4 Hour Body Recipes for the Slow Carb Diet

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If you’ve come here looking for:

• a 4HB food list
• slow-carb recipes
• tips on slow-carb cooking

… then you’ve come to the right place!

Slow-Carb Recipes

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For more recipes, check out these two recipe books for some awesome slow-carb recipes!

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The recipes are separated by their primary food group, but many of them have 2 or even all 3 4HB food groups. Go ahead…mix and match them!

Buen provecho!

Related Articles

• What You Should Be Eating on the Slow Carb Diet
• Slow-Carb Fast series on fast food the right way
• Intersections: Slow-Carb Recipe Resources Edition

Other Resources

I’m not the only one with good recipes. Here are some of the places I’ve found.

Chow Stalker
The Foodee Project
Slow Carb Cookbook
Foodily – recipe search
Slow Carb Diet Experiments

The 4HB Food List

Here’s a quick list of the foods you’ll find in the book. Some specific examples he uses are in parentheses. These are the fundamental building blocks of what you’ll find in these recipe pages.

Proteins

• 1 or 2 eggs with egg whites
• chicken breast/thigh
• beef
• fish (tilapia, halibut, salmon)
• pork

Legumes

• lentils
• various kinds of bean (pinto, red, soy, black…)

Vegetables

• greens (spinach, chard, kale, collards)
• mixed vegetables
• cabbages (kimchi, saurkraut)
• asparagus
• peas
• cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cauliflower)
• green beans
• mushrooms (yes, I know, but it’s close enough)