One of the biggest barriers to eating well to manage or prevent diabetes is the lack of time to prepare healthy meals at home. This cookbook and action plan gives you everything you need to meal prep a whole week's worth of ready-to-eat meals ahead of time, making it easier to stick to your diabetes-friendly eating plan. Learn how to plan meals, grocery shop, cook, and pack meals more efficiently to save you time and money. You'll find 5 weekly meal plans to help you get started, plus over 100 simple recipes you can mix and match to build your own meal plans.
With meal prepping, you can prepare a whole week's worth of ready-to-eat meals in just a few hours. This book will teach you how to plan meals, grocery shop, cook, and pack meals ahead of time, making it easy to stick to your diabetes-friendly eating plan. Meal prepping reduces the stress of making healthy meals at home while saving you time and money.
This cookbook and action plan covers:
- - The basic do's and dont's of meal prepping
- - The 5 basic steps of meal prepping
- - How to select storage containers
- - And storage time of specific foods.
This complete guide starts simple with meal prepping of 3 recipes, and works up to prepping 6 recipes to fulfill breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Each meal is designed to fit the Diabetes Plate Method to fill your box with balanced, diabetes-friendly meals, all meeting the ADA nutritional guidelines.
About the Author: TOBY AMIDOR, MS, RD, CDN, FAND, is a Wall Street Journal best-selling cookbook author, nationally recognized dietitian, and recipe developer with 20 years of experience in the food and nutrition industry. She is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting and spokesperson services for individuals, restaurants, and food brands. She is the author of seven other cookbooks including The Create-Your-Plate Diabetes Cookbook, published by the American Diabetes Association.
Toby is a founding contributor to the FoodNetwork.com Healthy Eats blog, a contributor to various publications and websites, and has appeared on many national television programs. In 2018, Toby was awarded the Media Excellence Award by the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics.