501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life [Paperback]

Gregg R. Gillespie (Author), Mary B. Johnson (Author)

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So many people find weight-loss success by pursuing a high-protein, low-carbohydrate regimen that dieters have become curious as to this diet's real nature. In 501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life, Gregg R. Gillespie and Mary B. Johnson emphasize the importance of distinguishing "good" versus "bad" carbohydrates in achieving both sound nutrition and weight loss. The book's recipes arise from an all-American cuisine that borrows freely from many ethnic traditions. Turkish chicken phyllo triangles offer plenty of texture to alleviate hunger. A layered black-bean dip provides the fiber so often lacking in high-protein dieting. And Chinese pork dumplings reduce carbohydrates to a bare minimum. Sugars in desserts make this course a carbohydrate minefield, but Gillespie and Johnson find a few items that restrict carbohydrates when portions are carefully controlled. Recipes' nutritional analyses cover only calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat grams. Mark Knoblauch
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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402708149
• ISBN-13: 978-1402708145
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,349,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

My cooking/baking carrier was handed down from my mother and father. I baked my first cookies in 1943, in grade school in Buffalo. New York. Although I have had thirty seven major occupations, and five companies of my own, I have always returned to cooking as my love and profession. I start to write and prepare the cookbooks when I became disallusion by the cost per recipe of the cookbooks then on sale. Why should I, why should anyone pay two and three dollars for a recipe because it is printed in a book with fancy pictures. I made it my goal with my first cookbook, to prepare a cookbook whereby the buyer would be paying only pennies for what they had in the past paid dollars for. This has been my one goal since the first page crossed my computer screen.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Sugar NOT Low Carb!, July 22, 2003

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Starla Lester (Las Cruces, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life (Paperback)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is not a low-carb cookbook., September 29, 2003

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This review is from: 501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life (Paperback)

This is not a low-carb cookbook. The book tells you how many carbs are in each recipe - but that's about as far as the carb-consciousness goes. If you want a good Low carb book - try 500 Low Carb Recipes by Dana Carpender or 15 Minute Low-Carb Recipes - also by Dana Carpender. They're excellent cookbooks - and the recipes are truly low-carb.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Carb? What a joke!, May 31, 2004

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Jennifer Garcia "j. garcia" (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life (Paperback)

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.