Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way: Healthy Menus, Recipes, and the Shopping Lists That Will Keep the Whole Family at the Dinner Table
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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 … More >>
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Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I was very disappointed. The grocery bill was 60. more than I normally spend. Also, the author makes an assumption that people who don’t eat her menus must surely all be living on fast food, and says that’s why our old grocery bills were lower. I wonder how she knows so much about everyone else. lol. We didn’t live on fast food prior to buying this book, but we did have lower grocery bills and I’m going to go back to using common sense when planning my family’s meals, which I used to do a week at a time, then keep those, and use them again in a few weeks.
Also, her email customer service people were rude, but that’s another story.
I thought the recipes were pretty bland overall. After awhile I just started to add my own herbs and spices. Also she doesn’t make much use of my favorite low carb versatile veggie–the tomato—as I would like.
I try not to have cookbooks clutter my shelves, but I have heard so much about this from flylady.net that I thought to buy it. I don’t like the recipes very much.
Following this system raised my weekly food bill by $50 extra dollars. My teenager didn’t take seconds during the month that I used this. The recipes called for more red meat and pork than my family is used to eating.
On the plus side, it is nicely organized and gave me tips on creating my own lists better and even she uses more meat than I do normally, she also uses a greater variety than I’m used to. I will incorporate more vegetables because of her plan.
It’s a shame—I really wanted this to work for me!!
It seems to be a pretty solid cookbook although I havent been using it in the order it prescribes yet,