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Keto Friendly Recipes: Easy Keto For Busy People
The best-selling cookbook from top keto expert, Jennifer Marie Garza of Keto Friendly Recipes and Low Carb Inspirations on Facebook
Jennifer Marie Garza spent years struggling with her weight and trying every diet out there without success. Finally she tried out the keto lifestyle and lost an incredible 55 pounds--and kept them off. She knew she wouldn't continue to succeed without delicious food to make at home, so she started creating recipes of her own. The results turned out so well that she made it her life's mission to share her creations with others who struggle like she did, and now her Keto Friendly Recipes Facebook page and Low Carb Inspirations (plus Keto Friendly Recipes) Facebook group have hundreds of thousands of devoted followers. It's easy to understand why with healthy and tasty recipes like Fluffy Keto Waffles, Pull-Apart Pizza Bread, Amazing Keto Lasagna, Creamy Tuscan Chicken, Three-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies, and more. For anyone new to the keto lifestyle who needs to learn the basics, Jennifer Marie explains the types of ketones, macronutrients, and the benefits of intermittent fasting. Also included are lists and charts of what to eat and what to avoid, a guide to special ingredients like keto-approved sweeteners and alternative flours, a list of essential kitchen tools, and even helpful advice for traveling and dining out while on the keto diet.
Jennifer Marie Garza spent years struggling with her weight and trying every diet out there without success. Finally she tried out the keto lifestyle and lost an incredible 55 pounds--and kept them off. She knew she wouldn't continue to succeed without delicious food to make at home, so she started creating recipes of her own. The results turned out so well that she made it her life's mission to share her creations with others who struggle like she did, and now her Keto Friendly Recipes Facebook page and Low Carb Inspirations (plus Keto Friendly Recipes) Facebook group have hundreds of thousands of devoted followers. It's easy to understand why with healthy and tasty recipes like Fluffy Keto Waffles, Pull-Apart Pizza Bread, Amazing Keto Lasagna, Creamy Tuscan Chicken, Three-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies, and more. For anyone new to the keto lifestyle who needs to learn the basics, Jennifer Marie explains the types of ketones, macronutrients, and the benefits of intermittent fasting. Also included are lists and charts of what to eat and what to avoid, a guide to special ingredients like keto-approved sweeteners and alternative flours, a list of essential kitchen tools, and even helpful advice for traveling and dining out while on the keto diet.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2019
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July 11, 2021
If you are strictly keto, even at the sale price of $3.99, this book is not for you. Most of the recipes aren’t in the ketogenic range, in which your total daily intake of carbohydrates comes in at 20 grams or less. Salsa Verde Chicken Casserole (a whopping 19.6g), Philly Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers (18.7g), Egg Roll in a Bowl (10.8g), Brussels Sprouts Casserole (10g), Cauliflower-Creamed Spinach (14.2g) and Garlic-Butter Rib Eye Steak Strips (16.6g) aren’t likely to keep you in ketosis. (And how do you carb up steak, for heavens’ sake?) The fiber content isn’t high enough to save these recipes because — remember — the daily maximum is 20 grams.
I’m keto curious more than a convert. I work on reducing how many carbs my family and I get, but I’m not a fundamentalist about it. However, I am a busy person, and this book fails some on that front, too. For example, the Homemade Marinara Sauce, at 9.8g (7.5g net carbs), beats out Hunt’s, but who has more than an hour to throw together dinner? Too many recipes take too long. Unless we are talking slow cooker and dessert, nothing in a self-styled cookbook for busy people should take an hour — and more.
If you’re not super-zealous about being in ketosis, there are some decent recipes in here. I would, however, buy the book on sale or check it out from the library. Keto true believers should give the book a hard pass.
I’m keto curious more than a convert. I work on reducing how many carbs my family and I get, but I’m not a fundamentalist about it. However, I am a busy person, and this book fails some on that front, too. For example, the Homemade Marinara Sauce, at 9.8g (7.5g net carbs), beats out Hunt’s, but who has more than an hour to throw together dinner? Too many recipes take too long. Unless we are talking slow cooker and dessert, nothing in a self-styled cookbook for busy people should take an hour — and more.
If you’re not super-zealous about being in ketosis, there are some decent recipes in here. I would, however, buy the book on sale or check it out from the library. Keto true believers should give the book a hard pass.
April 14, 2021
I actually quite liked this one. Nothing was outrageous and I had enough of the ingredients already to not feel pressured to go out and buy random ingredients I might never use again because I hate them. I also knew what everything was, which I haven't in the last few cook books I've looked at. There were some items, such as an air fryer, that I don't own, but THIS author gives you alternatives instead of just hanging you out to dry. I appreciated that.
I copied quite a few recipes from the...Entrée/meat section. I forget what she actually called it, but I was all over the majority of that section! Some of them are just spins on things I already make, but they still look interesting enough to try.
There is nothing I really found new or enticing in the breakfast, bread, or side dishes. The soup and salads section gave me a few ideas for tweaking recipes that I already have but there was nothing revolutionary. You might find some things in there you really like though. I read them all. The dessert section...well it was a lot of miss in the hit or miss scheme of things. The idea that you are going to eat peanut butter cookies that are actually just peanut butter eggs with sweetening is...not appealing to me.
Her dressing and marinades were interesting as well, though I think only the dry ranch dressing is something I would be keeping. Everything else pretty much spoils within 4-7 days so you have to have your ducks in a row and have several recipes on standby if you make large quantities.
Conclusion
Well the majority of the recipes in this book went uncopied by me, I did find quite a few meat dishes I want to try out. What I really appreciated about this book was the fact that I recognized all the ingredients she was listing and that the author would provide you alternative cooking methods where she was able to give you another option to the gadget she was using to help speed up the process for herself.
I copied quite a few recipes from the...Entrée/meat section. I forget what she actually called it, but I was all over the majority of that section! Some of them are just spins on things I already make, but they still look interesting enough to try.
There is nothing I really found new or enticing in the breakfast, bread, or side dishes. The soup and salads section gave me a few ideas for tweaking recipes that I already have but there was nothing revolutionary. You might find some things in there you really like though. I read them all. The dessert section...well it was a lot of miss in the hit or miss scheme of things. The idea that you are going to eat peanut butter cookies that are actually just peanut butter eggs with sweetening is...not appealing to me.
Her dressing and marinades were interesting as well, though I think only the dry ranch dressing is something I would be keeping. Everything else pretty much spoils within 4-7 days so you have to have your ducks in a row and have several recipes on standby if you make large quantities.
Conclusion
Well the majority of the recipes in this book went uncopied by me, I did find quite a few meat dishes I want to try out. What I really appreciated about this book was the fact that I recognized all the ingredients she was listing and that the author would provide you alternative cooking methods where she was able to give you another option to the gadget she was using to help speed up the process for herself.
May 10, 2019
Read this cookbook who does that for a cookbook?
Anyone on Keto will love getting this cookbook! I bought a digital and a hard copy. I have been so boring about my food but I see this as a new opportunity.
Anyone on Keto will love getting this cookbook! I bought a digital and a hard copy. I have been so boring about my food but I see this as a new opportunity.
June 27, 2019
Great information and delicious recipes
March 30, 2021
I really loved the Keto Italian Soup recipe. So good! There are a few others I'm trying and so far I love. Looking forward to trying more.
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