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Summary: Delicious, healthy and easy
Review: Excellent book. While it helps us to maintain low-carb diet, it also enriched our menu with natural, delicious and "easy living" meals. Thank you Dana. Looking forward to your next book. Also hoping to see some day a premium edition with beatifull photographic images. Ice-cream recipes are very welcomed too!
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Summary: What an addition to my Low Carb Library!!
Review: Dana's book of recipes is quite an addition to my growing collection of Low Carb books. Variety is the spice of this Low Carb Way of Life, and Dana gives that to you. I've found many new ideas to liven up our mealtimes, to make sticking to the Low Carb Diets even easier. Thank you Dana.
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Summary: Michelle from Syracuse
Review: I just received this cookbook a couple weeks ago and have tried many new recipes and love them!! They are regular recipes that we all enjoyed before low-carb dieting. With the exception of a few strange ingredients in some recipes (mostly in baking section), they are easy to make. I can't wait to try another new recipe!! Happy cooking!!
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Summary: Great recipes for those who don't cook a lot
Review: I absolutely love this cook book. The recipes are easy to follow and so far I haven't found one I didn't like. I personally recommend the Noodle-less Lasagna for those that have been craving Italian. For those on the low carb diet, this book has helped me stay on it by providing me with different delicious dishes to eat. A great side benefit is that people not on a low carb diet enjoy these recipes too!
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Summary: Worth Buying
Review: Following a low carb diet often results in eating the same foods over and over again. This book has many recipes that I've tried and really enjoyed. Honestly, though, some recipes are pretty involved and call for ingredients that are not always readily available. Overall, it's a good recipe book and has some desserts to die for. Mmmmm. I just adore the pumpkin cheesecake.
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Summary: Its ok, but not great if dieting to loose weight....
Review: The book has some great recipes and the lists of what to buy are helpful - however, if you want to loose weight - you need to count calories also or at least have that as an option -- the recipes did not include calorie count so for me it was totally useless since I have to keep restrict my calories a lot (due to hypothyroidism)
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Summary: Food you WANT to eat!
Review: I have just read two cool books! 500 Low-Carb Recipes, and Make Every Girl Want You. Both books are very comprehensive, although the latter does so in a shorter amount of time! Carpender literally covers everything in this book: fruit, vegetables, nuts, rice, soup, dessert! The best part is that Dana shows ways to vary regular dishes - stuff that you've made millions of times, but didn't realize how you could do so without all the carbs! I have tried literally dozens of other books with low-carb recipes, and none of them worked... because I couldn't stick with them - the recipes are so bland! Until I read Carpender's book. Now I can finally eat in harmony with my body: food that my body wants me to eat, and food I actually enjoy eating!
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Summary: Fantastic Book!
Review: The author has lived the diet and through trial and error created simply amazing recipes. Makes it easy to stick to the Low Carb lifestlye
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Summary: No "miracle" low carb sweets
Review: I've recently started a "low carb" diet; I'm loosely following the South Beach plan. I'm not a big meat eater and I really love sweets, therfore cutting carbs is proving to be very difficult! I was hoping this recipe book would help me out with some low carb sweet treats. However, I was very disappointed that all of the recipes include Splenda, which is an artificial sweetener. The jury's still out on whether this is a healthy additive, and I'm guessing that it will have the same bad reputation as aspartame as more is learned about it. I understand that some folks need to cut out sugar for health reasons and therefore replacements like Splenda are better than sugar. But for those who are just vain (like me!) and want to lose a few pounds, I think that Splenda is a bit of a high price to pay for that. So, sadly, there's no "miracle" recipe that allows you to have all of the joy of a sweet treat with none of the pain. Personally, I've decided to cut the carbs as much as I can, but to allow the occassional "sugary" snack. Although I won't be making use of the dessert recipes (or some of the sauce recipes either that include Splenda), there are many main course and side dish recipes that are Splenda free. I tried my first one this past weekend and it was DELICIOUS...Zucchini Meatloaf Italiano. I have always been quite proud of my traditional meatloaf (made with such evils as ketchup and barbeque sauce!), but I must say, this definitely gave it a run for its money. The author does a nice job of describing the various "staple" low carb components of her recipe book and I found that to be quite helpful. The recipes are easy to follow and although some of the ingredients may require a trip to a "health food" store, I am not intimidated by them even though I don't consider myself to be terribly skilled in the kitchen.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: This book calls for a lot of high-priced specialized ingredients. Some of the things I've made are just plain terrible. Lemon Poppyseed Muffins used almost an entire bottle of lemon extract and a half bottle of poppyseeds...they were so bad I had to throw them out. I also just made the peanut butter protein bars and they are inedible. It's such a waste of pricey ingredients (like the protein powder, nuts, and Splenda). I like the Pecan Sandies but the recipe is flawed. Calls for so much butter that the butter oozed out of the cookies and all over the bottom of my oven. (Burning butter smells terrible!) The recipe also says to spray the pans with cooking spray. There was so much butter and grease that they slid off the cookie sheets and onto the kitchen counter. The recipe works better with half the butter but I still had to wipe the pan down between batches. Maybe the dinner recipes are better. But from experience the baked goods are lousy. I also bought The Good Carb Cookbook by Sandra Woodruff and those recipes have works wonderfully.
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