Davina's 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free: Yummy, Easy Recipes to Help You Kick Sugar and Feel Amazing Paperback – April 1, 2015

Love Davina's style. Easy, no fuss recipes very straightforwardly presented. Great range, using wide selection of produce. A real pleasure and inspiration.

Love this book, simple yet delicious

Informative, easy to read. Enjoyed the example meal plans.

Excellent book

What utter rubbish. Just a cash cow for Davina.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I bought this book. I was pleasantly surprised. Davina gives a great introduction about sugar in our diet and she gives good substitutes. I love how every recipe has photos. The recipes really are simple and the ingredients are easily available at supermarkets. It has a 5 week plan at the back which is good, I've not started it yet but I have tried a quite a few of the recipes and they're really tasty.

Very disappointed with this book: most outrageously it is not sugar free (note to author: there is more to sugar than white refined stuff), recipes are fair to middling with mostly babble from a C-list celebrity. Pictures are OK.

Great book which is informative and interesting as well as having great recipes. Hard to believe that they are so low in sugar! I've yet to cook any of the recipes that didn't get 5 stars from my husband, family and friends. Can also recommend Davina's 'Sugar . Free In A Hurry' which I also have. No recipes are duplicated. They are clear, quick and easy to follow and other than a few 'specialist' ingredients (eg: spelt flour), most ingredients you would have readily available in your kitchen. Don't think you can buy the book and follow it slavishly if you are diabetic however because a lot of the recipes include honey, but this shouldn't be an issue as it's not identified as a diabetic cookery book, just what it says, a lifestyle adjustment to a healthier life and we all want that! Finally, having used Davina's 2 books for a while now, I no longer want to eat high sugar foods and Davina's recipes supply all the sweetness that I want and without the unhealthy white stuff.

Sugar is bad, we know this, fructose is the main culprit of badness, white sugar has fructose in, so we should quit that, Davina says use honey or maple syrup, However honey has huge amount of fructose http://www.springharvestmaplefarm.com/pure-maple-syrup-vs-honey yes honey in its raw form has nutritional value, but it means you are replacing fructose with fructose if you use honey. Fruit is ok to eat in small amounts as the fibre and all the other lovely fleshy bits help and are very good for you, dried fruit is bad as it is super high in sugar. That is a very basic rundown of whats what!I bought this as I currently follow Sarah Wilson's I quit Sugar, so I wanted some new recipes. Davina's is a nice book, BUT she is only quitting refined sugar and replacing it with maple syrup or honey...and a lot of it. As some people are pointing out in their reviews the book is 5 weeks TO quit sugar and that only a few recipes have honey/maple/dried fruit or fruit juice in them. Most recipe books meals eg, meat, fish veg based don't add sugars as part of the recipes so this book is no different in those to meals a regular recipe book. Try Jamie Olivers Save book, lovely stuff in there. The puds and bakes chapter recipes contain some or all of the previously mentioned ingredientS in small to huge quantities, some have more sugar in than a regular white sugar based recipe!Having done IQS I know how to sub the ingredients, but some people will actually think they are doing a proper sugar free. For example flapjacks have maple syrup , honey and dates! that's a lot of sugar.Don't get me wrong there are some lovely recipes, french onion soup being one and nice breakfast ideas, but I find the philosophy a bit flawed, and the meals not that nutrionally beneficial as say IQS or Hemsley and Hemsley books. This is a book to turn to for some healthy-ish comfort food, not a way of life. Davina says to cut out the sugar from the recipes even further but gives no indications how to do this (because if you take something out you have to put something in right?). This book could have been a lot better. I think if I followed the plan I would be eating more sugar than less, even reducing it out as I went. Some other reviewers have mentioned Sarah Wilsons IQS rigid 8 week plan as too hard or not enough leeway, I bought both the books and started cooking the recipes, I didn't follow the plan I just started eating healthy homecooked food, I do eat fruit but I now eat tons of veg, I even have a square a day of luscious 90%cacao choc, I'm not totally rigidly sugar free but if you JERF just eat real food you are on the way, remember your freezer is your best friend! prepare meals in advance and batch and freeze portions.Also a good quality honey will set you back a fiver as will maple syrup, if you use half a bottle of each as in say the flapjacks add in the price of the other ingredients that works out about 7 or 8 quid a batch...

I bought the kindle version so maybe I expected more but to be honest this is a really really simple book, basic recipes, hardly and science or information and a few recipes you could find for free on the Internet. The 5 week plan is quite helpful if you need someone to lay it out for you. To be clear, it's not a calorie controlled diet and as everyone else and davina herself will say it's only refined sugar that's being cut (which I have no issue with).