Dana Carpender's Every Calorie Counts Cookbook: 500 Great-Tasting, Sugar-Free, Low-Calorie Recipes That the Whole Family Will Love

Every cookbook author should read her books. She has a down to earth, easy to understand style that makes it seem as if she is just your friend or neighbor sharing her recipes with you. I own nearly every book she has written already and plan to buy the rest as soon as my social security check arrives. I have also purchased them all for my daugher and her husband, avid low carbers as well.

I have tried many low carb recipes, but Dana Carpender's are the best. There are no really weird ingredients, they are easy to prepare, and so far they all taste great. This is already a favorite on my cook book shelf.

When you are Dana Carpender and your entire writing career has been predicated on your reputation for being "that bestselling low-carb recipe book lady," then you can imagine the stunned surprise from people who bought her previous books when the title of her new book conspicuously omitted the word "low-carb" for the first time since she started writing cookbooks. Hmmm, that's strange! But let's get one thing straight about the "Every Calorie Counts Cookbook" right away: THIS IS DEFINITELY A LOW-CARB COOKBOOK! Carpender makes no bones about it from page one that she is still a rebel on a mission to help educate people on making healthier choices regarding what they are eating and making sure every calorie and carb counts when they do it. She believes there are merits to the low-carb approach to eating (foods that satisfy your hunger and that help you stay away from those "nasty blood-sugar" crashes) and to the low-calorie approach to eating (preventing the body from eating more calories than it needs) that really need to merge for a consensus on a wiser approach to healthy eating. I can certainly understand where Carpender is coming from and it is good that she is articulating this in a book so that others can see that livin' la vida low-carb really can make a lot of sense if you stop buying into the negative anti-low-carb propaganda that so viciously points people away from this healthy lifestyle change. Carpender hopes to change that. Looking at the contents of the "Every Calorie Counts Cookbook" itself, my first impression was, "DANG, THIS IS A BIG BOOK!" WOW, you definitely get your money's worth when you buy a Dana Carpender book because she literally LOADS it with 500 recipes for literally every occasion. For all those people who think low-carb is too boring because you are limited in your food choices, may I encourage you to pick up one of Carpender's books and shut your mouth?! Just like her previous low-carb cookbooks, which have sold over a milion copies by the way, Carpender gives helpful tips for people who want to lose weight and she provides those people with information they can use. I LOVED the fact that she repeated one phrase many times that I myself have said to people who desire weight loss: "Anything you do to lose weight is what you must do for the rest of your life to keep it off." If you choose a plan that makes you hungry all the time, then you're just not gonna stick with it. Likewise, if all you eat is meat, cheese and eggs all the time, you won't stay on that plan either. The consensus between these two nutritional approaches is more about thinking for yourself about what is good for your body rather than relying on the "heavy-duty low-fat propaganda" from our government and people who are supposed to be entrusted with our health. When Carpender finally took control of her own health over a decade ago when she started livin' la vida low-carb, she started making better food choices because she was eating "real f

I just bought the "Every Calorie Counts Cookbook", I was torn between the Low Carb Cookbook and this one, I am VERY pleased with this book. It is low carb--GOOD CARB and low fat. Dana starts the book with discussions on good fats, saturated vs unsatured, sweeteners, thickeners.. I have a Master's Degree in medicine and thought I was very knowlegable when it came to nutrition, but she really gave me a entirely new perspective when it comes to healthy fats, and I never knew of xanthan gum to thicken sauces as an alternate to the old corn starch. I have made several dishes out of her book and I must say DELICIOUS!! My boyfriend was quite impressed. The meals are surpisingly easy and quick to make, and the taste is superb. I've been blessed with a thin frame, but I am very concerned with eating healthy and low carb (most of the highly processed junk out there is why America is so obese). This cookbook is a great addition to every home. Thank you so much for this fabulous book!! I hope your book inspires more American's to eat healthy and to realize that it IS NOT difficult to eat healthy and fill your home with fruits and vegatables versus the packaged, processed junk out there. It saddens me to see so many obese children whose future will be one of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease if the parents don't change what they provide for their family to eat. I think people don't know how to eat healthy, or they have the misconception that healthy food doesn't taste good. Your book will enlighten and inspire families to get healthy. Thank you!!