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Summary: 500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert,
Review: This book is excellent. All the recipes I have tried work, taste great and are easy to fix. This was important to me since working full time plus, I have limited time to cook. She offers suggestions on substitutions for ingredients in some cases if you cannot get a particular ingredient where you live. I would reccommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: The best low-carb cookbook!!!
Review: I own several low-carb cookbooks and this is the first one that has actually made the lifestyle liveable for me. I've made recipes from it nearly every day since I got it and so far I've loved everything I've made. The sunflower-parmesan crackers are the best! And there are still so many I want to make. I love this cookbook!
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Summary: We Love It!
Review: Although we own an impressive array of cookbooks, I can count the ones we actually use on one hand. This book is one of them. The recipes have been tested by real live people, and it shows. Instructions are clear, and ingredients for the main dishes can be found at my local supermarket. They're do-able, simple, and delicious.
The only problem is we like the dishes from this cookbook a little too much!
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Summary: Eat Wonderful, Delectable Food--Lose Weight--Superb Recipes!
Review: This is an Amazing Cookbook ! Low-Carb Hollandaise sauce, meals, coffee cake, and so much more! With 500 recipes to choose from, no one will get bored with the Low-Carb "diet." I assure you, anyone can eat well, and Enjoy meals, while losing weight and avoiding the sugary and starchy foods we all crave. Unlike most "diets," this is a rational system of eating Good Food, that isn't as bad for us as our usual fare. No need to give up "Chocolate" or other pleasant dessert items...just a readjustment to our usual "Seefood Diet."
The author is a Terrific Cook & a Wonderful Hostess ( and she looks great ! ). I can speak from first-hand experience (and second-hand, via my wife and friends), when I say that this lady can Cook ! We have dined with her and when we discovered we were eating "Low Carb," we were very surprised to say the least!
You will not starve eating Low-Carb. The recipes are to drool for.
Not only is the author is a Terrific Cook, but she & her husband look great & they have a lot energy ( ! ), so I think her work speaks for itself. See her previous book : "How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds! ," by Dana Carpender (Paperback)
My local public library just ordered 3 copies of the "500 Low-Carb Recipes" book, and the author was recently pictured on the front page of her own local newspaper's "Region" section making Cookies, in her kitchen. Word is spreading fast, here in Indiana (it is a much-needed book in our area), and the libraries have a difficult time keeping her book in stock.
Better buy a copy, fast, before Indiana purchases them all. Please, see Linda Carroll's review, below, for more information.
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Summary: Informative and Delicious
Review: As is characteristic of Dana, this book is well researched and explained. I actually sat down and read it like a novel. So far, one of the dishes I have made is the meat chili and it was so wonderful that there were no leftovers when I served it at a party. The recipes are easy to follow and cover every food you could ever imagine. This is by far going to be the favored cook book in our house and my children like the recipes too.
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Summary: BEST cookbook available for low carb!
Review: This is an excellent guide to healthy living. It is the best on the subject!
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Summary: You have done it again!
Review: Loved your first book as it was so informative and made it easy to follow and understand the low carb way of living. This book is a valuable asset to my cookbook library. You have covered every recipe need with low carb delicious recipes. I especially like the one-dish meals. I am looking forward to trying all the recipes in this book and serving them to family and friends with no apologies for them being low carb! Thanks Dana.
Diana Lee
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Summary: This books deserves 500 stars! Simply spectacular!
Review: First let me say that I own many, many low-carb cookbooks, and this one is THE best I have ever read! Not only does it offer 500, yes, 500 recipes that are easy, fabulous and low carb, but the introduction and ingredient chapters were SPECTACULAR! The introduction was warm, witty and informative. I typically skim through the beginning chapters and get right to the recipes, but I couldn't put this one down! So many questions that I had were answered in the Low Carb Specialty Foods chapter, not to mention the Polyols chapter and the Where to Find Low-Carb Specialty Products chapter (she doesn't like paying through the nose for this stuff, either)! The Ingredients You Need to Know About section was the absolute best--necessary and unique information about eggs, fats/oils, flour substitutes (what the heck are guar and xanthan gums, anyway--she answers that, too!), sweeteners (wow, I can have molasses!), vegetables (and I can have carrots, too!), and oh so much more. Her first recipe is addictive enough to eat every day (Heroin Wings)! I wish I could say that I've made all the recipes, but I'm so busy trying out the recipes from the first chapter, I haven't even looked at the other chapters yet, but believe me, I know they'll be outstanding. This author is down-to-earth, funny and charming. I can relate to her so well. She stresses over and over again to listen to your body and let that be your guide regardless of whether the food is low-carb. This works so well for me. The BEST book you will ever purchase on low-carbing and low-carb recipes. DON'T MISS THIS ONE!
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Summary: 500 Low Carb Recipes
Review: Love this book! Even though I own several low carb cookbooks, I can tell this one will be a favorite. I knew there would be 500 recipes, but didn't expect such a large cookbook. The variety is great! Although I am not a big bread eater, after three years of low-carbing I have missed an occasional piece of toast. Lots of low-carb loaves have been tossed to the dog, who didn't care much for them, either. The loaf of oatmeal molasses bread that I made from this book is a winner!
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Summary: Very creative but easy
Review: I bought Dana's 15 minute low-carb cookbook first and was so impressed I just bought this one. I love them both! I've been on (and off) low carb for several years now. Actually, I had been more off than on for several months. I was just very bored with the food. These two cookbooks have inspired me and I've even started losing weight again. I'm an avid cookbook reader and collector but Dana's cookbooks contain ideas I haven't seen anywhere else. Yet, for the most part, I find them easy enough for weeknight cooking. If you're sick of eating low carb, YOU REALLY NEED THIS COOKBOOK!
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