Does not give info on, fats, carbs, Sodium etc.to any recipes!
353376
Recipes look tasty , the pictures are good, and there is some good information on health in this book, if your new to eating healthy.
The 2 stars are for that.

That said this book does not give any info on what percentage of sodium , fat,  carbs etc. are in any of the recipes .
I found  that odd!
 My husband has a sodium problem, which we watch very carefully..  ( rather eat healthy then take drugs)
For example. On page 98 , Big bean soup, there is 8 Cups of vegetable broth. Does not say anything about Ingrid .in this.
I only buy organic, low or no sodium, but many people that are new to healthy eating do not know that I think!
Many people do not know how unhealthy too much sodium is for them, or if they even have high blood pressure  and how bad it is for your heart, kidneys etc. as you get older.
You do NOT have to be over weight to have H.B.P.

Also in many recipes, there are different page numbers to go back to for some parts to the recipes!!
A pain in the butt while your cooking . It can change everything your cooking.

I was going to buy this book. So glad I got it at the library first.
3337516
I guess we customers do not deserve to see a table of contents or index to see if there are any new recipes or ideas that are not found in all of the hundreds of other crockpot recipe books!  I'd consider buying it if the free sample showed that, but I am not into buying "a pig in a poke"!
1900816
This does not have any nutritional information for the recipes, which for a low-carb book is a glaring oversight.  There are tiny images on the recipes, but  I recognize many of the images and strongly suspect copyright infringement.  Also, this book isn't low carb  in the slightest.

Ingredients used heavily, which are not low-carb:

Frozen Bread Dough
Thick Cut Italian Bread
Sugar
Oyster Sauce
Hoisin Sauce
Breadcrumbs
Honey
Honey Mustard
Potatoes
Brown Sugar
Canned Corn
Kidney Beans
Refried Beans
All-Purpose Flour
Bananas
Corn Starch
Firm White Bread, Cubed
Spaghetti
Panko

It also uses questionable fats. Finally, it has a strong leaning towards lower fat products, which use carbs as a replacement for the satiating fat.

This is a book that sets out to make diabetics sick by presenting something within a niche in which it does not belong. Just a terrible book  the worst of its kind.

I would love to hear from the author as to why he or she considers this low-carb  on ANY level.
824151
Somewhat disappointing.  Daughter is proud to have it.  But we cannot find the recipe that fits the cover photograph.  And I am very disappointed in the ingredients... The author repeatedly promotes healthy eating but the recipes are not healthy - even for children who need more fat than adults.  And most of the fats are not healthy fats...  1/2 cup of oil, butter, lots of cheese in most recipes.  I do not remember seeing olive oil, nuts, avocados, etc.  Do not buy this expecting healthy recipes.  But most are simple and can be done with children.  There is a recipe for kale chips.
1579354
I was expecting to find the values for saturated fats and sodium for items listed, but was disappointed to see this relatively important nutritional information missing.  Instead, it wasted space by listing the net carbs (which seem to be the carbs less the fiber, which are both included).  I have been following the "Body For Life" program, rather than the "Atkin's diet plan", so I don't know what is important to you Atkins' followers.  The Body for Life program encourages well balanced, nutritional meals, and NOT simply the reduction of net carbs.  I was hoping this small, handy guide would help me plan a lower sodium, nutritionally balanced meal while I was on the road.  Without listing sodium or saturated fats, I find the listings incomplete and the guide almost useless.  It didn't meet my needs at all.
1810005
I downloaded this ebook while it was offered for free.
There is a representative photo at the top of each recipe.  Unfortunately, it is not of the actual recipe item at all.  Did the authors even prepare these recipes?
Many of the serving sizes are so vague as to make the Nutrition Info Per Serving useless.
"There are some foods that should not go in at the end, unless otherwise noted.  Dairy products, fish and shellfish and fresh herbs are some."  Be afraid.
I have read through this entire cookbook and did not find one single recipe that sounded appealing enough to try.
Slick package, no substance.  Deleting from device.
1330282
Recipes do not list sodium content, so are not helpful. Nor do they give any details about pressure release times or other instructions that are necessary to using the Instant Pot properly.
A waste of $0.99.
948435
This book is awful! It has no table of contents or index to find recipes and I don't have time to flip through 200 pages to find a recipe! Very poor editing!! No chilli recipes in the book!! It does however have some good info about the history of rice but in today's busy world who has time to read about where it came from? I just want a recipe to cook it!!
4927883
I cannot have any "fake" sugar (they give me migraines and make me nauseated)  and this book has no recipe at all for those who don't want to drink consume man made sugars. Fake sugars have been proven to be bad for your health (aspartame and saccharin being the worst but info on Sucralose is starting to filter in) so I wish there were some alternatives in this book. What happened to using low sugar shakes with agave, honey, coconut palm sugar, etc? I know they have a more carbs (you are supposed to limit carbs) but some of us healthier food folks or those who get ill consuming fake sugar want recipes to use too!  Unfortunely this book was a waste for me. If you don't care about man made sugar then this has tons of recipes.
2037556
I ordered this book after watching some videos on the Spork Sisters Website. I do like their approach to cooking, but many of these recipes are high in fat and salt. It is also inconvenient that the book does not have nutrition information for the recipes. Today I made the tempeh fish which called for 3 cups of oil for frying. I used one and it was plenty!  Also I had so much batter left, which went to waste. I am not sure the measurements were accurate. I made the chili potatoes and the sauce was so scant I could have easily doubled the recipe for the sauce, and I only used 2 cups of potatoes!  So some of the recipes could have used more fine tuning before publishing.

