Di Bauer

Di Bauer was the editor of CarbSmart Magazine from 1999 to 2004.

Cookbook Review – 500 Low-Carb Recipes By Dana Carpender

500 Low Carb Recipes is a fitting sequel to How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet And Lost Forty Pounds! Like Dana's first book, 500 Low Carb Recipes is exhaustively researched and answers virtually every question about low carbohydrate cooking that a new low carber could think to ask.

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Low-Carb Lesson #35: Italian Marinated Flank Steak

Tonight's meal, featuring Italian Marinated Flank Steak, is a simple meal. It goes together quickly with a minimum amount of fuss, and leftover steak is wonderful to munch on for breakfast or lunch, and it is also a terrific addition to a simple salad to turn it into a main dish meal.

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Lesson #34: Stick To Your Ribs Low Carb Chili Recipe

Low-Carb Gluten-Free Stick To Your Ribs Chili

Traditionally, I have always served chili, cornbread, and a simple salad on Christmas Eve. I make the chili ahead of time so that all I have to do is reheat it in those last frantic hours of pre-Christmas activity. I make the cornbread right before the meal, and just whap some lettuce into bowls for the salad.

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How to Survive a Holiday Meal

It's less than two weeks until Thanksgiving, and by now some of the more apprehensive low carbers among us and in full blown panic mode. "How will I make it through the holidays without cheating?" we wail. "How can I give up my mother's famous stuffing, or her pumpkin pie, or her mashed potatoes? She'll hate me! Oh, woe is me! I'm doomed!" And we pause to give ourselves time to gnash our teeth and rend our garments.

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CarbSmart Lesson #30: Complete Low Carb Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner

CarbSmart Lesson #30: Complete Low Carb Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner

CarbSmart Complete Low Carb Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes includes Zesty Roast Turkey, Molded Gazpacho Salad, Cranberry Treat, Company Cauliflower Casserole, Decadent Spinach Casserole, Holiday Spaghetti Squash Casserole, Di's Chocolate Mocha No-Bake Cheesecake.

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Lesson #29: A Low Carb Mideast Feast

Next week the infamous "Mideast Feast" is scheduled for the 6th graders of Rapid Run Middle School. They're studying the Mideast, you see, and the teachers and parents provide the feast as an extension of their lessons. I remember my son participating in this when he was in the 6th grade; now it's my daughter's turn.

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Lesson #28: Pork Roast And Sauerkraut

I was looking back through previous Low Carb Cooking 101 lessons, and I was amazed that I had only shared one pork recipe with you. Autumn and winter aren't the only times I serve pork, for crying out loud. We have pork for dinner at least once every ten days or so, usually pork roast, pork chops, or pork steaks. But I really do like pork most in the fall and winter.

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Dealing with Halloween Candy as a Low Carber

Low-Carb Halloween Costumes

Dealing with Halloween Candy as a Low Carber. These dime-store ghouls won't be exorcised with pork chops or strips of flank steak. They turn up their runny little noses at deviled eggs, glower at the thought of tasty hot dogs and broccoli, and gag at the thought of chicken breasts and spinach. THEY WANT CANDY!!! And there, is a nut shell - well, in a candy wrapper - is what scares ME at Halloween.

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