Ever since I read that Antony was putting this book out, I have been eagerly awaiting its publication.
As my daughter, who is 19 years old and diabetic, is struggling to create a healthy diet from fresh ingredients, we are always looking for new ideas and recipes.
We went to the bookstore today and happened to see it with all the other new cookbooks.
After a bit of discussion we decided to fork out £ 9.99 (£ 3 off the cover price) as the images and recipes there looked a lot like the kind of food my daughter, a student, has been creating herself, but, of course Antony has even more imagination and experience in the field of cooking!
To be honest, we were fed up with the boring and lackluster offerings that are supposed to inspire us to eat healthy and the photos in this book looked tantalizing.
The book has been created in association with Diabetes UK and co-written with Azmina Govindji and Jane Suthering.
I love the great recipes they have created, and while they are designed to help type 2 diabetics lose weight, they will also be great for anyone with type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes who is trying to get better control of their blood levels. sugar.
Since Antony has already written a best-selling book on the GI diet (it sold almost half a million copies, so it can’t be bad) you are already familiar with creating that type of food that is both tasty, healthy and nutritious.
There is a good long introduction to the types of foods to eat and avoid and why. Then Antony launches into the recipes themselves, including some wonderful ideas for creating snacks and desserts. He also makes an effort to include fruits and vegetables as much as possible, to ensure his five per day.
If you’ve looked through the usual cookbooks, you know how difficult it can be to find suitable recipes, especially for breakfast and dessert. Antony goes out of his way to ensure that most recipes can be created with ingredients that are readily available in most major supermarkets, a real plus as far as I’m concerned.
My favorite recipes so far are: –
Breakfast: – Tabule of tropical fruits and grilled tomato and bacon toast with spices
Appetizers: – Mini sandwiches with seeds, plum, hazelnut salami and apricot glass bread.
Portable Food: – Chunk Potato Soup, Panzanella Salad, Smoked Trout Kedgeree, and Mini Low Gi Bread and Tomato Pizza.
Main Meals: – Quick sautéed vegetables, white bean and lamb stew, herb mackerel and baked sardines with tomato.
Desserts: – papaya and lime sorbet, strawberry tart, pears in nightgown and toasted peaches with blueberries.
There is no recipe that does not seem appetizing, healthy and filling; we are busy planning recipes for the next few weeks to find out how good all these ingredients taste.
While some may think that Antony wrote this as a spinoff from his best-selling books on GI diets, he has in fact used his experience to create relevant and exciting foods for diabetics.
If you’re looking for cool recipes to create from fresh, readily available ingredients, check out a copy the next time you’re at the bookstore.