I'm moving in to pre-maintenance and want to start experiencing with recipies. Unfortunately we have no bookstores in our town, so I will have to probably order over the internet.

My concern is: buying a book without flipping thru it

Here's what I want: I want a cook book with simple, everyday recipies, not recipies with ingredients I don't have or never heard of. I like to cook good food, but not food to feed the Queen.

I want the recipies to list serving size and calories and carb content.

I've found several recipies on line through atkins and other forums and I just don't care for them or they have 30 ingredients.

Anyone has cookbooks with what I'm looking for.

My favorite LC book is 500 Low-Carb Recipes. It doesn't have the calorie count, but it does give carb and fiber counts. For calories and what not I use fitday to figure the recipe then stick it in custom foods. One of the resons I like it so much is she doesn't use a ton of fancy ingredients like many other books I've found do, and it is also huge with only a reasonable dessert section, while most others focus on desserts only. I have about 6-7 LC cookbooks, and her's is the only one that gets used a lot.

Also do online searches. I use this forum's recipe section as well as www.lowcarbluxury.com

http://low-carb-cookbooks.com/sample_recipes.php

check this out...

I was going to buy this book ...just haven't yet... what made me even consider it was how easy and good the recipes looked from the sample recipe site....

maybe this will help you...

Congrats on moving to the next step

Honestly, I have about a dozen low carb cook books that make better kindling than recipes. Finding recipes online has been a godsend for me. They usually come from everyday people with simple tastes. Try doing a search in Yahoo for low carb recipes. Most of them are delicious, easy to make and suited to the tastes of the "commoners". LOL.

~Angi~

My Atkins cookbook was sealed in a bundle with a carb-counter when I bought it, and I found out why... barely any "real" recipes... out of the whole book, I use about 6 or so.

I have much better luck in the recipe forum, or on lowcarbluxury.com

I also have "500 low carb recipes" and ordered it from barnes and noble. Go to their website and type in low carb cook books.....