Product Description
How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis is a cookbook for anyone who suffers from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, not to be confused with irritable bowel syndrome) or cooks for someone who has the disease. While there is no known cure for Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, their symptoms can be controlled in part by following the dietary guidelines of the American Dietetic Association and those outlined in Dr. Fred Saibil's Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: Everything You Need to Know and by other experts. Brenda Roscher provides sound nutritional advice and outlines the unique dietary needs of people with IBD, showing how to incorporate this information to make healthy choices about which foods to eat. The recipes in How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis are designed for the home cook, with easy-to-understand directions and ingredients found in local grocery stores. Because they are simple, many of the recipes can be prepared quickly, which makes them convenient for busy cooks. Finally, the recipes are designed with families in mind, to create meals that everyone can enjoy. How to Cook for Crohn's and Colitis also contains informative sidebars on such topics as: Tips on Dining Out, Organic vs. Non-Organic Foods, How to Read a Nutrition Label, Kneading Bread Dough, and Tips on Skimming Fat from Broth. It also contains a reading list for anyone who wants to learn more about IBD and nutrition, plus a comprehensive index. The recipes are organized into the following categories: appetizers, chili-chowders-soups, salads and salad dressings, sandwiches, breads savory and sweet, beef and pork, poultry, fish and seafood, past and sauces, side dishes, condiments and sweets.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 17 reviews)

Misguided advice makes it worse than useless by J. Seidman (Illinois, USA)

1 Stars
September 08, 2009
The recipes in this book are standard cookbook fare. If you can eat spicy Creole dishes and a tossed salad with baby spinach, tomatoes, and sliced onion, you hardly need a special cookbook! If you can't eat those things, you'll be picking through this looking for appropriate recipes just as you would with any other cookbook. The only difference between Roscher's recipes and traditional versions lies in her paranoid avoidance of saturated fat. For example, she recommends replacing butter with a butter/canola oil blend to reduce saturated fat. Bad advice for anyone with a diseased ileum: the shorter fat chains in butter are much easier to absorb than the longer fats in canola oil. Not being a doctor or dietitian, she's also bought into some ridiculous health hype. She recommends that we use only omega-3 eggs. She clearly hasn't done the research to learn that the omega-3 fat in those eggs is mostly ALA, which has very little health value. (Like many non-professionals, she may have been confused by a study about liquid eggs enriched with the important omega-3 fats DHA and EPA, a totally different product from in-shell omega-3 eggs.) Given the high medical costs many of us suffer, I don't appreciate suggestions like these that simply waste money. You can get recipes and bad nutritional advice for free on the Web, so there's really no reason to pay for this book.

Crohn's Cooking by Linda Brackett (Green Valley, AZ USA)

3 Stars
July 04, 2009
The cookbook is very informative and the meals look very easy to plan and make. Picture of the menus looks very inviting.

Title is a misnomer! by SuzzyM (New York, NY United States)

1 Stars
March 21, 2009
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. It is terrible, and completely not as advertised. The title led me to think that this was a book of recipes for those suffering flareups of Crohn's or ulcerative colitis. However, most of the recipes have ingredients that are NOT good for IBD patients at least during flare-ups. Red meat, frying, spices and insoluble fiber are spread throughout these recipes and anyone who knows anything about this knows that these are not advised. Maybe these things work for you Brenda, and that's great, but they don't work for everyone and at a minimum, your book does not really give full disclosure on this. I would suggest that the next edition have a better more accurate title and better disclaimers on the individual to individual variation in ability to tolerate the types of food ingredients I have noted here. For a really GOOD book for IBD patients, I'd refer you all to What to Eat with IBD by Tracie Dalessandro, MS, RD, CDN. She really gets it right. Happy eating and recovery all.

My favorite Crohn's cookbook by C. Jeeter (Connecticut)

5 Stars
February 28, 2009
As a Crohn's sufferer since 2000 I've read most of the literature on the subject and this is my favorite Crohn's cookbook. Mrs. Roscher didn't subscribe to the many theoretical or restrictive IBD diet plans out there, she simply did her own research and developed a simple, easy and effective diet plan. Her book conforms to the common-sense guidelines of the CCFA, and is in fact available on their website. Most of my meals for the last year have come directly out of this book, and my symptoms have declined to where I find myself in comfortable remission. To me, this book is a gem, full of no-BS recipes and information. Try it before you get caught up in an expensive diet plan that's only going to sensitize you to a lot of foods you could otherwise still be enjoying.

Highly recommended by Sheila Lugo

5 Stars
January 15, 2009
I like that this book is written by someone who actually has Crohn's Disease and has done the research. The intro material is brief but very informative. Most of this book is recipes, and the ones I've tried have been great - easy to make and very good. And very easy on my stomach! This is not an experimental diet book for IBD, it's the real deal. I recommend this cookbook without reservation.

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