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The Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook
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Annie’s favorite kids cookbook – all the recipes are kid-tested and fool-proof, plus nutrition information for every one! Most of the recipes are things that kids would actually eat -- nothing too exotic – and all come with start-to-finish times and suggestions for accompaniments. Along with pages on how to set the table and measure ingredients, there’s a page on how to read nutrition labels. There are a few too many desserts, but other than those, most of the recipes seem relatively healthy to me. Photos with every recipe and lots of fun graphics. A great gift for kids with diabetes because it’s one of the few with carb counts for every recipe. And it doesn’t have diabetes in the title!
(Hardcover, $15.95)
The Healthy Body Cookbook
by Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Written by a registered dietitian and an elementary and middle school teacher, this cookbook for kids has a variety of hands-on lessons about diet, exercise, and the various systems of the body. All the recipes are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and tools. Nutritional information for each recipe appears at the back of the book (instead of alongside the recipe) but there’s one big problem: no carb counts in the nutrition information! Some of the recipes are a little sophisticated – I know my kids won’t eat bok choy – but overall, it’s a good, healthy cookbook. Too bad about the carb counts. (Paperback, $12.95)
The Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to The Glycemic Index – the Groundbreaking Medical Discovery
By Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., Thomas M.S. Wolever, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Colagiuri, M.D., Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet
A good friend gave me this book when Annie was first diagnosed, and frankly, it looked a little crazy to me so I never really took it seriously. Now, six years later, with Annie’s blood sugar numbers spiking because of puberty, our doctor is recommending a low glycemic-index diet to help avoid the yo-yo effect of high and low blood sugars. I’m now a believer. The gist of the book is that not all carbs are created equal. If you take two foods – let’s say a slice of angel food cake and an apple – that may have the same number of fat grams (none) and same carb count (18 grams), yet they’ll have drastically different glycemic index numbers – the apple comes in at 38, the angel food cake at 67. This book explains why foods with high glycemic indices will make blood sugar skyrocket and why others won’t. Comes with helpful tips, a few recipes and best of all, a list of common foods and their glycemic index numbers – which are not always intuitive. (A slice of a French baguette comes in at 90 while a slice of sourdough bread is only 52.) It’s definitely helped our family and despite my earlier reluctance, I’d now highly recommend it. Apparently, so do health professionals who specialize in kids with diabetes.
(No author listed)
Annie’s favorite kids cookbook – all the recipes are kid-tested and fool-proof, plus nutrition information for every one! Most of the recipes are things that kids would actually eat -- nothing too exotic – and all come with start-to-finish times and suggestions for accompaniments. Along with pages on how to set the table and measure ingredients, there’s a page on how to read nutrition labels. There are a few too many desserts, but other than those, most of the recipes seem relatively healthy to me. Photos with every recipe and lots of fun graphics. A great gift for kids with diabetes because it’s one of the few with carb counts for every recipe. And it doesn’t have diabetes in the title!
(Hardcover, $15.95)
The Healthy Body Cookbook
by Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Written by a registered dietitian and an elementary and middle school teacher, this cookbook for kids has a variety of hands-on lessons about diet, exercise, and the various systems of the body. All the recipes are kid-tested and require only common ingredients and tools. Nutritional information for each recipe appears at the back of the book (instead of alongside the recipe) but there’s one big problem: no carb counts in the nutrition information! Some of the recipes are a little sophisticated – I know my kids won’t eat bok choy – but overall, it’s a good, healthy cookbook. Too bad about the carb counts. (Paperback, $12.95)
The Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to The Glycemic Index – the Groundbreaking Medical Discovery
By Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., Thomas M.S. Wolever, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Colagiuri, M.D., Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet
A good friend gave me this book when Annie was first diagnosed, and frankly, it looked a little crazy to me so I never really took it seriously. Now, six years later, with Annie’s blood sugar numbers spiking because of puberty, our doctor is recommending a low glycemic-index diet to help avoid the yo-yo effect of high and low blood sugars. I’m now a believer. The gist of the book is that not all carbs are created equal. If you take two foods – let’s say a slice of angel food cake and an apple – that may have the same number of fat grams (none) and same carb count (18 grams), yet they’ll have drastically different glycemic index numbers – the apple comes in at 38, the angel food cake at 67. This book explains why foods with high glycemic indices will make blood sugar skyrocket and why others won’t. Comes with helpful tips, a few recipes and best of all, a list of common foods and their glycemic index numbers – which are not always intuitive. (A slice of a French baguette comes in at 90 while a slice of sourdough bread is only 52.) It’s definitely helped our family and despite my earlier reluctance, I’d now highly recommend it. Apparently, so do health professionals who specialize in kids with diabetes.
