Holidays & Seasons

Here at CarbSmart, we've given you lots of ideas to make your holiday low in carbs! How nice it will be to get to the New Year without all those extra pounds and roller-coaster blood sugar! But what about the big day itself? Should we throw caution to the wind in order to enjoy the day? Not necessary! You can have festive low-carb foods on Christmas. I'll take you through some of the usual treats, and talk about how to cut way down on the sugar and starch, without sacrificing the enjoyment.

With 30 chickens in her backyard, Dana Carpender can state with some authority that eggs are symbolic of spring in general and Easter in particular because that is when she notices that the hens start laying eggs again. This article includes these awesome egg-based recipes: Green Eggs and Ham, Ham, Cheddar and Broccoli Quiche, and Smoked Salmon and Asparagus Frittata.

What can you give your favorite low-carb friends and family? Paleo Books, Cookbooks and Gifts for Your Favorite Primal or Paleo Loved Ones.

For many people, their shift to a low carb diet has not only changed their health, but their cooking habits - which is to say, they've started cooking. Here are a few cooking tools that this low carber finds endlessly useful.

In honor of the season, CarbSmart's Budget Low Carb is happy to present low carb alternatives to high carb cocktails. We’ll focus on vodka this time, since it’s a fairly universal alcohol.

Low Carb Cookbooks are perfect for the sugar-and-grain averse on your list. Low Carb and Sugar Free Dieters will want some of these great gifts presented by Dana Carpender.

Judy's Candy Co. Sugar-Free Milk Chocolate Santas are a sweet, sugar-free, low-carb way to celebrate the holidays. You're Low-Carb friends and family will love getting this limited treat this year! Whether you put them in a stocking or wrap them as a gift, you'll make your favorite low-carber happy this year. Individually wrapped and tied with a red ribbon, Judy's Candy Co. Sugar-Free Milk Chocolate Santas are a perfect Low-Carb chocolate holiday gift.

Judy's wonderful sugar-free chocolate in a 4 oz. Holiday Snowman shape. Looks good, tastes great! Is sugar-free and perfect for a low-carb Christmas or holiday gift! We know you love Judy's Candy Co. Sugar-Free Caramels so we know you'll love their specialty sugar-free Christmas chocolates! Judy's makes these for a short time and we have a limited supply. This 4 oz. sugar-free snowman will make your low-carb or diabetic friends and relatives smile for the whole season.

You survived a Low Carb Thanksgiving meal but Christmas and Hanukkah is coming. Here is our list of Low Carb Christmas Meal articles to help you with your holiday planning. Also, time to plan for your Low Carb New Years Resolutions.

The holidays are a time of celebration - a month of prime opportunity to get together with family and friends and eat, drink, and be merry. So how on earth do we remain seasonally sane? How do we hold fast to our low carb principles and still have a good time? Susie T. Gibbs shows us how.

CarbSmart Magazine’s Budget Low Carb Cooking and I are pleased to bring you two recipes your family will happily devour, despite the dubious leftover turkey provenance. In fact, low carb Kentucky Hot Brown open faced sandwiches, and Hearty Curry Turkey Soup with French Green Beans, taste so fantastic we're going out on a limb and now call them Lucky Leftovers.

Cranberries, like most berries, are a low sugar fruit. A whole 12-ounce bag of fresh cranberries - that's what they sell in my grocery store, at any rate - has 167 calories, with 43 grams of carb, 14 of which are fiber. So that whole bag has 29 grams of usable carb in it. Making low carb cranberry sauce is quick and easy. Really, really quick and easy. Dana Carpender shows us how.