300 Low-Carb Slow Cooker Recipes: Healthy Dinners that are Ready When You Are

Trying to eat healthier and the few recipes I’ve did from here were awesome. I have picky kid adults and even they are it and went back for more.

Well written, a lot of information on the subject, understandable, not a lot of fluff

We eat with our eyes first -- so I was really disappointed to find that this book, nor its predecessor, "200 Low Carb Slow Cooker Recipes", has absolutely no photography of the meals within it. It made it difficult to envision the final result. I was really excited to receive these books -- I wanted to cook my way through them and blog my results. But I couldn't get past the initial flip-through.The print and the paper are low-grade and the layout heavy on text -- I assume to cram 300 recipes into one book. It seems cheap in production value and felt dated, like a cookbook from the 70's. There was some cheesy clip art of vegetables and crock pots when a recipe was particularly short, but overall, the book, graphically, did nothing to make me want to cook the recipes within.The organization was odd. I found a preface, the pantry list and then WHAM! Chapter One. The layout and design of the book doesn't make it easy to delineate between chapters, either. I found no table of contents, despite looking thrice. Could my book have been missing it? It seems the only way to look up what you need is to go through the index -- but what if you don't know what you're looking for? What chapter should I look in if there's no TOC?I'd rather have had less recipes overall and better recipes in general. Most of them seemed the same, just swap out the protein, swap out the spices. Put in your veggies, put in your liquid. Put in your meat and spices. Cook for 6-8 hours. Eat. Change the spices if you want mexican, thai or indian... it's pretty common sense stuff. Between the 2 books -- 500 variations on the almost the same thing.The copy that accompanied each recipe was a bit lackluster -- conversational, but exceedingly brief in some spots and not very descriptive. Things like "I got this from a reader" or "this used to be in one of my other cookbooks". Not very engaging.The low-carb cooking in these books also require you have things like Guar and Xantham in your pantry -- which is maybe a staple for low-carb cooking. I'm glad she does provide a pantry list of things you should keep on hand for cooking low carb, but those things aren't really my bag.I give it two stars for effort (as clearly 300 recipes is not a small task) and the pantry list, but there are other slow cooker books that are better. Maybe not for low-carbers, but for slow cookers -- definitely. I like "Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes" (all of them). They have great images and realistic recipes.A lot of people seem to really, really love this author -- and that's cool. If you like a lot of recipes and don't care about that other stuff, then this is probably a great book. But if you like to "read" cookbooks and prefer cookbooks that speak to your eyes and tantalize you with their words, keep looking. I've decided to return them.

I love Dana's cookbooks. I am a diehard low carb lifestyle person. I went Atkins in 2002, lost 83 pounds and have managed to keep most of it off. I work full time and need to make easy stuff and also have good leftovers that are easy to warm up. Dana is also a low carber and provides just what I wanted. I use the crock pot/slow cooker all the time and these work great. Of course Winter is now in season so even more reason to cook these low carb versions of the most popular comfort foods.Buy it, use it, cook it and enjoy while keeping your low carb weight.

This keto cookbook is a go-to for inspiration. So far, every recipe I’ve tried has been a winner.

Just made my first recipe -- Chicken Paprikash -- from the new book, and it is plate-licking wonderful. A conservative estimate would be that over 45 years of cooking, I've made Chicken Paprikash at least 180 times from many, many different recipes. This was absolutely the best. If the rest of the book is this good, we'll be in hog heaven for a good long time.P.S. the only tinkering I did with the recipe was to degrease and reduce the sauce which forms in the crock pot before adding the sour cream, a maneuver suggested elsewhere in the book.

Lots of very interesting recipes that I want to try. Unfortunately there are no pictures. I really like to see a visual presentation of food dishes. But there is plenty of variety and it is broken down nicely in chapters for different types of meat, fish, poultry, soups, desserts, eggs, snacks, sides, etc.

Another useful cookbook from Dana and not just for low-carbers. A wide variety of dishes from many cuisines along with good tips for getting great results from your crockpot and from low-carb ingredients. Some dishes are a little blander than we like but that can be fixed pretty easily. I like this book better than most other crockpot cookbooks I have read or owned. Most dishes would appeal to carb eaters if served with rice or pasta. A good source of recipes for gluten free eaters.

This arrived the day after another slow cooker recipe book "The Slow Cooker Bible" which is off to the charity shop asap - see my review.This one is also American and I was about to throw this into the charity pile too, after seeing cups of this and cups of that, when I spotted its saving grace - measurements in brackets in either mls, grms and/or ounces. Thank heaven for some sense. So, having decided it would be of some use, I went through it with a fine tooth comb. Generally if even a nitpicker like me can find at least 2 dozen recipes to like I am sure you will too. Lots of choice, each section given loads of ideas to try and apart from just a few American things in the recipe list which I either don't recognize or wouldn't use, I believe this book beats some of the British ones I have in my collection.One thing I did learn from the book mentioned above which is destined for the charity shop - don't add spices like chilli and seasonings like herbs and bouquet garni until the last hour. The long, slow cooking tends to wipe out flavours and makes the meal bland and chilli becomes bitter. Good advice - as I had in fact noticed this in the past and wondered what was happening.Being someone who wants to keep to a low carb plan, the recipes in this book give the amount of carbs per portion and knowing where the carbs are coming from (carrots, tomatoes etc) I will be able to use different veg to keep the carbs even lower. So with this in mind, I have no doubt that the low carb slow cookbook will be well used this autumn/winter. I think I can safely say, buy with confidence there is something here for everyone.

Dana Carpender writes the best, most straightforward low carb books around. Great for Atkins lifestylers. Just remember that the author is American,and the recipes are all the more interesting for it.

I like Carpender and have quite a few of her books. Slow cooking is a big help when at work.

Useful interesting book, but as usual half the ingredients are not available in the UK

I am pleased to say I now own five of Dana Carpender's cookbooks. These are mygo-to-books for any meal. I appreciate her comments for each recipe and I must say every recipe I've made has turned out perfectly with rave reviews from my family and friends! I pre-ordered her Paleo Cookbook and I am waiting eagerly for its' release.