Diabetic friendly recipes should taste like food, not like a prescription. The recipes and meal plans here are built around stable blood sugar, but they are chosen for the same reasons any recipe is chosen: they are quick, they feed a family, and they use what is already in the cupboard. Each one says how the carbohydrates were kept in check, so you can adapt it.

For the ordinary days there are breakfast ideas, lunches for stable blood sugar and a week of lunches prepared in an hour, plus crockpot dinners you set in the morning. If you would rather have the week decided for you, start with the seven-day diabetic meal plan.

Sweet things are not off the table. There are diabetic dessert recipes, a guide to low glycemic baking, and bedtime snacks that keep morning readings steady. You will also find cheap diabetic meals, holiday menus, comfort food and a gestational diabetes meal plan for pregnancy.

Most of these dishes have a crisp counterpart in the Diabetic Air Fryer Cookbook, which uses the same carb limits and adds the air fryer timings.