Product Description

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116030 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-30
• Released on: 2004-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781592571802
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Lucy Beale is a weight-loss expert and coach, and the creator of the best-selling audio series Be Thin in Body, Mind & Spirit. For more than 18 years, she has taught her Naturally Thin program to thousands of people worldwide. In 1982 she went from a size 14 to a size 6 and maintains her ideal size to this day. Sandy Couvillon is a Registered Dietician with a Master's degree in nutrition. For 25 years she has taught seminars on the benefits of wholesome nutrition, and has been featured on television and radio, and in nationally syndicated newspapers.

Customer Reviews

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.

For best health, ideal weight, and overall well-being!
You can actually make "flourless chocolate tiramisu cake," "pasta-less lasagna," and "tortilla-less chicken quesadilla." Let Beale and Couvillon in their book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals," give you detailed instructions on how to pull off these low-carb favorites.

The book intros with this statement: "The challenge of low-carb cooking is to cook up the most delicious foods with the right amount of carbohydrates-enough to satisfy your palate and your tastes, but not so many that you exceed your daily carb allotment. An additional challenge is to make every carbohydrate count nutritionally for your best health, ideal weight, and overall well-being."

Beale, a weight-loss expert and coach, and Couvillon, a registered dietitian, succeed in writing a recipe book that meets the low-carb cooking challenge. Each chapter overflows with not just detailed ingredients and cooking procedures, but also nutrition info on each dish. For each recipe, there are notes on prep time, cook time, serving size for how many, and exact measures of grams of carb, fiber, nutritive carbs, and total protein broken down into grams from animal and plant sources.

The book also has valuable nuggets of wisdom scattered about in side-boxes, like the Recipe for Success, Table Talk, Hot Potato, and Low-Carb Vocab. At the end of each chapter is the segment on "The Least You Need to Know," which lists the chapter's highlights. Plus, there's a "Glycemic Index and Carbohydrate List" indicating the glycemic ranking and carb content of each ingredient mentioned in the book.

I especially appreciate the chapter intros, like in the section on Chocolates. It tells you everything you ever need to know about chocolate - a little background, varieties of chocolate, ingredients it goes well with, and why it's good for you.

Whether you're watching your carbs, looking for seven egg salad variations with zero cooking time, or meeting challenges like "how to make lunches without sandwiches" and "what to substitute for pasta and potatoes," this is the recipe book for you! - Ruby Bayan, (www.OurSimpleJoys.com)

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