Some low-carb foods taste good, some terrible and some extraordinary. I've put together my very favorite discerningly taste-tested gourmet low-carb foods--many of them very hard to find even here in NYC--and made them available to you by mail order in three different combinations and prices!!

Replacing carb-y or sugary staples with low-carb upgrades is one of the most powerful ways to change your body and improve your quality of life*. Many problems with weight, skin and overall body aging stem from too many carbs or high-glycemic foods, which drive up blood sugar and insulin levels and prompt the body to store fat. I call the resulting roller-coaster of cravings and energy slumps that lead to subsequent sugar and starch fixes the "pendulum." The hormonal consequences of high-glycemic foods not only destroy your shape, but your skin and your overall health. It is not fat that harms you and gives you heart disease (unless it's hydrogenated fat). It's the carbs and sugar. You'll find the science to support my statements (my statements are FDA unapproved and unevaluated, mind you) in my new book, The Truth About Beauty. read more about going low-carb...

These foods are indispensable tools to stay stocked with. They are more expensive than the snacks you buy, because they have actual value without detriment to the body. The foods they will replace will never do for you what these will and when you consider the assault you will save yourself each time you eat one of these real foods instead of the damaging and depleting, empty standard choice, you will find they are priced quite fairly. If your kids snack on these, they will crave less sugar, eat less at dinner and whine less and bounce off the walls less afterward. The trick to transforming yourself with these foods is consistency, carrying them with you on the go and staying well stocked for every kind of craving (those will diminish quickly, and you will savor and enjoy things like chocolate like never before!)