The Diabetic Cookbook and Meal Plan for the Newly Diagnosed: A 4-Week Introductory Guide to Manage Type 2 Diabetes

This book is filled with helpful information for a newbie who has just been diagnosed. It is written clearly and will help you decide what to eat. I have tried quite a few recipes, enjoyed some, and tweaked others. There are chocolate zucchini muffins and egg bites that make for a fantastic breakfast. I made a whole-wheat tortilla roll-up with chicken and vegetables that I will keep pushing. I changed another recipe from a tuna hummus to a chicken hummus sandwich. The recipes hint at what you could add to your meal to make it more nutritionally complete. There is even a shopping list and a week-by-week menu you can follow.

I've only had this book about a week, so far I'm really happy with it! I am prediabetic and have struggled trying to figure out what I should/shouldn't eat even after seeing a Dietician who gave me a guide with a plate for what types of food I should eat but I needed a little more hand holding because while I liked all the "should eat" foods I struggled with how to make a meal out of the ingredients. The meal plan in this book is a great guide! So far all the recipes I've tried have tasted better than I expected, theyre easy and I appreciate the nutritional info with each recipe as well. I would definitely recommend this for someone who needs a little hand holding or even for someone looking for diabetic friendly recipes. The other bonus is my daughter has celiac and these recipes are either gluten free already or easy to modify for gluten free

This was a informative cookbook. It had a lot of useful and helpful information about type 2 diabetes. The language was easy to understand. It talked about diet, medication, exercise, and more. There are some nice recipes and a meal plan to follow. All to help you maintain and improve your health and build healthier eating habits.

Colorful and easy to follow. Nice layout and user friendly recipes.

If you are learning to cook for a diabetic this is THE book to have. I am a retired chef and these recipes are all delicious! The author doesn't just make the recipes healthy but so tasty even non-diabetics in the family will love them. They also work - our numbers were within acceptable range in just 4 weeks and our doctors asked what we were doing to get them down so fast and said keep doing it. I have recommended this book to everyone I know, not just the diabetic friends. Those that bought it said the same thing: they couldn't believe this was healthy cooking it was so good!

My wife was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and I need to shed a few pounds, so we really liked the idea of a meal plan for the first four weeks so we could have some time to settle on a long range meal plan moving forward into this new territory. The recipes generally require more prep than we're used to because all the fresh veggies, but are generally tasty and not all that difficult to prepare. But then we hit a dinner that took 1.5 hours to prepare--mostly because the two recipes that made up the meal were oven-baked--at two different temperatures. Between the baking and the prep and the additional broiling required for one of the recipes, we wound up with recipe too cold to be tasty any more. We both work. Fortunately, I work from home and could accommodate the additional time required--but this isn't s five course holiday meal and I had better things to do than spend an additional hour of my day in the kitchen. Most diabetics I know are older. Most are retired. This kind of work on hard tile for this long is a no-go from the git-go. In another example, left-overs are used for meals--and that's great--but we hit a meal for one more leftover than is accounted for in the plan. In this case it was tortilla chicken soup (which is quite tasty) that's supposed to be for four servings. But there were two following leftover meals. If this plan is for one person, we didn't know. The other leftovers seemed to work out okay for serving two at each meal. Either the information needs to be very, very clear and up front that this plan is for one person or the extra leftover meal has to be deleted. I get that the author is a nutritionist. I'd suggest that the author employ a senior diabetic to test the entire plan before publishing it.

Great

I thought this was going to be brilliant but there are far too many ingredients that are not available here as this is obviously aimed at the American market so a bit of a waste of money in my view but I will adapt certain recipes so it’s not all bad.

Recent health issues related to potential diabetes diagnosis led us to change our diet and I found this cookbook on Amazon. What a find! I have tried over 30 of the recipes now and they have all been very good! I've added red pepper flakes or cayenne pepper to the recipes the second time around if the flavors have been a bit mild, but overall, I highly recommend this cookbook! This is a keeper! Lastly, the "complete the plate" section at the end of each recipe is a great way to ensure the proper balance of your meals. Even if you aren't diabetic, this cookbook has delicious recipes for just plain old good cooking!

This books great for people who want to either cook something different or want help with what they can have that will help their condition

I’m not diabetic but wanted to start eating a clean, low carb diet (inspired by Jason Fung’s The Obesity Code, and wanting to kick my takeout habit). I followed the meal plans and they were wonderful! I didn’t have to cook every day or spend an inordinate amount of time. There are simple, tasty meals and the meal plans build in many opportunities for leftovers so you’re not cooking every day. Love it and now I want to try the non-meal plan meals too!