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A Food-Based Way to Help Manage and Prevent Diabetes“This book makes an important contribution to promoting health for people with diabetes or for those wanting to prevent diabetes...” ─
Cheryl Anderson, PhD
Fresh, healthy, easy-to-make recipes to balance blood sugarStart cooking with flavor again. After her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, food blogger, writer, and photographer Jennifer Shun’s family’s life—and cooking—dramatically changed. Facing bland and boring meals, she developed in her California kitchen nutritious, flavorful, and enjoyable options for her family. Jennifer brings her years of personal experience with diabetes cooking to over 80 original delicious and healthy recipes that can help prevent and manage diabetes.
A healthy diabetic diet. Unlike prepacked and dull meal plans recommended by some diabetes experts, recipes in this book feature flavorful, layered, and naturally low in carbohydrate meals with no ingredient swaps or artificial sweeteners. All ingredients are simple and natural, with nothing processed or obscure. From Pecan Pancakes to Slow-Cooked Balsamic Chicken, to Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread, be inspired you to cook with whole foods.
Meal planning with diabetes. For Good Measure shows you that cooking for diabetes does not need to be daunting. Armed with a dash of knowledge and a sprinkle of inspiration, delicious meals are well within your reach.
Inside you’ll find:- Nutritional information accompanying every recipe, including serving size, yield, calories, net carbs, total carbs, fat, protein, and fiber
- Beautiful full-color photography featuring recipes for a diabetic diet
- Personal insight into using food to help prevent and manage diabetes from a perspective of abundance rather than depletion
If you liked Super Easy Diabetic Cookbook for Beginners; The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook; or Simple and Delicious Vegan, you’ll love For Good Measure: A Diabetic Cookbook.
About the author
Jennifer Shun is a writer, skilled home cook, and mother of a daughter living with Type 1 diabetes. She shares her recipe development, food styling and photography passions on her diabetic lifestyle blog forgoodmeasure.com. She is also the author of novel-in-stories
We Once Had Wings. Jennifer lives with her husband, daughters, and a black cat in southern California. Guaranteed she’s writing something with a #2 Ticonderoga as you read this, while a Dutch oven simmers.
Summary
A Food-Based Way to Help Manage and Prevent Diabetes
“This book makes an important contribution to promoting health for people with diabetes or for those wanting to prevent diabetes...” ─
Cheryl Anderson, PhD
Fresh, healthy, easy-to-make recipes to balance blood sugarStart cooking with flavor again. After her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, food blogger, writer, and photographer Jennifer Shun’s family’s life—and cooking—dramatically changed. Facing bland and boring meals, she developed in her California kitchen nutritious, flavorful, and enjoyable options for her family. Jennifer brings her years of personal experience with diabetes cooking to over 80 original delicious and healthy recipes that can help prevent and manage diabetes.
A healthy diabetic diet. Unlike prepacked and dull meal plans recommended by some diabetes experts, recipes in this book feature flavorful, layered, and naturally low in carbohydrate meals with no ingredient swaps or artificial sweeteners. All ingredients are simple and natural, with nothing processed or obscure. From Pecan Pancakes to Slow-Cooked Balsamic Chicken, to Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread, be inspired you to cook with whole foods.
Meal planning with diabetes. For Good Measure shows you that cooking for diabetes does not need to be daunting. Armed with a dash of knowledge and a sprinkle of inspiration, delicious meals are well within your reach.
Inside you’ll find:- Nutritional information accompanying every recipe, including serving size, yield, calories, net carbs, total carbs, fat, protein, and fiber
- Beautiful full-color photography featuring recipes for a diabetic diet
- Personal insight into using food to help prevent and manage diabetes from a perspective of abundance rather than depletion
If you liked Super Easy Diabetic Cookbook for Beginners; The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook; or Simple and Delicious Vegan, you’ll love For Good Measure: A Diabetic Cookbook.
