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Eat It Again! How Repetition Rewires Your Taste – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 27

Dana Carpender 1,982

Every taste is an acquired taste. If you’ve just recently gone low-carb, say as a New Year’s resolution, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer difference from your old diet. I encourage you to do so rather than using low-carb breads and such to make your low-carb diet resemble your old diet. Those can be useful. Bridge foods helping you to find a new normal, but not only are they, yes, processed foods often overpriced and sometimes deceptively labeled.
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Carbs Count, But How? Understanding Net Carbs vs. Total Carbs – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 28

Dana Carpender 2,031
If your nutritional program is so good, why do you still take drugs? – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 26

Dana Carpender 1,895
Isn’t It Important to Eat a Balanced Diet? – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 25

Dana Carpender 1,805
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 24

Dana Carpender 2,269
ENCORE: Refusing Holiday Food and Staying Low-Carb – CarbSmart Podcast Episode 23

Dana Carpender 2,002

Low-Carb Spring

Top 10 Tips to Quickly Spring Clean Your Low-Carb Meal Plans

Susie T. Gibbs 2,821

Spring is a magical season. It feels fresh and new and like rebirth. Spring is filled with possibilities and motivation and a sense of anticipation. In Texas, spring is just a glorious three-day precursor to a miserable nine month extravaganza inside the humid oven we Texans like to lovingly call the Texas Gulf Coast. Join Susie T. Gibbs as she shares her top 10 tips for keeping your Spring meals low carb, light, and satisfying!
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Radishes with Sweet Cream Butter & Sea Salt Recipe

Susie T. Gibbs 2,204
The Couch Potato Greets Spring – Getting Active Again

Kent Altena 1,976
12 Best Low-Carb Spring Foods

Dana Carpender 2,232
Low-Carb Tequila Highballs are a Sugar-Free Summer Treat

Dana Carpender 2,742

The Latest From CarbSmart

Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps

Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Romano & Black Pepper Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Andrew DiMino 593

Romano & Black Pepper Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Romano & Black Pepper Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Baby Swiss Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Andrew DiMino 711

Baby Swiss Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Baby Swiss Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Asiago Baked Cheese Crisps by Grace Island Foods

Andrew DiMino 950

Asiago Grace Island Baked Cheese Crisps are a whole new way to think about crackers. Fresh goodness of Asiago Grace Island Cheese Chips.

Mmmmm…Bacon… The Many, Many Joys of Bacon by Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender 1,117

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.

Golden Aztec Punch (Nonalcoholic)

Andrew DiMino 1,047

A nonalcoholic recipe for Golden Aztec Punch by Di Bauer.

Are 100 Calorie Packs Good For You? By Dana Carpender

Dana Carpender 1,299

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.

Summer Chicken Stir Fry

Andrew DiMino 1,096

Summer Chicken Stir Fry recipe by Judy Bauer.

Ask Dana Carpender – Now @ CarbSmart Magazine

Andrew DiMino 1,836

Each week Dana will be writing helpful and entertaining articles about the low carb lifestyle at Carb Smart Magazine healthy eating and anything else she wants to write about.

Dana Carpender Does Politics – Food Politics That Is

Dana Carpender 669

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.