Best Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook (2024 Updated)

Lots of great recipes! The average person should have most of the ingredients in their home. Haven’t tried them yet, but the ingredients list sounds like it is going to be tasty, rather than bland, as most diabetic recipes are!.

The book quality was like new. Hard cover. I will try out recipes soon . Many to choose from.

this is the best diabetic cookbook we have ever had. This copy was actually a gift for a young friend who is caring for a diabetic, severely limited diet grandmother and is at a loss to find recipes that work.

We like this cookbook because it puts full disclosure nutrition information on every recipe.

I love everything about this book! I just got it a couple of days ago and have looked at the recipes in great anticipation of trying many of them in the coming weeks, months and years. I truly think it will be a “staple” for me.

The recipes have wonderful ingredients, with lots of herbs and spices but nothing “fancy,” just ordinary things you already have in your kitchen. All of the ingredients are laid out well and the instructions are so very concise but very easy to follow and understand.

They give Yields for every recipe plus the Exchanges and all of the Nutritional information that diabetics need. I was recently diagnosed with diabetes and my doctor and I decided that I would try and control my sugar levels with diet and exercise for the time being instead of going on medication.

I know this book will help toward that goal, do I’m very excited to get started with some of the recipes toward better health!! I could not be happier about a “Cook Book. “.

Trying to cook for a diabetic who is convinced he can’t ever eat potatoes again (example), is a truly not easy meal planning. Now, with this wonderful cookbook from Taste of Home. it’s as easy as pie (yes, pun intended).

Thank you all these amazing, tasty meals.

Wonderful recipes for Diabetiics.

We have had several meals out of the book that were great.

It looks like a good book for a new diabetic. It is new age cooking.

Bought for a friend and shes over the moon with how informative it is

The book is quite good, my only small criticism is that the measures are in cups and the recipes used dried and tinned produce instead of fresh, so may want adapting. They are not really the fresh wholesome recipes I wanted.

I like this cookbook because it gives a lot of good info calories fats substitutes to use and some delicious looking recipes l would recommend it.

american book so some terminology and recipes different from what you get here. saying that its a thoughtful book with an easy written edge which is easy to grasp and with a good few recipes which are easily adjustable from this american version,so would recommend it.

This was one of the best things I have ever gotten to date. My husband is a type 2 diabetic and since making recipes from this book his sugar readings have been going down. His doctors are pleased with these results.

Low carbs are the answer, at least for my husband.

I had hoped this would have more recipes and less medical advice. I have a doctor for that. I am pre-diabetic and have completely changed my diet to try am forestall Type II diabetes. I was looking for more recipes.

I now have all 3 of Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi’s books and the recipes are so tasty – I haven’t tried anything that haven’t liked. I am pre-diabetic and find the information contained in their books very useful.

The 30 Minute book is a great way to learn about low carb cooking.

The dta info was excellent but the recipes less than attractive in appearance to myself; I read through and passed on to a relative who is actually diabetic, I was told to modify my diet. The Authors’ other book for the similar diets is much more attractive which I also purchased and kept.

I chose this book as a newly diagnosed diabetic and the fact that these are quick recipes to fit in with a busy schedule, however disappointed that there are only about half a dozen meals that appealed to me and I have quite a diverse palate.

But it’s an easy book to follow with alot of general information about diabetes.

The book is really telling you how to control diabetes,with good explanation of diets and best foods to eat and not to eat. Excellent reading at a very good price.

My Son was diagnosed as Type 1 at the age of 28. I have found this book most informative and a great inspiration to carry on cooking for him and his family.

It’s great on recipe ideas and sound advice. Very colourful and bright.

What a fantastic book, I feel healthier already. The cool thing is leaving it lying around has got my picky eater curious to try new and healthier choices for her meals. She’s already paged through and planned some great dinners.

The gorgeous photos helped sell her on these recipes, that’s for sure.

Presented very well and has a nice index. Not every recipe has a photo, but there are sections of beautiful color photos of prepared dishes. Contains breakfasts, drinks, dips and spreads, sauces, dressings, salads, sandwiches, soups and stews, main dishes, sides, and desserts.

The dishes in this book are very bland and boring. Eating and food prep is supposed to be fun. Suggest you research the content of this book online. Darryl

I just received this cookbook, so I havent been able to cook anything. But the recipes look delicious and I cannot wait to start cooking some. The printing is easy the ingredients look simple great value to me all in all.

We made a stew from one of the recipes yesterday in a slow cook pot. GREAT!!!! PS: I had also bought two of the light weight, never kinking green hoses. Both burst! when I returned them there was another man doing the same.

Rating for this item no good!.

Fabulously easy & delicious recipes. The whole family will enjoy these healthy, scrumptious dishes. Each recipe has the food exchanges & carbs per serving listed. The first section of the cook book includes some Diabetes Basic Information, as well as a sample one week meal planning menu.

