Designed for One: 120 Diabetes-Friendly Dishes Just for You

by Nancy S Hughes

Dinner for One means Cooking for One which means To Serve One! This book is for ONE. It does not contain recipes that can feed an army of 4 to 6 which can leave you with a week's worth of unwanted (and expensive) leftovers, it feeds ONE! This book will contain 120-150 budget-friendly recipes for the dinner hour, including salads, vegetables, grains, entrees and even desserts. As with all Nancy's books with the American Diabetes Association, the recipes will be extremely easy to follow with main stream ingredients. The book will begin with a 'How To' chapter which helps the reader learn how to shop economically, store properly, stock up 'smartly' and cut corners like a pro in an easy, bullet-form manner. The chapters will focus on dinner, but will break down into sections, such as salads, sides, entrees (including a wide variety of recipes from grilled and roasted recipes to soups and stews, skillet dishes, stir-fries, hot and cold sandwiches and main salads) and desserts.

Genres: Cookbooks

160 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2017

About the author

Nancy S. Hughes is a best selling author and leading food consultant. She has written 21 nationally published cookbooks as well as developed recipes for 60 additional cookbooks with over 7,500 published recipes to her credit. Nancy has been honored to work with clients across the United States and Canada. She works with major food corporations, health-focused organizations, magazines, and web-based clients including: American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Cooking Light, Better Homes and Gardens, Betty Crocker, Del Monte Foods, Canola Council, and USA Rice Federation.

Reviews

[Mary Erickson · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is #21 in my 5X5 library challenge, where I head down to the 5th stack of a row, go to the 5th shelf from the top, then choose any book from that shelf. Non-fiction. The 641.5s are cookbooks, and 641.563 are healthy cookbooks.

This was a row of mostly vegan cookbooks, of which I already have several, so I chose this one instead, published by the American Diabetes Association.

Not recommended.

First of all, why bother cooking just one serving of anything? Who doesn't want to NOT cook the next day, at least, and just enjoy heating up some leftovers?

And then we have single item dishes. Complex vegetable recipe. Complex meat recipe. Complex starch recipe. Very few combinations or ways to actually have a simplified, cook-for-one entire meal.

And very few pictures, all clumped together, without page references.

I did try a couple of recipes, and they were BLAH.

[Danielle Mccoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Could use more pictures but overall a great cookbook for cooking for 1.

[Sandybear76]

no pictures with the recipes. there were 2 clusters of photos in the book. the photos gave the page of the recipe. the recipes didn't have the page number of the photo if there was one for that recipe.