Diabetes Comfort Food

Product Description

Managing diabetes can include soul-satisfying comfort foods.
Many who are committed to managing diabetes feel deprived of the comfort foods others enjoy regularly. Everyone needs a soul-satisfying dish once in a while.
Diabetes Comfort Food offers 250 recipes that bring to mind the warmth of home and family. Each recipe has been reviewed by a Certified Diabetes Educator and features a data-box of complete nutritional analysis per serving as well as an “Exchanges per Serving box.”
Anyone with diabetes can enjoy such comforting dishes as:

Creamy mushroom soup, honey-garlic chicken wings
Sunday roast beef with wine gravy, zesty barbecued spareribs
Best-ever macaroni and cheese, baked penne with Italian sausage and sweet peppers
Classic scalloped potatoes, creamed spinach and mushroom bake
Butter tarts, oven French toast, classic chocolate chip cookies.

Also included are recipe tips, meal suggestions and make-ahead ideas that will appeal to both novice and experienced home cooks.
Managing diabetes can include interesting as well as healthful dishes. This book includes a wonderful variety of comfort foods that follow a sensible meal plan.

Review

[Burkhard’s recipes] show that a diagnosis of diabetes doesn’t signal the end of flavorful nutritious food or mean eating boring food forever…. The easy-to-prepare recipes can be enjoyed by the whole family. (Ann Hattes
Mature Living)

No one at the table will feel deprived eating Chicken Tetrazzini, Asian Flank Steak or Crème Caramel from [this book]. (Claudia Kousoulas
Cookbook Digest)

Filled with lots of advice for those living with diabetes. (Cheramie Sonnier
Baton Rouge Advocate 2006-12-07)

The easy to prepare recipes can be enjoyed by the whole family. (Ann Hattes
Senior papers across U.S. 2007-03-31)

May help rekindle the warm memories of years gone by with more than 250 recipes adjusted for the needs of the diabetic family. (
Gainesville Sun 2006-10-25)

Diabetics don’t have to give up eating foods they enjoy. The 225 recipes in this book have been altered for diabetics…. They taste very good and are healthy versions of popular comfort foods that everyone enjoys. (Phyllis Steinberg
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 2006-11-08)

Having diabetes doesn’t mean having to forego your favorite dishes or eating boring food forever. (
National Examiner)

All stuff that a diabetic can indulge in. And everyone else can, too. (
Arizona Daily Star 2007-01-03)

About the Author

Johanna Burkhard is a freelance food consultant and recipe developer who contributes to a variety of magazines and appears regularly on television and radio. She lives in Toronto.
Barbara Selley is a registered dietitian, published author and cooking instructor. She lives in Toronto.

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Introduction
Each of us has our own favorite comfort foods — whether they be special-occasion meals that bring back memories of time spent with family and friends, or cherished recipes that evoke raves when you serve them. People with diabetes (and those planning and cooking meals for them) sometimes assume they will no longer be able to enjoy their favorite comfort foods. Not true. This book will help you prepare healthy, soul-satisfying meals using familiar recipes that every member of the family, including those with diabetes, will enjoy — meals with a variety of breads and other grain products; vegetables and fruit; lean meat, poultry and fish; and lower-fat dairy products.
For people with diabetes, one of the primary goals is maintaining or achieving a healthy weight. This means controlling calorie intake and limiting total fat to no more than 30% of calories and saturated fat to no more than 10% of calories. For a person eating 2,000 calories a day, for example, the total fat consumed should be about 65 grams, including no more than 22 grams of saturated fat.
Controlling sodium is also important. Sodium in the diet comes pr