Serve Low-Carb Italian Meatballs as a side dish or over a bed of your favorite veggies and call it a meal. We love sautéed spinach, zoodles, cabboodles (cabbage noodles), and green beans. Simply give these veggies a brief sauté in garlic and olive oil and serve the meatballs and sauce over them with a spoon or two of Parmesan! Yummy!

Low-Carb Swedish Meatballs in Brown Sauce are great meatballs to package and freeze for many different brown-gravy applications. Make, bake, portion, package and freeze on a tray. After frozen, place in a zip-top bag in the freezer and use as many as needed for individual servings. Way cheaper than store-bought meatballs plus you know what goes into them! Score!

This hearty Low-Carb Gluten-Free Italian Chicken Vegetable soup fills you up with every bowl! Even the kids will love it. Recipe: $9.92.

I recently visited my dad and he asked me to make a low carb/ Paleo chicken pot pie. This pie was a big hit with my family and it is perfect for fall. It is a great substitute for the high carb version most people grew up with and it won’t break your carb budget. This recipe is adapted from my Mediterranean Paleo Cooking: Over 150 Fresh Coastal Recipes for a Relaxed, Gluten-Free Lifestyle that I wrote with my husband who is a professional chef.

Low-Carb Quick Faux Pho tastes like a bowl of freshness, especially in winter during cold-flu season. The optional toppings are partly what elevates this hearty bowl of comfort.

Rich Low-Carb chicken bone broth soup forms the base for many soup recipes, or enjoy as a rich cup all by itself. When you have great bone broth, it's very easy to make delicious soups on the fly. It can be as easy as chopping up a bit of veg, adding leftover meats and poof, twenty minutes later...soup! Or it can be an involved slow-cook process, fortifying the soup with bone broth as the cooking liquid. Perfect for intermittent fasts and ketogenic days.

Low Carb Comfort Food Scramble For Two is a great Low-Carb Gluten-Free breakfast for dinner recipe. Eggs for dinner are particularly good when you're crunched for time or for when the food budget for the week is shot.

Stuffed cabbage is a perennial favorite, but it's time-consuming and labor intensive. Here's a recipe that gives you all the flavor of stuffed cabbage at breakneck speed. Do use very lean ground beef for this recipe–it saves you the time needed to drain off the grease.

What The Heck Are Coconut Aminos & Why Use It in Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Cooking? Dana Carpender knew that amino acids are the building blocks of protein, but she thought of coconuts as being largely fat and fiber, so what's this all about?

The number one rule of great steak is “Start with great meat.” What defines great meat? Is it grass‑fed, is it local, is it natural, is it grain finished? Yes. But, let your pocket‑book and monthly food budget answer that question. And even disregarding the 3 USDA meat grades: prime (prime‑aged), choice, and select, I maintain great meat (aka great steak) is available across all grades and in all budgets.