I am a vegan, but I struggle with my weight. Just because vegans do not eat dairy or meat does not mean that they should consume large amounts of fat in the forms of oil or buttery substitutes. When I read through these recipes I can immediately see easy ways to cut the calories and fat in most of them without cutting flavor. I am just not sure why the sisters were not more conscious of the high fat and salt in the recipes. Also, the book is too small in size. It was hard to keep open on the counter and I kept having to pick it up and look at the ingredients and directions as the print is small. In conclusion, it is a creative, vibrant vegan cookbook, just be prepared to modify recipes to lower fat, cholesterol, and sodium if you are health conscious. I much prefer Kris Carr's recipes or Trader Joe's Skinny Dish Cookbook to this one.
1110077
Seriously?  A lower fat cookbook with NO nutrition information?  In this day and age how could any respectable publisher not take this seriously?  I am appalled that a book could be published like this.  The unfortunate part is that some of the recipes look really good and worth trying but the detailed labor required to look up and calculate the nutrition is not worth the time.
499490
Just received the book today and am flipping through the pages. The recipes look yummy, but I was disappointed that there was no nutritional information listed for them. :(
729703
First of all, for a book based on a low-carb diet, there are no carb counts.  It's impossible for anyone to know how many carbs each of these recipes contain (including the author, apparently).  I don't imagine ANY of these recipes are actually low-carb.  Just in the first 5 recipes, high carb ingredients make up the bulk of the recipes: Pinto Beans, Egg Noodles, Corn Flakes, Corn Tortillas, Elbow Macaroni, Bread Crumbs, etc.  This might be a perfectly good book for someone looking to continue the Standard American Diet, but ... Low-Carb ... this is not.
3981009
I just bought 3 low carb cookbooks (on top of owning several more already) and this is BY FAR the worst one!  First of all, this is a paperback, which in itself is fine, only the pages are literally the cheap paper just like coloring books are made of.  Secondly, at least 3/4 of the recipes are absolutely RIDICULOUS!  I have lots of low carb cookbooks, and this one asks for ingredients I have never even HEARD of, much less know where to get it, or how to use it!  If you buy this cookbook, you can look forward to going to a specialty shop to find the ingredients to use, and you'll EASILY spend another $100 in just ODD ingredients!  I am NOT AT ALL happy with this book.  I went through the entire thing today, and found MAYBE a handful of recipes that are even do-able.  The rest of this is worthless.  I would LOVE to have my money back!! VERY DISAPPOINTING.
3291068
I'm so glad this was on Kindle Unlimited and I didn't pay for it. Many, many recipies have "S Cup" or "S tablespoons" in the list of ingredients. It's kind of hard to follow a recipe without proper measurements. Like I said, worthless
3304406
The book does unfortunately not differentiate between the forms the calories are delivered; fat / protein / carbs !
2500566
While the recipes are easy and the selection is great, I find the lack of nutritional information frustrating.  I usually can change ingredients to make them lower fat myself, but with every bit of nutritional information missing, it is hard to tweek the recipes and figure out the nutritional information.