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KETO FANATIC here so don't waste your time on this book unless you like wasting food!
Why 2 STARS?
Cause hate is a strong feeling for this book, I merely don't like it and I'll tell you why.
I bought this because of it's price and seemingly great reviews.
After purchasing this book and attempting 10 different recipes, I realized that most of the people who gave this book great reviews got it at either a discount price or free!?
It has A LOT of typographical errors, nearly NO pictures and whoever wrote this just didn't understand the concept of measurements and the way ingredients work.
I've been on the KETO diet for 3 months and while I LOVE the diet, In an attempt to find more ways to cook different meals, I set out to purchase cook books to assist my journey. Being on the keto diet is expensive for me cause I am buying better quality ingredients however, I've wasted a lot of them on this book.
I made the beef stroganoff (gross, watery mess and the cream cheese didn't even melt and blend very well into the sauce), lemon cheesecake (aka rubber cement! The recipe called for 1/3 cup of lemon JELLO! Not 1/3 of a box or 1/3 or Tablespoon - 1/3 CUP! Add that to 1 CUP of boiling water and yes, in a few hours, you've got the perfect recipe for cement. Should've used common sense!) Recipe after recipe let me down and wasted precious meat & ingredients! I've made a few of the fat bomb recipes successfully but they're not anything fancy that you can't find on say, pinterest.
DO not waste your time on this book that was clearly not thoroughly combed through by an editor or even spell check.
If you're thinking about doing KETO - DO IT! Just don't plan on this book assisting you on your journey. Cooking well takes skill, I know, but cooking keto friendly dishes takes some extra finesse and this book will only let you down cause clearly no one thought to MAKE the food they published!
March 2017 · Books · verified purchase