When someone in your family needs a diabetic diet, everyone panics. Who better than Betty Crocker to
help ease your mind and give you some creative recipies!

I was thrilled to find a diabetic cookbook that includes delicious, nutritious, and easy foods for every meal, snack, and occasion! It also includes healthy options when dining at restaurants, healthy snacks, and vegetarian options. I have and will continue to use this cookbook frequently to provide nutritious meals for family and guests.
Thank you to NetGalley, HMH Books, and Betty Crocker Editors for allowing me to preview my new favorite cookbook.

**3.5**

This isn’t the kind of book that’s really going to blow you away, but that also doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad either.

Some of the great things about this book were:
- The tips and tricks for managing diabetes without completely restricting your lifestyle.
- The kitchen tips that included tips on how to pre-freeze meals, how to cook it better, substitute things, etc. I always appreciate cookbooks that give added details to make the cooking process simpler.
- The pictures with pretty much every recipe. I will say that most of the pictures didn’t necessarily spark inspiration in me, but I still appreciate them being there.
-The serving breakdowns were also quite nice because it helps you genuinely track what you eat.

Some of the things I personally didn’t love about the book:
- certain specialty ingredients. There are quite a few recipes in here that seem very on par with their non-die Eric equivalents except for the requirement for things like low-sodium this, organic that, non-fat this, reduced fat that. This just made me wonder whether or not the real difference maker in these recipes depends on these ingredients. Plus, maybe I’m not looking hard enough but it seems like it would be quite difficult (or expensive) to find all these healthy-alternatives to the same ingredient.
- Very quintessentially American palate. This is not my way of saying the recipes are bad, I’m only mentioning this because if you’re like me and prefer more diverse food choices this book may leave you wanting.

All that having been said, however, this book is not a bad one. It’s got a ton of recipes, and while the pictures only really sparked inspiration for a few relatively average recipes, I’m still excited to get to make some of them. I will also say that if you are okay hunting down specialty ingredients and like the typical American palate than this book is right up your alley. So while the book didn’t blow me away, it’s not a bad one for the right person.

Thanks to the publishers and netgalley for a digital arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

My husband has had diabetes for a number of years now, so I’ve already adjusted my cooking and baking toward lower carb, and try to use the lowest amount of sugar possible. Always on the lookout for ways to spruce up my meals, when I saw Betty Crocker had a new diabetes friendly cookbook, I couldn’t resist.

While many of the entrees are similar to what I make now, I was blown away by the rest of the recipes. The breakfast ideas are inspired. High carb standards like French toast, pancakes, and muffins get an update with interesting low sugar substitutions like almond butter, monk fruit, and pumpkin. Scrumptious breakfast cookies using dried fruit, nuts, and even veggies like squash and zucchini add sweetness, and keep those sugar carbs down.

Many of the recipes are also gluten free, or could be easily made gluten free. Especially the snack ideas of everything from cut up veggies with creative dips, and “energy balls”, which are nut butters and fruits and don't even need to be baked.

I really love the variety of ways Betty Crocker is including vegetables in the recipes. I’ll never get tired of the variety of salads, the photos are gorgeous. And one of my favorite ways to do veg is roasted in the oven, and they've inspired me to try a whole range of new flavor combinations.

I highly recommend Betty Crocker Simply Delicious Diabetes Cookbook, regardless of your need to specifically cook for someone with diabetes. Nutritious, colorful, appetizing, and delicious, this one’s a must for every health conscious kitchen.

This looks like it will be a great cookbook once it's in its final format. The ARC was a little hard to follow because it seems to not have been formatted for ebook yet.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a copy of the ARC.

What worked for me:

--Great basic cooking and meal prep technique instruction
--Nutrition information with clear parameters for how it was calculated
--Large variety of appealing recipes. Meals, snacks, and treats were all covered.
--Recipes for all diets (vegan, gluten free, etc.) and many different food cultures were represented.
--Tips and variations included for many recipes
--Gorgeous photos accompanied each recipe

A couple of concerns:

--Some nutrition calculations were off. I noticed one recipe that was basically eggs, vegetables, and cheese on half of a wheat sandwich thin somehow clocked in at 55 carbs, which was not plausible
--Some recipes were just completely inappropriate for a diabetic cookbook. Most of the dessert recipes were fully-leaded and I didn't detect any modifications to reduce sugar or carbs. I'm not at all opposed to an occasional treat, but I don't buy a diabetic cookbook to get a fudge recipe that includes sugar, chocolate, baking chips, and marshmallow fluff. I'd rather the focus to be on low sugar desserts and let the other stuff come from other sources.

