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A review by beate251
The Blood Sugar Balance Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes That Let You Ditch the Crave, Crash, Fat-Storing Cycle and Heal Your Metabolism by Meredith Mann
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
2.0
Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Fair Winds for this ARC.
This cookbook starts with an introduction on blood sugar and how to eat to keep it balanced. This may be informative to some but I just skipped it.
I have diabetes and I expected a lot more. I wanted normal recipes that I can incorporate into my life without too much cooking time or having to buy strange ingredients. Unfortunately, this is not that book.
Recipe ingredients include but are not limited to weird things like carton liquid egg white, unsweetened milk, unflavoured collagen, coconut aminos (no idea) and cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is everywhere. Like the Hairy Bikers include 100ml white wine in every recipe, this lady is obsessed with cottage cheese. I can't stand cottage cheese. If this is supposed to be my blood sugar diet, I don't want to know.
The ingredients are ridiculous, there are too many of them and the cooking instructions are too basic, don't make sense and just presume that you have things like a blender and slow cooker etc.
For example, there is a recipe for egg salad that states there's no carbs in it, then the picture shows the egg salad in bread because no one eats egg salad on its own. This of course changes the entire nutrient info but no mention is made of the extra carbs.
I wish I'd known that this is an American cookbook! Thankfully the measurements have been converted but the "skillet" and the "ground beef" remain, as do the ingredients that you only get in the US. I mean, what is "everything but the bagel seasoning"?
I couldn't believe I was reading statements like "I often buy boiled eggs" - boiling eggs is one of the most basic cooking tasks!
The fact that the author is on Instagram and TikTok explains a lot. However, social media is visual so I don't understand why only about a third of the recipes come with pictures. I was greatly disappointed with that because I prefer to see what a dish looks like before I cook it. As is, none of the recipes tempted me enough, so the search for an uncomplicated blood sugar diet with normal ingredients goes on.
This cookbook starts with an introduction on blood sugar and how to eat to keep it balanced. This may be informative to some but I just skipped it.
I have diabetes and I expected a lot more. I wanted normal recipes that I can incorporate into my life without too much cooking time or having to buy strange ingredients. Unfortunately, this is not that book.
Recipe ingredients include but are not limited to weird things like carton liquid egg white, unsweetened milk, unflavoured collagen, coconut aminos (no idea) and cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is everywhere. Like the Hairy Bikers include 100ml white wine in every recipe, this lady is obsessed with cottage cheese. I can't stand cottage cheese. If this is supposed to be my blood sugar diet, I don't want to know.
The ingredients are ridiculous, there are too many of them and the cooking instructions are too basic, don't make sense and just presume that you have things like a blender and slow cooker etc.
For example, there is a recipe for egg salad that states there's no carbs in it, then the picture shows the egg salad in bread because no one eats egg salad on its own. This of course changes the entire nutrient info but no mention is made of the extra carbs.
I wish I'd known that this is an American cookbook! Thankfully the measurements have been converted but the "skillet" and the "ground beef" remain, as do the ingredients that you only get in the US. I mean, what is "everything but the bagel seasoning"?
I couldn't believe I was reading statements like "I often buy boiled eggs" - boiling eggs is one of the most basic cooking tasks!
The fact that the author is on Instagram and TikTok explains a lot. However, social media is visual so I don't understand why only about a third of the recipes come with pictures. I was greatly disappointed with that because I prefer to see what a dish looks like before I cook it. As is, none of the recipes tempted me enough, so the search for an uncomplicated blood sugar diet with normal ingredients goes on.