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Whether you’re looking for strict keto, moderate or liberal low-carb recipes, here you have over 980 delicious low-carb recipes to choose from. Start a free trial for further access to 150+ low-carb meal plans, the amazing meal planner tool and all low-carb cooking videos.

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Meal plan Our moderate low-carb meal plans will provide you with lots of inspiration and variation to start or keep your health journey fun and tasty. The carb count varies, but tends to be below 35 g carbs per day.

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Anne AobadiaPassionate recipe creator and cookbook author who never gets tired of experimenting in the kitchen. Loves to cook for large crowds and great at making food from whatever is at hand.

Kristie Sullivan, PhDBecause of her personal success, she began helping others learn how make a low-carb diet a delicious lifestyle. She focuses on a clean-eating keto diet. Popular on YouTube and Facebook.

Jill WallentinA low-carb nutrition counselor, cookbook author, Instagram junkie and Art Director working full time at Diet Doctor. Loves to experiment with flavors and to simplify advanced dishes.

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All our recipes are low carb, gluten-free and free from artificial sweeteners. They contain nutritional information (per serving) and you can print them easily. You can read our full food policy here: The Diet Doctor food policy. If you have questions regarding our recipes, please see our recipe FAQ page.

Each recipe has a unique colored circle, showing the number of net carbs it contains per serving.¹ The colors are based on how strictly low carb they are:

Green (ketogenic low carb)
Yellow (moderate low carb)
Orange (liberal low carb)

This will help you pick the best recipes according to your diet and also help you calculate the intake of carbs.² Take a look at the examples below.

Keto roast chicken with broccoli and garlic butter

Roasted chicken legs and cherry tomatoes with garlic-butter

Roasted chicken legs with veggies, paprika sauce and dessert

Latest update

By , medical review by – Updated August 11, 2020

Net carbs = digestible carbs, i.e. total carbs minus fiber. ↩
The fewer carbs, the more effective it appears to be for losing weight or reversing type 2 diabetes.

This is mainly based on the consistent experience of experienced practitioners, and stories from people trying different levels of carb restriction [weak evidence].

There is not yet any RCT that has actually tested two low-carb diets of varying strictness head-to-head. But RCTs of strict low-carb diets appear to often show better results, compared to RCTs of more moderate or liberal low-carb diets.

This makes logical sense: if something has an effect, doing more of it often has a stronger effect.

RCTs of low-carb interventions for weight loss ↩