Dana Carpender shares the many ways pumpkin can fit into a low carb diet including her Low Carb Chili Lime Pumpkin Seed recipe. If your only experience with pumpkin has to do with jack-o-lanterns and high-carb pie, rethink this tasty vegetable. Pumpkin is lower carb than most winter squashes, and one of the best sources of pro-vitamin A around.
Read More »How to Have a Healthy Low-Carb Halloween
Recently, on a website I frequent, there was a discussion of Halloween plans. There I first encountered the concept of "trunk-or-treat," a Halloween event that is apparently gaining popularity across the country. People dress their kids up in costumes, pack candy in their cars, and go to a predesignated parking lot. There the children run from car to car, collecting candy.
Read More »Mmmmm…Bacon… The Many, Many Joys of Bacon by Dana Carpender
The best perk of my job is free Low-Carb food. Manufacturers send me samples, hoping I'll like their products well enough to mention them. Andrew here at CarbSmart.com sends me food to try. And one year, my publisher subscribed me to the Bacon of the Month Club. I swear I'm not making that up. What a great gift! A new variety of small-farm, boutique, gourmet bacon every month.
Read More »Are 100 Calorie Packs Good For You? By Dana Carpender
Please tell me I'm not the only one who talks back to the television. Okay, what I really do is yell at the television. I yell at politicians, and the people on my soap operas. I yell with real gusto at food ads.
Read More »Dana Carpender Does Politics – Food Politics That Is
I have, over the years, resolutely kept my political views out of my writing about carb-controlled nutrition. Not that I don't have such views, you understand. I'm just as opinionated in that part of my life as I am about food. I just had this mental image of someone with severe metabolic syndrome reading my work, finding some political view he or she disagreed with, and saying, "I'm not going to listen to anything that nutcase says!" After which, of course, they'd get their feet amputated and go blind from diabetic complications, and it would all be my fault. Or at least partly my fault.
Read More »Organic Doesn’t Always Mean Healthy
"Organic" is no kind of guarantee of nutrition. Please don't get me wrong. I am not against organic food. I buy a lot of local, small farm, organically raised stuff myself.
Read More »Low-Carb Grocery Shopping
Folks often complain that while their low carb diet has led to weight loss and improved health, their budget is taking a beating. It's true that meat and vegetables are more expensive than pasta and rice. I've long countered that there's nothing cheap about "food" that makes you fat, tired, hungry, sick, and cranky, and that good food is an investment you can't afford not to make. I will forever stand by that argument.
Read More »Low-Carb, Keto, Gluten-Free Pizza Chicken Recipe
Low-Carb, Keto, Gluten-Free Pizza Chicken Recipe
Read More »When Trouble Strikes, Attend to the Physical
A story I've heard quite often is this: Someone will start out on their low carb diet, paying attention to their nutrition, feeling better physically and mentally. Then something awful will happen - a death in the family, a job loss, a divorce, something like that. The dieter will be derailed. They will start eating chocolate and pasta and anything else they can get their hands on in the vain hope that it will somehow make them feel better. The exercise program will go out the window. And pretty soon, in addition to the pain caused by the initial, awful incident, they'll be dealing with the unpleasant side effects of bad nutrition and physical stagnation.
Read More »Cold Cuts on a Low-Carb Diet – Keto Lunch Options & More
I prefer Low-Carb & Keto cold cuts cut from a chunk of meat in identifiable form: Slices of real turkey breast, or genuine ham, or true roast beef, rather than stuff that's been ground up and pressed together in blocks.
Read More »Isn’t It Important to Eat a Balanced Diet?
Isn't It Important to Eat a Balanced Diet?. Well, maybe. The big question is, "What the heck is a 'balanced diet'?" The phrase doesn't seem to have any concrete meaning.
Read More »Ask Dana Carpender – Rhubarb, Soy, and What’s Next for Dana
I'm not a huge fan of soy. I certainly do not believe it is the Wonder Health Food Of All Existence it has been made out to be.
Read More »