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Summary: Looks May Be Deceiving
Review: I was excited to get a cookbook with so many recipies...until I looked at them. On first glance, the recipies do not have "real life" ingredients or quantities listed! For example, "Homesytle Apple Pie", p. 128, serves 8 and is 1 Bread, 2 Fruit & 1.5 Fat/serving. This is within my plan, so I go to make it, then stop at the ingredient: "1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, undiluted". Who is going to buy a whole can of apple juice concentrate, then not be able to use it all? I doubt that there is another recipie I could find to use that up during the week, and day 5 of "Homestyle Apple Pie" would get a bit old. If I have dibbles & dabbles of all these ingredients (Neufchatel cheese? p. 129; 1/4 cup chopped Avacado--what do you do with the other 3/4 vegetable? Tofu?, 1/2 14oz Can No Salt Tomatoes?) I will be looking at things that I can't use, and just waste precious space in the refrigerator or pantry until I can find another recipie that calls for these tiny amounts again or let the ingredients spoil. I already have that problem with basic celery and all the other veggies I have to buy! I normally plan my meals so I can use the 1/2 can of corn or beans in a different meal, and I have leftovers like most people. 4-8 Servings is normally not a problem, and I can freeze leftovers. It is frustrating to see a recipie that serves 20 (Applesauce Spice Cake, p.122) that can't even be easily divided in half so you don't make as much. This book is going into the "Maybe for a Pot Luck Idea" stack, but I'm almost afraid to use it because I haven't tasted it myself. Many Diabetic recipies are often bland or taste really bad, so why would I want to torture my co-workers with "healthy" food, too? This cookbook looked like a good idea, but save your money unless you have a big refigerator and lots of small containers and want to spend a lot of time going through everything. The pictures look good, the recipie titles sound yummy, but the ingredients are not realistic. I may try some of the chicken dishes, but at least half of this book isn't usable. So far, the cookbooks I've gone to for most of the "good, we'll use this again" recipies are the Diabetic 4 Ingredient Or Less Cookbook or one of the many cookbooks from JoAnna M. Lund. It is hard enough being Diabetic, and trying to cook for someone who isn't. I don't need to have a full refrigerator with nothing to eat, too.
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Summary: Great Recipes!
Review: Of all the diabetic cookbooks that I have tried, this is my favorite. The dishes are generally easy to make and extremely tasty. Even my family raves about the meals that I have made from this book. Ms. Cain has definitely made my adjustment to life with diabetes much easier.
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