Featuring 150 fantastic make-ahead meals, such as Sausage and Cheese Muffins, Very Veggie Wraps, and Mocha Cheesecake, Extreme Lo-Carb Meals to Go is the perfect way for you to say hello to time-and goodbye to carbs!

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5 Stars FAST SHIPMENT WITH GREAT LOOKING RECIPES!
ARRIVED IN NEW CONDITION! BOOK LOOKS GREAT AND RECIPES SEEM DELICIOUS. NEVER HAD AN AUTHOR SUGGEST THE USE OF LARD AND COCONUT OIL, THOUGH!! I LOVE BACON A LOT, SO I WILL DEFINITELY TRY THEM!!

4 Stars Fast, tasty and convenient!
Wow, this is such a good cookbook for those who work, the recipes are fast and easy and they’re not short on good flavor, yet they have only a few ingredients. If you are wanting to take weight off fast, there are great combinations for snacks and easy dinners…This is worth the buying particularly if you need ideas for lunch that won’t kill your diet away from home!

5 Stars Helpful for lo-carbers
The book is helpful because it offers quick, very quick, solutions to the “what can I eat?” dilemma we lo-carbers experience.

5 Stars Excellent and Smart Book
I always worry when I see poor reviews but still order the book that I will be let down. This was not the case at all with this book.

Being diabetic, I need to really watch my carbs. I thought this book was helpful for many reasons:

1. Snacking - I need to eat 6 times a day to keep my blood sugar stable. I need snacks. Sharon Long gives two lists of snacks. One is those under 5 carbs and the other is under 10. What I liked was that the lists were not just of acceptable low carb foods ( low carb veggies, cooked meat, etc) but were actual recipes of things like (5 carb) orange essence almonds, smoked salmon dip and (10 carb) pumpkin granola and nutty caramel roll ups.

2. Advice - The author discusses the truth about food bars, discusses ketosis and her experiences with both, talks about different types of restaurants and options you have, and gets real about handling cravings. Sure, most of this advice is common sense. However, the author tells it all from her own experiences as she has followed the low carb lifestyle for many years.

3. Set Up - The book is split into sections for breakfast, lunch, main courses and desserts. There are shopping list, smaple menus, sugar conversion tables, susstitution lists and other indexes at the end. I found the book to be very user friendly.

4. Nutritional Info - This is so very important to me in a cookbook. At the end of each recipe there was detailed nutrition info and the substitution to make the recipe low fat with that nutritional breakdown as well.

I think this book is simple and excellent for people who plan meals and do prep work for the week. Recipes are easy to prepare and many can be made in batches for the week. Any specialty items are listed in the back and can be found in most health food stores. While a bit expensive, they are sold in bulk and last for a very long tie after the initial purchase. I highly recommend this book.

1 Star Recipes are bland
I own this book and the recipes are bland. Most have salt and pepper as the main seasoning. This book also lacks continuity. What i mean is that each recipe seems to have a unique ingredient. So i cant just stock up on basics and prepare several meals from that. Each time i go to prepare a meal there is some new ingredient which i dont have and now have to buy.

Also some of the recipes arent “extremely low carb”. One recipe was 10 effective carbs (ie. net carbs) per small serving and about 25 carbs total. My normal portion size was like 40 net carbs!

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The Complete Idiots Guide to Low Carb Meals

The Complete Idiots Guide to Low Carb Meals

Delicious recipes for the low-carb cook. Today’s most popular diets rely on cutting down on carbs, but most cooks have difficulty finding scrumptious low-carb alternatives. Enter cookbook authors Lucy Beale and Sandy Couvillon-with more than 330 mouth-watering recipes for the diehard dieter that will appeal to the whole family and are easy to make.

- Includes meal-planning information and charts
- Provides important nutritional information

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star You have to be an Idiot to think this is “Low Carb”
Having recently been converted to the Low Carb life by Gary Taube’s excellent and life-changing book - Good Calories, Bad Calories Good Calories, Bad Calories - I’ve been interested in finding cookbooks that would increase my range of food choices while staying within a healthy (for me) daily carb count of less than 40 net carbs. This book isn’t it.

As an earlier reviewer noted, a book that uses flour, cornstarch, sugar or regular chocolate, etc. in almost every recipe is NOT low carb. Which is why, no doubt, the serving sizes listed are laughably miniscule. ONE egg for breakfast? I think not.

