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!
kathy scott says
Well Elana, I love your books. Your recipes are incredible and everyone in my family loves them.
Kudos to you and Merry Christmas.
Heres to Good Health and Happy Cooking ..
Sincerely, Kathy Scott , Camlachie, Ontario.
Jodi Lee (@TheEcoBlogger) says
Absolutely perfect response.
Betty says
Elana,
Here is a laugh for you. When I saw the title of your post, I thought
to myself. NO. I don’t want to read another word about nutrition.
I’m glad I continued to read the post. :)
Megan says
I love your post. It’s sad to me to think that you even have to write a post like this to justify doing something that you clearly love (and find fun). I love your website. I’ve been visiting on a regular basis now for a year and a half. A year and a half ago I weighed 70 lbs more than I do today. I made a LOT of your recipes (I still make a lot of your recipes). I didn’t need/want any nutritional information. Eating food that was better for my body and wasn’t riddled with gluten, refined sugars and bad fats assisted in my body transformation. Who needs nutritional information when you’re putting things into your body that are clean?
Thank you so much for all that you do!!
Leah says
I think you meant yenta (matchmaker), not yentl (character played by barbara streisand). Otherwise, I agreed with everything you wrote!
Kate K says
If you ask me the ‘Grinch’ in this scenario is the ditz who sent you that email. It’s all well and fine to very politely ‘ask’ if it were possible for the nutritional information to be added (to which you could have pleasantly responded by pointing to the website you mention) but to actually have the balls to suggest YOU are being ‘grinch-like’ which means STINGY, SELFISH, KILL-JOY etc, shows the true selfishness of the author who obviously hasn’t thought through the amount of work you do to provide us with all these lovely FREE recipes here. That on top of your personal life, family and health concerns. Sheesh! WHO is the grinch? NOT you Elana, you are awesome. Thank you for all you do, I have benefited immensely from your blog as we have entered into the realm of gluten free land in the past few months. I’m a proud owner of your book and you and a handful of other lovely gluten free blogs have saved my holidays! God Bless you.
Melinda says
Thank you for this post – everyone needs a bit of perspective instead of just asking for more, more more. If everyone was eating whole foods and using healthy recipes, like yours, it really makes it entirely unnecessary to count calories – your body is satisfied when you put whole foods in it, so you won’t be overeating and eating empty calories to fulfill nutritional needs you haven’t met. You make absolutely delicious recipes; I have your Gluten Free Cupcake cookbook, and I love it. I’m not even GF! A Grinch, you are SURELY not. Doing what you love is all that matters. Don’t let other people get you down!
NatC says
This post is awesome – Good for you!
Janelle says
To preface, but not to sound pretentious, I have almost completed my studies towards becoming a registered dietician (gulp!), and I have a wealth of knowledge in this area. I have gluten-intolerance and I LOVE your website, Elana! I also LOVE that you do not count calories or post nutritional info; people can easily do this for themselves on a variety of websites. After all of my extensive studies and past obsessive label reading tendencies, I must say that counting calories and dieting are not very helpful for those trying to lose weight, anyways (diets FAIL 95% of the time!). I think that becoming an intuitive eater is much more important to healthy living (i.e. paying attention to your body’s natural cues as to when you are really hungry/full, not labeling foods as good/bad, etc). Further, I would have to say that the majority of your recipes are above and beyond healthful!!! They are generally quite nutritionally dense (high amount of vitamins/minerals/antioxidants etc in relationship to carbs, fat, and protein) and the use of almond flour also makes them very filling so you don’t have to eat the whole sheet of cookies to be satisfied (not that I’m judging if you do). From a well-researched and professional opinion, I consider your recipes to be very nutritionally conscious as well as delicious, and I am truly grateful for your amazing and allergen-considerate options!
Netty says
I cannot believe how people react to bloggers. You’re putting your live out there, amazing recipes….and you get complaints, criticisms, requests for subsitutions all the TIME! I’m sorry! Please know that there are MANY of use who can think for ourselves and if we want to know something we GOOGLE IT! :) Oh….and do you know if I can use ____ for_____…KIDDING! :) Thanks for all your awesome recipes! Just made your Double Chocolate Biscotti the other day…amazing! I subbed out the coffee and added a 1/4 tsp of mint instead…awesome! :) Play, people, play! Don’t be afraid to mix it up….but then….I guess that’s what separates the chefs from the recipe followers…. a sense of adventure! :)
Katie says
I liked your comment: it mirrors how I feel. If I wonder if a substitution will work, I just try it. It is also why I couldn’t figure out the comment that sparked this whole debacle. Unless you only eat pre-packaged food wouldn’t you have to figure out the nutrition info every night when you make dinner (if having the nutrition info was important to you)?
I’m glad Elana gets to see hundreds of comments of support!