Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook Revised and Updated: 550 Slow Cooker Favorites--To Include Everyone!

by Phyllis Pellman Good

With diabetes threatening so many of us, a cookbook with reliable recipes is a must-have resource. Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetes Cookbook, Revised and Updated offers 600 delicious, quick, and easy-to-prepare recipes, all conveniently made in a slow cooker. Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook maven, Phyllis Pellman Good, has once again teamed with the American Diabetes Association to provide complete Exchange Value and Basic Nutritional Values for each recipe. You can use these tasty and trusted recipes to plan your meals safely.

In addition to the Cookbook's scrumptious recipes from home cooks, the ADA has brought these new and helpful features to the book:

A Week of Menus, using recipes from the Cookbook. These show how to use a daily meal plan and stay within your calorie limit.

Clear Tips for planning meals and menus for those with diabetes.

Visual Clues for learning Portion Control. Plus information about how many servings of the various food groups to eat each day.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions that are easy to understand, absorb—and live by!

Think of Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook, Revised and Updated as your cooking companion in the fight against diabetes. Good News—everyone at the table can enjoy these make-it-again recipes! Who can resist Turkey Cacciatore, Chianti-Braised Short Ribs, Creamy Corn, and Pumpkin Butter—just a few of the 50 new recipes you'll find in this yummy collection!

Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference, Cooking, Nonfiction

936 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2004

Reviews

[ABookAddictHere · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a little disappointed with this cookbook. I had hoped to get more low carb friendly recipes but it was limited. I liked only SIX! Some are not even low carb... glad l did not spend money on this or l would have been disappointed or taking it back...

[Catherine · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh god. I tried 3 recipes and all were terrible. Alot of the chicken recipes rely on using canned soup as the flavoring - which gave me very salty but not well flavored dinners. Epic fail.

[Sandy Champagne · Rating 3 out of 5]

WHile I appreciate the scope of this book, I walked away with only a few recipes that are feasible for my home life. I also think the organization of the recipes might need a little work. Other than that, great ideas.

[Caroline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy directions for most recipes. Good recipes with regular ingredients.
Only drawback is that there are no pictures.

[Meg McGregor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has 150 recipes for the slow cooker! I found, 4, I thought my husband and I, would enjoy!

I gave the book five stars it contained lots of helpful diabetes information!

My favorite recipe was for Tricia's Cranberry Turkey Meatballs! (MMMM!) I have included the recipe below.

INGREDIENTS:
16-oz. can jelled cranberry sauce
1/2 cup ketchup or barbecue sauce
1 lb. ground turkey
1 egg
half a small onion, chopped
1 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. black pepper
1/2 tsp. grated orange peel, optional

PREPARATION:
1. Combine cranberry sauce and ketchup in slow cooker.
2. Cover. Cook on high until sauce is mixed.
3. Combine remaining ingredients. Shape into 24 meatballs.
4. Cook over medium heat in skillet for 8-10 minutes, or just until browned. Add to sauce in the slow cooker.
5. Cover. Cook on LOW 3 hours.

Serve with rice and a steamed vegetable.

[Randall · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book disappointing. Recipes follow the strategy of eliminating fats and salts—but some recipes then add sugar to make up for the missing flavors! Based on my reading, more recent dietary advice is to have some fats and not to add sugar.

Also, many of the recipes rely on canned ingredients. Canned foods are often higher in sodium, so this seems counter productive.
On the other hand, for some folks this makes the recipes easier and thus more practical.

A definite positive is that at the end of each recipe there is nutritional data and exchanges listed.

[EMP · Rating 1 out of 5]

The carb/sugar counts in the book were crazy high for anyone with diabetes!

[JoAnn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Tina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing better than coming home after a full day's work and smelling that wonderful aroma of food ready to be eaten! And even if you're only feeding one or two people, the leftovers can be refrigerated or frozen for future meals. I just wish there were pictures of all the dishes, because I'm all about the pictures! :)

[BookMouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book before reading many of Ms. Good's other Fix It cookbooks. Had I done so, I wouldn't have bought this one, but her Big Cookbook, because most of the recipes in this book are also in the big one.

[Jamie Mae · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it but the ratio of good recipes to Mmnnh recipes is 1:15. A lot of the recipes listed are similar to each other. Especially in the meat sections, for roast they have several but they'll only be 1 or 2 ingredients different that the one before. Not worth buying.

[Pepper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this cook book except for the simple fact of all the recipes are for a lot of servings each. Usually 8 or more servings per recipe! Lots of great things in it & you don't need to be diabetic to enjoy them either. Enjoy!

[February Four · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately, a lot of these recipes are almost exactly the same, making this book less useful than it seemed at first glance.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this cookbook, there are recipes I look forward to making.

[Kristine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of repeat recipes but overall a good resource for slow cooker cooking for diabetics.

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great recipes love the baked potatoes and cherry delight.

[Dana Lowe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best recipes, that Charles has loved have come out of this book. Mom and dad liking them too! It's a winner!

[Natalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of repeats