthy, I've chosen to include those ingredients as often as possible. In fact, I've taken things to extremes in ways that may surprise you, such as adding beans to some desserts to increase the protein and fiber content like the Apple Cookies with a Kick recipe in Chapter 14.

Writing The Everything Diabetes Cookbook has been both an enjoyable and an educational experience for me. I've made some amazing discoveries like the aforementioned success of adding beans to a cookie recipe, and the ease with which I was able to create low-fat condensed soup substitutes for the casseroles in Chapter 6.

My fervent hope is that you have as much fun and enjoyment using these recipes as I had creating them.