I would suggest that even if there is no one in your household with diabetes, this book would be a worth while buy for anyone interested in delicious, healthy eating.

If you must keep the carbs really low, when the recipe calls for sugar mix 50% sugar with 50% stevia. It’s a great marriage and is even sold premixed but way cheaper to do it yourself. I only use whole wheat flour so I just use that in place of white flour, you have to mix it longer though.

Also try mixing in flax flour as it is only 5 carbs of digestible carbs for 2 cups.

Great information for a newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic. Recipes are very good

Impressive collection of tasty nutritious recipes for a healthy lifestyle written in easy to understand language augmented with profusely photographed dishes.

I have all three books in the series, and unlike other reviewers, I haven’t had a problem sourcing most of the ingredients. Then again, I enjoy ad-libbing and using up what I already have on hand! If I can find fault with anything, is that the photos are not referenced to the recipe.

This can be frustrating when the recipe is a page or two beyond the photo! Not all recipes have photos, so that’s another thing to bear in mind if you’re a photo person (I am)! The other thing worth mentioning is that the authors do not make any suggestions on sides to serve with the meals, and I do find that annoying at times.

Otherwise, it’s not a bad book for those looking to control their diabetes.

Hi There Im impressed with this book as its straight forward and relatively easy to understand for a non medical person such as myself! Ive got to admit that Im no doctor and therefore I needed a straight talking book of helpful facts and solid advice which Ive found has been very useful for or me to read and digest the contents of the facts and advice within the book! I would recommend that anyone wanting to understand whats needed to be followed to understand and improve their knowledge of this subject would be wise to get a copy of this book! Starcycle69.

This book was recommended to me by my Dr as I was high risk for future diabetes. Lots of valuable information about intermittent fasting, low sugar recipes and helpful hints. it has been a big turn around for me, my blood tests are reflecting my new eating habits.

I started changing my food and drink intake plus observing the Intermittent fasting & as a result I have lost 7 kg (without exercise) & I don’t feel as tired. I have also bought this book for friends who were in the same boat as me.

This approach to controlling and reversing type 2 Diabetes works for me. I’ve lost one and a half stone over about 2 months. I feel great most of the time except when I eat something with a high carbohydrate content and then I feel bloated and somewhat fed up.

The book could well have saved my life and it most certainly improved it. The way it provides palatable alternatives to rice, pasta and pastry, (my favourite), is inspired. If you suspect you are sensitive to carbs.

don’t hesitate. Buy the book. Now.

This book isnt complicated!!! It doesnt have lots of exotic ingredients in the recipes and you can adapt the amounts of carbs to eat based on your health needs. An eye opener is how many spoons of sugar correspond some of our everyday foods.

If you are going to cut out bread and cakes and pastries all together you have to buy the ingredients you need but once you are set up for it, its easy. I recommend this book and I have bought one for my daughter.

I bought this book because I want to lose weight and to my delight found the foreword written by Dr Unwin who has used low carb diets to get his patients with diabetes 2 into remission by losing weight.

To crown it all, the recipes are by an italian couple who own a restaurant with one of them with diabetes 2. He is now in remission using these recipes and they are delicious, easy to make, with ingredients readily available.

What’s not to like. Can’t wait to try them all.

Just the book for Life Changing healthy eating ! I needed to get on to a healthy Diabetic balanced diet , before I got to the stage of needing medication. This book has giving me more choices in my daily food & is a wonderful guide to what I am after.

Menu ideas , advice and recipes for snacks to complete meals, just great. So far I am picking & sticking with favourites but am trying the odd new suggestions and it’s working. I’ll get more adventurous as I go on , hoping for better result readings on my DCCT tests plus eliminating the need for medication.

Just what I wanted !.

When you are first diagnosed with diabeties, you naturally wonder what you are going to be allowed to eat. Are you going to have to weigh every thing and work out its glucose value? Well, I suppose that’s one way of doing it – tedious and time-consuming.

This book does it for you. It provides recipes which are low in sugar and fats and taste great. My wife and |I have tried several and gone back to repeat the experience The non-diabetic, my wife for instance, found these delicious as well as being safe for the diabetic in the family, myself.

I heartily recommend this book. I’m sure you will agree with my assessment.

Lovely large cookery book with pics. Lots of recipes. Looking forward to trying them !

I found the recipes a bit disappointing. My experience of cooking items like Mediterranean tuna pasta salad was not good. I couldn’t get my head round the salsa verde and I had no idea what it was supposed to look like.

There was a lack of illustrations in this book. I would have liked to see one for every recipe, even if they were only half page photos.

Very interesting cook book quite informative all recipes easy to follow and all nutritional information are with the recipe carbohydrates value

Very good if you want to become a vegetarian, some ingredients not easily found except in specialist shops, nevertheless some interesting dishes. I have found other books more suited to our palate.

