Menu Planning

With foolproof strategies for controlling binges and cravings, invaluable tips on eating in restaurants, guidelines for dealing with sudden weight gain, and more than 175 delicious new recipes, "Living Low-Carb" is a godsend for the millions of American dieters now dedicated to the low-carb lifestyle.

It's Easter a very special time for celebration, family, friends and food! It's also a time to do a "double check" on counting carbs, fats and calories. No, Easter does not give you permission to stuff a whole box of those little yellow Easter chicks in your mouth! What's that got to do with Asparagus with Toasted Walnut Butter? Nothing, so let's get cookin' this special dish that is oh so easy... be ready for, "may I have this recipe?"

I don't know a whole lot about Greece except that Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization, that every photograph of Greece I have seen is absolutely beautiful, and that the Greeks were fierce resistance fighters during World War II. Oh, and I can sing the Greek alphabet to the tune of "Anchors Aweigh."

Low carbers and non-low carbers alike appreciate gifts of food, and you don't have to go to the mall to get them. For low carbers, a batch of muffins or a loaf of low carbohydrate bread are wonderful gifts. I'm sure that you have recipes for both. But if you want one gift that you can give to either low carbers or non-low carbers, check out the recipes below. They are appropriate for anyone.

Now you're a low carber and those bygone non-Low-Carb lunches of yesteryear are out of the question. You're losing weight and feeling great on your Low-Carb Lifestyle, but you're still a bit stumped over what to have for lunch. I mean, really! How much tuna salad can a person eat without sprouting gills? What in the world do you put the meat between to construct a sandwich? What could possibly replace canned soup?

I'm a beef person; my husband is a fish person. Tonight I'm satisfying MY taste buds and serving Steak Diane. Sometime over the weekend I'll fix some salmon, his all-time favorite fish, just to be evenhanded. (Don't you just hate being fair and considering everybody's tastes? As far as I'm concerned, being "nice" is highly overrated. Why do I keep on doing it?!? Because I'm a patsy, that's why.)

Ruth Glick doesn't know it yet, but her family is about to become larger. After reading her cookbook, Fabulous Lo-Carb Cuisine, trying some of the recipes, and talking to her on line, I've decided to ask her to adopt me. I want to eat like this all the time, and I'd like to enjoy her company. She's delightful.

Jennifer Eloff, author of "Splendid Low Carbing" has created a wonderful 14 page guide and menu of wonderful recipes for you to share on that special day. This free document is available in Adobe Acrobat format and can be downloaded here. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download it here.

500 Low Carb Recipes is a fitting sequel to How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet And Lost Forty Pounds! Like Dana's first book, 500 Low Carb Recipes is exhaustively researched and answers virtually every question about low carbohydrate cooking that a new low carber could think to ask.

Low-carb shopping can be hard on the budget, particularly if you are purchasing hard-to-find or specialty items. Where should you look for your groceries, and how can you be sure you're getting the best price?

One of the questions I hear most from new low carbers and would-be low carbers is, "How do I make food interesting without potatoes, rice, pasta, and so on?" That is, indeed, one of the greatest challenges to everyday low carb cooking.