Mike be careful. A freind's parent gave me a small low carb cookbook
they had around the house from 2000. Some of the recipes were NOT low
carb. They had clearly miscalculated carbs from ingredients.  Atkins'
books have recipe sections--although I honestly have never read
through any of them. I wing it and experiment with a combination of
low-carb, what I like and adaptions from recipes I know.

DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
350/318/Mar-315/200
Atkins since Jan 12, 2004

writes:

My favorite LC cookbook is "Low Carb High Flavor Recipes Made Easy" by Fiona
Carns.  I've seen it in Borders, but the publisher is Australian, so if you
can't find it in a local bookstore, try Amazon.com.

Daria
166/148/140
sugar-free since 2/1/04
low-carb since 2/17/04

Mike:

Why not drop by your local library and check out what they have. Bring them
home, look through them, decide which one suits your eating and cooking
style...then order what you like from Amazon! You get to "try before you
buy". My public library has at least 50 different LC cookbooks!

Hope this helps!
Joan J

Dear Mike,

Here is a list of what I consider to be the better low-carb cookbooks I
own and use.
Carpender and McCullough are especially good.

Barbara

Cook Books:

Atkins, Robert C. and Gare, Fran. Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Cookbook. M.
Evans & Co., 1997, 247 p. (I have 2 copies: 1 hardcover and 1 paperback)

Carpender, Dana. 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes. Fair Winds Press, 2003, 253 p.

Carpender, Dana. 500 Low-Carb Recipes. Fair Winds Press, 2002, 496 p.

Cross, Doris. Real Mexican Food For People With Diabetes. Prima Health,
1998, 270p.

McCullough, Fran. Living Low-Carb. Little, Brown & Co., 2000, 370 p.

McCullough, Fran. The Low-Carb Cookbook. Hyperion, 1997, 384 p.

Pirie, Gayle & Clark, John. Country egg, City Egg. Artisan, NY. 2000:
118 p.,illus.
Five dozen egg recipes. Most of the recipes can be made into low carb
dishes.

Ptzya, Pam. MyLittle Black Book of Low Carb Recipes. 2003 revised edition.
Privately published, 2003, 135 p. Buy via Internet

Puente, Debbie. Elegantly Easy Crème Brulee & other custard Desserts.
Renaissance Books, Los Angeles. 1998: 96 p. Although not directly a low
carb cookbook, the main use of milk and eggs make it easy to adjust many
of the recipes to low carb. One sugarless recipe is included on pg. 86
for “Sugarless Maple Custard.”

Randolph, Lauri Ann. Lauri’s Low-Carb Cookbook. Avalon Enterprises, Inc.,
2nd Edition, revised. 1999, 246 p.

Richard, Laura. The Secret to Low Carb Success Kensington Books, 2001,
368 p., pap.
Overview of the low carb WOL and the low carb diets that are available.
No recipes.

Sunset. Sunset Diabetic Cookbook. Sunset Magazine. 1996, 112 p., illus.

Hope this helps. Be aware of one problem: lots of cookbooks today are
using the term "low carb" in their titles but are NOT low carb at all.
Take the time to look at a number of the recipes in any book you are
considering buying. If the recipes use carb items such as flour or
sugar, or have carb counts of over approximately 20 carbs per serving,
then they are not good quality low carb cookbooks. I picked up one last
week that used pastas in its recipes and most of the carb counts came
between 50 - 75 carbs per serving!!! And the title said it was a low
carb cookbook. NOT!

Barbara

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mike  burbled across the ether:

How about asdlc's tried and true?  I admit that there are some
substitute dishes, but most of them are just 'throw the first shelf from
the fridge in with the third shelf and see what comes out'.  Tina
McDonalds site has the recipes for individual download, or you can get
the cd with the entire cookbook on it in pdf format.
http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/cookbookdownload.html
(Or you can email me, I've got an older copy I could lend ya).

Thanks for the suggestions!

LC Cookbooks by Fran McCullough, Alex Haas and Dana Carpendar have
had a number of rave reviews.

Avoid Atkins cookbooks like the plague -- they're horrible.

Also, see these links.  The first one is an archive of recipes
collected over a couple of years in this group.

Cookbooks
http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/LowCarbohydrateCooking-Recipes.htm
http://www.hormoneprofile.com/locarb.htm

Two lists of lowcarb recipe sites
http://www.grossweb.com/asdlc/faq.htm#Recipes
http://lowcarbretreat.com/recipes.html

Your post reminded me of an amazing discovery that I made a couple  years
ago; I posted about it then on ASDLC.  I have my late mother's cookbooks
from the 1940's through the mid-1960's.  I was surprised at how many of the
recipes are either inherently low-carb, or easily adaptable to low-carb.  I
guess it's because back then everybody used cream, butter, eggs, lard, bacon
et al, and weren't afraid of cholesterol.  For anyone armed with Almond
Flour and sucralose, Even the baking recipes from the old  Betty Crocker and
Good Housekeeping cookbooks can be adapted to low-carb recipes with a few
tweaks.  Custards were popular in that era among other yummy desserts. If
anyone else has these old cookbooks, you know what a treasure they are!