Serves: 5

The carbohydrate count given with each recipe, and pre-designed menu in Cook'n Low Carb is total carb count. You are permitted on a low carb diet to use net carb count when totally your total carbs per day.

Net carbs is a term becoming more popular with low carb diets. The term is used to reflect the amount of carbohydrate that is rapidly available in any food or product. It subtracts those carbs such as fiber, glycerin, and sugar alcohols, which either are not digested or are digested but do not impact blood sugar more than negligibly. You can calculate the net carb value of any recipe by subtracting the grams of fiber, sugar alcohols and glycerin from the number of carbohydrate grams.

Example: 2 Tablespoons of Creamy Peanut Butter has 6g of Carbohydrate less 2g of fiber gives you a net carb value of 4g.

Note: It is my advice that you not neglect total calories when selecting recipes for your daily menu. Some recipes may be very low in carbs, but extremely high in fat calories. It is important to have variety in your choices. Going on an instant pudding only diet for a week would result in weight gain, although your carbohydrate count would be such that you should have lost weight.

Example: Sugar Free/Fat Free Instant Pudding made with heavy cream instead of milk only has 5 net grams of carbohydrates per serving, BUT contains 320 calories from fat.