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This ground meat mixture forms the basis for many dishes and can be cooked in bulk and packaged in 1/2 cup or 1 cup units for easy transformation on the fly.

Often, the key to successful weight loss doesn’t begin with our bellies or end with our brains. For many, the battle of the bulge actually begins and ends with our budget. How do you cook budget-friendly low carb meals on a shoestring? Let's stretch those budgets and see just how much we can squeeze out of every penny. In her new column, Budget Low Carb Cooking, Susie T. Gibbs gives us affordable options for your low carb lifestyle.

Every September 19th turns normally sane people, such as myself, (stop laughing.... I'm sorta sane) into people with eye patches, peglegs, and an odd sort of speech. This year is extra special because you can enjoy these Low Carb Recipes on the 10th anniversary of Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Dana's Bone Broth Recipe. Naked, picked clean of meat, bones are still tremendously nutritious and remarkably flavorful. How? You simmer them for broth.

Isn't Nutritional Ketosis Just Another Way Of Saying Atkins? Nutritional Ketosis is the idea of putting your body in a keto-adapted or fat-adapted state through the use of a well-formulated high-fat, adequate (moderate) protein, low-carb diet. Until you get the macronutrient mix that is right for YOU, the health benefits of nutritional ketosis will continue to elude you. This article explains the concept and how adapting it has put him back on the road of low carb success.

Caitlin Weeks, Grass Fed Girl, shows us that there are plenty of crunchy snack foods you can add to a low carb or paleo diet to satisfy your need for snap and taste. Plus they'll help you stay on your program.

When people begin to learn about the Paleo diet, they are usually excited to hear they can add in fruits and a few starches. In my case, I learned that I could eat a few peaches without negative side effects.   However, I was also running upwards of 30 miles per week and training for marathons. Most of us are not expending that much energy on a daily basis.  To lose weight, we need to be low carb, even if we are eating "real food".

September 16th is El Grito de la Independencia: Mexican Independence Day. Today we will celebrate Low-Carb Mexican Independence Day with some great low-carb recipes. Gather your friends and family and celebrate El Grito de la Independencia.

Believe it or not, you can cultivate a state of mind where low carbing becomes much, much, easier. In her first article for CarbSmart, Laura Dolson, Low Carb Diets Guide for About.com presents four strategies to get you to this state of mind.

Positive Thinking Day got me thinking about keeping a positive attitude on your low carb diet. Staying positive & focused on low carb no matter what.

Dana Carpender summarizes her trip to the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 at Harvard. Lessons & inspiration for the low carb & paleo communities.

The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking: 80 Low-Carb Recipes that Offer Solutions for Celiac Disease, Diabetes, and Weight Loss. A recipe book that uses nut flours & stevia/splenda sweeteners from legendary bread maker and James Beard Award-winning author Peter Reinhart.

For those people adopting Nutritional Ketosis as a way to measure the success of their low carb lifestyle, testing of blood ketones is key. In this one device you are able to measure your blood glucose levels and your blood ketone levels.