125 diabetes safe recipes, including all main meals, snacks, desserts. Each recipe provides a complete nutritional breakdown and has been extensively reviewed by leading diabetes educators

Discusses healthy eating and nutrition for children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and provides recipes for main dishes, snacks, and desserts. Includes "fun food facts."

As a parent, you may feel as if your world has been turned upside down when your child is diagnosed with diabetes. With knowledge, determination, and diligent medical care, your child with diabetes should be able to lead a healthy, active, and happy life. Apart from medical issues, one of the hardest things for families to deal with is also one of the most common daily experiences - eating. It is hard enough to prepare meals for picky eaters, but throw diabetes into the mix, and the picture becomes much more complicated. Food should also be creative and fun for kids. Having diabetes doesn't mean your child should settle for boring, bland food. The recipes in this book are easy to prepare, using common ingredients. Most importantly, they are "kid tested" and geared particularly to kids tastes. And there's no need for separate meals since these recipes were tested among children with diabetes - as well as those without - and it was unanimous: The food was tasty for everyone!

When children come home from school or sports, they want a snack. Not some gourmet meal, just something simple and tasty and quick to fix. For those with diabetes, these snacks can be especially hard to come by. And with incidence rates rising sharply -- one in three American children born in the last five years is expected to become diabetic -- it's a problem more and more families are facing. This book offers a happy solution, with 130 recipes for the types of things youngsters really like to eat that are also healthy and help them stay within diabetic guidelines. It contains a wide array of choices for every meal of the day and to satisfy every hunger pang in between, with healthy renditions of favorites like Pizza Puffs, Chicken Nuggets, Taco Salad, Turkey Quesadillas, Puffy German Pancakes, Strawberry Sundae, Mini Chocolate Cupcakes, and many more.

All parents want their children to eat well—but for children with diabetes, eating well is not just a preference, it’s a requisite. When to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat are critical considerations—all day, every day. But with a little knowledge and planning, you can whip up meals that are as good for your child as they are good to eat, including: Ultimate Grilled Cheeseburger Sandwich Multigrain Pancakes and Vanilla Smoothies Baked Potato Chips and Creamy Spicy Dip Taco Salad Grilled Ranch Chicken Lobster Salad Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse With this cookbook, you can meet the dietary challenges of diabetes with delicious—and doable—meals. From bag lunches and after-school snacks to birthday treats and holiday feasts, children with diabetes can enjoy mealtime as much as kids everywhere—every day of the year!

Child-friendly recipes that fit into your busy lifestyle and offer healthy—and tasty—alternatives to today’s fast food meals and sugary snacks. This redesigned and expanded third edition of Diabetes Snacks, Treats, and Easy Eats for Kids offers even more simple, delicious recipes for healthy, well-balanced diets. Since the book was first published in 2006, the prevalence of diabetes in children has continued to increase. Children under age nineteen have seen a twenty-one percent increase in Type 1 cases, and children ages ten to nineteen have seen a thirty percent increase in cases of Type 2—a disease that used to be considered an adult condition. But kids will be kids, and when they come home from school, they want a snack that’s simple, satisfying, and occasionally sweet. When it comes to dinner, they usually don’t have the time or the taste for fancy meals. With this in mind, author Barbara Grunes has developed more than 150 recipes for snacks and meals that kids really like and that stay within diabetic guidelines. Grunes’s goal is to help all kids enjoy food that is good for them—even if they have diabetes. Each recipe includes the nutritional information readers need, whether they count carbs or use the exchange method. With recipes like Pizza Puffs, Spud Pancakes, Chicken Fajitas, Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes, and Fruit Turnovers, this book proves that everyone can enjoy familiar and delicious food together. After all, it’s not about “good,” “bad,” or “forbidden” foods—it’s about readers feeding their families sensibly.

Attention: Start with visually appealing dishes that draw in children. Have a look at this vibrant "Rainbow Veggie Skewer Platter." Cucumber, bell pepper, and cherry tomato kebabs are visually appealing and a great source of many important elements. To pique people's interest and curiosity, draw attention to the vivid colours. Interest: Changing to the idea of "Quinoa Pizza Bites". Use quinoa instead of regular pizza dough for a gluten-free alternative. Add dairy-free cheese, tomato sauce, and allergy-friendly toppings like chopped turkey or chicken on top. To keep attention, highlight the comforting familiarity of pizza in a healthy, bite-sized format. Desire: Inspire cravings for something sweet with "Berry Parfait Delight." Arrange a bed of fresh berries, crushed almonds, or seeds on top of a layer of yoghurt free of allergens. Use low-sugar yoghurts to showcase the decadence of a dessert-like parfait while keeping it diabetes-friendly. Action Recommend a basic recipe for "Zucchini Noodle Stir-Fry." As a basis, use spiralized zucchini stir-fried in low-sodium soy sauce with prawns or other lean protein. This adds a playful twist to a traditional dish while also satisfying a hunger for noodles. To create a sense of participation and accomplishment, get parents and kids involved in cooking together. In conclusion, creating kid-friendly recipes that are both allergy- and diabetic-friendly requires ingenuity and consideration for dietary requirements. These recipes, which range from vibrant vegetable skewers to quinoa pizza pieces, berry parfaits and stir-fried zucchini noodles, are meant to draw in diners, hold their interest, pique their curiosity and inspire action. We can accommodate their dietary needs while making healthy meals fun for kids by introducing diversity and getting them involved in the cooking process.

Approximately 208,000 Americans under age twenty have diagnosed diabetes, and the number is growing at an alarming rate. From 2001 to 2009, the number of American children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes rose 23 percent; for type 2 diabetes it rose 21 percent. While scientists and government organizations assess the reasons for the increase, parents are left to deal with its day-to-day ramifications, and to guide their children through the discovery and treatment process. Jeff Hitchcock, the editor of this volume, was in desperate need of advice for how to best support his young daughter after her diagnosis. When he searched for support, he was shocked by how little information existed. So he started his own support group, Children with Diabetes. And now, more than twenty years later, Children with Diabetes has answered more than twenty thousand questions from other parents, gets more than twenty thousand daily hits on its website, and has a highly respected Diabetes Team, a wealth of on-call experts for parents in need of support. In this volume, Jeff has collected a whopping 101 tips for parents. The tips answer questions such as: What does the diagnosis mean? How do I get help? Should I change my child’s eating habits? What does insulin mean, and how is it used? And what should I tell my child’s teacher? For ease of reference, they’re categorized, so answers can quickly and easily be found. They’re also provided in simple, jargon-free, and easy-to-understand language.

Information and tools for parents, teachers, coaches, bus drivers, nurses, baby-sitters, relatives.