What are your favourite LCHF recipe books?

I have bought quite a few, and it's annoying how many of the books claim to be low carb or Paleo and if they even give carb counts they often end up with recipes that are 24g per serving.

Also, many of the books are American which means deducting fibre from total carbs, whereas in the UK it's done for us. The whole cups thing too, rather than metric, is a pain, but some stores do sell US measurement cups (which differ from Aussie ones). The recipes often use species of fish that we just can't get here, as well.

I prefer to look for recipes online and put them on Pinterest or download Kindle editions of recipe books and copy anything I like the sound of, into a recipe notebook.

I've also been through my recipe books and cut out the low carb recipes from some, sticking them on A4 paper and putting in plastic pockets in a ringbinder. It cleared some shelf space, the paper went in the recycling and it means we've cooked more of the recipes because they are more accessible.

I have bought quite a few secondhand low carb and diabetic books recently and I'd recommend The South Beach Diet Cookbook by Dr Arthur Agatston MD and The Low Carb Cookbook by Fran McCullough. Both are American however.


Suggest having a look at Deliciously Ella by Ella Woodward because that's grain and dairy free, also Amelia Freer's book Eat. Nourish. Glow. She's done wonders with Sam Smith, Boy George and James Corden.

@ruthytoothy I think that it's likely that the publishers of low carb cookbooks want to appeal to as broad a spectrum of people as possible and believe that including a lot of very low carb recipes might put people off buying the book ?

Relatively few low carb books are published in the UK, that's why I suggested Ella Woodward and Amelia Freer because grain free and dairy free are becoming big here.

Linda Gassenheimer and Dana Carpender are prolific American low carb authors, but when we can't buy many of the fish and vegetables here, it makes their books less useful.

Pinterest.. I'm not the only low carber on Pinterest, you'll find lots !

Karen Barnaby's Low Carb Gourmet is good!

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I have a few books by Sarah Wilson. She eats heaps of vegetables, though, which might be okay for you or not. Later today I want to make one of her desserts, containing coconut oil, butter, raw cacao, coconut chips and raspberries. Surely, I will omit the rice malt syrup.