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Summary: Great, Tasty Recipes
Review: I just received The Good Carb Cookbook and started right in with three of the recipes. I made the Country Chicken Salad with canned chicken, apples and toasted pecans... VERY tasty. Also, the Tuna Spread with fat-free cream cheese and sour cream, celery, onions and black olives...VERY good. For supper I made the Citrus-Chicken....the spices and the sauce were THE BEST!! Everything looks so easy to prepare and what I have made so far has been wonderful! I am finding it hard to fit in all the calories I need for my healthy, desired weight since I am not eating the high calorie, BAD foods and sweets I normally eat. I am sure I will like this way of eating. Since I have just started I can't tell you about the weight loss yet.I highly recommend this book for some really TASTY foods! You will not feel like you are on a weight loss diet. Good Luck!
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Summary: Love It!
Review: I love this cookbook. I have made about 15 of the recipes so far and they have all been wonderful. My husband formed a group at work called the healthy lunch club where the club members take turns cooking enough food for everyone and he brings in food cooked from this book. His club members loved it so much that they all bought this cookbook too. I just ordered her other books tonight.
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Summary: Content good, but...
Review: I was disappointed in the quality of the book itself. It is printed using rather cheap paper, and the type is a shade of grayish-green instead of black, making it harder to read, especially because the font used is small. I'll have to copy recipes I like onto cards, because I don't think this book will hold up long if I use it regularly in my kitchen.
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Summary: A Converted Reader
Review: I was first introduced to the glycemic index by my Weight Watchers leader. The symptoms she described which could result from a high-glycemic diet... cravings, followed by "crashes," for example, were exactly the thing which had sabotaged my weight loss efforts in the past. Plus, my mother had many health problems associated with Type II diabetes, and I did not want to develop this disease later in life as she did. I have become a great advocate of low-glycemic eating, and think Ms. Woodruff's book is one of the best out there. She explains the concept of low glycemic eating concisely yet thoroughly. The recipes are great and don't make you feel like you are "dieting." I guarantee, once you become used to this way of eating, you will feel sick if you try to go back to eating junk (and who knew pretzel sticks weren't the best choice... not me!). To summarize, buy this book if you are interested in learning more about this type of diet. Believe me, it works.
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Summary: Maybe good for beginners/novices
Review: I was very disappointed with this cookbook. I was directed to it when I searched on South Beach Diet items. This cookbook has very simplistic recipes, many of which are high in refined carbs (!?). It is not an appropriate companion for South Beach or Atkins Dieters. If you had very little knowledge about cooking and foods, you may find some of it helpful. There are better choices, though. (South Beach Diet Cookbook for one.)
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Summary: Maybe good for beginners/novices
Review: I was very disappointed with this cookbook. I was directed to it when I searched on South Beach Diet items. This cookbook has very simplistic recipes, many of which are high in refined carbs (!?). It is not an appropriate companion for South Beach or Atkins Dieters. If you had very little knowledge about cooking and foods, you may find some of it helpful. There are better choices, though. (South Beach Diet Cookbook for one.)
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Summary: Good But ....
Review: I will start by saying I do like this book. She has done a good job with some decent choices of recipes. The recipes are easy to read, and read while preparing. Most of the items in the cookbook are items I usually stock within my home shelves, except wheat pastry flour & oat bran, which I will look for on my monthly shopping trip. This book cleared up several items for me, as to amount of carbs to eat, how to rate them, etc. I recently found I am Insulin Resistant, heading to the family line of diabetic. She talks about my particular issues within her book. My only (and I do mean only) problem with this book is that she does not give a sugar count on the recipes. At the end of each recipe she gives all the other info - carbs, fats, etc but not sugar. I am using my software cookbook, plugging her recipes in to find the sugar grams in the recipe. I have been limited to 50 grams per day at my stage. But other then that I am happy to add this cookbook to my home shelves!
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Summary: Good But ....
Review: I will start by saying I do like this book. She has done a good job with some decent choices of recipes. The recipes are easy to read, and read while preparing. Most of the items in the cookbook are items I usually stock within my home shelves, except wheat pastry flour & oat bran, which I will look for on my monthly shopping trip. This book cleared up several items for me, as to amount of carbs to eat, how to rate them, etc. I recently found I am Insulin Resistant, heading to the family line of diabetic. She talks about my particular issues within her book. My only (and I do mean only) problem with this book is that she does not give a sugar count on the recipes. At the end of each recipe she gives all the other info - carbs, fats, etc but not sugar. I am using my software cookbook, plugging her recipes in to find the sugar grams in the recipe. I have been limited to 50 grams per day at my stage. But other then that I am happy to add this cookbook to my home shelves!
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Summary: I've lost over 45 pounds so far and use this book everyday!
Review: I'm so in love with this cookbook! I've bought so many cookbooks that have maybe 3 or 4 recipes I'd actually make, but not this one, I love them all! I saw a couple of reviews that claimed the recipes were bland, unoriginal, etc. They must be the kind of people who eat things like "Pecan crusted grouper with vegetable creole" or the many other "fancy food" healthy recipe cookbooks that have let me down before. Who eats that stuff? My husband and I sure wouldn't. We LOVE this cookbook cuz it's REAL food. Everyone who I've served the Mexican Lasagna to wanted the recipe right away. We love the Slim Spaghetti Pie, Pot Roast with Sour Cream Gravy, Penne with Ham and Asparagus, Meatloaf, and so many more. It's real food. Real GOOD food. I've lost over 45 pounds in less than 6 months, and it just keeps going down. I'll never have to "go on a diet" again ... I tried following a low carb plan, but lost and regained the weight too often because giving up bread, cereal and pasta was not something I could do forever ... and once you go off low-carb plans the weight comes back FAST. I knew whatever I did this time had to be a lifestyle change that I could do from here on ... I can still have healthy low G.I. bread, cereal and pasta ... believe me, we eat lots of pasta! Who knew there was a low G.I. way to make Macaroni and Cheese? This one has broccoli in it too and it's wonderful! The Blueberry Oat Bran Muffins and Black Forrest Fudge Cake are so good. My hubby lost about 25 pounds, and I've lost over 45 and it keeps coming off! This book is well used every day, and it's holding up just fine.
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Summary: Changed My Life for Good
Review: I've always struggled with good eating habits until encountering this book. Of course I made the conscious decision to make a positive change in my life but this book helped pave the way. In addition to the many easy and tasty recipes, Ms. Woodruff plainly conveyed the science of food and its good & bad effects on the human body. Given the current low-carb craze, I was pleased to learn that there are "good" carbs and eating right doesn't have to mean deprivation. Take it from someone who lived on a totally undisciplined diet and whose mantra is "fat is flavor", the recipes in this book are pretty darn good and quick and easy to make. THANK YOU Ms. Woodruff for sharing your expertise and changing my life!
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