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| 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes: Healthy Dinners That Are Ready When You Are! | 
 enlarge | Author: Dana Carpender
Publisher: Fair Winds Press (MA)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 3020
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592330762
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5884
UPC: 080665307621
EAN: 9781592330768
ASIN: 1592330762
Publication Date: January 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 No Canned Cream of [Blank] Soup! February 9, 2006
This is the only slow cooker cookbook I've actually not returned after reviewing and the best low-carb cookbook I've purchased. I've tried the "Broccoli-Bacon-Colby Quiche," "Mom's 1960s Chicken, Redux," and the "Mochaccino Cheesecake." All have been suberb! So good in fact I recently recommended the cookbook to my Mother, who is a gourmet chef who doesn't eat low-carb but just got a slow cooker. It's that good!
 Very Disappointing September 16, 2005
24 out of 39 found this review helpful
After four tries I have disliked every recipe from this book. They are awful and/or too weird to eat. No doctoring can be done. I've dumped them all. The meat dishes are dry and tough, from a slow cooker! I have other slow cooker books that produce great meals, and I've made up my own with much better results. Don't waste your money.
Still trying them out August 12, 2005
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I would give this a five star review but I am still trying out the recipes and I am not sure about all of them.
The only downside is that she includes some repeats from previous books since I have the others I feel they are redundant but since they are great recipes I accept it.
If you need to have low carb foods ready in a hurry then this is NOT for you but for slow cooker use all that I have tried have worked beautifully and don't require an inordinate ammount of preparation time.
So easy, so nice!!! August 2, 2005
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have a busy life, and with this book, I get awesome ideas for fantastic dishes that take little time to prepare, and then it cooks while I'm on the go. Coming home to a finished meal is great. No messing with preparation when I'm already fried from a long day!!!!
The essence of convenience, nutrition and soul satisfaction June 13, 2005
97 out of 99 found this review helpful
Dana Carpender has made a serious study of adapting classic recipes from around the world to work with modern low carb diets. In this latest offering, 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes, she proves once again that you don't need refined grains and sugars to enjoy healthful, satisfying food - no matter your culinary traditions or meat of preference. The key is quality ingredients, simply prepared.
Dana Carpender is a believer in keeping it simple and freshly prepared whenever possible. None of the ingredients were hard to find at my supermarket except perhaps the low-carb imitation honey that shows up in a few recipes. Of the dozen or so main dish recipes I tested in 200 LCSCR I can honestly say that seven were big hits with my family, a few were just okay and just one was bad. All of them cooked on time and just as predicted. There were some very satisfying desserts toward the end, with several variations on cheesecakes and custards that turn out splendidly in my slow cooker. Although I do not normally have a use for appetizer recipes, there is even a section for that - which contains an outstanding hot artichoke dip.
I am impressed with the author's diligence in keeping most recipes under 10 grams of net carbs per serving. Dana really does stick to the universal "rules" of low carb dieting; lots of veggies and meats, occasional artificial sweetening, a sprinkling of fruits now and then and a bare representation of grains and sugars -- and only when absolutely necessary for flavor, never as filler. She is good at innovating more nutritious subs for common starchy side dish ingredients; fauxtatoes (cauliflower) and mashed turnips are big players at her low carb table. Eat the 200 LCSCR way and you will probably have better, more varied natural nutrition than ever before in your typical American diet.
The recipes for lc condiments & sauces are a big bonus to those of us who suffer from sticker shock at the supermarket's low carb pricing practices. Readers of her other lc recipe books may find some of these items familiar, but hey, it is convenient to have them all in one place. And as for convenience, well...slow cooking is the essence of convenience to modern time-challenged dieters.
Did I make it sound as if this book is one of the best kept secrets for low carbers? I hope so, because it is.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.
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