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The "I Love My Air Fryer" Low-Carb Recipe Book

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This book had a variety of recipes. The few I tried were pretty easy to put together and they were delicious. Both of my kids and picky husband enjoyed them.

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The "I Love My Air Fryer" Low-Carb Recipe Book: From Carne Asada with Salsa Verde to Key Lime Cheesecake, 175 Easy and Delicious Low-Carb Recipes ("I Love My" Series) is a great addition to the series. Many of the recipes have a limited number of ingredients, which is not a bad thing in my estimation. The instructions are easy to follow, and the photos are enticing and beautiful. However, I wish there were more of them. There is great information provided on low carb as well as the use of the air fryer, making this a good cookbook for beginners and those more advanced. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book.

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What a great cookbook! The material is well written and presented in an easy to follow manner. I look forward to trying out several of these recipes.

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In the age of Pinterest, a reliable niche cookbook is still of value. I have an air fryer, and I am making the most of it thanks to this book!

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I think air fryers are one of the handiest items in my kitchen after the slow cooker. I have one from the lower price range and am still amazed how well it works considering it was relatively inexpensive.
This cookbook is perfect if you are counting calories, need gluten free and/or low carb recipes. There is also a handy vegetarian section if meat isnt your thing. I was shown a few things I didnt realise could be made in an air fryer. The recipes are clear and easy to follow. One of my favourite recipes was the pecan streusel coffee cake. Delicious with a cuppa! I dont use erythritol and replaced it with date sugar.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a free copy of this book in return for an honest review.

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I love using my air fryer! And Michelle Fagone made me love it more! This is a great little cookbook full of simple and quick recipes that are low carb. Making it easy for you to stick on your diet. Though not all recipes are keto-friendly, but are low carb. With some tweaking though you can lower the carb count. I'm looking forward to trying the BLT frittata and vanilla nut granola. I do wish the cookbook had more

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I have had an air fryer for the last two years and was looking into expanding what I can do with it. This book fits the bill with many relevant and delicious recipes, easy to replicate. Highly recommend this book.

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The "I Love My Air Fryer" Low-Carb Recipe Book by Michelle Fagone.
I just got an Air Fryer so I have been looking for cook books to go along with it. This book was easy to follow with some recipes I look forward to cooking with. I did that it isn't so strict with the carbs so as someone who is trying to take my carbs in take down slowly I thought this was a nice book for that.

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Low Carb diets have been popular for years now, and since air fryers are all the rage, Michelle Fagone’s The "I Love My Air Fryer" Low-Carb Recipe Book: From Carne Asada with Salsa Verde to Key Lime Cheesecake, 175 Easy and Delicious Low-Carb Recipes is very timely. In this excellent cookbook, Fagone has covered all the bases to keep the recipes low carb, but tasty. Most of the recipes are also gluten-free, since alternative flours have lower carb counts.

Many of the recipes have minimal ingredients, and the recipes are written in such a way that they also take minimal time to make. While there are beautiful photographs, it seems there aren’t enough of them, which is probably the only negative about this cookbook. The positives are not only excellent information on using air fryers and low carb ingredients, but especially the recipes. Fagone uses ingredients in interesting ways, such as a new favorite, Bacon Vegetable Morning Hash which pairs bacon and Brussels sprouts in a hash-type dish that is luscious. Other new favorites include Pecan-Crusted Honey Mustard Chicken Breasts with only three ingredients, and a Chopped Steakhouse Salad. Low carb dieters will find dozens of tempting recipes that they can make for themselves and also feed others.

Low carb diets are often boring, and this cookbook introduces dishes that not only aren’t boring, but are actually appealing, which helps dieters stick to their diets. Even non low carb dieters will find dozens of dishes in this cookbook that they can enjoy even when not on the diet. Since many of the dishes are crisp on the outside, Fagone uses low carb ingredients such as crushed pork rinds to produce the crispness. Anyone on a special diet expects that they may have to shop for special ingredients to create the dishes they want to eat, so even though many of the dishes call for items that may not be in the house already, most are easily obtained from any mainstream grocery store.

All told, this cookbook is a winner.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

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Fantastic cookbook! I love the variety of the recipes. I have already made three and have a lot on my list to try!

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I highly recommend this cookbook it has excellent easy to prepare recipes that are healthy and delicious. An air fryer is a new gadget for me so this book not only made it less stressful to try it had me wondering why I had waited so long. Great addition to any cook looking for healthy recipes for your air fryer. I received this book from NetGalley as an ARC for an honest review.

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I love this book! It has great healthy recipes from breakfast to dinner. Recipes such as baked oatmeal cups, mango chia pudding, cobb salad in a jar, steak sheet pan fajitas, and mango salsa.
The author wrote this with personality instead of it being just a cookbook. She teaches the importance of meal prepping with the proper containers. She also breaks down meal planning in three weeks with recipes and the ingredients needed for when it's time to go grocery shopping.
I'm currently on the 21-day fix and this book is a great resource for when I'm planning out my meals for the week.

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The cookbook starts with a good explanation of a low carb diet and net carbs. The book could use more photos of the finished recipes. Some of the recipes called for ingredients I had never heard of before. For instance, granular erythritol and cassava flour.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

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3 1/2 ⭐️‘S
This book has precise, helpful instructions on how to use your air fryer and is filled with delicious looking low carb recipes. Many of the recipes are higher in carbs than I would like to see, but can probably be modified a bit to make the overall count less. Looking forward to making many of these meals in the near future, yum!

