Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way: Healthy Menus, Recipes, and the Shopping Lists That Will Keep the Whole Family at the Dinner Table: A Cookbook

by Leanne Ely

Leanne Ely doesn’t actually cook dinner for your family. It just feels that way.

Certified nutritionist Leanne Ely loves delicious food and is dedicated to enticing today’s busy families back to the dinner table with home cooking that cannot be beat. In Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way , she integrates low-carb requirements into her mélange of dining pleasures for every season–providing easy-to-follow menus and highlighting per-serving measurements of calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol, and sodium for each dish.

Itemizing ingredients by product in convenient lists, Ely makes your grocery shopping quick and effortless. She also gives you a helping hand in the kitchen with shortcuts that take the stress out of cooking, and suggests menu variations for children and family members who choose not to go the low-carb route.

The result? These dinners are not only balanced and healthy but truly varied and delectably good to eat. Main dishes like Low-Carb Beef Stroganoff, Crustless Quiche Lorraine, Crock-Pot Pork Jambalaya, Skillet Salmon with Horseradish Cream, and nearly 150 other entrees (plus recommendations for great side dishes) make dinnertime special in more ways than one.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food

288 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2004

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great cookbook for those of us who have to have access to low-carb recipes. Ely writes recipes that are delicious, easy to follow, and provides suggestions for side dishes, as well as full shopping lists (if you're going to use the book as your sole meal planning source.) Since I'm single I'll probably be cutting the serving sizes in half, but I love how easy this book is to use and the variety of the recipes.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the different options to customize the recipes for each family member, not to mention how the recipes are so accessible without having to order any weird ingredients, which is a regular issue when I cook LCHP.

[TheRose · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was great when I was doing the Atkins diet. Also includes regular and low-carb side dish suggestions to please the whole family.

[Shelley Chastagner · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is my 'go-to' for meal planning. The recipes are easy to follow, quick to prepare, and tasty. Leanne has low-carb and standard suggestions for side dishes. Each of the four sections is by season and includes six weeks of menus, grocery lists that take advantage of seasonal veggies, and terrific side notes and reminders. The index is well done and makes referencing easy.
My kids grew up with this cookbook and loved the 'Ritzy Crab Casserole' and the 'Faux Potatoes'. They happily ate almost everything in the book and I loved that most recipes took twenty minutes to prepare and serve.

Highly recommended

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. We don't really do the "low carb" thing, but my mom had this cookbook and gave me a copy. It has some amazingly tasty and healthful recipes that I will cook for life. Not all of them are winners, but many are keepers.

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another one that wasn't 100% what i wanted, but I have heard Fly Lady talk so much about this method. I just had to read about it.

**Not much in there that would get a preschooler to the table let alone keep him there which is what I'm looking for.

[Kami · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much meat for me. But I still love the format

[Marlies · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very utilitarian, but I need that for weeknights!