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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quick and Easy Low-Carb Meals Description

Tod Dimmick writes about food, wine, and family travel. His work has appeared in Cape Cod Life, Cape & Islands Home, Townonline.com, and the MetroWest Daily News. His “Gourmet Cooking on a Budget” weekly email newsletter is read by more than 75,000 subscribers. He is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 20-Minute Meals, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 5-Minute Appetizers, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cooking—for Guys.

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Reviews for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quick and Easy Low-Carb Meals (Paperback) Along comes another LC cookbook, sayeth the powers at Amazon, and lo I buy and test; for such is the compulsion of the dieting reviewer.

Not normally someone to pick up the books with titles that suggest I may have lower-than-average intelligence (guilty conscience perhaps?), nevertheless I couldn't resist the allure of "quick and easy". Tod Dimmick has written a cookbook that promises several things in the introduction:
* Use high-quality, low-carb ingredients
* Keep it simple
* Call for accessible ingredients
* Avoid processed foods
* Take advantage of quick cooking methods
* Keep an eye on saturated fat
* Control expense
* Add in fun and flavor
My job, as I see it, is to test how well these promises are carried out by actually performing the recipes in my average home kitchen. This time I tried four appetizers, three breakfasts (aside from the ever-present omelet recipes that *every* LCCB has, and which I am tiring of rapidly; besides, it's hard to mess up a basic egg/meat/veggie recipe if your cooking method is good), two seafood main courses, a meat loaf, a kid-friendly chicken dinner, a salad and three dessert selections. Additionally, there were a few dozen recipes that were so similar to recipes from other LCCBs that I didn't even need to try them yet again to know exactly how they would turn out - simple and classic dishes that are universally LC, like grilled steak with seasonings, wine, and butter or roasted veggie side dishes.
Reviews for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quick and Easy Low-Carb Meals (Paperback) Tod Dimmick books are beyond helpful; they are also fun, creative and realistic. With nearly 250 recipes, Tod has branched out into the Low-Carb lifestyle. Each recipe also provides a complete nutritional analysis for carbs and protein.

The Italian Herb Omelet is delicious to make and has no carbohydrates, so if you skip the toast, you are already ahead of the game for the day. The "Magic Eggs" chapter brightens up your morning with recipes that include healthy ingredients like baby spinach (more like adding herbs than spinach) and portobello mushrooms and salmon.

By rolling roast beef up in watercress there is no need for rolls and the tuna salad wraps encourage you to enjoy tuna without bread. By just changing one aspect of a recipe, Tod succeeds in cutting out the carbs or making the recipe very low carb.

Some of the delicious recipes include:

Rosemary-Lemon Halibut
Sesame-Scallion Chicken Stir-Fry
Quick-Grilled Beef Satay
White Beans with Olive Oil, Gorgonzola, and Fresh Sage
Grilled Vegetable Kebabs
Iceberg Nests with Avocado, Bacon, and Tomato
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Sherried Pears

Tod Dimmick's books always provide delicious recipes that don't take long to prepare. The extra information sections also enlighten and entertain.
Reviews for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quick and Easy Low-Carb Meals (Paperback) I was really impresed by the Idiot's Guide to low carbing. Where certain other low carb books are thinly veiled attempts to bash the lifestyle, the Idiot's Guide explains why this way of life is so healthy.

The book is primarily full of great low carb recipes. There are breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, desserts, and even an entire section dedicated to kid-friendly meals.

These aren't obscure meals that take a gourmet to appreciate. They are quick, easy, and very tasty. You get a lightning chicken stew, almond oatmeal cookies, meatloaf, chicken marsala, and tostadas. There are meals for vegetarians, meals for steak-lovers, and everyone in between.

There's also information on low carbing, if you somehow got this book without knowing what a low carb diet is about. There's background information about carbs, about how our modern diet is overloaded with sugar. It encourages you to eat fresh fruits and veggies, to find balance in your food.

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