Nancy, it caught my eye, your mentioning your niece's recent diagnosis of diabetes and the adjustments you made to the Christmas dinner menu to accommodate her.
When the SunSpouse was diagnosed with Type-II a few months ago, I went hunting for recipe books to help me learn to cook what he needed to eat, and also to get a feel for adapting favorite foods to the diabetic diet limitations. One "hit" and several "misses" later, I offer the by-far-best I found: The Complete Step-by-Step Diabetic Cookbook, published by Oxmoor House, ISBN: 0-8487-1431-8. Its only drawback is that it was written before Splenda sugar substitute was available, but that is actually quite easy to adjust for.
We've had success with a combination approach, both learning entirely new recipes and adapting familiar old favorites. A bit of a struggle at first, it's now become much more routine, nearly second-nature... as it will, in time, for your niece and those around her. Please let her and her mother know that I send a prayer, and encouragement, for their success!
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Date: 2005-12-26 04:54 pm (UTC)Nancy, it caught my eye, your mentioning your niece's recent diagnosis of diabetes and the adjustments you made to the Christmas dinner menu to accommodate her.
When the SunSpouse was diagnosed with Type-II a few months ago, I went hunting for recipe books to help me learn to cook what he needed to eat, and also to get a feel for adapting favorite foods to the diabetic diet limitations. One "hit" and several "misses" later, I offer the by-far-best I found: The Complete Step-by-Step Diabetic Cookbook, published by Oxmoor House, ISBN: 0-8487-1431-8. Its only drawback is that it was written before Splenda sugar substitute was available, but that is actually quite easy to adjust for.
We've had success with a combination approach, both learning entirely new recipes and adapting familiar old favorites. A bit of a struggle at first, it's now become much more routine, nearly second-nature... as it will, in time, for your niece and those around her. Please let her and her mother know that I send a prayer, and encouragement, for their success!