Customer Reviews

501 Recipes for a Low-Carb Life

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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.

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.

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.

The introduction is pretty standard for a low-carb cookbook, however, the recipes are not what you would expect. Sugar is used a lot. There is a whole section on Pasta, and I don't mean the low carb variety. The author does admit that many recipes were categorized as low carb by adjusting the portion size. I suppose that one bite of anything is low-carb by this definition.

There are so many better cookbooks out there on this topic. Don't waste your money on this one.

This is a really tempting book at first full of all sorts of foods I didn't know I could have on a low carb diet but then there's a catch. One salad recipe is for 12 servings, another dessert recipe is for 8. There's hardly one recipe for less than 6 servings and it's not like the servings are large, they're tiny. I estimate most of the recipes would feed two or three people realistically, which really boost the carbs-per-serving. Sure, you can have an approicot dessert, as long as you have two bites. Advice: watch what they consider a "serving."

This is actually a good cookbook with many delicious recipes. However, it's almost as though the authors prepared a lovely cookbook and decided at the last minute to call it Low-Carb and so downsized the portions so as to manage the carb count. People who are on low-carb diets often do so because they're overweight and have large appeitites. 1/16 of a piece of cake from an 8-inch cake pan isn't going to make anyone happy to have consumed 1/3 of their daily carb allowance.

The consensus is that this book is not very good. The title is suspiciously similar to "500 Low-carb Recipes" by Dana Carpender, which is highly recommended.

I love the cookbook, 501 RECIPES FOR A LOW CARB LIFE. Lots of great ideas and so far all I have tried have been very tasty. A couple have weird ingredients but most are what I consider normal. A great addition to my cookbook collection.

This is not a low-carb cookbook. The recipes have carb counts, but no explanation as to whether that is for total carbs, or if it is "useable carbs." If you're on a low-carb diet, stay away from this book! In flipping through, I noticed recipes including bread, pasta, flour, cornmeal, honey, and sugar...yes, SUGAR. Major disappointment. Go for 500 Low-Carb Recipes: 500 Recipes from Snacks to Dessert, That the Whole Family Will Love instead.

First off, the previous reviewers' complaints about this cookbook are fair - a lot of these recipes aren't truly low-carb. Quite a few of them are low-carb, but sometimes, I find myself making substitutions so the recipes are okay for my wife, who has diabetes, to eat - which you would hardly expect from a low-carb cookbook.

The thing is, though, the recipes are really good. It's unfortunate they decided to market it as a low-carb cookbook - otherwise, I think you'd see a lot of 5-star reviews here on the strength of the recipes. Highlights include Beef & Black Bean Chili, Spaghetti Squash with Red Clam Sauce, Herb Stuffed Baked Tomatoes, Caribbean Stewed Vegetables, Garlic and Lime Pork Chops, and Greek Chicken. All great stuff.