Nutrition Information for My Low-Carb Cookbooks
I’m so happy to let you know that I now provide nutrition information for all of the recipes in my books! Go straight to it on the links below:
The Easiest Low-Carb Recipes
If you own my low-carb cookbooks, you’ll have all the macros available to you! If you’re thinking of buying my New York Times Best Seller, there’s a free sneak peek of every recipe here!
Nutrition Information for Website Recipes
Over the years some readers have been concerned that I haven’t provided nutrition information for the recipes here on the website. I was a bit surprised when I received the comment below regarding the 1,000 free low-carb recipes I provide here.
Yes, we know you do not answer nutrition questions, but it would be helpful, useful, and simply kind if you would simply supply this information with the recipes you provide. Organic Valley egg nog has 180 cal. and 10 g fat, while Living Without vegan egg nog has 366 calories, 33g total fat, per serving! And Elana’s recipe? God alone knows. Elana– this seems a bit of a grinch like policy on your part.
Juggling My Way Through Life
I’m not a big corporation. I’m a mom with celiac disease, multiple sclerosis, two children, and a husband. Just like all of you, I’m juggling my way through life every single day.
Free Low-Carb Recipes on Elana’s Pantry
I have a thousand free-recipes here to share with you because it makes me happy. Sitting with spreadsheets and calculators? That does not make me happy. That’s what I used to do that when I owned a big company back in 1995. I was 28 years old. I had lots of employees. I was in Fortune Magazine. I made loads of money. More than I do writing books. But writing books is fun. So I traded in my power suit and now I write low-carb power bar recipes.
Nutrition Information from My Amazing Readers
If you check out My Fitness Pal you will find the nutrition information for the recipes from my website. My fabulous readers have done the work for you using that fantastic nutrition calculator!
Nutrition Information for Paleo Cooking
Click here for nutrition information for the recipes in my New York Times best selling cookbook, Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry. Grab a copy of the low-carb best seller!
aarin says
Great response! Thank you so much for sharing what you do!
Melissa says
Hi Elana,
I am a thirty year old with celiac disease. I have also been diagnosed recently with several other grain sensitivities. Your website is a God send. I felt so deprived of food until I came across your website and found a whole new world of cooking and baking. If you are really that concerned about the calorie intake of a recipe, then you should be measuring it yourself, and carefully paying attention to all the ingredients that make up a recipe. I do this quite frequently with sugar intake. I’m sorry someone was quite rude to you and you are anything but a grinch! I just wanted to thank you for all the delicious recipes you have provided and let you know they don’t need nutritional info attached, that should be the responsibility of who is ultimately making it! Don’t stop sharing your recipes with the world! Again, I am so thankful for having found your website! I made the blueberry muffins last night and they are better than the real thing, so delicious :). Thank you again and have a wonderful holiday season!
Melissa Hummel
Iris says
I love you Elana. As a nutrition student, I calculate calories all the time for school…and I can tell you it doesn’t matter. Not that I need to tell you that clearly. You already know. What matters is eating quality food, which your recipes are. Not to mention, this is your blog and you should do what you want with it!
Reiko says
“As a nutrition student, I calculate calories all the time for school…and I can tell you it doesn’t matter.”
Amen to that!
carrie says
If you were manufacturing and selling food, I would think you should provide nutritional information. But, you’re not! You’re sharing great recipes for free!
If one is quite concerned about nutritional information, one can look it up on one’s own.
Julie says
Greetings from Davis, CA. Could let this post go without commenting – what a great response Elana – you go girl! There are so, so many people who appreciate you for the amazing work that you do. You are an inspiration! I can’t believe that people have the nerve to write such comments to you, when you are providing all of us with wonderful recipes for free. I for one appreciate you!
Lauryn says
I love that you do not post nutritional information! When I started eating Paleo I stopped counting calories. For once I feel healthy, satisfied, and I am in the best shape of my life. People need to stop obsessing about calories and start eating quality foods, natural foods, and non processed foods. Thanks for sharing your recipes, they are wonderful!
Stephanie says
I completely agree! People need to stop counting calories! For instance, there is no way a diet soda flaunting zero calories will ever beat out whole, raw milk in its benefits for your health!
