Easy Everyday Low Carb Cookbook

by Better Homes and Gardens

200 total recipes plus daily meal plans (for 30 days) with carbohydrate counts of 45, 60, 80, and 100 grams. Recipes include beef, pork, lamb, seafood, side dishes, snacks, and desserts. Caters to the busy cook with a variety of low-carb recipes. Carb levels consistent with the Atkins plan.

Genres: Cookbooks

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2003

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Brick ONeil · Rating 1 out of 5]

I bought this cookbook in a $1 sale the local library had in one of the city parks from one of their carts. Since I eat and cook low-carb due to diabetes, transplant and heart disease, I was hoping this would be a great resource. This cookbook is deceiving in so many ways. The carb counts may be low on the recipes serving suggestion, but the recipes themselves are in no way healthy for diabetics. Can of sodium-laden vegetables, pastas made from wheat flours, sugars from processed foods, fruits. These are a disaster in the making.

Let's talk about the serving suggestions. Many are 1/6th or 1/8th of a recipe for the vegetarian or side dishes. That equals to 1/3 to 1/2 cup, and in many of the menus that's all you're allowed to have. Oh, plus one 8-oz cup of lemon water. I remember when I first read and studied this cookbook, the counts did not add up. I almost wrote to Better Homes and Gardens pointing out the mathematical errors. I flipped from the suggested menus to the recipes trying to make sense of the carb counts.

This is a great cookbook but I would not call it low carb. Maybe, somewhat-healthy recipes for already healthy people. I could certainly not recommend with a clear conscience to diabetics, those with heart disease or those looking to lose weight.

I would give Easy Everyday Low Carb Cooking 1 star.

[Stacy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't typically think of low carb eating as a 'left feeling hungry all day' but this is what the menu plans seem like. There isn't much food in a day because higher carb are used so it's more of reduction in carbs by reducing food than it is a reduction in carbs by eating more fats and proteins.

Here's an example of an entire day's meal plan...which is 45 carbs (double the popular low carb Atkins plan):
1 hard-boiled egg
1 ounce provolone cheese
2 oz cherry tomatoes
1 feta cheese/cucumber/sour cream/olive/herbs hors d'oeuvre
1 celery stalk with cream cheese and seeds
1 peach
3 oz roast beet
3 oz turkey steak
1 serving of citrus salsa

[Angi · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many amazing recipes and interesting meal plan that is the absolute opposite of boring!!