1,001 Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes from Dinner to Dessert That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back

by Dana Carpender

This tasty collection draws on the best 1,001 recipes from Dana Carpender’s bestselling books including 500 Low-Carb Recipes , 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes , 500 More Low-Carb Recipes , 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes , The Low-Carb Barbeque Book , and Low-Carb Smoothies . You’ll find delicious and varied options including recipes for "high-carb" foods you thought you had to give up forever such as Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Mocha Chocolate Cheesecake. Staying the low-carb course will be easy with choices from barbecue to slow-cooker to internationally-inspired dishes.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Diets, Health, Fitness, Nonfiction

576 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Dana Carpender started her writing career as a self-published author. In 1995, after years of creative low fat cooking featuring whole grains and other “healthy” carbohydrates, and despite five step aerobics classes per week, she found herself a size 20, and gaining! Worse, her blood pressure was rising, and she was left dragging by energy swings. Dropping carbs long before it was fashionable, Carpender lost 40 pounds with no hunger, achieved normal blood pressure and excellent blood lipids, and found herself with more energy in her forties than she’d had in her teens.

Carpender lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband, two dogs, and a cat, all of whom eschew junk food. When she’s not cooking, writing, or reading the latest nutrition research, she power-walks, read mystery novels, and is an enthusiastic Toastmaster, taking the occasional trophy.

From the author's website.

Reviews

[Ivonne Rovira · Rating 4 out of 5]

1000 Low-Carb Recipes rates as a four-star or a five- cookbook, depending on who you are. If you’re a serious low-carb dieter — you’re willing to stalk the health-food stores for Vege-Sal, Carb Countdown milk substitute, black soy beans, raw wheat germ, rice protein powder, and guar or xanthan gums; grind your own flaxseed, raw pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and almonds to make meals and flours, and order Ketatoes (don’t ask), wheat protein isolate, and low-carb Bisquick substitute onlne — well, this is a five-star cookbook for you. Dana Carpender enables the steadfast low-carb true believer to lose lots and lots of weight with delicious and very varied recipes ranging from smoothies to appetizers to soups to entrees — even pancakes, crackers, breads, alcoholic beverages and desserts!

But what if you never hit the health-food store and the thought of making your own almond flour or ordering Ketatoes or xanthan gum creates a sense of dread in the pit of your stomach? In other words, what if you’re like me? Well, Carpenter still packs this cookbook with hundreds of recipes for the Great Unwashed like us that don’t require specialty or hard-to-find ingredients. For example, the various chicken wing recipes would delight anyone, whether on a low-carb diet or not. So would her Perfect Protein Pancakes, Garlic Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms, Autumn Salad, Broccoli-Bacon-Colby Quiche, Oyster Stew, Shrimp Scampi, Aioli Fish Bake, Mustard-Pecan Turkey Cutlets, Marinated Sirloin, Easy Shrimp in Garlic Herb Cream Sauce — well, you get the idea. There are literally hundreds of low-carb wonders in 1000 Low-Carb Recipes that don’t require unpronounceable or unobtainable ingredients. Just don’t expect any recipes with a smidgeon of grains — not even the brown rice or whole-wheat pasta allowed in South Beach’s Phase 2 — nor any bananas or beans other than canned black soy beans, although the former is allowed in Phase 2 and beans (in moderation) are allowed even in South Beach’s Phase 1. For those following a South Beach diet, as I am, 1000 Low-Carb Recipes provides some great recipes but using nothing but this cookbook would exhaust me with its restrictiveness.