On the whole, though, this is a useful, comprehensive cookbook with many appealing recipes that would be useful both to people learning to cook with diabetes and those who are just looking for a more balanced, carb-conscious diet.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

This cookbook is geared toward the diabetic community, however the recipes contained would be good for anyone who is health conscious. In the intro we are encouraged that “a diabetes-friendly meal plan can be delicious, joyful and healthful”. And within these pages it is proven that almost any favorite food can be made healthy! For example; there are yummy breakfast recipes for chia waffles, pumpkin spice french toast, almond butter breakfast cookies and overnight chocolate peanut butter oatmeal. There are delicious sounding recipes for chicken shawarma meatball pitas, spicy ancho pulled chicken sandwiches, Thai chopped salad, cauliflower fried rice and so many more dishes. There’s a chapter on desserts and drinks that include orange ginger biscotti, brown rice and quinoa scotcheroos and chocolate cake made with pumpkin purée and Greek yogurt. There’s a whole section on cocktails, I can’t wait to try the mango margaritas! I enjoyed the quick reference tabs that informed whether the following recipe is vegetarian, fast to prepare, or for the slow cooker. I liked all the tips sprinkled throughout that offered advice on how to amp up flavor without salt, how to count carbs, and tips for eating out. And of course there are tons of beautiful photos that are expected in a Betty Crocker cookbook. This is a great cookbook for anyone!

Thank you to Netgalley, Mariner Books, and the author for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This cookbook will be available March 8, 2022

This will be a good fit for a certain demographic-- people with diabetes who eat a Standard American Diet and want to continue to do so, and who believe that the best way to manage diabetes is by limiting fats and salt, and cutting down a bit on sugar and carbs. It's a very low-fat cookbook, which took me by surprise.

My husband and I have been keto for about a year. I developed diabetes-like symptoms after getting Covid in the spring of 2020 (I was not diabetic to begin with), and I decided to try keto six months later when I was still dealing with symptoms and had read some convincing books on the matter. Following a healthy clean keto diet completely reversed my symptoms and I also lost 28 pounds (my husband has lost over 40) without counting calories, going hungry, or tracking macros. I was hoping that the recipes in this book would work for us, but they are very high carb in my opinion and unnecessarily vilify fats and salt. They call for lots of breads, sugar, flour, rice, and other starches that I would personally recommend avoiding if you are diabetic.

I felt that the dessert section was especially horrible for diabetics. One recipe calls for a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips melted and poured onto a cookie sheet and then drizzled with melted white chocolate chips, sprinkled with honey graham cereal (hello product placement, Betty Crocker) and then topped with mini marshmallows. How in the name of all that is holy would that be considered a good recipe in a cookbook for people with diabetes???? Another recipe calls for buying chocolate cookies and mixing diet strawberry yogurt with fat free Cool Whip to put in between them. 🙄 This is not how you manage diabetes in a healthy way.

There are color photos of each recipe and there is nutritional information, which I appreciate. Each recipe has a big circle at the top telling you how many carb values it is, and these are confusing because they are not the carb counts. Apparently one is equal to 15 carbs, so if a recipe has a rating of 2 then it's around 30 carbs per serving. I found this confusing as they don't tell you in the beginning of the book what on earth those circles are about, and then finally get to it a chapter or two in. Do not get confused and think it means anything like net carbs though.

The book reminded me of a mass market cookbook from the 1980s. I would not consider this modern healthy dietary advice for diabetics. But if you're looking for lots of recipes that call for things like Bisquick, Cheerios, brown sugar and bread products, you'll be quite happy.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I like the way that the recipes were not too American and also that they had a carb guide. There were some different takes on some of the recipes which I enjoyed trying out.

