My Low-Carb Basic Vinaigrette Salad Dressing is a snap. This is good not only for salads, but for marinating thawed frozen vegetables, or a steak or chicken breast. I can't recommend bottled salad dressing. I'm leery of the cheap, omega-6-rich oils in them.
Read More »Review: Total Gym for the Low Carber
Dana reviews the Total Gym and how to pick the right model of this popular piece of exercise equipment to meet your needs.
Read More »Low Carb Convenience Foods 101
For all the folks who went low carb on New Years Day, and who just want to know what they can eat without jacking up their blood sugar or doing a lot of cooking, this is your primer. Dana shows you the best ways to set yourself up for low carb success.
Read More »Low-Carb Peace On Earth Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
I adapted these from a recipe called "World Peace Cookies," billed as the greatest chocolate cookie recipe of all time. That's quite a claim, but my low-carb ones are wonderful!
Read More »Low-Carb Merry Crispness Shortbread Cookies Recipe
Who doesn't want Low-Carb shortbread cookies? Rich and tender, sheer heaven with a cup of tea or coffee.
Read More »Low-Carb Peanut Butter Dips Recipe
This is a Low-Carb riff on one of my mother's favorite Christmas Cookie recipes–the peanut butter was my idea. And Mom's weren't low carb, of course.
Read More »Simple Flourless Gravy For Your Holiday Feast
You’ve decarbed your holiday dinner: Fauxtatoes, grain-free dressing, sugar-free cheesecake with a nut crust. But without flour or cornstarch, how do you make gravy? Dana Carpender teaches how in just a few easy steps.
Read More »Celebrate With Low-Carb Christmas Cookies!
Low-Carb Christmas Cookies! You can have your candy canes, your eggnog, your figgy pudding–As far back as Dana can remember, the best Christmas delicacy has been cookies. She helps us carry on that tradition with some healthier alternatives to the high-carb holiday fare.
Read More »A Low Carb Feast To Be Thankful For
Have you decided that you want to stay grain- and sugar-free, even at Thanksgiving dinner? Dana Carpender has 3 recipes for a delicious and traditional low carb Thanksgiving Feast.
Read More »Thanksgiving Damage Control or You Have to Plan!
If you’ve made the decision to indulge in traditional high carb foods at Thanksgiving, Dana shows you how to limit the damage.
Read More »Dana’s Carpender’s Low Carb Anniversary – The 33% Report
I dropped the carbs from my diet the day after Labor Day 1995. I would have started a few days earlier, but I invited a bunch of people over for a Labor Day cookout, and already started making the food. So I consider the Tuesday after Labor Day my LowCarbiversary. It's been 18 years I've been eating this way, and since I'm 54 – 55 in October – that means I've been low carb for exactly one third of my life - that's 33%.
Read More »Somatopsychic Health & Wellness: It’s All In Your Head
Somatopsychic Health & Wellness: "It's all in your head." In mid-20th-century America this was a common diagnosis. While it is now widely excepted that stress plays a part in illness, the notion of purely psychogenic disease has fallen out of favor.
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