A Diabetic Cookbook
80 flavor-forward, layered recipes that will not only help manage your blood sugar but leave you with something to savor.
Written and photographed in sunny, southern California and inspired by my daughter’s Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, For Good Measure: A Diabetic Cookbook promises to nurture both body and blood sugar through healthy meals created with natural, simple ingredients.
Preventing and managing diabetes doesn’t have to be bland or boring, in this modern recipe collection you’ll discover delicious desserts, family favorites, plant-forward dishes, gluten-free options, on-the-go snacks and slow-cooked simple suppers. All with nutrition information to meal plan or dose insulin from because when living with diabetes no carbohydrate is ever left uncounted.
Eight-year-old Joy wears her brother's hand-me-downs and her knees skinned. She befriends the neighborhood misfit and together the two climb trees and dream about traveling to the faraway lands they see in National Geographic. Fifteen years later, the misfit returns from serving in the Second World War, and Joy falls headfirst into the repressing role of a 1950s housewife, of marriage and motherhood. When the death of her newborn son thrusts her into a deep depression, she pledges once and for all to destroy her womanhood or lose herself forever.
Joy's daughter Susan grows up watching her mother demons, but somehow finds herself trapped in the same cage her mother rails against. When violence threatens her and her family, she chooses to shun independence, focusing on her children and her narcissistic husband instead. It isn't until she uncovers her grandmother's dark secrets that she discovers the innate strength the women in her family possess.