Diabetes Snacks, Treats, and Easy Eats: 130 Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
Author: Barbara Grunes
Following on the success of 1,001 Delicious Recipes for People with Diabetes, the editors have compiled favorite recipes for snacks, appetizers, side dishes, cakes, pies, cookies — even ice cream — that are low in fat, carbs, and sodium, created especially for people with diabetes. Easy to make, most dishes take less than 20 minutes to prepare and use fewer than four ingredients plus condiments. In addition, this user-friendly cookbook also has suggestions for stocking the pantry and recipes that children will enjoy.
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The Urban Hermit: One Hungry American Gets Off His Butt, Loses His Gut, and Gets a Life
Author: Sam Macdonald
Faced with the truth that his debts and his waistline had both ballooned out of control, Sam MacDonald devised a plan to change his life.
When Sam graduated from Yale in 1995, he watched a classmate make inroads as a head-office guy in professional baseball, another become a day-trading millionaire, and another develop connections at the Playboy Mansion. Struggling to make ends meet, he shrugged his shoulders at their success and raised a tall one to them.
It wasn't until April 2000 that Sam got his wake-up call. He weighed 340 lbs. He was flat broke. And the IRS had caught up with him.
In a desperate attempt to save himself, Sam decided to limit himself to a budget of $8 a week and 800 calories a day. He called it "The Urban Hermit Plan."
He thought he would do it for a month. Instead, he embarked on a bizarre year-long journey. He lost 160 pounds in the process, befriended rent-dodging trailer-park denizens, flew to Bosnia on assignment, traveled to a peace festival in a hippie van, had a run-in with Cooter from the Dukes of Hazzard, and met the woman who would later become his wife.
The Urban Hermit is a wildly hilarious story about backwoods living, as told by a man who should have known better.
Dale Farris - Library Journal
MacDonald (creative nonfiction, Univ. of Pittsburgh) shares his story of how he overcame being flat broke and stuck with unpaid taxes and huge credit-card and student-loan debt (he graduated from Yale in 1995) while being nearly alcoholic and weighing 340 pounds. In April 2000, he implemented his own plan to save his life, beginning a journey of recovery and self-discovery that readers struggling with their own weight loss or lifestyle changes will appreciate. MacDonald decided to limit himself to a budget of $8 a week and 800 calories a day, the latter mainly from lentils that the author states "taste[d] like dirt." Although he initially thought that his urban hermit plan would not last long, MacDonald in fact continued his makeover for more than a year, achieving final success in August 2001. MacDonald here reveals some of the intriguing experiences he had along the way, including befriending rent-dodging trailer-park denizens, flying to Bosnia on assignment for a community newspaper, traveling to one of the Rainbow Gathering peace festivals, and ultimately meeting the woman who would become his wife. His memoir manages to be both funny and heartfelt. Recommended for public libraries.
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