Worse, I don’t believe any of the carb counts in this book can be trusted. Here’s the carb count for “nut butter spreads” (made from 2 cups of peanuts for example) on page 56, the serving size for which is 2 tablespoons: 0 grams carbohydrate.

Here’s the carb count for “homemade peanut butter” (made from 2 cups of peanuts) on page 250, the serving size for which is 2 tablespoons: 7 grams carbohydrate; 5 net grams.

Huh?

Some plain chicken recipes have carb counts of 1 or 2 grams - yet a serving of plain roasted chicken has 6 grams per serving!

Bottom Line: If you’re looking for real low carb recipes save your money and look elsewhere. All this book will do is reduce your bank account and expand your waist.

5 Stars Complete Idiot;s Guide to Low-Carb Meals
Having worked in the medical field for 25 years I thought I knew everything about nutrition, but this book is fabulous. The beginning is an easy to follow explanation of how the carbs we love so much cause our blood sugar to spike; how adding fiber (veggies and fruits) to carbs can help lower their impact on our blood sugar; how eating more veggies along with protein, fruit, and carbs (in that order) can supply us with a great source of energy and fuel for the day, without a constant feeling of hunger (which spikes in blood sugar cause). I lost 15 pounds the first month I followed this eating plan. Yeah, yeah, it helps to add exercise, of course…but exercise is easier to do when you have the energy to face it !!!

5 Stars Eating Challenged…this should help
If you have never read a Complete Idiot’s guide before do not worry. This book is one of the better ones on a given subject.

This book gives tasty easy to fix recipes. The section on Recipes for Success is worth the price of the book alone. This section gives little know facts that can help you in your quest for more excitement in your meals.

I recommend this book to anyone that is looking into Low-Carb Meals!!!

It is easy to read and use.

Just very handy to have around and read over and over again.

Enjoy this book…I did!!!

Yours in good health

nieema

5 Stars Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low-Carb Meals
This is a truly awesome book. The recipes are delicious and easy.

I also have a Gluten intolerance and many of the recipes can be adapted for my allergy.

1 Star If you’re looking for real “low carb” this isn’t it
The book contains a reasonable number of recipes and lots of ‘hints’ that if you’ve done ANY reading about low carbohydrate eating, will be superfluous.

The recipes run the gamut of carb counts, though I thought that the bulk of them were much higher carb than is helpful. Following the suggestions in this book and the recipes, it wouldn’t be all that hard to hit 80-100++ grams of carb per day… which is simply TOO HIGH for many people who are following low carb lifestyles.

Many recipes call for sugar, white flour, semi-sweet chocolate and cornstarch. Come ON… those are NOT “low carb” ingredients.

This is more or less a repackaged low fat/lower cal cookbook with “low carb” thrown on the cover to try to generate some market share. My copy is being donated to a charity, it isn’t worth the space on the shelf for someone interested in real “low carb” cooking.

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Lauris Low Carb Cookbook Rapid Weight Loss with Satisfying Meals 2nd Edition

Lauris Low Carb Cookbook Rapid Weight Loss with Satisfying Meals 2nd Edition

Over 230 delicious recipes and each are less than 10 grams carbohydrates per serving! Lauri’s Low-Carb Cookbook contains a large variety of cooking styles with both easy recipes and those that cater to a gourmet.

This wonderful collection of recipes will be your constant companion in the kitchen to support your low-carb diet. These recipes were designed specifically for the Dr. Atkins’ diet, yet they are great for any type of low-carb diet including, Protein Power, Sugar Busters, the Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet, etc.

The first edition of Lauri’s Low-Carb Cookbook was a limited edition to test the market demand for such a cookbook. Due to its overwhelming success and some great suggestions from readers, Lauri has completely revised the cookbook, including a new easy-to-read recipe format, correcting typographical errors, many new recipes, additional nutritional information, a new paperback binding which lays , and so on.

More than 50 new recipes have been added including a section of Vegetarian Main Dishes. The “Helpful Hints” section has also been expanded, responding to frequently asked questions to the author from dieters new to the low-carb program. A section on Menu Planning & Shopping List has also been added.

Each recipe now includes a per serving analysis of calories, fat and protein, in addition to the grams of carbohydrates. Although this supplementary nutritional information is not necessary for those on the Dr. Atkins’ Diet, it could be useful for those on the many other variations of a low-carb diet. The calculations for the nutritional analysis are based on United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications with some additional information obtained from food manufacturers.

