Confident Choices: A Cookbook for IC and OAB (Confident Choices for Interstitial Cystitis) (0976724626) - Reviews and Prices
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Confident Choices: A Cookbook for IC and OAB (Confident Choices for Interstitial Cystitis) (0976724626) - Customer Reviews, Information, Ratings, and Prices
Confident Choices: A Cookbook for IC and OAB (Confident Choices for Interstitial Cystitis) (0976724626) - Reviews and Prices
Already a best-seller in the interstitial cystitis community!
From the author of the popular Confident Choices: Customizing the Interstitial Cystitis Diet, this cookbook includes over 200 recipes. The objective? Recipes that are quick, nutritious, and safe for most people with "fussy" bladders.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Caution! Not everyone with IC can eat all of these foods!:
It's recipes are strictly written for the existing food list making many unsuspecting suffers feel that the recipes, even though they may have foods that they might not be able to tolerate, are now magically safe to ingest. IC is an individualized disease and as such some of us are able to eat for example a pear and others of us will be in flair hell from one bit! In other words this book is not the solution for everyone. Be very careful with your choices. If a food has been known to cause you... more info
ok:
I guess I was dissapointed in the book as the list of items I was givin to not eat does not necessairly coinside with the book.
Good, but uneven:
As a source book for Interstitial Cystitis, this is very useful. As a cook book, it's not entirely trustworthy. The recipes I have used all have needed modification to work well. For example, the recipe for Spinach Feta Quiche calls for 2 ten ounce packages of frozen spinach, and a nine inch pie crust. I tried that, and the filling overflowed the pan when I put it in the crust. I used 1 package of spinach the next time, and it was just the right amount, and was delicious. Don't even try the microwave... more info
Simple, Appealing and Practical Diet Resource for IC Patients:
Julie Beyer's latest book, "Confident Choices: A Cookbook for IC and Overactive bladder" will be a lovely addition to IC libraries around the world. A perfect complement to her first book "Confident Choices: Customizing the IC Diet," Julie uses this new publication to walk the novice patient through essential IC diet basics and she does it in a style that is simple, easy to understand and inherently practical. As the first book written by a registered dietitian with IC, Julie's focus is on educating a... more info