The Calorie King Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2014

A couple years ago, my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. This means we have to count carbs. The hospital recommended The CalorieKing book for counting carbs, and it really is a great book. The original book is a small paperback size, with print to match. It's OK with my reading glasses, but I was overjoyed to find that they publish a larger print edition, also. This is a review of the 2014 Larger Print Edition. The Larger Print Edition isn't the LARGE print that you see in a large-print novel. But it is LARGER print, and I really appreciate it. The size of the larger print book itself is a little bigger than the regular CalorieKing edition, but it's still paperback book size. Easy to store in a purse or glove compartment or backpack. size regular print 6 7/8 " x 4 1/4 " size Larger Print 7 1/4 " x 5 1/4 " Both books are the same thickness, a shade over 1/2" CalorieKing deserves it's reputation for thoroughness. The main reason you'd need updated editions of it is if you eat out a lot. It can be very difficult to estimate carbs in restaurant food. Each year's updated menus of the larger restaurant chains are welcome. But as far as grocery food, the apple and broccoli carb counts won't change from year to year, and packaged groceries will always have a label telling, among other things, how many carbs per serving. To give you an example of what a lifesaver CalorieKing is, I took a trip last year with my son, traveling by air. It was fantastic to just look in this book and total the carbs as he ordered a meal from Arby's in the airport food court. It couldn't have made it easier! Though we use this book for carb counting, for each item you are given three values: the total calories, the total grams of fat, and the total grams of carbohydrates. Examples: .........................................................Calories.....Fat......Carbs Arby's: Chicken - Chicken Bacon & Swiss: Crispy............600.........27.......55 .....Roasted............................................470.........19.......43 Chicken Filet: Crispy..............................530.........25.......52 .....Roast................................................400.........16.......40 Banana (weight with skin): 1 small (6", 4 per lb), 4 oz........................90..........0.........23 1 medium (7",3 per lb), 5 oz..................105..........0.........27 1 large (8"), 7 oz...................................120..........0.........30 1 extra large (9"), 9 oz...........................135..........0.........35 without skin, 1 oz.....................................25..........0..........6 What I've done with bananas, is kind of average all these counts, to make it easier. Now we measure the banana and figure 3.8 carbs (grams) per inch. Pears come out to about 3.5 carbs per oz. Apples to 3.2 per oz. And to measure the food in ounces or grams I can highly recommend the reasonably priced, easy-to-use, great little scale made by EatSmart: EatSmart Precision Pro Digital Kitchen Scale, White For different size portions, you extrapolate. The book states that a 7 oz pear is 25 carbs. If your pear is 11 oz, then its carb calculation: 11 oz divided by 7 oz = 1.57 (the 11 oz pear is 0.57 larger than (or 157% of) the 7 oz pear) 1.57 x 25 carbs for a 7 oz pear = 39 carbs for the 11 oz pear The calculations, until you get to the point where you can eyeball sizes for an estimate, can be tiresome, but that's how it goes. To have this marvelous book to give basic carb counts is invaluable. Very handy book. I bought one copy for each glove compartment, one for each grandparent house, one for the house, one for my purse, and one for travel! I have been updating my edition each year, just because we do eat out and get take-out. It's great to pick up some fried rice at Panda Express, and be able to just look up the carbs. Happy Reader

This book is a must for people who are diabetics and counting carbs. Further, great for people watching their sodium and/or fat consumption, people who just want to know what they are eating, people who want to make healthy decisions in their eating habits. This book contains the breakdown of national chains, like McDonald's or Burger King. It's all there in a pocket size (larger pocket), book that is easily carried. It tells you the calories of the main offerings of fast or regular food eateries. Regular and/or brands of food. It even has an Ethnic eating breakdown! If you want to count your calories that is also listed with its own column, with amounts of sodium, carbohydrates, and fats in columns next to it. It has opened my eyes to the carbs in food. The Ethnic eating section has been a big help as well. I highly recommend this book to everyone! The amount of information and the easy to see columns next to the food listed is helpful.

As an Insulin Dependent Diabetic, this book is extremely helpful in counting grams of Carbohydrates, so I can adjust the amount of short term insulin that I take. It is also very informative of helpful tips for weight loss. There is much information to help in many ways, for people with diabetes, and for those trying to lose weight. If you have diabetes, and/or want to lose weight, this is a great tool to have. There is a special section for food at various Restaurants and Fast Food places. This is very helpful, and the major reason I like to have a current version of this book. It is really hard to guess by sight how many carbs are in restaurant foods, so this is a great tool. The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars, is that it seems like restaurants keep adding foods to their menus, faster than this book can keep 100% up to date. Last year I tried the Kindle version on my smartphone, and was very disappointed with the difficulty of using it. So I much prefer the actual book.

If you are diabetic, counting carbs or on an insulin pump, this is the best resource you can have. I buy the large print so I can see. The pages show individual items, combination foods like pizza and burritos, and even many popular restaurants. If it is a killer, it won't be in there. You can even download the info into a smart phone. You should not be without this one! It was suggested by my Medtronic Diabetes Educator and I was so excited it is available in large print. I carry it in a little bag everywhere!

Calorie Counters are everywhere and this one is probably as good as any. I bought it but found it difficult to use. It didn't suit my purposes but I can see how it might work for someone else. It has a lot of very interesting information and suggestions/ideas. That part was great. The actual looking up of calories was the difficult part for me. The categories weren't what I expected. It was adequate but not exceptional.

This is a great resource to begin to understand portion sizes and nutritional value. I had just become diabetic when I purchased this book. I have used this book a lot and enjoy the accompanying App on my phone to search foods when out to eat.

The CalorieKing Counter was recommended by our doctor as a quick reference guide for tracking calories, fats and carbohydrates. The first 22 pages are filled with information on weight control, BMI, portion control, reducing sugar, exercise, keeping a food journal and a diabetes guide. There is also a section on cholesterol, fiber, protein, salt/sodium and alcohol. With a listing of over 200 fast food chains, you should be able to track anything you eat away from home but be prepared to be shocked by the numbers. We don't normally eat fast food but on occasion have gone to the "5 Guys" burger place and it was quite an eye opener as to the calories, fats and carbohydrates consumed in one small burger. An e-book is available for your Kindle.

Excellent AAA

This is another handy book to have, along with The Food and Exercise Journal - I also bought this one for my sister too, we both felt we needed to take control and this book does it all for us. It fits neatly into our handbags too, very handy to have when you are at work. Welll written and I thank you for having to go through all the foods and painstakingly taking the time to work out all the calories, fat etc. Thank you so much, I am now staying on track on a day to day basis. Another brilliant book.

I believe that this is the best available book of its type. Some of my favourite Australian foods are not in this book, but listed on the website. It is a good reference for your mobile phone, but the hard copy book for Australia should be purchased as well. It has become trendy to claim that counting calories is overrated, and not necessary, but common sense dictates that serving sizes and calories consumed are good things to know about. This version of the book is clearly meant for the US market, but is useful to anyone.

Very resourceful.

Bit hard to navigate , but does have lots of useful information

Great book, wish the protein percents were present, but works well.