These amazing recipes demonstrate the wonders that can be worked with a mere 350 calories. Marlene Koch has cleverly eliminated the sugar and the fat but not the flavor from all kinds of goodies, from spaghetti and meatballs to milkshakes and peanut butter cookies. The recipes are designed to be not only low-cal and filling but easy to prepare, and versatile enough for family dinners or parties--guaranteed to please.
One of the most comprehensive family-friendly diabetes and weight-loss cookbooks,
Eat What You Love provides more than 300 delicious and healthy recipes that everyone can enjoy, and will allow family members on a special diet to continue to eat what they love. The recipes cover all meals from breakfasts to dinner entrees, including pasta, desserts, and drinks.
The cookbook also contains helpful information about the different types of diabetes, pre-diabetes, and a basic overview of the foods to eat and foods to avoid. You will learn about calories, sugar and sugar substitutes, fat, proteins, and fiber, and how they work together to give you a balanced diet.
The book includes a section on how to read the nutritional information for each recipe and how to utilize the diabetic exchange system. Helpful charts provide at-a-glance information for the diabetic exchanges and carbohydrate tracking. It covers cooking tips and provides information on healthy carb-conscious ingredients. Chock-full of color photographs, this is the only family cookbook you will need.