At last, a vegetarian alternative to the Zone and South Beach Diets. Here are tasty, easy, nutritious recipes for anyone who wants to lose weight-vegetarian or otherwise. Includes a listing of protein, fat, carbohydrate, and calorie content, and recommended brand-name meat alternatives that can be found in most supermarkets.
About the Author
Margo De Mello is director of the largest rabbit rescue and education organization in the world. Her previous books are Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community and Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Beast.
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Tags: Carb, Vegetarian
November 4th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
I was excited to order this being vegan, but I was so disappointed upon receiving it, to discover that almost every recipe called for a processed meat substitute like deli slices, sausages, meat sub crumbles etc, or tofu.
Even when a dish has a solid complete protein in it , like beans, the author still adds tofu. Even the hummus had tofu in it….totally unneccesary.
To use this you will be investing heavily in Morningstar and Boca type products and eating a lot of soy.
I dont want to pretend I’m eating meat with each meal. My omnivore partner doesnt like fake meats either, so theres not much that suited our tastes for natural low carb natural wholesome vegetarian dishes.
There’s not even a recipe for homemade seitan which is a wonderful low carb veggie staple.
There’s tofu in just about every dessert – bleurgh!
Its a relatively thin book with no pictures besides the front cover which features fake meats predominately – should have looked at the picture on Amazon before I ordered.
I have done vegan low carb for a while and KNOW there’s better recipes than this to be made.
I ordered at the same time the wonderful Veganomicon, so I think I’ll be subbing out the high carb flours for low carb & getting far more use from that book instead.
Sorry! I really wanted to like this but honestly I wish I’d got a different veggie low carb book.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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. That’s 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! There’s 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 won’t 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 it’s 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.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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 author’s main point is rather than eating hard core low-carb diet it’s better to relax diet’s requirements a bit and stay on the diet for ever…Hope we can make it this time!