Low Carb Christmas Cookin' [Paperback]

Jan McCracken (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 18, 2003

It's an "Old-Fashioned Low Carb Christmas"! Not just another "low carb cookbook"... this clever creation is filled with low carb delights for Christmas and for every day low carb cookin'...

Laugh and cook with this fun-loving, old-fashioned cook who insists that food taste like "the real stuff" WITHOUT the carbs! Jan's recipe presentations will make you smile with oooh's and ahhh's from family and friends... no one will ever know it's low carb!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I love low carbing, but get so tired of the same old foods." LC Cookin' makes old recipes NEW! -- CarbHealth Low Carb Book Club

An entertaining delight! Pages of smiles and terrific recipes. Not sure what I enjoyed more, reading it or the recipes! -- Cherie Davidson, CarbHealth Magazine, December, 2003

About the Author

Jan McCracken has been living the low carb lifestyle for over eight years.

Born in the Midwest and former owner/innkeeper of a country bed and breakfast in Branson, Missouri, she has been cooking since she was seventeen years old (she won't tell us how many yearts that is!).

Jan's long term goal is helping people understand that food is truly the great medicine, prevention and healer of disease.

Jan is being touted as the "Erma Bombeck of Cookbook writing" with her warm and antical style.

Change Your Mind... Change Your Heart... Lose Weight for LIFE!

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Poppyseed Press (October 18, 2003)
• ISBN-10: 1887136398
• ISBN-13: 978-1887136396
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,555,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Professional Wordsmith, Jan McCracken

Jan was born and raised in a small farming community in the Midwest. Adopted by her grandparents, she grew up gardening beside her grandfather and canning and cooking with her grandmother. She spent most of her early life in the heartland of America learning to appreciate good food, good health and good friends. In the early 1980s, Jan opened a country Bed and Breakfast in Branson, MO. It was during her innkeeping years that she wrote her first self-published book, the Ozark Mountain Christmas Recipe Collection. She single-handedly sold over 150,000 copies!

The success of her first cookbook led Jan to write and publish a series of miniature gift-books she calls her "little books of recipes." She ended up completing three different serial sets; nine books in the Garden Recipe Collection, nine for the Fruit Sampler Collection, and 18 gift-set books for the inspirational Little Books of Tea series.

Over the years, Jan's interest in health and nutrition grew, and she spent years researching the best ways to convert good, old-fashioned, traditional recipes into leaner, healthier versions. In the late 1990s, Jan had great success on a low carb diet. From this personal experience she decided to write and self-publish the fun, humor-packed and well-received Low Carb Christmas Cookin' with an Old-Fashioned Cook, followed by her 40th self-published book, Carb Countin' Holiday Cookbook.

Jan has become a staunch advocate of preventative medicine through diet, exercise and lifestyle. As a result, in 2005, Jan authored Wiley Publishing's Healthy Carb Cookbook For Dummies'. It was a breakthrough platform that opened her work to an international readership. Subsequently, through her New York literary agent, Jan landed a contract with Adams Media Publishing to author her healthy lifestyle cookbook, Everything Lactose Free Cookbook (Everything Series) released February 2008.

Jan is currently freelance writing, and researching her next book project ...stay tuned!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's so funny with GREAT recipes!, April 7, 2004

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Cherie Davidson "cdwrites" (Spokane, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Low Carb Christmas Cookin' (Paperback)

I have this cookbook, and I gave out several copies as Christmas gifts last season. What's so different about this low carb cookbook? The humor, the fun and warm style, the fact that it is as entertaining to sit and read as it is to actually use the recipes.

I haven't enjoyed a cookbook this much in many years. And since I've been on a low carb plan for a few years now, this has become my favorite lc cookbook. There are some cool old traditional salad and dessert recipes that are low carbed and sugar free. (I love the Pineapple Upside-Down French Toast Casserole). I can't recommend this fun and entertaining cookbook enough! I will be first in line to buy Jan's next book!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bewildered, December 1, 2007

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Jan M. Larkin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Low Carb Christmas Cookin' (Paperback)

This book received such high reviews that I purchased both of the holiday books without hesitation. Now I am wondering what happened? The recipes in both books are virtually the same--why buy both? There are no calorie counts, which would have been so helpful to those of us who watch both carbs and calories. Then, in typical Atkins fashion, many of the recipes are so high in fat also, even when it didn't seem necessary. I know it's the holidays and all, but perhaps we might want to at least maintain our weight at this time of year, not gain it! The book chapters were also different--not your typical meats, desserts, salads, etc., but highly specialized. I didn't need a whole chapter on Mexican foods or sauces.
Obviously, I was very disappointed. There are many other fine low carb cookbooks out there but, in my opinion, this is not one of them.