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Summary: Quantity of recipes, not quality
Review: While I have found a few good recipes, such as Heroin Wings, it is obvious that the author threw in anything to reach the 500 recipe count of the title. There are many recipes that are cooking techniques, not a true recipe. For example, there are 25 recipes for omlettes/scrambles that can be summed up in one sentence: Try adding leftovers or classic combinations to an omlette or eggs (ie fajitas, mushroom scramble).For a well-written, professional cookbook with many great techniques and unique recipes, try The Low-Carb Cookbook by Fran McCullough.
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Summary: Recipes and MORE!
Review: I love the way that Dana covers the topics associated with low-carb cooking. She explains the role and behavior of ingredients that may be new to you. This book appeals to every cook from beginner to advanced skill level. Tips included in the text help you understand how and what to shop for, what to look for once you find it, and even where to find it! I live in a rural area, and Dana's advice helped me find everything I needed to get started on my new diet. Folks - there are breads and desserts in this book! Take a look - if you have adopted low-carb eating as a lifestyle, you have got to have this in your library.
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Summary: Taste great and healthy too
Review: This is a great book that contains wonderful ideals for quick, easy, healthy meals. Although the recipes sometimes require 40-50 minutes to prepare, I have never been disappointed with one yet. I admittedly don't like to cook, and find it easy to avoid cooking altogether by eating unhealthy fast-food, but this book has definitely helped me avoid the temptations of easy, low-prep., unhealthy eating that has become the staple of my diet. This book will definitely make it easier to make healthy eating more consistent, but I'm convinced that the only way to really stick to any diet is to make it part of your routine by making it a habit. A friend of mine who is a clinical dietitian gave me an amazing book entitled The Power of Habit. It explains how our eating (when we eat, what we eat, and how much we eat) is all habit. It teaches you how to change your eating habits to make healthy eating a permanent, automatic part of your lifestyle. 500 Low-Carb Recipes gives you healthy, easy, low-hassle recipes, and The Power of Habit teaches you how to stick to them. I highly recommend both books.
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Summary: Wonderful, Diet-Saving Cookbook
Review: Well, if you're interested in this book, you've decided to go low-carb. Good for you. But if you're like me, you still want delicious food to eat besides broccoli and steak for a meal. This is a great cookbook, easy to follow, with all kinds of recipes for every kind of meal. Recipes for delicious bread (5g of carbs per slice.. less than Atkins Bread you buy at the store, I'm pretty sure, and tastes much better!), cookies, protein bars, mayonnaise, even granola, brownies... also what to do with green beans and broccoli (again!), chicken and everything else. Be prepared to go to your health food store for some of the ingredients, or to order them online. I'm not a great cook, but I didn't have any trouble at all making delicious food with this book. She explains the ingredients you'll be using in the book, and how flour is replaced with low-carb ingredients. She also lets you know how many carbs are in each serving of the recipe, along with how much fiber and protein. Just be careful, if you're on the South Beach Diet, a lot of these recipes are NOT low fat, and are calorie dense. A lot of them are phase 3. Definitely get this book if you want a variety of delicious recipes. I also highly recommend The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook to go with it. These 2 cookbooks keep my husband and I happily on the diet. And, believe it or not, we had a low-carb holiday season and didn't gain a single pound. And it was easy and delicious!
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Summary: Great book with truely low-carb recipes
Review: I really like this book. It is full of low-carb easy recipes. A lot of other books that I have looked at claim to be low carb but in my opinion are not. I recently made one of the cheesecake recipes for 9 grams of carbs per serving which was excellent and another recipe for chocolate chip cookies with 3 grams of carbs per cookie, they were pretty tasty! My only complaint about the book is I wish the each recipe told you the calorie content and fat grams per serving as some of the recipes more than make up for the lack of carbs by adding fat. All-in-all well worth buying!
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Summary: Dana Carpender is a lifesaver!
Review: 500 Low-Carb Recipes is a wonderful cookbook. Today, for Christmas, I made "Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Praline Crust." After dinner, I tried a slice. It was pure heaven and tasted like I was "being bad." All of the recipes from the book that I've tried have been top notch. A lifelong enemy of spinich, I have even warmed up to spinich using Dana's "Joe" recipe. Get this book as well as Dana's other cookbook. Cookbook writers like Dana have helped me lose 86.5 pounds since October 2002. Her recipes make low-carb enjoyable.
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Summary: It's SO good that...
Review: This is how good this book is: I made two dips (Artichoke & Cheese and Avocado & Cheese) and the Heroin Wings for a neighborhood party, and was asked if I am a professional caterer! Well, no, but I CAN follow Dana's simple recipes. And I love her friendly way of "talking" throughout the book. Plus it's very easy to read all the type (a problem with so many cookbooks that try to be "artsy"). I like it so much I've joined her "lo-carbezine" at holdthetoast.com. I've also bought the 15-Minute book though I haven't used it yet, but I'm positive it will be just as fabulous. If only she would come out with a book of just slow cooker recipes! I've lost 17 pounds in 6 weeks on Atkins, using this book mostly since the third week. I cannot say enough good things about it. Just buy it and see.
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Summary: A TRUE BOOK
Review: DOWN TO EARTH, DO-ABLE! ... THICK COLLECTION OF COMMON, EVERYDAY FOODS THAT ANY ATKINS "DO-ER" WILL BENEFIT FROM... SEVERAL RANGES FROM INDUCTION LEVEL TO HIGHER CARB COUNT OF HOLIDAY TYPE DISHES... EACH RECIPE LISTS # OF SERVINGS, FIBER GRAMS, CARBS, PROTEIN, CALORIES, ETC ... A DEFINITE PLUS FOR THOSE WANTING FOOD SPECS EXACTLY! ... GREAT FOR THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO DO LOW CARB FOR LIFE, AS THERE ARE NUMEROUS RECIPES TO AVOID BOREDOM... EASY TO FIX... ANY PERSON WITH THE LOWEST OF BASIC COOKING SKILLS WILL TURN OUT SCRUMPTIOUS, HEARTY MEALS THAT WILL SATISFY THE PICKIEST EATER... YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED!... I'VE SEEN MANY LOW-CARB BOOKS THAT PROMISE WONDERFUL DISHES, OUT OF THOSE, I MAY PICK 2-3 THAT I LIKE FROM THE WHOLE BOOK ... NOT IN THIS ONE!!!!! ... THIS BOOK IS LOADED WITH 100+ THAT I WILL USE TIME AFTER TIME AND NEVER GET BORED
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Summary: This Book Has Saved Me!
Review: Dana Carpender, my husband and I love you! This book is phenomenal. My guy isn't even hard-core low-carb but says these are the best meals I've ever made. The pumpkin pie, beef & broc stir fry and so many others are simply FABULOUS. I have this as well as Dana's 15-minute low carb book...and can't get enough of `em!
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Summary: 500 Low-Carb Recipes
Review: What a great book! A great value too. Have tried several recipes and enjoyed all. They're simple, reasonable, tasty, and low-carb...what more could I ask for?!
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