Customer Reviews

Secrets of Good Carb / Low Carb Living

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I have most of Sandra Woodruff's books and I haven't found a bad recipe yet. This book is no exception. The California Club Wraps are to die for. They were so good that I made them several days in a row. I also tried the Chipotle Black Bean Chili, which was excellent. My husband is a picky eater and generally hates diet food, but he loves everything I've made from Sandra Woodruff cookbooks. I frequently serve her recipes to company and no one can guess they're low-fat and healthy. This particular book also has lots of common-sense advice on doing a low-carb diet and offers two versions, one for a quick start and another for a diet with more carbs. Both give two weeks of menus.

This is a wonderful resource book if you enjoy cooking healthy. I have purchased most of Sandra Woodruff's books and they are all great, by far the best cookbooks I have.

This book has two diet plans: Low-Carb Quick Start plan and Good-Carb Life plan. The Low-Carb plan is too restrictive, it's pretty much no starchy including starchy vegetables like potatoes and no sugar at all also means no fruits. The charts they provide to show GI and Glycemic Load of some foods are inadequate.
The second half of the book contains recipes. I almost got excited about the 1 serving breakfast recipes until I looked closer and saw that almost all of them contained some kind of cheese. Being allergic to dairy pretty much limits me to a couple of smoothy recipes that I could probably substitute the milk for soy milk. I could leave the cheese off but why bother when breakfast eggs go great with cheese. I wasn't always allergic. This is a good attempt but it falls short.

The book overall is great, but I'm more of a visual person. I need to make sure the recipes are on the right track by looking at the pictures. great explanations and the recipes are great.

I think this is a great book, very informative and has some good recipes too. But i purchased the kindle edition first and the tables are impossible to read so i had to buy the paper edition too...what a bummer. Stick with the paper edition and it's a wonderful book!