The Ultimate Low-Carb Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Fabulous Recipes to Add Variety and Great Taste to Your Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle [Paperback]

Donna Pliner Rodnitzky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 14, 2001

Tasty Alternatives for Every Low-Carb Dieter
Low-carb diets are all the rage, and their appeal is obvious: You can eat great food that you'd never dream you could eat while dieting—and the diets work! But once you get past the delight of eating all the beef and butter your tummy desires, where can you turn for variety, great taste, and truly healthful low-carb dieting?
Inside The Ultimate low-Carb Diet Cookbook you'll discover more than 200 scrumptious and easy to prepare recipes that will help you continue to enjoy this fat-burning diet regime on into the future. Plus, you'll find carbohydrate counts and a nutritional analysis for each recipe! This essential book, which keeps the pleasure factor of low-carb eating front and center, includes satisfying and helthful dishes such as:
·Creamy Herb Dip
·Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Soup
·Savory Spinach Salad with Steak and Blue Cheese
·Swordfish with Olive and Red Pepper Relish
·Broccoli with Garlic and Cheese
·Banana, Chocolate Chip, and Walnut Muffins
·And many more creative and tasty meal, snack, and treat ideas!
No matter which low-carb diet you're on, you can continue to experience meal after meal of healthful dieting and great taste.

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About the Author

Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, author of Ultimate Smoothies, The Lowfat Grill, The Complete Indoor/Outdoor Grill, and 101 Great Lowfat Desserts, is a caterer who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she keeps a juicer handy at all times.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (August 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761534563
• ISBN-13: 978-0761534563
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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117 of 117 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Low Carb Books, June 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Low-Carb Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Fabulous Recipes to Add Variety and Great Taste to Your Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle (Paperback)

I own 10 low carb cookbooks (Atkins,Heller, Schwarzbein, Donna Johnson,Fran McCullough, Lauri Randolph, Gassenheimer,Doyen, Donna Rodnitzky)and this one is the best! The recipes are tasty and very well written and formatted. Some of the other books contain a lot of gourmet-ish recipes I would not normally make, others have recipes that are too boring and tasteless. The Ultimate Low Carb Diet Book gets it just right. Main Course sections include Rise and Shine (breakfast), Hot and Spicy, On the Grill, Exotic Flavors, In the Main, Strictly vegetarian. These are recipes I would chose to make even if I wasn't on a low carb diet. She also has about a dozen dessert recipes. I could not stay on the diet without this book!

86 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Power Protein Diet REVEALED!!!, January 5, 2002

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Bart Wilson (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Low-Carb Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Fabulous Recipes to Add Variety and Great Taste to Your Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle (Paperback)

Finally, someone has the common sense to give those of us metabolically "unfortunate" types a GREAT book so we can make fabulous LOW carb HIGH protein diets at home.

If you're like me, you're just as frustrated when you learn most of the current protein diet books only tells us to "Eat meat. Don't eat bread, pasta or rice." (Like: Duh!)

Then this is cook book is for you!

The recipes are easy to read, and even easy to prepare. Even if you're all thumbs in the kitchen, you'll benefit from this protein cook book as I did. My hats off to this author! :-)

I mean no offense to the Eades books (authors), but there's lots of us out here that couldn't care less about "arocondic acid" or "good or bad acosnoids." (Even though I spelled them wrong.)

We just want to know the foods we should eat, and those we shouldn't if we want to lose weight.

This book DELIVERS!

I've lost 12 pounds this month alone and I'm on my way to losing another 60 pounds to get me back to 190 lbs by August 2002. WOO-HOO! :-)

53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, March 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Ultimate Low-Carb Diet Cookbook: Over 200 Fabulous Recipes to Add Variety and Great Taste to Your Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle (Paperback)

This cookbook is simply amazing. When it arrived, I dog-earred 80% of the pages immediately and have been working my way through each of them ever since. There isn't one recipe I haven't loved and I'm eating better, not to mention losing weight, as never before. The recipes are easy to follow and for someone who never cooked, this has been a revelation. I enjoy cooking now; the time spent doing so is rewarding and fun. Low-carb eating makes total sense and this cookbook makes it all worthwhile.