Benefits of a Low-Carb Diet & Life-Style:
1. Rapid Weight Loss
2. More Energy
3. No Hunger
4. Satisfying Meals
5. Lower Cholesterol
6. Healthier Heart

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Lauri rocks!
Lauri’s Low-Carb Cookbook is chock full of very easy-to-make recipes of delicious low-carb meals. My only problem with this book (and most cookbooks) is that some of the recipes are for up to 8 servings (most are 2-4 servings), which is a bit much when you live alone. Otherwise, I will say that the recipes I have tried so far are great and I look forward to more of the same.

4 Stars Nutritional Values Way Off!
First, I like the format of the book as well as many of the recipes. However, when figuring out my menus, I do like to get a general idea of calories, fats and carbs even though I am doing low carb, simply because it is all important to me. I found the nutritional value to be off.

For example, Filet Mignon is something I make for special meals. The recipe as listed called for: 2 fillet mignon (no ounces listed) 2 strips of bacon and 2 tablespoons of Holandaise sauce. The calories per serving listed in the book were 1899.2!! So I logged into fitday.com and entered in all of the info for a 6oz filet with a thick slice of bacon and 1tbsp of sauce. For a calorie count, the site showed 680 calories. This was quite a discrepancy!

I have found many other caloric innaccuracies in many of the recipes. I give the book 4 stars due to this. Having to look up the corrrect nutritional breakdowns is iconvenient. Other than that, the book lists many good recipes.

5 Stars Highly Recommended
I love how simple and tasty most of these recipes are. The Breakfast Squares are such a wonderful idea. They are helping me get to work on time while sticking to my diet. And the Beef Stroganoff is the best I have ever had. Every recipe is under 10g total carbs, which is awesome.

I bought the e-book version of this cookbook on AllRecipes.com and it’s the best $7 I’ve spent on a cookbook. What a great deal! And I can automatically scale the recipes to the number of servings that I desire … very convenient.

My only complaint is that the dessert recipes are made with Sweet-n-Low. But I’ve converted most of them to Splenda by using 2 tsp Splenda for each packet of Sweet-n-Low and they have all turned out just fine. The crustless Pumpkin Pie is fantastic.

I’m buying one of the author’s other cookbooks today, Low Carb Creations From Lauri’s Kitchen, which a friend tells me is even better. I highly recommend this cookbook to anyone eating the low carb way.

5 Stars My Favorite Low Carb Cookbook
This is my all time favorite low carb cookbook. I use it more than all of my other low carb cookbooks combined. I’ve had great success losing weight on the Aktins diet mostly because I use this cookbook. There is a lot of variety and most of the recipes are quite simple and quick to prepare. I love the helpful hints in the beginning of the book. Some of my favorite recipes are the Mock Mashed Potatoes, Hasbrowns, Florentine Breakfast Squares and the Seafood Newberg, yummmm! But there are many many more that I prepare on a regular basis. My husband is even losing weight (and he is not dieting)just because of the great low carb dinners I prepare for us every night. If you are living the low carb lifestyle, than I highly recommend this cookbook.

5 Stars The Best in Low Carb Cooking
I started trying low carb living for my husband and I since we both wanted to eat leaner. So far this is the best low carb cookbook that I have been able to find. Some recipes are a bit high in fat, but you can substitute ground turkey for ground beef and the like. I know that you’re not supposed to worry about fat with low carb diets, but I think that it only makes sense to stick with lean turkey, chicken, and fish when possible. Also, the author tends to recommend Sweet-N-Lo as a sweeter, I have used Slenda instead and had successful results. Overall, if you’re a beginner or advance with low carb eating, you can probably find some helpful recipes from this book.

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5 Square Low Carb Meals The 20 Day Makeover Plan with Delicious Recipes for Fast Healthy Weight Loss and High Energy

5 Square Low Carb Meals The 20 Day Makeover Plan with Delicious Recipes for Fast Healthy Weight Loss and High Energy

The daughter of a pair culinary whizzes who cooked up mouthwatering meals like mayonnaise fried chicken and Belgian waffles with ice cream, Lynn struggled with her weight for years until a bodybuilder turned her on to a new way of dieting: “eat more, eat clean.” Now she runs a successful New York company that delivers low-carb, low-fat meals to its clients five times a day. Eating more often, she says, keeps “your metabolism running at its maximum performance level.” And eating clean-no refined sugars or wheat, nix the dairy-”eliminates all empty calories.” Readers who want to follow Lynn

Good carb Meals in Minutes Revised Edition A Three Stage Plan to Permanent Weight Loss

Good carb Meals in Minutes Revised Edition A Three Stage Plan to Permanent Weight Loss

People have realized that to lose weight you don’t have to cut out carbs completely. Linda Gassesheimer, an experienced nutritionist and health writer, not only offers you fantastic meals containing good carbs, but also handy hints on ingredients, shopping lists and helpful advice.

