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George lost weight with Stella Style: "eating fresh foods, using low-carb ingredients to reinvent your old favorites, developing better eating habits, and, most of all -- eating food you love!" And he wasn't the only one: The entire Stella family shed more than 560 pounds.
In Livin' Low Carb, George has brought together more than 125 of the Stella family's favorite recipes. For breakfast there are Blueberry Pancakes or George's Gorgeous Macadamia Banana Muffins. For lunch or dinner try Low-Carb Pizza, Tequila Chicken Quesadillas, Spaghetti Squash Alfredo, Lasagna, Anaheim Shrimp Scampi, and Southern Fried Chicken. And don't forget soups, salads, and vegetables! You'll find recipes here for Key West Caesar Salad, Turkey Vegetable Soup, and Garlic Mock Mashed Potatoes. If it's sweets you crave, try Chocolate Pecan Brownies or New York Ricotta Cheesecake. There are also party recipes (Nutty Muddy Trail Mix, Teriyaki Sesame Tuna Skewers), tasty drink concoctions (Strawberry Milkshakes, Lemon-Lime Slushees), and a wide array of condiments and dressings (including Quick and Easy Ketchup and Thousand Island Dressing).
These recipes feature easy-to-find, low-carb ingredients that will fit any budget. More than just a cookbook, Livin' Low Carb is a practical guide to a sustainable low-carb lifestyle.
Amazon.com Review
George Stella's Livin' Low Carb has little in common with diet books: In fact, it's got more in common with a cookbook you might have bought for yourself when you first moved out on your own. The style is casual and approachable, with no tense lists of diet-related details or overly-complex recipes, and cooking techniques require little more than a working stove and a frying pan.
George Stella (along with pastry chef-wife Rachel) have developed a wide range of recipes designed to compliment Atkins and other low-carb diet regimens. Rather than relying on packaged convenience foods that meet these dietary standards, they focus on home-cooked meals that satisfy the demands of low carb life without tasting like they were baked up in a factory. Flavors include Chinese (Szechuan stir-fry), Italian-American (clams casino), Southern (fried chicken), and American sweets (chocolate chip muffins and no-bake Key lime cheesecake). Snacks, salads, entrees, and desserts all see equal amounts of attention.
There's a heavy reliance on the sugar substitute Splenda, but in general this is real food for daily life. The condiment chapter contains homemade versions of ketchup, mustard sauce, barbecue sauce and even Thousand Island dressing, and makes a simple place to get started even if the only kitchen appliance you're comfortable with is a can opener. Each recipe clearly notes "special equipment" (like 8-inch square pans) as well as the yield, net carbs per serving, and separate times needed for prepping and cooking.
Because of the sugar substitute and number of recipes that alter classics in ways that compromise traditional textures in favor of lowering carbs (such as noodle-free lasagna), the book is most likely to be used by dieters, rather than all home cooks. Still, if you're looking for easy ways to tinker with your food intake that doesn't involve packaged mixes from the diet industry, Stella offers plenty of tasty options. --Jill Lightner
Customer Reviews
Low carb lifestyle for me! (2010-02-14)
I bought this book on Friday, it is now Sunday night and I have spent the weekend trying out recipes. Muffins, snacks, pizza, mock potato salad. All simply sensational.
I loved the introduction written by George, I found it very motivational and am now a firm believer in low carb living.
The recipes in the book are easy to follow, the ingredients ar easy to obtain (aside from spaghetti squash which is nowhere to be seen in Australia!) and the results are tasty, healthy food. My one extremely small criticism is that it's only in imperial measure. I can cope with cups and spoonfuls, but having to convert oven temps all the time does my head in. If you do another edition, could you please include metric measures as well?
The last word can be had by my slender, doesn't-need-to-diet 16yo daughter (she always has to have the last word anyway), who after eating low carb pizza and mock potato salad for dinner tonight said "Mum, this is YUM! Can you please pack the leftovers for my school lunch tomorrow?"
Great find (2010-01-30)
My husband is gluten intolerant and likes to eat low carb. This cookbook is great. I use sugar instead of splenda when I am cooking for the family (just 1/2 the amount), and the recipes still turn out great. It is definitely a keeper.
Inspiring and so Easy! (2010-01-12)
George Stella's story of he and his family and their ongoing battle with weight is one many of us can relate too. Whether 20 pounds or 300 pounds to lose, George inspires with his honest history of yo-yo dieting and health problems due to obesity. The recipes in this book are healthy and easy to prepare. The dishes are also tasty and simple to shop for. Common sense prevails and has made this a lifestyle I choose to live.
If you are commited to lo carb buy this (2010-01-08)
The recipes in the book are excellent. The cauliflower fried rice recipe is worth the price of the book as is the banana muffins (you can buy the extract on amazon!) I only gave it 4 stars because I own two of George's cookbooks and both are rather skimpy in number and variety of recipes. I have to suspect that that is a marketing ploy to sell more books and I resent it. I'd rather pay more and have it all in one place. That said, if you do the work and make your meals from these recipes you will feel like you are totally pigging out and the weight will come off healthfully and painlessly.
Finally, renewed hope for weight loss! (2009-11-13)
I did Adkins back in 2002 and was able to loose 24 pounds so I knew low carb worked for me. I've tried several other ways to diet and low carb is best for me but I don't think I did low carb correctly back then. I also could not fathom living without some baked goods that would work with this diet. I happened to see George Stella on TV promoting his latest book and was curious and after checking out his cookbooks on Amazon and the rave reviews I was even more curious and ordered his very first cookbook. I am such a yo-yo dieter and want to find a different way to eat for the rest of my life and end all that up/down dieting. Last year I even tried one of those TV advertised diets where you get a different box of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks each month and while I did loose 15 pounds (took 3 months) I was not so crazy about the food. Plus it didn't really teach me how to cook in a way that would support my weightloss.
This is why I love George Stella's cookbooks. The ingredients are easy to find and the meals a pleasure to prepare and eat. I'm in the midst of doing an induction for another week (I know Stella does not promote that but I wanted to give myself a boost to start out with.) Since Sunday I have lost 5 pounds and that is the honest truth. And yes I am exercising so I know that also helps. I'm just so happy I found a way to eat again that won't constantly leave me craving more food. I just ordered his 2nd cookbook "Eating Stella Style" and can't wait to get it. I will eventually buy the new one as well after trying more recipes in his first and then also in his 2nd book as soon as I get it. Thanks George Stella and also the rest of the family!
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