I bought this book for my mom who is a diabetic & has to watch what she eats. She says she loves the cookbook because it has very simple easy recipes to make that don’t break her wallet on a budget. She says the recipes you cook tastes great & my dad & youngest brother eat the food not knowing its good & healthy for them because it tastes like a regular meal.

That is a plus to this great book for my family!!.

I love the beautiful pictures, they actually made me hungry. I’m not so sure that there were a lot of recipes I would try, simply because I didn’t like the ingredients. But that’s just my personal opinion.

It offered a lot of great ideas and great information.

I’m not diabetic, but I bought this to help me lose weight. I like that the recipes don’t have tons of weird ingredients or complicated instructions; otherwise they wouldn’t be “30 Minute Meals”, right? There’s even a section of skillet meal recipes, which are super easy.

Like most recipe books now it’s biased towards Veggies. I am from a generation of carnivores and found it disappointing. If this is what Type 2 is all about then there’s little hope for me. Having said that it is amazingly put together by these two best mates, and if followed to the letter superb results can be achieved.

I have their other diet book and have used them ( recipes ) with great success and approval from all who tasted it.

Some great recipes for diabetics. I have already tried some and they have been very nice. Hopefully the rest will be juat as good.

There was barely a recipe in this book that excited me in anyway. I haven’t tried even one. The only ones I liked were ‘old hat’ (commonly known). The book is in the cupboard gathering dust rapidly.

I bought this book for my daughter, who has been recently diagnosed with type2 diabetes. This book has some good ideas for quick easy meals which are suitable for diabetics, and my daughter has tried a couple of the recipes so far.

I recommend this book.

I purchased this book as my partner has been diagnosed with diabetes, firstly i was really pleased with the explanation of the condition. I have tried several of the dishes, the recipes are easy to follow, there is a breakdown of whether high or low GI rating, which helps in planning meals.

I have also eaten these meals i have prepared from this cook book, and find them very tasty indeed, and as i am also dieting at present, i find this has helped me create a well balanced diet for myself.

To top it all, these recipes are really quick to prepare, which is definately an added bonus. I cant really find any negative to say about this book, maybe would be good with a follow on book with more recipes.

Highly recommended.

I bought this product because two weeks ago i was diagnosed with diabetes. A lot of the literature given upon diagnosis was advising me what not to eat, there were a lot of NO’s in general but this book said YES and told me what I could eat.

The book itself in paperback format is ideal to go in a bag and is lightweight and of good size. The only thing about this product which i didnt like is that some of the recipes had no visual images, so presentation was left up to the reader.

The product as written with Diabetes UK is from a trusted source and goes beyond just recipes’ lso giving general health advice andbackground knowledge.

Poor recipes. Nothing sounds like it would be tasty. Tiny black and white unclear pictures of recipes. I wouldn’t recommend it. Sorry I bought it.

Bought this for my daughter-in-law who just found out she has diabetes. She loves the book and has already tried some of the recipes. It helps her to keep track of all the elements of a meal, and some books don’t do that.

So, great purchase!.

the complete and hearty diabetic cook book has been very helpful in the meal planning for my wifes pre diabetes . the book is easy to follow and has interesting recipes

Most recipe books give you sections for entre and side dishes so you pick your entre then have to find a side dish. what a pain. This one includes full meal recipes together without having to search recipes for additional recipes that have the right amount of nutrition and that go with what you already picked.

It’s a no brainer. I find something I like and it includes the side dish. I’ve made 2 recipes so far. The steak ginger skewers and the seaside tacos. Both were very good and the recipes are not difficult or time consuming, at least so far.

Great news with doctor today. My husband lost 20 pounds in two months, his sugar level is normal (sugar level was borderline) and even his cholesterol level went down. Small portions, whole grains, fat free chicken and turkey and zero carb vegetables.

I only use olive oil spray and garlic and basil for pasta and tastes great! Low sodium salt and no sugar.

I developed type 1 diabetes nearly 2 yrs ago. If I was single I could probably eat fairly well. When others need 2 b considered, or they are cooking for me, things get complicated. this is great. it has pictures of the meals.

they are easy, simple, meals to make. not confusing and long winded recipes. There is no weighing and carb counting, which I was never going to do. it helps to normalize eating, which has been a source of stress from the start, even with websites, forums, dietician.

this is great. why arent there more of them?.

I really can’t rate this book because I just got it. Glancing threw it, I see alot of great recipes that I will be anxious to try. I was surprised to see so many delicious recipes.

Upon receiving our package we found that it had been shipped in a flimsy plastic. The book was damaged and the cover was torn. This was supposed to be a gift and now we will have to find alternative gift.

It’s a good book to have when starting the dash diet. Gives good basic guidelines for following diet. The recipes I have tried are good that I have tried.