The most simple and delicious low-carb bread rolls you will find! Please read on… “Your home smells like I’ve just walked in to a bakery” were the words of the plumber this morning as he walked through the hallway and he was right, it did. […]
With it being nearly 14 years since my diagnosis, diabetes awareness month and after receiving a lot of questions recently, I wanted to dedicate a post to my disease, Type One Diabetes. Firstly I am not writing this for sympathy, assurance or a pat on the back, […]
This cake is currently being made on a weekly basis in our house. Florence (my one year old daughter) adores it. She sometimes has a slice for breakfast usually with a rather mismatched side of avocado (her most favourite food). Otherwise I will pop it […]
I made this parmesan puffs recipe up when looking in the fridge and cupboards and realising I had no savoury snacks for Florence, my three year old. With lots of parmesan and some eggs, I threw the ingredients together and in less than 10 minutes […]
Following on from the success of my first low-carb cooking class in September and the sold out class in October, I am now launching the next one. A low-carb Christmas cooking class! Learn lots of tips and tricks for making Christmas as blood sugar friendly as […]
A simple and delicious low carb recipe for blackberry crumble with homemade custard. One of my favourite moments recently has been wondering through the lanes in the open countryside near our home picking blackberries with Florence. Since the sickness and nausea lifted at 16 weeks […]
To say the last 4 months have been filled with enough worry, fear and sadness to last more than a lifetime, is an understatement. I haven’t gone in to any detail here on the blog as finding time to sit down to write in detail […]
I am so excited to launch my October low-carb cooking class! A few days ago I shared on social media that I would be doing my first cooking class, here in Cheltenham. I was overwhelmed by responses and sold out within a few hours. So, […]
Excited to announce that I have launched a new product through my online shop. Introducing “bread in a bag“. I get that giving up carbs, especially if bread has been one of your staple go to’s for years and years, seems like an unachievable challenge. […]
This is the most delicious low-carb cheesecake you will find… please read on! I have never been a huge cheesecake fan. Well, not until I created this recipe. I have always found them far too sweet and cloying. When I was about 10 I made […]
Walking through the supermarket earlier smelt like I’d walked into a hot cross bun oven. It was inescapable. Out of interest I picked up a packet to look at the ingredients. I gave up after getting to number 20….I wasn’t surprised, of course. But, is […]
Did you know that a standard 440g jar of Nutella contains a staggering 249g of sugar. That works out as a 37 gram serving of sugar in every two tablespoons, or a whopping 57 cubes per jar. Worrying? The alternative options have the same amount of sugar and […]
The most simple and delicious low-carb bread rolls you will find! Please read on… “Your home smells like I’ve just walked in to a bakery” were the words of the plumber this morning as he walked through the hallway and he was right, it did. […]
Monday and Friday are my child free mornings to get work done. Florence is in nursery and so I spend most of my time writing or recipe testing. The first few times she went she utterly hysterical at me leaving her. Seeing her so upset […]
There is nothing better than a simple recipe, with very few ingredients that tastes amazing AND is incredibly low-carb! Well, this recipe is just that! A few weeks ago I shared it on my social media account. The response was incredible with thousands of views and […]
Hello and welcome to my blog The Low Carb Kitchen (originally Paleo With Mrs P), thank you for stopping by. My name's Emma but my friends and family call me Emi. I live in Cheltenham with my toddler Florence, husband Ports and cat Tilly.
I am a food writer, recipe developer and the author of The Low Carb Diabetes Cookbook (published 1 November 2018). I was diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2005 during my final year of school. I manage my condition by wearing an insulin pump, a continuous glucose monitor and following a low-carb diet.
Read more in the "About" section
It is with huge excitement that I can share the news that I am now an official author. My book “The Low Carb Diabetes Cookbook“, published by Penguin Random House has launched today (1st November 2018). It feels like a long time coming, but it is finally here and in the hands of so many of you.
I signed my contract with PRH back in December 2016 and started writing it shortly after. Florence was a tiny bundle in my arms. From 6 months old I then weaned her on many of the recipes (pureed of course), and now she is a fully fledged, rambunctious toddler, running, talking and ruling my world, with total euphoric love and joy, of course. I couldn’t have asked for a better recipe testing guinea pig (as well as my husband). What a whirlwind it has been.
The support I have received over social media has been incredible and I am so ecstatically terrified for you to get the copy in your hands. There is that slight panic at the back of my mind, the will they like the book, will they like what I say, will they like the recipes?
The book contains 100 of my low carb recipes. Some of which have come off the blog (the most popular), but the majority of which are brand new. There are:
breakfasts
soups and salads
light bites
dinners
side dishes and snacks
baking and desserts
There are meal plans, kitchen cupboard essentials with my story interweaved. There is also the nutritional information including carb count for each recipe there for those that need it.
I have co-written the book with Dr David Cavan, international diabetes expert, endocrinologist and best-selling author or the Reverse Your Diabetes books. It has been an absolute honour to have David’s support, insight and encouragement. To have someone as well-regarded and knowledgeable entrusting in me and my recipes. His knowledge, science and information is embedded in to the book in a great format. Something that those with Diabetes (pre, gestational, type one and two and all their families) will benefit from reading.
The book is available in hard copy and as an e-book. It will be available to buy Internationally soon, I will keep you posted.
The book is for everyone. Please don’t be put off just because the title has “diabetes” in it. It is a book full of low carb recipes, recipes that are there to benefit everyone’s health, for children and adults. The ingredients are simple, things you can pick up from your local supermarket. You may have noticed in my blog already that I don’t do complicated food and I don’t do hard to make food. I don’t have the time (or the money) for ingredients that can only be bought in trendy health food shops or online. The methods are straight forward and simple to follow. At the end of the day food is there to be enjoyed by everyone, I want this to be a book to inspire, showing people who low carb isn’t a fad, it isn’t boring, or devoid of vital food groups (something I frequently read).
I believe that everyone should live the life they choose. One diet doesn’t fit all, granted. But, there are people out there that are changing their lives following a low carb diet, putting their diabetes (type 2) in to remission, preventing their pre diabetes diagnosis, controlling their blood sugars more tightly and taking less insulin (T1 and T2) or medication. You can read my story here. There are medical experts who are shouting the benefits of low carb from the roof tops and their voices are finally being heard.
Diabetes.co.uk run the low carb program through their website, something which can also be prescribed from your local health authority, so if you are interested in reading more in detail about low carb and the benefits then see here.
More than 326,000 people have signed up to the Low Carb Program which is a 10-week, evidence-based structured behavioural change programme supporting patients with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes to place their condition into remission. A low-carbohydrate approach to blood glucose control can help people lose weight, improve their health and wellbeing, and their medication dependency.
Last year it was estimated the programme had saved the NHS £6.9 million in one year through reducing type 2 diabetes medications.
If it is going to help your health, save your health, prevent your health from deteriorating then try it! Health is wealth, I can tell you that much.
And finally, you may have noticed that my website has changed. Welcome to The Low Carb Kitchen, I hope you like it. I have been in the process of changing the blog over for some time, but with the launch of the book, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to launch this along side it. I hope that the layout is more user-friendly and that you stick around and continue to enjoy the recipes I share.
Thank you again for your continued encouragement and support. I couldn’t have done it without you.
Thank you also to Dr David Cavan, the team at diabetes.co.uk, Jonathan Hayden, Teresa Quinlan and Penguin Random House for making this all possible.
Emma x
