Nancy T. Maar - The Everything Sugar-Free Cookbook: Make sugarfree dishes you and your family will crave!

THE EVERYTHING SUGAR-FREE COOKBOOK

Satisfy your sweet tooth with elegant entrees and decadent desserts your family will crave!

Nancy T. Maar Technical Review by Julie Negrin, M.S.

DISCLAIMER: Although the American Diabetes Association states that it is safe for diabetics to eat sucralose, it's always a good idea for diabetics to consult with a doctor when making dietary changes.

This book does not use ingredients such as refined white sugar, raw sugar, honey, or molasses. But some recipes do use ingredients that contain naturally occurring fruit sugars. Fruit, vegetables, fresh fruit juice, and unique ingredients like tamarind all fall into this category. When possible, freshly squeezed juice is recommended rather than store bought. Other ingredients like dried fruits, fruit juice, jams, and yogurts should specify no added sugars on the packaging. Most of these products contain added sugars but can be easily bought without added sugars at most health food stores.

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The Sugar-Free Cookbook

Dear Reader,

When I was trying to quit smoking, I learned to quickly envision some other sensory image whenever a craving for a cigarette struck me. What does Chanel No. 5 smell like? I'd ask myself, and the scent of one of my least-favorite perfumes would occupy my senses. After a very few seconds, the cigarette craving would go away. If I couldn't imagine a scent, I'd try a visual image. Images of yellow chickens and pink pigs made me smile and lessened my cravings. Over time, the cravings became more and more rare and of shorter duration. The same principle applies to leading a sugar-free life. Just line up some things for your self to visualize or recall when you want something sweet.

Go for it! Have an apple, a banana, a diet soda, or a dish of sugar-free ice cream! Or make some of the recipes in this book, and soon you'll find you have lost interest in eating sugar.

Welcome to the Series!

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We now have more than 400 Everything books in print, spanning such wide-ranging categories as weddings, pregnancy, cooking, music instruction, foreign language, crafts, pets, New Age, and so much more. When you're done reading them all, you can finally say you know Everything!

Answers to common questions

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Dedication

This is for my sister, Jamie Glade, and for all of those with both diabetes and cravings for sweets. Try these recipes to assuage your sweet tooth.

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to my editor, Kerry Smith, for her patience and juggling abilities in getting through not one but two cookbooks, which I wrote more or less (mostly more) simultaneously! I deeply appreciate the good offices of my agent, June Clark, and her efforts on my behalf. Thank you, Kerry and June!

Introduction

Artificial sweeteners, a great boon to diabetics and dieters alike, are finally coming into their own. New developments have improved the taste and quality of artificial sweetners, eliminating the nasty aftertaste of early versions.