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This was a very beneficial cookbook for my sister's air fryer! She used a few of the recipes and saved some more for future use. Anybody willing to give air frying a try should definitely use some of these recipes.

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A lot of great recipes are packed in this air fryer cookbook. All low carb which is great! I can't wait to try some of these recipes. They all seem pretty easy to fix and that's what I like. Thanks NetGalley and to the publisher for this early release for my honest review.

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I was really hoping for more photos of what each recipe would look like. I feel like this must be a widely know want of people who purchase cookbooks.

The recipes do look easy which is great! You don’t need a bunch of crazy Ingredients. I am looking forward to trying many of them!

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I don't have an air fryer yet. I keep researching them and looking up recipes for them so it doesn't become an unused appliance taking up room in my pantry. My kitchen is small! There's no room for unused appliances taking up room.
When I saw this cookbook on Netgalley I was intrigued. When I saw it was Low-Carb I knew I definitely wanted to review it. That being said, I'm glad that I didn't pay for this.
It gives a rundown of the airfryer and some accessories you might want to buy and will make some of the recipes easier to use. It also gives a rundown of the low carb diet, including how to count macros and how many you should strive for in a day. Most people go for 20 carbs a day. Some increase carbs as they go on, but the recommendation for beginners is to stick with 20.
The very first recipe in the book has over 20 carbs. When I get a book that has "Low Carb in the title, I assume that I can look through and choose ANY recipe in the book and it won't use up all my carbs for the day and more. Now, a lot of the recipes are in fact low carb and stay within the recommended amount of carbs per meal (between 4 and 8 depending on how many meals per day) and there were more of those than there were high carb recipes, but the high carb recipes sometimes had up to 39 carbs per serving. The net carb counts they provided for every recipe were confusing as well. Net carbs are the total carbs with the fiber and sugar alcohols subtracted.
Example: carbs 8g, fat 3g, sugar 4g, sugar alcohol 1g would make the net carbs 4g. An example from the book on the other hand is more like carbs 22g, fiber 3 g, sugar 12 g, sugar alcohols 0g Net Carbs 12g. 22-3 is not 12.

But, there are some positives. I would try some of the recipes. I was impressed with the vegetarian recipes included. There were 20 recipes and none of them were a glorified side dish or a meat dish with a note on how to make it vegetarian.
But on the whole I was not impressed with this book enough to be ok with it just because it has some nice vegetarian dishes for my guests and meatless meals.

*I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my review.

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This is a nicely presented cookbook with plenty of fairly easy dishes to cook. The recipes are broken down by type: breakfast, appetizers, sides, chicken, beef and pork, seafood, vegetarian and deserts. Many of the dishes will require extra parts for your fryer: kebab racks, perforated baking paper, special pans and dishes, etc. So check that your fryer sells accessories or that you can buy the accessories to make the dishes.

The recipes have a large variety, with some staples and then more exotic dishes interspersed throughout. Each recipe has a large title, a short introduction, prep and cooking time, serving size, ingredients in a call out box, and then numbered short paragraph steps. Per serving info (sugar, carbs, salt, etc.) is also given at the bottom.

Nearly all the recipes are cooked in short steps - one of the benefits of a slow cooker is that it is pretty much 'mix and then throw in the fryer.' Sample recipes include: brunchy shakshuka bell pepper cups, barbecue turnip chips, bone marrow butter, broccoli tots, buddha bowls, vegan dogs and sauerkraut, almond ricotta lime cake.

The layout is clean and occasionally there is an image to accompany a recipe (but only a few, unfortunately). The beginning has an introduction to air fryers that is very brief. The usual metric conversion chart ends the book. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

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The recipes in I Love My Air Fryer Low-Carb Recipe Book are tasty and easy to follow. The book is well thought out with concise step by step instructions. In some recipes there might be an ingredient that you aren't familiar with, but it explains what that ingredient is i.e. chorizo is a Mexican or Spanish sausage and where you can find it. In most cases these items are found in your local supermarket. The Pecan flour that is used in several recipes, she reminds us that we can make our own just by pulsing pecans in a food processor, or if you don't want to bother, just use almond flour. Each recipe has the hands on time, cooktime, ingredient list, step by step instructions, and nutritional information. I didn't double check the nutritional information against any of the macro calculators, but a couple seem off to me, especially in the dessert section. For example a recipe is listed as Protein 8g Sodium 253mg Fiber 1g Carbs 20g Net Carbs 5g Sugar 3g, I thought that Carbs-Fiber=Net Carbs so in this case Net Carbs should be 19g, but I could be completely mistaken about this, I am not a nutritional expert. If this is important to you, it is up to you to figure out. There are recipes for breakfast, appetizers, sides, desserts and the main dishes are broken down for beef and pork, chicken, fish and seafood, and even vegetarian. There is also a US/Metric conversion chart. The copy I reviewed was an unedited ARC from #NetGalley so they may be added later, but there were only a few photographs of the food. I personally like photos of each dish. Overall #ILoveMyAirFryerLow-CarbRecipeBook is an easy to use book with recipes that are tasty, fun, and interesting.

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