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24th January 2007
The Diabetes Weight Loss Diet - the latest offering from Antony Worrall Thompson
Ever since I read that Antony was bringing this book out I've been eagerly awaiting it's publication.
Alissa & I popped into the bookshop today and just happened to see it with all the other "health" and "cooking" books. It was a bit of a wind-down from our time at the hospital for her regular diabetic clinic and to collect Patrick (more of which later...).
After much discussion, we decided to fork out the £9.99 (£3 off the cover price) as the pictures and recipes in there looked much like the sorts of foods that Alissa has been creating herself - but, of course, Antony has even more imagination and expertise in the field of cooking!
The book's been created in association with Diabetes UK and co-written with Azmina Govindji & Jane Suthering.
I love the great recipes that they've created - and although they're designed to help Type 2 diabetics with weight loss, they'll also be great for anyone with diabetes who's trying to get better control of their sugar levels.
As Antony's already written a best selling book on the GI Diet (sold nearly half a million copies, so can't be bad) he's already familiar with creating that kind of food that's both tasty, healthy and nutritious.
There's a good long introduction about the types of foods you should eat and avoid and why. Then Antony launches into the recipes themselves, including some wonderful ideas for creating snacks and desserts (SO difficult to create when most regular recipe books only have sugar-packed ideas). He also makes an effort to include fruit and veg as much as possible, to ensure your five-a-day.
I don't know about you, but modern day recipe books can often create recipes which are too time consuming or which have ingredients which you can only find in specialist shops. Antony goes out of his way to make sure that most of the recipes can be created with ingredients that are easily available at most major supermarkets, a real plus as far as I'm concerned.
My favourite recipes so far (though I haven't tried any yet, that's reserved for when Alissa comes home for a few days next week) are:-
Breakfast:- Tropical fruit tabbouleh & Spiced Grilled Tomato & Bacon toasts
Snacks:- Mini seed snacks, prune and hazelnut salami & Apricot beaker loaf.
Portable food:- Chunky potato soup, panzanella salad, smoked trout kedgeree and mini low gi bread and tomato pizza
Main Meals:- quick vegetable stir fry, white bean and lamb stew, herby mackerel and baked sardines with tomato
Desserts:- papaya and lime sorbet, strawberry tart, pears in nightshirts and roasted peaches with blueberries.
There is not a recipe that does not look appetizing, healthy and filling - I can't wait until we plan a weeks worth of recipes from it to actually find out just how great these all taste!
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