200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes: Healthy Dinners That Are Ready When You Are!

by Dana Carpender

For the low-carb dieter, traditional slow cooker recipes can be a problem.

Many of them depend on potatoes, noodles, rice, and starchy canned soups. And if you've tried to make up your own slow cooker recipes, you may have found the results less than compelling—too often the food can be mushy, water-logged, and bland. Fortunately, with 200 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes , you can use your slow cooker and follow your low-carb diet, too! Come home
Tuscan Chicken * Kashmiri Lamb Shanks * Teriyaki-Tangerine Ribs * Chicken Minestrone * Orange Rosemary Pork * Chipotle Brisket * Firehouse Chili * Thai Chicken Bowls * Braised Pork with Fennel * Pizza Stew * MortyÆs Mixed Meat Loaf * Low-Carb Slow Cooker Paella But that's not all! The gentle, even heat of a slow cooker makes it the perfect way to cook many different kinds of foods. You'll make low-carb party treats like Hot Crab Dip and Glazed Chicken Wings, and snacks like Smokin' Chili Peanuts and Curried Pecans. It's the superior way to cook incredible sugar-free desserts like Mochaccino Cheesecake and Maple-Pumpkin Custard. And you've never had moister, more tender seafood than my Lime-Basted Scallops or Lemon-Mustard Salmon Steaks. Plus, every recipe lists the calories, protein, fiber, and usable carbs per serving, so you'll not only be in control of your life and your time, you'll be in control of your diet as well. So go ahead, plug in your slow cooker, and look forward to coming home to a fabulous low-carb supper tonight!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2004

About the author

Dana Carpender started her writing career as a self-published author. In 1995, after years of creative low fat cooking featuring whole grains and other “healthy” carbohydrates, and despite five step aerobics classes per week, she found herself a size 20, and gaining! Worse, her blood pressure was rising, and she was left dragging by energy swings. Dropping carbs long before it was fashionable, Carpender lost 40 pounds with no hunger, achieved normal blood pressure and excellent blood lipids, and found herself with more energy in her forties than she’d had in her teens.

Carpender lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband, two dogs, and a cat, all of whom eschew junk food. When she’s not cooking, writing, or reading the latest nutrition research, she power-walks, read mystery novels, and is an enthusiastic Toastmaster, taking the occasional trophy.

From the author's website.

Reviews

[Jennifer Heise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good recipes. Bought it.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love Dana Carpender. Her cookbooks make me feel like you don't have to go to school to become an excellent cook. The recipes also make me want to experiment with ingredients and tastes. I have learned a lot from the information she presents in her cookbooks. Plus, no one can survive low-carb forever and never have desserts or only snacks of meat and deviled eggs. This is the answer!


Many people will feel that a downfall of this book is that there are no images. I personally can get a feel for a recipe by viewing it's ingredients... I really do love Dana Carpender!

[Helen · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was OK, but unusable: a mainstream cookbook with main task to make food more tasty and provide more variety for people with no other limitations than low carbs.

What made it useless for me, was using a) processed food, tomatoes, dairy, eggs, pork, b) a lot of improving taste ingredients that increase significantly cost of each meal, c) no special attention to portable snacks, fast preparation (not cooking) time meals, and using fewer ingredients.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

I checked this out from the library and started marking the pages I was going to photocopy and got about a 3rd of the way through when I realized that I had marked every page. I just put it in my cart at Amazon to buy with my next order. So excited to get some low-carb recipes for my slow cooker that I got for Christmas:) My only complaint is that there are no pictures.

[Amy Cummings · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook was a lifesaver when I was working retail full time while my husband and I were low-carb dieting. We tried probably 30+ recipies out of this book so far and every one has been wonderful. Made me fall in love with my crock pot even more (if that is at all possible)!

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting! I'm always looking for new recipes to use in my crock pot. I xeroxed a few "finds". My only disappointment with this book is no pictures!

[Dana Cordelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have not tried too many recipes, but the ones I have, have been delicious. Recommended for low carbers and crock pot lovers!

[Laurie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is a bit out of date. Many of the recipes I thought looked good called for ingredients that are no longer available - such as low-carb instant potatoes.