It’s simple. Eat nutrient-dense, whole, organic foods. And as you do, listen to your body and you will instinctively know what (and how much) your body needs. Ok, so it may not be as simple as that if you are someone who has abused their body with processed foods, but in the long run, that is the groundwork for a healthy life.
Thank you Elana for this wonderful blog!
JennM says
Okay, while I totally agree with Elana’s stance and her right to provide what info she darn well pleases on her own blog, I do want to comment on this idea that “people should just stop counting calories.”
I am a bit obsessive about nutrition information. For Elana’s recipes, which I love, I calculate it myself. I also make my own tweaks and substitutions. It’s no problem. Nutrition information is not just calories, though. For me, it’s about carbs. I’m diabetic and I HAVE to know how many carbs are in the foods I eat so I can calculate how much insulin I need. It is entirely possible to make a life-threatening mistake otherwise. So I just ask that before we make blanket statements like, “Oh, stop obsessing about calories because as long as you eat healthy food you’ll be fine,” that we all remember there may be important reasons for needing certain information.
HOWEVER, I want to reiterate the point that anyone can calculate their own nutrition info for recipes. Don’t wait on or expect someone else to do it for you. Your health is YOUR job.
Elana, thank you for your wonderful site and recipes. You’re an inspiration.
Jeanne J says
Agreed. Well put. Ahh the trials of dealing with John Q. Public.
aseafish says
I wholeheartedly agree.
Linda Pecone says
I love how you think Lauryn. I believe the more you try to control every aspect of your diet the less smart you get about it. I agree know the basics and you will be good from there. I too love the Paleo lifestyle.
Jennifer says
You provide an amazing number of free recipes – I can’t imagine expecting you to provide nutrition information as well! Keep doing what you’re doing.
Cara Werner says
Elana, I am SOOOOO very appreciative of your recipes… I could care less about the nutritional info. I look at your recipes and know I’m putting whole unprocessed junk into my and my family’s bodies. If its important to others to count calories or watch their fats then it should be up to them to look it up. I’m thankful to have found your site! I’m able to create memories especially when baking with my son!!! :) Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
Sumitra says
I love what you do
I love your recipes
I love that you share them with the whole world
For free!
You do not owe anyone anything
You are gracious and kind, fabulous and wonderful, generous and beautiful
I think it’s amazing and so inspiring that you have gone through such a transformation
Found something you are so passionate about
And share your passion with all of us
And, I agree with Susan Young:
Your polite response speaks volumes about you as a person!
Keep doing what you love to do!
And thanks a million for doing what you do! :-)
I, for one, am extremely grateful!
alice says
This is exactly what I was thinking, worded very well.
I appreciate you so much, Elana! I have altered recipes forever, and find I often do it with yours, too. But now I have learned to handle so many more ingredients than before, AND no belly ache, thanks to your experimenting : )
Vicky says
Oh good grief ! Elena – take no notice of that very entitled, and arrogant person. You are doing a FINE job = and your recipes and information have helped get me back to good health – nothing “grinch-ish” about that ! She could learn a few things from you.
I am so grateful and your generosity and love always come through in your blog and your recipes and your site. I don’t have a pic of this but at that individual I have my fingers in my ears and I am going la la la la la …… Love to you Dear Elena.
Meagan says
I think the irony of that comment is that it’s the exact reason why posting nutritional information would be next to impossible, if not completely misleading for readers. Different brands can impact the content so quickly. It’s really best to “learn to fish” and figure it out on your own, based on what you use and how many servings you get. Anything less amounts to laziness on the part of the cook.
Thank you for all the wonderful recipes!
Susan Plocher says
@ Megan: I’m not sure I agree with you about “laziness” of a cook. Some people are very new to cooking – much less cooking with less than “regular” ingredients. A “box” provides nutritional information. Many “healthy” recipes include nutritional information. If that is what one is used to, that is what they know. Not everyone knows you can go to Sparkpeople and type in your recipe. Many people don’t know how to add up the nutrition info on all the ingredients and divide up by number of servings. It takes education and experience. How does that happen? By asking questions and experimenting. Just my .02. I guess I’m sensitive to this subject b/c I’ve been cooking for about a week with almond flour. Some of my things have turned out, some haven’t. I have NO IDEA how almond flour works or why Elana’s recipes turn out for me and why another cookbook’s recipes don’t. Since I have no basis to start learning, I ask the recipe creator and hope she can point me in a direction I need to go. I’m not a good internet searcher so I get stuck really easily. I don’t consider myself a lazy cook. Just perhaps an inexperienced one at this point. But I am learning and hopefully will gain experience from those who have it and are willing to share.
