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With Food for Everybody: Cooking for Diabetes the Low GI Way, you can forget the fads, forget the magic foods - simply develop sensible eating habits for long term health and diabetes management.
Not long ago the ruling wisdom for people with diabetes was to cut back on sugar, cut back on carbs, cut back on the pleasures of sharing food with family and friends! Taking advantage of the latest developments in science and food technology Food for Everybody: Cooking for Diabetes the Low GI Way presents a collection of simple, everyday recipes that allow the whole family to enjoy a broad range of tasty nutritious meals without the need for special foods.
Food for Everybody has over 100 recipes focusing on key food groups - potatoes, rice, pasta grains and lentils. Enjoy delicious Grilled Tandoori Beef Kebabs with Spicy Smashed Sweet Potato, Vietnamese style Rice paper Roll Ups, Italian Pork and Veal Meatballs, Mexican Chicken with Crispy Corn Tortilla and heavenly desserts such as Cardamon scented Custard pots and Hazelnut Lemon Cake.
Features include:
- a unique 'at a glance' glycaemic load symbol to help with blood glucose level management
- nutritional panels for each recipe
- useful kitchen basics and menu suggestions
- handy hints throughout
- a self diagnosis exercise to assess your current eating habits
- FAQ's
Authors:
Jane Barnes, originally a bio-chemist, is a Sydney based Accredited Practising Dietician who runs a private practice, providing common sense nutritional solutions to everyday eating problems. She has previously written several books on nutrition and is a regular health and women's magazine contributor.
Sydney Pemberton trained at the Cordon Bleu School in London. She runs growers' market tours in Sydney and specialist hands-on cooking classes for adults and children. She also has a successful catering business. Syd has written several books on kitchen and household hints and nine cookbooks, two with Jane Barnes.
A Christmas recipe for you
And now that Christmas is just around the corner and the holidays are a time when family and friends get together, here's recipe selection we've plucked out for you. Keep some little rhubarb and strawberry cakes on hand, and whip them out when visitors call in!
Little rhubarb and strawberry cakes (makes 12)
2 cups unbleached self raising flour
1/3 cup of brown sugar or 1/3 cup of Fruisana
250g of strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
200g rhubarb, trimmed and roughly chopped
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
2 omega-enriched eggs
1 cup plain low fat yoghurt
1/3 cup vegetable oil or light olive oil
2 tablespoons strawberry or blackcurrent jam (warmed in microwave or saucepan)
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin tin.
- In a bowl mix flour, brown sugar or Fruisana, strawberries and rhubarb. In a separate bowl lightly whisk vanilla extract, eggs, yoghurt and oil. Pour wet ingredients into flour mixture and stir lightly until just combined.
- Spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin. Bake for 20 minutes then remove from oven. Brush with a little jam to glaze tops. Return to oven for a further 5 minutes, remove from oven and rest for 5 minutes, then carefully turn out cakes onto wire rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature, accompanied with low fat ice-cream.
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The first 1000 completed updates received will each win a copy of Food for Everybody: Cooking for Diabetes the Low GI Way. The winners will be sent their copy of the book. The prize cannot be exchanged for cash. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.