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	500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love Dana Carpender Fair Winds Press (MA), 2002 - 500 pages average customer review:based on 206 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the toughest challenges of any diet is having enough variety and choices to keep the dieter from losing interest. The most common reason that people abandon their diet is boredom but 500 LOW CARB RECIPES: 500 Recipes, From Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love by Dana Carpender has more than enough recipes to keep even the most finicky dieter on track.

With recipes for everything including hors dÆoeuvres, snacks, breads, muffins, side dishes, entrees, cookies, cakes and much more, this is an endless supply for creating meals for the whole family night after night. Whether everyone in the family is on a diet or not, these recipes are proven winners with adults and kids alike.

Also included:
Many one-dish meals for single people--main dish salads, skillet suppers that include meat and vegetables, and hearty soups that are a full meal in a bowl. Ideas for breaking out of old ways of looking at food with suggestions that save time and money and change what is considered a normal meal for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Information about where to find low-carbohydrate specialty products and descriptions of low-carb specialty foods found in grocery stores everywhere. An entire chapter that lists and describes low-carb substitute ingredients such as fats and oils, flour substitutes, liquids, seasonings and sweeteners.

Dieters will be pleased to know that they can eat foods like guacamole, omelets, pizza, steak, ham and dessert without giving up great taste and still lose weight. There are enough recipes to create the perfect menu for any holiday of the year--including Thanksgiving. Each of the 500 recipes includes a carbohydrate count to help calculate the total carb intake of each menu.

There are more recipes for main dishes and side dishes than most low-carb dieters will ever be able to eat--everything from down-home cooking to ethnic fare; from quick-and-easy weeknight meals to knock-their-socks off party food. 500 LOW CARB RECIPES is the last cookbook any dieter will ever need to buy and certain to be used until the binding is worn out!

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Bye bye boring!

I lost 50 lbs (pregnancy weight) doing Atkins several years ago and boy was that boring! I literally ate eggs, cheese, lettuce and meat for a year! The weight fell off but I really hated that way of eating and even though ive kept the weight off, I did switch back to low fat/ low calorie eating which leaves me starving all the time.
I bought Danas book in the hopes of finding "easy and practical" meals to prepare, not just for me, but for my husband and 3 kids who all had adapted a fairly unhealthy way of eating- out of convenience mostly. I am totally shocked at how easy, delicious, filling and satisfing these meals are! I work 40 hours a week, have 3 kids and never seem to stop and every LC book I have found requires soooo much time in the kitchen it just wasnt worth it!

I have prepared full meals, snacks, lunches and breakfasts for all of us for 2 weeks now and havent even come close to getting bored nor scratched the surface of the countless "doable" recipes she provides. I simply sit down every saturday morning with this book, a notebook and a pen and start flipping through, putting together a main course and a side dish (dinner) for the next 5-6 days. I make sure and vary the ingredients from fish to pork to beef and then I work on what we will have with it! I plan out the meals and jot down the required ingredients (saving the more time consuming meals for the weekends) throwing in at least one "leftovers" night during the week and viola. Take off to the store, but it all and post the menu on the fridge. Its really that easy.

Thanks Dana! I havent even gotten to crack the cover of the crockpot cook book yet, but I will!
Noone in my house has even missed the mac and cheese, scalloped potatoes or garlic bread.

(oh and between me, hubby and the kids, we have all lost a few lbs cutting out all those starchy carbs!)

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Great cookbook!

Going back on a low carb diet, I needed some good recipies. This book is full of fantastic tasting dishes. The thing I like best is that they are so easy to follow, and you don't need strange ingredients. This book is a must on a low-carb diet.



Tasty, easy recipes for the non-chef

I am not a particularly good cook - I won't starve but I won't win any culinary awards. This book is perfect for someone like. It has very easy, creative recipes that aren't necessarily gourmet, but get the job done.


great purchase

This item was very cheap in price, in excellent condition, and it arrived in less than a week. It was a great purchase.

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Low-Carb Creativity!

This is a great book for low-carb dieters! 500 pages in this hard-cover book with tons of creative recipes from soup to nuts and back again! Everything you need to know about low-carb living, from where you can buy low-carb specialty items without paying through the nose to the list of ingredients you need to know about, is in this book. Despite the fact that this book contains pork and shellfish recipes (neither of which we eat in our family), it is still a great resource for those low-carbers tired of the same old stuff for dinner.


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