Laura says
Susan make sure you are using one of Elana’s recommended almond flours. Bob’s for instance isn’t ground fine enough and will change your end result. Elana has lots of info on her site and in her book about this.
Alienkitties says
Hi – just so you know – Try weighing your ingredients instead of using measurements such as cups. The weights of flours vary GREATLY, and can ruin many a good recipe. It can make a HUGE difference to you surviving celiac’s/etc. with joy versus angst… : )
The link below is a wonderful explanation of why/how to’s that you might find helpful. I have been very impressed with the site we’re on, and glutengirl’s site.
http://glutenfreegirl.com/gluten-free-holiday-baking-2010/
Good LUCK!! : )
Dana says
Boxes don’t provide squat for nutritional information. They’ll tell you a few basics and that’s all. By the way, I don’t count calories as “nutritional information.” They aren’t “nutrition,” they’re energy. I want to know what else is in the food I’m eating, but apparently I have to do without since most other people don’t care.
It’s actually better for me when it’s a recipe using whole ingredients because then the USDA database will often have those ingredients included. But not always. Unfortunately the more specialty stuff like coconut flour has ZERO entries (last I looked; maybe I need to look again) in the database. If I want to eat refined wheat flour junk, I’m golden. If I want to watch my health, I’m out of luck. Apparently the USDA would rather tell me what TO eat than tell me what I AM eating.
But that’s another reason Elena doesn’t provide the info. It’d be nearly impossible to find it all.
Cindylouwho says
I don’t think it’s fair to call people looking for the nutritional information with recipes lazy.
I certainly respect that the owner of the website doesn’t have to do anything that they don’t want to do. And it’s my choice to run the nutritional analysis or go elsewhere.
I just want to point out that for parents that are looking for at least macro-nutrient analysis for medical reasons for their kids, seeing the nutritional analysis immediately can be a godsend.
Our son is getting ready to start a carb restricted diet (20 net carbs a day). And that is only a modified Atkins diet! Those that have to do the full ketogenic diet have to be more strict.
The more I research things, the more I learn what kind of ingredients are worth running the analysis on, and which aren’t. Some of Elena’s will work, some won’t. That’s the breaks. I may end up purchasing a book for my and my husbands use, but not till our son’s is squared away.
Yeah, people get greedy and don’t realize what it takes to put so much content up for free, but understand some of us are just frantically trying to navigate new ways of eating, and it’s understandable to look for sites that include the nutritional information. Would I love it if the info was included? Heck yeah, I’d visit site more for sure. And I would have already purchased a book. But I do understand if a good author has their reasons for not going that far, which makes it my choice to stay or go.
That being said, I’m still here, and that says something..doesn’t it?
Estelle says
In most countries I know (France, Germany, Turkey), you don’t get nutritional info with recipes. Ever. I feel like if you really listen to your body you don’t need nutritional info and know when to stop eating. That’s how I feel, if we let our bodies tell us what it needs and we listen, we won’t need nutritional info… Just my opinion.
Janet says
I agree completely! I am a graduate student, studying nutrition, and I have done many nutritional calculations, by hand, and with handy tools and websites. For some people, perhaps, who can’t understand their food any other way, breaking things down like this is helpful. For nearly everyone, though, I think learning about food in a way that doesn’t involve numbers is a lot more helpful. Intuition is key, though some people need help reconnecting to their intuition.
Courtney says
I know that I dont hate you and this post alone made me like you even more! I am getting tested tomorrow for a couple of different intestinal issues and blogs like yours help me! thanks and I a nutrition.exercise nut but I dont ever care about information. I can tell if its healthy or not! Maybe not down to any certain number but enough!