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First and foremost we want you to enjoy this cookbook.

The last thing we want is for you to get hung up about working out or counting up the GL scores of foods, or weighing out every ingredient, so don’t do any of that. Counting is boring and stressful and can lead to overeating in itself.

The basis of all the recipes is that we have swapped high-GL ingredients for low-GL ones. So if the recipe contains carbs, we have replaced the FAST carbs with SLOW ones.

We’ve also put together all the other pieces of the ‘healthy eating jigsaw’ to make sure that your low-GL diet is nicely balanced and full of lots of good, healthy and nutritious foods.

Rather than giving you very prescriptive plans and menus (‘you must eat this today for breakfast and that for lunch tomorrow’), we’ve given you a basic template to help you plan your own low-GL healthy eating a week at a time. The template will help you make sure you eat regularly, eat a good variety of foods and, of course, choose the foods you love.

Now, because we’ve done everything we can think of to make using this cookbook as easy as possible, we want you to do something for us. We want you to ‘think natural’ and try, wherever possible, to start with basic ingredients, follow a few simple steps and end up with a delicious, natural, healthy dish. We’re talking about cooking from scratch, not fancy cordon bleu stuff, just simple ‘back to basics’ cooking.

We are passionate about cutting back on highly processed foods because they can be full of hidden sugars, salt, additives and unhealthy trans fats. The bottom line with all of our recipes is that you start with a bunch of natural ingredients and combine them together. This means you are in total control over what you consume, with no hidden ‘nasties’ to worry about. We have also given you lots of short-cuts to help save you time and effort, without compromising on any of the health and taste benefits.