Ever since I read that Antony was going to publish this book I have been anxiously awaiting its publication.
Since my daughter, who is 19 and diabetic, struggles to create a healthy diet with fresh ingredients, we are always looking for new ideas and recipes.
We walked into the bookstore today and just happened to see it with all the other new cookbooks.
After some discussion we decided to shell out £9.99 (£3 off the cover price) as the pictures and recipes looked so much like the types of food my daughter, a student, has been creating herself, but of course Antony has even more imagination and experience in the kitchen field!
To be honest, we were fed up with the boring, mediocre offerings that are supposed to inspire us to eat healthy, and the photos in this book looked tempting.
The book has been created in association with Diabetes UK and co-written with Azmina Govindji and Jane Suthering.
I love the great recipes you’ve come up with, and while they’re designed to help type 2 diabetics lose weight, they’ll also be great for anyone with type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes who’s trying to get their blood sugar under better control.
Since Antony has already written a best-selling book on the GI diet (it sold nearly half a million copies, so it can’t be bad), he’s already familiar with creating such foods that are tasty, healthy, and nutritious.
There is a good long introduction on the types of foods to eat and avoid and why. Antony then launches into the recipes themselves, including some wonderful ideas for creating snacks and desserts. He also strives to include fruits and vegetables as much as possible, to guarantee his five a day.
If you’ve looked at regular cookbooks, you know how difficult it can be to find recipes that are just right, especially for breakfast and dessert. Antony goes to great lengths 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:- Tabbouleh of tropical fruits and toasted bacon and spiced roasted tomato
Snacks:- Mini seed snacks, plum salami, hazelnuts and apricot cup.
Portable Meal:- Chunk Potato Soup, Panzanella Salad, Smoked Trout Kedgeree, and Low-GI Mini Bread Tomato Pizza
Main courses:- quick vegetable stir-fry, white bean and lamb stew, mackerel with herbs and baked sardines with tomato
Desserts:- Papaya Lime Sherbet, Strawberry Shortcake, Nightgown Pears, and Roasted Peaches with Blueberries.
There is no recipe that does not look appetizing, healthy and filling. We are busy planning recipes for the next few weeks to find out how good all of these taste!
While some may think that Antony wrote this as a spin-off of his best-selling GI diet books, in fact, he used his experience to create relevant and exciting foods for diabetics.
If you’re looking for interesting recipes to create with fresh, readily available ingredients, check out a copy the next time you’re at the bookstore.