Book Review: For Good Measure: A Diabetic Cookbook by Jennifer Shun

 

Title: For Good Measure: A Diabetic Cookbook: Over 80 Healthy, Flavorful Recipes to Balance Blood Sugar

Author: Jennifer Shun

Pages: 229

Publication Date: Dec. 5, 2023

Source: Edelweiss

GoodReads Description: Discover a Food-Based Way to Help Prevent and Manage DiabetesFresh, healthy, easy-to-make recipes to balance blood sugar.

Start cooking with flavor again.  After her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, food blogger, writer, and photographer Jennifer Shun’s family’s life—and cooking—dramatically changed. Facing bland and boring meals, she developed in her California kitchen nutritious, nourishing, flavorful, and enjoyable options for her family. In For Good Measure, Jennifer brings her years of personal experience with diabetes cooking to over 80 original delicious and healthy recipes that can help prevent and manage diabetes.

A healthy diabetic diet. Unlike prepacked meals and dull meal plans recommended by some diabetes experts, the recipes in this book feature flavorful, layered, and naturally low in carbohydrate meals with no ingredient swaps or artificial sweeteners.  All ingredients are simple and natural, with nothing processed or obscure. From Pecan Pancakes to Slow-Cooked Balsamic Chicken, to Chocolate Peanut Butter Shortbread, For Good Measure will inspire you to cook with whole foods.

Meal planning with diabetes. For Good Measure shows you that cooking for diabetes does not need to be daunting. Armed with a dash of knowledge and a sprinkle of inspiration, delicious meals are well within your reach...

Nutritional information accompanying every recipe, including serving size, yield, calories, net carbs, total carbs, fat, protein, and fiberBeautiful full-color photography featuring recipes for a diabetic dietPersonal insight into using food to help prevent and manage diabetes from a perspective of abundance rather than depletion

If you liked Super Easy Diabetic Cookbook for Beginners; The Grain-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Family Cookbook; or Simple and Delicious Vegan, you’ll love For Good A Diabetic Cookbook.

My Review: Beautiful photographs and several recipes I plan to try! This cookbook focuses on low-carb recipes and includes net-carbs with each one. I greatly appreciated that! I enjoyed the back-story and photos of California. I am from California, but don't live there anymore so those were a lot of fun. And the photos of the food were also beautiful and inspiring.