So whether you’re a low-carb warrior or just a low-carb dilettante interested in adding to your repertoire of diet recipes, 1000 Low-Carb Recipes provides exactly what you want: some excellent recipes. Whether it’s all you need depends on who you are.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have tried a few recipes in this book as Mark and I feel better and lose weight if we trim back the carbs. The other night I made a salad in the book called Autumn Salad. I did not have pears so I substituted red grapes. It also had lettuce, red onion, toasted pecans, and blue cheese with a homemade vinegrette. It was very tastey. I also made the Slice of Mushroom Heaven. Sauteed Mushrooms, onion and garlic and then baked in a cheese mixture so that it came out like crustless quiche(pronounced kwi-chee:) I substituted cheddar and Parm as I did not have the called for Gruyere and it has been very tastey. I will reccommend this book because it has a lot of easy every day food. Omelet varieties and interesting side dishes.

Chow :P

Last night I made the Southwestern deviled eggs. Very tastey treat.

[Lacy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read about 20% instead of the whole book, because it is primarily a recipe/cookbook.

I got enough information to see that if you are trying to eat whole, natural foods, or gluten-free, then this is not the cookbook for you. Many recipes require lots of processed ingredients, like various protein powders, soy powders, Splenda, sugar-free pancake syrup, sugar-free imitation honey, wheat germ, wheat bran, vital wheat gluten, gluten, wheat protein isolate (I didn’t know you could buy that!), canola oil, low carb bake mix, Carb Countdown dairy beverage, polyol, etc.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many great and simple recipes! They are not pages long and don’t use a bunch of odd ingredients. I’d love to see an updated version using Stevia or Monkfruit as the sugar substitute, but conversion shouldn’t be too difficult. While there are no pictures of the finished recipe, I don’t mind it since that just leaves more room recipes.

[Heather Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Borrowed this ebook from the library there is nowhere near 1001 recipes there are only 85 pages and 75% of those are describing low carb ingredients. This was a major disappointment I can’t believe I was on a waiting list for almost 30 days for this.

[Beth Vanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good new recipes on my continuing journey to drop the pounds!

[Mskychick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This doesn’t get 5 stars because she never includes fat in her macros for the desserts

[Lori · Rating 3 out of 5]

Suggests some use of artificial sweeteners which I will NOT use! Other recipes are okay.

[Liberty · Rating 3 out of 5]

For the dedicated Low Carb lifestyle, this is decent. There are a lot of recipes--that's easy enough to see from the title. But would you rather have a massive list of recipes, or a nice cookbook with photographs and design. I personally prefer the latter. (That's why I'd recommend the book "Taking out the Carbage" by DJ Foodie rather than this. Dana does a decent job with her book, but it's bland and after taking a week to flip through the book, I found myself only copying down four recipes, (and I am not a picky eater, haha!) I'm glad I got this from the library rather than buying it. I was a bit disappointed in the constant reliance on black soy beans, as I have thyroid problems and should not eat soy. However, because that is specific, that was not a deciding factor in my review. There are much better LC books and blogs available. Quantity does not equal quality.

[kami joy claggett · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointing

I was extremely disappointed with the recipe ingredients. Some of these food items are food substitutes, not even real food. Looking for real food, low carb recipes not manufactured food alternatives.

[Kathleen Hohler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Plenty of choices

I can't wait to enjoy a few of these recipes. We are always looking for new and exciting ways to enjoy our veggies.

[Jc · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot wait to get into the kitchen and whip up some of these fantastic recipes.

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Product Description

Drawing on the best 1001 recipes from Dana Carpender’s bestselling books including 500 Low-Carb Recipes, 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes, 500 More Low-Carb Recipes, 2_00 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes_, The Low-Carb Barbeque Book, and Low-Carb Smoothies. You’ll find delicious and varied options including recipes for "high-carb" foods you thought you had to give up forever such as Cinnamon Raisin Bread and Mocha Chocolate Cheesecake. Staying the low-carb course will be easy with choices from barbecue to slow-cooker to internationally-inspired dishes.

About the Author

Best-selling author Dana Carpender was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Fifteen years later, she laughs at people who say “You can’t eat that way long-term.” Her eight cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. She launches her internet radio show, Dana's Low Carb For Life, on Labor Day 2010. Dana lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.