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Summary: The Best Low-Carb Cookbook Yet
Review: I have been on a low carb. diet for only a month and already am sick of steak (something I never thought would happen - LOL)This cookbook saved my diet - the zuchinni pancakes are amazing and just the wonderful idea's make the book worthwhile - I would definetly recommend this book to anyone on a low-carb diet and getting alittle bored with the meat and salad routine.
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Summary: EASY Low Carb Gourmet Recipes
Review: I have several low-carb cookbooks, but this is by far my favorite, and most of the recipes are easy to prepare. They are also explained well and taste great! I've tried some recipes in other low carb books that I ended up throwing out they were so bad, but so far all the recipes I've tried in this book are winners. A low carb diet can get boring pretty fast unless you have this book. Also, I'm not an expert cook, (just ask my son) but this book is helping me to be more of a gourmet cook!
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Summary: Best Low Carb cookbook I have seen.
Review: I love this cookbook! I am definitely not a chef! I tend to burn my daughter's grilled cheese sandwiches! However I have successfully cooked many meals from this book that my family actually liked!! I know some of the recipes sound strange, but give them a try they really turn out great. I especially liked the recipes for the side dishes, lots of things I would have never tried! The only reason I wouldn't give it 5 stars is some of the ingredients are hard to find but then again I don't cook much so maybe I just don't know any better!!!
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Summary: Unbelievable Brisket Recipe.....
Review: Love this book. Tells you how to fill your pantry and helps you make lo-carb meals that are delicious. I have made the Oven-Barbecued Brisket recipe (pg. 216) for several wine tastings we have held, and am always asked for the recipe. Friends who have tried it once request it again and again.
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Summary: Half and Half...
Review: This book is about half filled with Fran's take on the low carb lifestyle and recommendations for living it and about half with recipes. So far all the recipes I've tried have been good ones, but when I see the title "cookbook" I tend to think that it will be MOSTLY recipes, not just half. While the first half of the book is an interesting read, I expected more recipes and less other. All in all a good cookbook, but not JUST a cookbook...
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Summary: Not for the Zone diet
Review: These are fairly ordinary recipes that do taste much more "normal" than many low-carb recipes, but they are high in fat. In spite of an explicit claim in the front of the book, these recipes are generally not appropriate for the Zone diet, since there is way too much fat, and in many cases it is saturated fat. The benefit of the book is that total protein, carbohydrate, and fat are listed for each recipe; we tried a few recipes and concluded that a good book on Mediterranean cooking would have better-tasting versions of similar dishes, and that removing some of the fat that the recipes call for did not always sacrifice flavor. The introductory chapters are no bargain either: there are some quite wacky statements about genetics that were apparently copied from another book, and hence lead us to distrust the author's analysis of health information. (Any genetics textbook will tell you that red hair is not caused by the absence of a chromosome (page 30) but by a gene that affects hair-color, a much less-deadly feature of the DNA). The foreword, by Michael Eades and Mary Dan Eades, is much more convincing, but it is short.
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Summary: lost 50 pounds
Review: I lost 50 pounds using only this book. 'Nuff said.
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Summary: Was I misled
Review: I got this book and begin flipping through the pages looking at the carb count on some of these recipies and see that many of them are on the upwards of 20 grams per serving. I may not be a nutrition expert or a 5 star chef, but you don't need to be to come up with some of these recipies. Yeah, the cheesecake recipe is the most original thing I've ever seen, replace sugar with equal and your all set. I could have never thought of that. Don't buy into the low carb hype and waste your money on this book. If your looking go by a low carb diet here is a tip, don't eat as many carbs. If your a sucker for baked products get yourself some Atkin's bake mix, use instead of flour, and simply substitue soy milk for regular milk, and equal for sugar. This is a suckers book written for people who say they want to start on the low carb lifestyle, but don't want to give up their carbs. Sorry friends, you just can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Summary: I lost ten pounds
Review: This diet was the best. I lost over ten pounds. I strongly recommend this book. It touches a deep sore in my heart, that I have been eating so poorly for so many years, until now. It's like this low-carb diet filled up that hole, that aching hunger for more and more food. My craving "hole" is now completely filled all the time, by more sensible foods, meat. Red meat is thought by many to be a bad food, but I think this book will show you how effectively it can fill what me and my grateful husband (who now follows the diet) have affectionately termed the "craving hole." Thanks so much, for this wonderful diet. I now can go and go all day without stopping for so much as a bite, just because I follow this plan. I think about this diet less and less, and everytime I eat more meat, I just forget about those scare stories on tv, and simply swallow, and enjoy my newfound passions for food.
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Summary: An Incredible resource for the Lowcarb eater
Review: This book has it all. Delicious recipes, hints for flavoring up your food; including meats, vegetables, desserts, plus great ideas for what you need to have in your pantry at all times, and what things work really well together. It has sections on what to do if you're having cravings, or if you want something with a crunch...(Try the Frico in a taco salad...incredible!)Has tips on turning out good Ice Cream (If you've tried using artificial sweeteners, you know it comes out rock-hard) this book isn't just for lowbarb eaters though...many of the recipes in here would be ones you'd prepare for guests. The range of difficulty in the recipes is very broad, there are very simple ones and very complicated ones. All in all, you can't beat this book.
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