Extended induction...any good cookbooks?

[Julie in CA]

I'm pretty sure I need extended induction, since I have almost 100 lbs. to lose. I know I could find lots of good recipes and meal ideas here, and on other websites, but I'd really like to find a cookbook with recipes appropriate for induction. In browsing at Amazon, I saw lots of books that say the recipes are all under 10 carbs, etc, but *10 carbs!!*? That would be half my carbs for the day, in just one serving for one meal? I'd like to find a book that would offer family-friendly meal ideas for induction. We won't be eating any stir-fried squid, or artichoke-caper tapenade, etc. It needs to be real family food!

I welcome any book suggestions.
Thanks,
Julie

[Elizellen]

To be honest I don't think there are any published cookbooks with very low carb counts.

Maybe if you look on Linda's Low Carb Recipes website Linda's Low Carb Menus & Recipes - Recipes
you can copy and save the recipes for induction you like and print them out to compile your own looseleaf folder.
She has marked the recipes suitable for induction with an asterix (*)

[imagood1]

just make sure you use Induction Recipes to begin with.
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/menus.html (Linda’s)
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[liv]

There are no really good induction style cook books out there. I agree. You are better of using the internet as a resource here. Or adopting your favourite recipes to be low carb. It is not very hard. The Joy of Cooking is a great book.

My favourite low carb cook books are
Karen Barnaby The low carb gourmet
Dana Carpender 500 low carb recipes (check it out at Google book)
Hellers' The Carbohydrate Addict's No-Cravings Cookbook
Eades The Low Carb Comfort Food Cookbook (check it out at Google book)

[sporty]

Linda's website is teh best for induction recipes. If it has an * by it then it is induction friendly. And they are soooooooooo yummy!!

[mizski]

As mentioned, there are no Induction cookbooks...even the Atkins recipes from his books need to be scrutinized for allowable ingredients.

The best way I've found is to print out the food lists (What foods can be eaten on Induction?) and go through recipes in your cookbooks. I've found the older cookbooks to have recipes more easily adaptable than the newer ones with the low-fat influence. Either eliminate ingredients not allowed or make an allowable substitute: Splenda for sugar/honey, diced yellow bell pepper or cousa squash and diced orange bell pepper are good visual subs for corn and carrots, etc. Check Linda's Low Carb site for good cauliflower and other faux starch recipes.

When I first started low carbing a while ago and had to cook "normal" meals for the family, I found Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way to be a useful book. Even now most of the recipes can be easily adapted to Atkins (a lot of Induction and the rest, OWL) and each recipe gives you what to add for the carb-eating family members.

Before long you will be able to easily look at a recipe and re-make it Atkins friendly.

p.s. We all know what recipes will never be Atkins friendly (or any other diet plan for that matter). Don't go there...

[Julie in CA]

Originally Posted by mizski

As mentioned, there are no Induction cookbooks...even the Atkins recipes from his books need to be scrutinized for allowable ingredients.

The best way I've found is to print out the food lists (What foods can be eaten on Induction?) and go through recipes in your cookbooks. I've found the older cookbooks to have recipes more easily adaptable than the newer ones with the low-fat influence. Either eliminate ingredients not allowed or make an allowable substitute: Splenda for sugar/honey, diced yellow bell pepper or cousa squash and diced orange bell pepper are good visual subs for corn and carrots, etc. Check Linda's Low Carb site for good cauliflower and other faux starch recipes.

When I first started low carbing a while ago and had to cook "normal" meals for the family, I found Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way to be a useful book. Even now most of the recipes can be easily adapted to Atkins (a lot of Induction and the rest, OWL) and each recipe gives you what to add for the carb-eating family members.

Before long you will be able to easily look at a recipe and re-make it Atkins friendly.

p.s. We all know what recipes will never be Atkins friendly (or any other diet plan for that matter). Don't go there...

Thank you for responding. That's exactly my situation. I'm on Induction, and probably will be for a while, and I need to figure out how to make this work with my family's needs. One potential problem is that the family food dynamic is complicated. Several of my kids are overweight, but they have their dad's sweet tooth, and I can't really see them going low-carb. My husband believes that sweets are fine "in moderation", so for the kids I've just been trying to control the sweets a little, watch the fat, and encourage them to watch portion sizes. Any other approach would start World War 3 in our house, and I'm just not willing to sacrifice our happy home life in order to (attempt to) make people skinny!

With that said though, the low-carb thing seems to be the right thing for me, I just need to try and adapt that for my family. So...dinners can't have very many carbs, but also need to be fairly lean in order to meet the needs of the rest of the family. I have no idea how to incorporate everyone's needs here...but I'm trying!

Thanks again,
Julie

[tasteslikechicken]

I have the Heller’s The carbohydrate addict’s no cravings cookbook and just bought George Foreman’s Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook – to learn how to use the grill because I've been either burning or not cooking my burgers well enough LOL It has some really yummy recipes: Dijon grilled chicken, zesty marinated zucchini, mushroom tenderloin steaks, quick and easy halibut fillets, scallops en brochette…

[Julie in CA]

Originally Posted by tasteslikechicken

I have the Heller’s The carbohydrate addict’s no cravings cookbook and just bought George Foreman’s Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook – to learn how to use the grill because I've been either burning or not cooking my burgers well enough LOL It has some really yummy recipes: Dijon grilled chicken, zesty marinated zucchini, mushroom tenderloin steaks, quick and easy halibut fillets, scallops en brochette…

Cool! I'll have to look up the George Foreman cookbook--I have a GF griller.
Thank you.

[atkinsgal08]

>>I don't think there are any published cookbooks with very low carb counts.>>

There any number of Atkins cookbooks.

Amazon.com: atkins cookbook

There's also cookbooks by Dana Carpender.

I think that you need to have low carb cookbooks that will serve you for all the phases.

Also, be careful about buying "low carb" cookbooks that aren't written by somebody doing low carb ... some of those low carb cookbooks use sugar and flour.