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More Low Carb Meals in Minutes A Three Stage Plan for Keeping It Off

More Low Carb Meals in Minutes A Three Stage Plan for Keeping It Off

The meals presented here are geared to long-term weight loss without compromising nutrition or flavor. The recipes are not only low in carbohydrates but also low in saturated fat, featuring lean proteins. More Low-Carb Meals in Minutes is based on a formula that shows readers how to reintroduce carbs into the diet, without regaining their lost weight, through three phases. Each phase includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with a total of 63 meals and 105 recipes emphasizing fresh vegetables, monounsaturated olive and canola oils, and lean meats and fish. Also included are Super Speed Suppers (15-minute dinners), Weekend Meals, Entertaining, color photographs, and a wealth of practical tips. And thanks to the author

Good Housekeeping Smart Carb Suppers Delicious and Healthy Meals

Good Housekeeping Smart Carb Suppers Delicious and Healthy Meals

After several years of anti-carbohydrate excess, when people actually believed that a bacon cheeseburger was healthy eating as long as they avoided the bun, experts are now saying that “low-carb” should not mean “no-carb.” Instead, as the introduction to this useful volume puts it, cooks need to focus on good carbs; that is, foods with natural, “intrinsic” sugars (like fruits and whole grain products) as opposed to foods with added, “extrinsic” sugars (like soda and cookies). Enter Good Housekeeping and its volume of 75 low-carb, “triple-tested” meals. At first glance, some may be put off by this cookbook. The table of contents is organized only by broad categories (e.g. “Seafood,” “Vegetables, Eggs, and Cheese”): individual recipes are listed only in the index. In addition, the volume has a distinctly suburban slant. Some of its fruit-and-meat combinations-like the Spiced Grilled Turkey Breast with Peach Salsa-are best left to Applebee’s, and too many of its recipes direct the reader to “prepare charcoal fire or preheat gas grill”-a problem for most urban dwellers. These little flaws aside, the book is actually a lot of fun. In keeping with the Good Housekeeping philosophy, the recipes are easy to follow, with accurate preparation times and useful nutritional information. And, for the most part, the recipes produce pretty tasty meals, from old standards like Coq au Vin to delightful surprises like Cuban Mojo Pork Chops. The sides are also quite flavorful-Roasted Cauliflower offers a simple but fresh approach to the vegetable, and Collards with Pickled Red Onions is a novel way to spice up an underused green. In short, don’t be put off by the less-than-lavish design: this will be a useful, and healthy, addition to the library of any home.
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Meal in a Glass Low Calorie Low carb Protein Smoothie Recipes

Meal in a Glass Low Calorie Low carb Protein Smoothie Recipes

Great Cookbook ! The recipes are so simple and easy to follow. — Black American Forum - ObesityHelp.com

Great Cookbook ! The recipes are so simple and easy to follow. –Black American Forum - ObesityHelp.com

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Low Carb Meals in Minutes

Low Carb Meals in Minutes

“If there’s room on the shelf for only one low-carb cookbook, make it this one.” — Atlanta, GA Journal - Constitution; September 12, 2002

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Good recipes, poor nutritional count format, and likely too high-carb for most
I had a hard time deciding how many stars to give this book. Its carb levels are inappropriate for me (as well as the bigger portion of the low-carb community), but I’m trying to keep that out of my review as much as possible. Otherwise, what is good is very good, and what is bad is incredibly annoying.

APPROPRIATENESS:

Before you buy this book, I highly recommend checking it out of the library if you can, to make sure that its carb levels are appropriate to your plan. This may be a good choice for people on a reduced-carb diet (like South Beach), but the carb content is way too high for the weight loss phases of traditional low-carb diets like Atkins. Most of the first-section (lowest-carb) meals are over 10g net carbs, and some are higher, so you can very quickly go over the 20-30g net carbs that most people on Atkins do during Phases 1 & 2. The second and third sections are much higher, and may exceed what some people can eat in maintenance phases. (Depending on personal body chemistry.)

