The Ultimate Keto Cookbook: Foolproof, Quick & Easy Keto Recipes for Everyone (Keto Cookbook for Beginners)

No pictures at all. We just started keto and I bought this for my husband who is old school and doesn’t like finding recipes online - he wanted a cookbook to pick out some recipes for me to make. This book is just dozens of recipes printed in black and white, with multiple recipes on each page. No color and no pics at all! He was totally bummed and not able to ‘envision’ the recipes by that format. Even myself, who loves to cook, felt lost without photos, despite some of the recipes sounding promising. I have some other great paleo and keto cookbooks with glossy pages and nice photography and this is definitely it one is those.

This book boasts 600 recipes. There are a few that look pretty good, and some that could be used with your personal modifications. I think some strong editing would have helped. The lists of ingredients do not synch up with the instructions in the recipes, and grammar and proper punctuation cannot be ignored simply because this is a cookbook. I am not sure how much I will use it.

This book gives very few guidelines on how to do a Keto diet. One of the foods on the restricted list is mayonnaise Starting on page 31 til page 46 I found four recipes using mayonnaise. After that I stopped reading .This book also uses sugar substitutes when it says no processed diet foods. Substitute sugar is a processed diet food. This book was not what I was hoping for at all. Returning this book is a serious consideration.

I am a visual person, so having no pictures at all doesn’t help in a cookbook. I can get past it, though, but what I really don’t understand is how they categorized these recipes and why they did it the way they did. As you can see from the couple pictures I took, they put breakfast and entrees together, lunch and dinner together, then had other categories such as poultry, pork, beef and lamb, fish and seafood, sides and snacks, vegan and vegetarian, desserts and drinks. To me, some of these categories shouldn’t be combined, like breakfast and entrees. Also, there’s soups and salads in all different categories, breakfast recipes listed under poultry, etc. It’s all over the place. Most cookbooks I’ve seen, which makes total sense, puts all breakfast foods under a breakfast category, all soups under a soup category, so on and so forth. In my opinion, it’s much easier to food prep when all the recipes are in specific categories instead of hunting all throughout the book to find them all. There are a lot of recipes, which is great, and I totally understand that everyone is different in the way they do things, but this cookbook just wasn’t as organized as I expected.

I am new to keto and had high expectations for a few cookbooks. This one really disappointed me. The first recipie I made was a sausage and cabbage. There were ingredients listed that were not explained when to use them in the instructions. I looked through the book to find this a few more times

No pictures! A cook book with no pictures, enough said.

Book has good recipe ideas, however there are a lot of typos and missing information in some of the recipes. For instance pg. 89 recipe for “creamy chicken with tomatoes” makes no mention what to do with tomatoes.In addition there are multiple recipes for rosemary chicken and again errors in the recipe.Boom has great ideas however some recipes you need to google to get full recipe.

The recipes are poorly written. With 600 choices you would think there would be better options. It’s either recipes made with things I can’t purchase at my local market or it’s something super common that I already knew. I want to return but “not liking the item” isn’t a valid return choice so I’m stuck with it.