Good way of updating my recipe rota.

I was given an advance copy by netgalley and the publishers but the review is entirely my own

Learn the recipes of easy, tasty, healthy dishes, that are better choices for not just people with diabetes, but for us all.

So that our healthier diets lead to healthier bodies and lifestyle.

Fantastic cookbook! Easy to follow recipes, lots of photos and I love the Betty's tips on the recipes!
Good information on a diabetic diet - or low carb diet, the recipes include the carb counts. Not a lot of ingredients I didn't have in the pantry already - I liked not having to speciality shop. The Hawaiian chicken was one of my favorite recipes! And the oatmeal lace cookies look amazing!

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for a temporary, digital ARC in return for my review.

Betty Crocker delivers with another great cookbook! This cookbook is easy to follow, and I love the Diabetes guidelines and the helpful hints throughout. Lots of great recipes! I’ve made the Frozen Turkey Meatballs recipe (and used the same recipe for frozen Turkey burgers), and plan to try several more recipes. I received an eBook copy of this cookbook for review through NetGalley and already have a copy of the cookbook on preorder for myself. I’ll be using it a lot.

Just like all the other Betty Crocker cookbooks, this is one of the best diabetes cookbook I have ever seen. Photos for each easy to make recipe. I am seeing sooo many good ideas for recipes that I never thought of before.

Thanks to Netgalley, Mariner Books (formerly HMH books) and Betty Crocker for the opportunity to read and give an honest review.

This is a really decent size cookbook that you can pore over for a good long while and has some absolutely fantastic recipes.

Being in Australia I found some of the ingredients are unavailable, luckily we have a USA Foods store that we can get quite a good range of ingredients but it does fall a bit short for some others.

I was a bit confused with the measurements e.g. 3/2 teaspoons of kosher salt, 3/2 teaspoons ground cloves, 3/2 cup diced red bell pepper. I am not sure if this is supposed to be 2/3rds but I don't think so.

This is an easy to understand book and I'm sure if I bought it I would be cooking quite a lot of these recipes.

A 4* book for me.

This diabetic cookbook has a lot of good recipes for everything from meals to snacks and desserts to drinks. There are even sauces you can make. Filled with lots of tips on what to eat and avoid, and how to count carbs, etc. I have lots of good ideas from reading this. Advance electronic review copy was provided by NetGalley, author Betty Crocker, and the publisher.

This book by Betty Crocker does not disappoint. It is filled with interesting recipes, easy, varied, gives you ideas to use your leftovers in creative ways, or gives two options for the same recipe. It covers basics, treats, snacks, beverages, veggies, salads, meals, dinners, drinks, breakfasts...
So, if you have diabetes, this book will help. Each recipe has nutritional information, yield and most of them are easy to make.

The recipes are all normal white guy foods pulled pork, roast beet, burgers, cookies, taco's and dips. Most have an attempt to make them less salty and add a bit of veg.

This cookbook is a great resource for cooking healthy and flavorful meals. There are lots of good tips especially for snacking and eating out at restaurants. I thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this cookbook.

The Betty Crocker cookbook does include a range of different recipes that would be friendly to a diabetic. I liked the fact that the nutritional vales for each recipe was included at the end for simple use. Overall though the layout of the book was not so appealing on the eye. The recipes were very wordy and sometimes became slightly confusing. The photos included are not but not mind blowing which I find is a must to intrigue a reader to a cookbook.
I know Betty Crocker is an old time favourite but I did find the presentation of the book a little dated.
Overall some simple recipes but could do with a little updating.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love this book and I love Betty Crocker. So to have a cookbook about Diabetes was something I was glad to be able to read and review.

The information provided within the cookbook helps to work out how best to eat it you have diabetes so your health remains in tip top condition. I love the chapters, the division from prepping to having and preparing the basics, to meals, snacking and even desserts. It covers everything and certainly makes managing food, healthy and tasty food, doable!

I have already tried a few recipes which were easy to follow and didn't have too many ingredients and /or ingredients I would not normally have in my home. I have already bookmarked more so will continue to work my way through. Looking forward to it.

Highly recommend this cookbook for everyone not just for those suffering with diabetes.