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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Misleading title This book was a great disappointment. It should really be called Diabetic sweets, because more than half its content is given to what we English would call sweets ( candies for the Americans ).There are very few actual dessert recipes and most of those are classic recipes slightly adapted for diabetics in a way which any intelligent reader could have worked out for themselves. If you are looking for interesting desserts and puddings this is not the book for you.
A restricted diet doesn't have to taste like cardboard. I acquired my first copy of this book when my dad was in the hospital and was placed on dialysis and we had to make sudden and radical changes to his diet. Critical to us was that his diet required we monitor all dietary content. We were impressed with this book because listed for each recipe is a detailed breakdown of nutritional values including such things salt, iron, potassium, vitamins, calories, fat, sugar, fiber and a lot of stuff I never knew existed, but is critically important for someone on a... more info
