Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes

by Alice Lesch Kelly and Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

More than 200 low carb recipes for appetizers, soups, stews, and main dishes using poultry, beef, pork, and lamb that are perfect for the slow cookerSpecial chapter highlights side dishes that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069621895X
• ISBN13: 9780696218958
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

They taste great.

So far all the recipes have been great. Although I find that almost every recipe I've tried has onions in them. But no complaints.

Not perfect but still a good book to own.

This book has some great-tasing recipes, which is the number 1 thing I look for. Are all of them perfectly low carb? No--and that's why it loses a full star. However, the beginning of the book has an excellent summary of what it means to be on a low-carb diet. The recipes do give you things live whole wheat spaghetti as a possible side, but you should use your discretion of course. While whole wheat anything is not strictly low carb, due to the high fiber content there are certainly much worse things you can eat. (In other words, there aren't many people who got fat eating high-fiber foods.) My favorites from this book are the beef stroganoff and the Irish stew.

Happy Medium for Split Households

I have enjoyed this book for a few years. When I recently went on-line to buy a copy for my mom, I was shocked to see all the bad reviews it received. My husband is an avid Atkins fan, I am not. For the times when he is following the diet rigorously, this book provided some much needed relief from another plate of bacon and eggs. Many of the recipes are higher in carbs than Atkins may suggest, but I'm happy it gives the non-Atkins people in our household a little break without going too overboard on the carbs. Most dishes I've made from this book taste great and they have a variety of recipes for any type of meat you want to throw in your crockpot.

Mostly gluten-free!

I know that this is supposed to be a low-carb cookbook, but I bought it because most of the recipes are gluten free. There are a few that call for cream of something soup or barley (neither acceptable on a GF diet), but most have basic ingredients and sauces. I've enjoyed all but one of the recipes I've made from the cookbook, and it's great to find a book with so many GF recipes.

Low-carb isn't all about losing weight!

I think this cookbook is great...is it for Phase 1 folks on South Beach or Atkins Induction people? No, but there's more to low-carb than just the first two weeks of the program.For those of us who have been off of the "20 carbs a day" thing for many months and on low-carb maintenance, it's refreshing to find new recipes to fix. As anyone who has been on a low-carb diet for an extended period of time can tell you, life can get mighty boring and spicing up the way we fix food is always a good idea.I also liked how many veggies are in the recipes to once show again that low-carb isn't all about how much meat and fat you can stick into a recipe. For the people who are up to 60-100 carbs a day, this is a great cookbook with easy recipes that don't take forever and are full of flavor.If you're losing weight the low-carb way this isn't the book for you...but then again, the title of the book isn't Induction Slow Cooker Recipes.