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Summary: Deceptive title
Review: The consensus is that this book is not very good. The title is suspiciously similar to "500 Low-carb Recipes" by Dana Carpender, which is highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: Deceptive title
Review: The consensus is that this book is not very good. The title is suspiciously similar to "500 Low-carb Recipes" by Dana Carpender, which is highly recommended.
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Summary: 501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life
Review: The introduction is pretty standard for a low-carb cookbook, however, the recipes are not what you would expect. Sugar is used a lot. There is a whole section on Pasta, and I don't mean the low carb variety. The author does admit that many recipes were categorized as low carb by adjusting the portion size. I suppose that one bite of anything is low-carb by this definition. There are so many better cookbooks out there on this topic. Don't waste your money on this one.
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Summary: This is not a low-carb cookbook.
Review: The recipes in this book use potatoes, corn starch, corn meal, pasta and other high carb ingredients. For example, one recipe calls for 3 1/2 cups of flour, another calls for 6 flour tortillas and 1/4 cup refried beans.
The authors of this cookbook believe in low sugar, but are for all complex carbohydrates.
If you are trying to lose weight on ANY of the low carb diets, this cookbook will be of little use to you, and will, in fact sabotage your efforts. The average carb counts are high on most of the recipes, and are equally high on the side dishes (one serving of a main dish and a side would average 40 carbs). One dish claims to have 150 grams of carbohydates...
There are MANY great low carb cookbooks right here on Amazon, this just isn't one of them.
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Summary: Not Really Low-Carb, Just Small Portions
Review: This is actually a good cookbook with many delicious recipes. However, it's almost as though the authors prepared a lovely cookbook and decided at the last minute to call it Low-Carb and so downsized the portions so as to manage the carb count. People who are on low-carb diets often do so because they're overweight and have large appeitites. 1/16 of a piece of cake from an 8-inch cake pan isn't going to make anyone happy to have consumed 1/3 of their daily carb allowance.
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Summary: Not Really Low-Carb, Just Small Portions
Review: This is actually a good cookbook with many delicious recipes. However, it's almost as though the authors prepared a lovely cookbook and decided at the last minute to call it Low-Carb and so downsized the portions so as to manage the carb count. People who are on low-carb diets often do so because they're overweight and have large appeitites. 1/16 of a piece of cake from an 8-inch cake pan isn't going to make anyone happy to have consumed 1/3 of their daily carb allowance.
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Summary: Low Carb? What a joke!
Review: What a waste of money. I admit it was my fault- I bought the book assuming that it was true to it's title and didn't skim through it. When I got it home I was extremely disappointed. Potatoes, flour, a section on PASTA and real cakes - all things a true low carb dieter avoids for their effects on the body. This book should be re-named.
Rating:
Summary: Low Carb? What a joke!
Review: What a waste of money. I admit it was my fault- I bought the book assuming that it was true to it's title and didn't skim through it. When I got it home I was extremely disappointed. Potatoes, flour, a section on PASTA and real cakes - all things a true low carb dieter avoids for their effects on the body. This book should be re-named.
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