Low Carb Vegetarian

What I appreciated most about this book was the food suggestions are tasty. I stay away from most health food restaurants because the food is too bland, but all the products (veggie hot dogs, burgers, bacon, chicken and tuna substitutes, etc. made from textured soy) recommended in this book and most of the recipes are really interesting in taste, texture, and variety.

A nice variety of very delicious meals. This has become my favorite cookbook out of a dozen or so veg cookbooks I own. I would recommend it to anyone even if they could care less about being veg or low carb. I hope Margo is working on the next one.

Compiled by culinary expert Margo DeMello, Low-Carb Vegetarian is a collection of kitchen friendly, meatless and dairy free, nutritious and weight-control enhancing dishes that are as fun to make as they are easy to prepare and scrumptiously delicious to consume. Enhanced with timely information on low-carb diets in general, and their adaptation to the vegetarian palate and life-style, the recipes range from Spicy Black Bean Soup. Thai Cucumber Salad. Saag Tofu with Cauliflower Couscous. and Shish Kabob with South Asian Marinade. to Riceless Sushi. Mock Lunchmeat Rollups. Roasted Garlic, Onion, and Red Pepper Hummus. and Coconut Strawberry Pudding. Low-Carb Vegetarian is a unique and welcome addition to a vegetarian cookbook collection.

Ive only made a few of the recipes, but that is a few more successful attempts at low-carb vegetarian fare than Ive had with any other cookbook. I think this is going to be a very stained and battered book before long, just what a good cookbook should be. Thank you to the author for coming up with exciting and fairly simple recipes for everyone who wants to live low-carb AND veggie.

My husband and I just love this book. We are trying to stay on low-carb diet but we always fail, because once we eat toufu and vegetable for months, we just have enough(...) of it and then we easily return to our old bad habits... The authors main point is rather than eating hard core low-carb diet its better to relax diets requirements a bit and stay on the diet for ever...Hope we can make it this time.

Buyer beware. Many of the recipes in this book are not what most dieters would consider low carb. About half weigh in with carb counts of 30-60 g. per serving. Thats more than many low-carb dieters eat in a whole day.

The author explains that she considers a diet of 130-150 g. of carbs per day low-carb. This is the type of vegetarian diet that made many of us fat in the first place. Theres a reason that most of the popular diet plans call for daily net carb consumption of only 20-50 grams. Clinical experience has shown that higher carb counts simply wont do the job for people who have a substantial amount of weight to lose.

This might be a useful book for people on a maintenance plan, who want to take off 10 lbs., or who just want to cut out white food (processed sugar and flour) from their diet. The recipes do look tasty. But its not going to be very useful for the many people who are looking to lose significant amounts of weight and need to restrict their carbs to lower levels to do so.

At last, a low-carb diet for the rest of us (those who dont think that 10 ounces of steak is a heavenly dinner, that is). DeMello has produced a treasure trove of recipes here--ones that will appeal to people who a) dont eat meat for philosophical or health reasons. and b) are just trying to reduce the amount of animal products in their diets in general. By providing
yummy, easy-to-prepare recipes, this book takes the work out of trying to lose weight on a vegetarian (or semi-vegetarian) diet. The info on the whys and wherefores of various lo-carb diets is also very helpful.

The cook book is a bit of a disappointment - its completely vegan which is not what I am. Some recipes Ive tried, but was looking forward to some new ideas involving eggs, cheese or even milk.

Until I acquired the Low-Carb Vegetarian Cookbook, I had no luck at all with vegetarian cookbooks and Low-Carb diets. The food combinations were often odd, the prep work was time-consuming, and worst of all, the finished products just didnt taste all that good. Id spend hours kneading and chopping, only to have my husband turn up his nose when dinner was served. But wow, this cookbook is different. The recipes are interesting and appealing like Pasta Puttanesa, Twenty-Minute Chili and my favorite, Dixies Butternut Squash Soup to name a few. There are some unusual ethnic entries for those with adventurous palates, but plenty of delicious, easy-to-follow recipes for those with more standard American tastes. Theres also some helpful info on easing into the vegetarian lifestyle and comparing some of the more popular Low-Carb diets rendered in light, witty prose (thats another thing about most other vegetarian cookbooks...theyre so deadly dull and serious). Best of all, the results are awesome. Im rooting for a sequel.