The Low Carb Cookbook - Softcover

McCullough, Fran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007147902 ISBN 13: 9780007147908

Publisher: Thorsons, 2003

Synopsis

The Low Carb Cookbook contains over 250 fat- gram and carb-counted recipes, and is a complete guide to successful weight-loss and a healthy, low-carboyhdrate lifestyle.

With an introduction from Michael and Mary Dan Eades, the best-selling authors of Protein Power.

Low-carbohydrate is considered by many to be the new low-fat – it’s now the most popular diet formula and thanks to it’s widely reported success is definitely here to stay.

Fran McCullough’s Low-Carb Cookbook is a much needed recipe and lifestyle companion to the low-carb diet books, in particular our own best selling Protein-Power.

The author is a food-loving low-carb devotee who fully understands the concerns of her readers. As well as over 250 tasty recipes, the book is full of practical tips to help keep the carb count down.

All recipes are protein, fat and carboyhdrate gram counted and recipes include:

Appetizers • Soups • Salads • Sauces, Marinades and Salsas • Main Courses • Side Dishes • Your New Best Friends – The Vegetable Heroes • Desserts • Breakfasts

The Low-Carb Cookbook also includes menu plans for special occaisions as well as an excellent, detailed index to make it easy to check ingredients.

About this title

About the Author

Fran McCullough is a highly respected cookery editor and food writer. A lover of good food, she had always struggled to keep her own weight down until discovering the Protein Power diet. The low-carb approach was the key to unlocking her body’s metabolic problems and she subsequently lost almost 5 stone of excess weight. She hasn’t looked back.

From the Back Cover

"'A tour de force for low carbohydrate cooking'…'The Low Carb Cookbook' is more than a cookbook – it's a primer on how to modify your kitchen, stock your pantry, alter your cooking methods, and change your life to accommodate your new lower-carbohydrate, higher-protein regimen."
MICHAEL EADES, M.D., and MARY DAN EADES, M.D., authors of 'Protein Power'

Millions of people have discovered that the key to successful weight loss is not the traditional low fat diet but rather a high-protein, low-carbohydrate plan. However, for many low-carb converts, the one stumbling block is the restrictive nature of the diet itself. But help has finally arrived in 'The Low-Carb Cookbook', a collection of over 200 mouth-watering recipes that provide satisfying, healthy options to eating the low-carb way.

Here are wonderful recipes for every course, from starters like a Mexican Shrimp Cocktail to an easy and extraordinary Cream of Mushroom Soup, from a Middle Eastern Lamb Salad to Nut-Crusted Swordfish, from vegetable dishes like Roasted Potato Skins and Courgette 'Pasta' to desserts like Berries with Trembling Cream and a made-in-moments Chocolate Mousse. If you want to lose weight and stay healthy without saying goodbye to good eating, 'The Low-Carb Cookbook' is for you.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007147902
• ISBN 13: 9780007147908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416