That said, they could pretty easily be adapted to be lower-carb by cutting the portions of veggies (if memory serves, one recipe has an entire tomato and 2 cups of spinach per serving), and cutting or substituting ingredients that aren’t allowed on your plan. You’ll just have to do the nutritional math yourself. (I’ve started writing my version of the recipes, along with nutritional info, right below the recipe in my copy.)

THE GOOD:

These recipes are fast, easy and tasty. Not all of them were my style, but I can see that someone with different tastes would really enjoy the ones that I wouldn’t. Most use a small list of ingredients, which is always helpful. I can’t remember seeing any specialty ingredients either.

THE BAD:

By biggest complaint about this book is that the nutritional information is lumped together for a multi-part dish, and in some cases, an entire meal. For example, most of the second section’s breakfasts are actually a dish that would belong in the first section, plus a bowl of bran cereal or oatmeal, but the nutritional counts include both dishes. If they were listed as two dishes, it would be much easier to select and adapt recipes. This means that anyone who wants to eat one of the dishes separately (maybe you can’t have bran cereal yet, or maybe you just don’t like it) has to recalculate the entire dish separately. This is such a hassle, and would have been so easy to do properly, that I’m subtracting a full two stars.

3 Stars Not my favorite
The book is okay. It would probably work fine for someone on the Southbeach, rather than the Atkins diet. It does give full menus at three stages of weightloss, but some of them are too complicated for my busy lifestyle. It depends on what your definition of “in minutes” is. I was hoping for meals that would take between 15 and 25 minutes, no such luck.

2 Stars How Low Can You Go? Lower than THIS!
As a Type 2 diabetic who can only maintain any control over my blood sugars and weight through a strict low-carb regime, I had high hopes for this book. I hoped that it would provide me with inspirations for meals that would make low-carb life more palatable, and for meals that I could share with my non-diabetic husband.

WHOOPS! These recipes are NOT what I call low-carb. I would gain weight steadily if I ate from the plans in this book. I found one recipe with 46 grams of carbs per serving!

Unless you are someone who currently lives mostly on bread, cereals, fruit, soda, and desserts, this book will *not* help you reduce carbs more than a little. Shy away from it and read anything by Atkins.

What I recommend if you’re a diabetic is Richard Bernstein’s wonderful book, *Dr. Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution*. I am sure that following the principles he outlines is adding years to my life - not to mention the ten pounds it has, initially, removed from my body!

5 Stars Body by Jake features these recipes
I got a small sample of these terrific recipes and the diet program in the Body by Jake Cardio Cruiser Rev Up the Results Program. It made me run right out and buy the book! I was not dissapointed.

2 Stars Very limited application
The recipes in this book are not suitable for those on Atkins diet (with which I was able to lose over 30% of my weight in a year, then maintain the loss for five years ), nor for those who have substantial amounts of weight to lose. Gassenheimer, for example, makes it appear that one should be at a high carbohydrate intake (presumably, at goal weight) within six weeks, and the 75 grams of carbs allowed in the middle section are far beyond the level at which most could expect any significant weight loss. There are huge amounts of grains included - which are far from low carbohydrate, only high in fibre. Atkins dieters, and those on other truly low carb programmes, would not have grains on their ‘ongoing weight loss menus’ at all.

One must use this book with discrimination, and not accept the author’s statements as gospel, because they are heavily flavoured by varied sources. For example, regarding main dishes, the protein portions are far too small for most, and would prevent the appetite reduction that is critical for low carb dieting to be successful (unless one is seeking to lose very little.) The ingredients include many grains, and grain products are not suited for low carb dieters unless they are at ‘maintenance’ level. Gassenheimer recommends all low-fat ingredients, and lists, for example, that one may have ‘as many as four eggs a week,’ when truly low carb programmes have no such restrictions. In fact, for Atkins dieters, the low fat items can hinder weight loss.

The recipes are no worse than those in many low carb cookbooks, though they are hardly gourmet treats. But what is key is that dieters must consult the guidelines of the specific programme they follow, and by no means increase carb counts in such a short period if they wish to succeed.

This book is suited to those who want to drop perhaps five to ten pounds, with an approach that is ‘low carb’ only by contrast with the ADA food pyramid, not in actuality. One could lose four to ten times as much weight on a truly low carb programme.

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Low Carb Meals in Minutes

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