Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style

Prepare your favorite African American dishes in ways that protect you and your family from heart disease and stroke. These 20 tested recipes will show you how to cut back on fat, especially saturated fat, cholesterol, salt, and sodium and still have great-tasting food. Delicious foods from spicy southern barbecued chicken to sweet potato pie are included.

4/30/2008 5:51:53 PM I am hypertensive so I’ve been looking for good recipes. I’ve tried the Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken with Candied Yams and Smothered Greens. It was a delicious meal. I couldn’t believe hot great it tasted. If you have someone who needs to eat healthier, get them this book.     4/20/2008 12:33:08 AM 0ne of the diseases associated with the African American community and one that affects healthy hearts is diabetes. None of the recipes indicate the amount of carbohydrates in them. Please include this information along with the other information. thank you     4/13/2008 10:27:33 PM 2000     3/25/2008 2:41:31 AM This will help me make my monthly menu calender, I’m glad I came across this I will share this site with others.     3/17/2008 1:22:33 PM Love the cookbook and have copied it to hand out at health fairs HOWEVER we need carbohydrate information for people with diabetes. Perhaps you could do a heart and diabetes friendly cookbook or slip in some tips for those people with diabetes and CVD disease. Thanks!     2/19/2008 7:45:35 PM     10/17/2007 2:07:56 PM Thanks for the recipes my husband and I love to eat and we are really overweight but these recipes made it better.     9/24/2007 2:52:02 PM The recipes as tested were easy to prepare and flavorful. However, it would be helpful to have the protein and total carb data along with the other nutritional values. That would make these recipes more friendly to those with an assortment of health concerns, as those who want to eat heart healthy may have other health issues as well.     9/4/2007 6:48:15 PM     8/28/2007 12:29:25 PM     8/24/2007 8:43:03 PM     7/27/2007 9:16:50 AM Thanks so much - I will use this with my patients and at my house! Not only Blacks in the South like these foods - they are also many of the staple foods of White people, too. Thanks for the great recipes.     7/10/2007 12:43:43 AM My husband just had a heart attack and has been told to modify his diet to low sodium, low cholestral and low fat. I found the recipes in this cookbook to be excellent for my husband. They give me a way to continue preparing his favorite foods that are healthier for him.     5/31/2007 1:57:34 PM I have really enjoyed the recipes I made in this book. Alll of them are great. They were simple and most of the ingredients I had at home. Is there another cook book like this??     4/25/2007 1:38:47 AM     4/25/2007 1:38:40 AM     4/23/2007 2:26:49 PM So many of us have diabetes. It would be good to show the carbohydrates for those of us that try to control blood sugart level through diet. Which includes portion sizes and carbohydrates. Complex or non-complex.     4/17/2007 11:40:49 AM I find that this is an excellent way to modify the otherwise ’deadly’ way of cooking the foods we love the most. The comfort foods of our past are made more accessible to a health-conscious public. I grew up with a lot of these recipes and am very happy to know that they CAN be included in my ’diet’ with no loss of flavour!     3/23/2007 3:44:57 PM Splenda substituted for sugar would reduce calories greatly. My family does not notice the difference. For example if a recipe calls for a cup of sugar, I use half a cup of sugar and half a cup of Splenda.     3/18/2007 5:40:46 PM I just want to thank you for providing a way to cook and eat healthy without losing the flavor and the essence of the food. This information needs to be distributed in African American communities in order to educate the people who would never find it online. Thanks again.     3/16/2007 3:13:42 PM People with heart disease frequently have diabetes too. This would be more useful if it included carb amounts.     3/2/2007 11:24:17 AM There are so many recipes that I can make with less time and less ingredients. I feel this is information to share with all my friends. I have found it’s not about what cultures eat what foods; its how we prepare the foods we eat that matters the most. This book of recipes is great to share with my church, family and freinds. It’s all about staying healthy for life. I regret not finding this website sooner.