I really liked this cookbook - the low carb diet works really well for me and I'm always looking for quick snacks that I can grab and won't require a lot of work for when I'm starving. I especially liked that each recipe includes the carb count (along with other nutritional information) and that many of the recipes for earlier in the day were higher in carbs than those for later in the day. I'm very excited to make more of these recipes!

It's not that this cookbook isn't a good cookbook, I think that I just came into it with the wrong idea. I've been trying to eat more low-carb lately, and Low Carb on the Go sounded like something that might have good recipes that are cheap, not too complicated, and low carb. And I suppose I mistakenly conflate fast with affordable, which is my fault.

But that leads me to one of my two issues with this book: a lot of the recipes are impractical for someone on a budget. I want to eat lower-carb, but I'm not willing to completely overhaul my diet or my budget to do it, which this cookbook seems to assume you will do. Many recipes included at least 3-5 ingredients that I do not have handy, and could only buy at our food co-op, where the prices are quite high. And these low-carb, organic ingredients are really the backbone of a lot of the recipes, to the point where if you tried substituting cheaper ingredients, it wouldn't be the same recipe anymore. Although, to be honest, I don't think substituting would be easy; I don't even know what psyllium husks are, let alone whether you can substitute something else for them! If I had the means to do so, I would love to overhaul my pantry and start using these healthier ingredients, but on my budget it's simply not practical.

My second complaint about this book was that the ingredients in the vegetarian section were, in my opinion, not very exciting. I am a vegetarian and I love food, and I've tasted and cooked lots of exciting vegetarian foods. I usually buy vegetarian cookbooks, so I get a good amount of variety, but with cookbooks where "vegetarian" is just one section, my biggest pet peeve is when the majority of the recipes are salads. I'm sure some vegetarians love salad, but for me, salads are a small part of my diet, and I want more variety to choose from in my recipes. In this cookbook, over half (I counted) of the vegetarian section is salads, and honestly, many of them seemed fairly unoriginal to me. That isn't to say that they're bad, it was just a little disappointing.

That being said, there were things about this cookbook that I really appreciated. I like how comprehensive it was about what to substitute to make your food lower carb. For those who have the interest and the income, the table of high carb foods and low carb alternatives is a great reference. I also appreciate how the book included information about how easy each recipe would be to take to work as a meal, and how they recommend doing that. I'm not much of a meal prepper myself, but I think that aspect is very useful for people who like things prepared ahead of time, and the many pictures of food in mason jars were gorgeous.

On the whole, I'm not sure how many of these recipes I'll be personally trying, because I'm not committed enough to being as low carb as possible to go out and buy 20 new ingredients, but I bookmarked a few that look interesting, so we'll see. But I think this is not a problem with the book itself, rather that it is a very good cookbook for a specific audience, and a vegetarian in her early 20s without a lot of disposable income is not that audience.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review "Low Carb On The Go
by Sandra Stupning, Mirco Stupning" While I did enjoy how easy these recipes were to make, chia seeds were in many of the recipes and I really don't like them. Most of the recipes were just a little too healthy for me. I thought these recipes were a little too strict for low carb. These recipes are very good for on the go or active lifestyle. I highly recommend this cookbook, it just wasn't for me.

I follow a ketogenic lifestyle: low carb, moderate protein, and high fat. When I saw this low carb on the go book...I knew I had to give it a look. Some of these are higher carb counts than I would allow myself. Fruit, for example, is high in carbs, especially bananas. Overall these looked amazing. I am going to try the chocolate pudding as a treat this week. Some of these I can make small tweaks to, such as using erythritol rather than honey or other sugary substance.
Vivid images give the reader an idea of what the final product will be, also luring them in with the delicious looking results. My favorite part of this cookbook is the nutritional breakdown for each recipe. As a ketogenic person, I would like to see a net carb count though. They do not provide fiber amounts, so I am unable to calculate that.
Overall, I really enjoy this cookbook. I will be trying so many of the recipes.

I received a free copy of Low Carb on the Go by Sandra Stupning in exchange for an honest review. This is a collection of dishes and meals that can be prepared ahead of time, transported as a brown bag breakfast or lunch, and dished up or reheated quickly. Thus, the “fast” does not necessarily apply to the actual assembly or cooking of the meals but to what happens when you’re ready to eat it. Based on the ingredients in each recipe, many of the dishes look to be tasty, indeed. I look forward to trying the lower carb breads!

The photographs in the book are appetizing; all of the recipes are visually appealing. I live in a medium sized city with standard-type supermarkets, so many of the ingredients seemed a little exotic to me. However, I imagine some of them can be found in the gluten-free section of the market and others can be ordered from the internet.

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Sandra and Mirco Stupning have filled Low Carb on the Go: More Than 80 Fast, Healthy Recipes — Anytime, Anywhere with more than 80 recipes for lunches and sweets — yes, sweets! — that you can pack for work.

Low Carb on the Go provides a brief introduction to low-carb eating and to “good” and “bad” carbohydrates, and the cookbook recommends a doable daily 100- to 150-gram goal. So newbies won’t be lost with this colorful cookbook. The cookbook leans a bit on chia seeds, agave syrup, coconut milk, goji berries, dried dates and the like; therefore, if you live somewhere where you can’t get stevia, avocadoes or mangoes — much less dried dandelion leaves or coconut flour — just know that, while I would still buy the cookbook in your place, you’ll have to make some substitutions.

The Stupnings even tell you how to pack your salads and foods so that you don’t end up with a mushy mess by the time lunch rolls around. How could you ask for anything more? Packing up a salad the night before that remains crisp and beautiful for lunch? Heaven!

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley and DK Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

I've read many low carb books, but this book has plenty of recipes that are actually for the home cook. I have quite a few I am going to try. Not to be missed if your into low carb.