Baking Mixes

Low carb baking mixes do the recipe work for you, which matters more than it sounds. Alternative flours don't behave like wheat flour, and a formulated mix skips the trial batches. Carbonaut makes a plant-based brownie mix and an all-purpose baking mix for muffins, cookies and bars.

Farm Girl's sweet loaf mixes come in Banana Caramel and Lemon Poppy Seed, and HoldTheCarbs makes stevia-sweetened muffin mixes. Carbquik's Complete Biscuit and Baking Mix is the savoury workhorse: biscuits, pizza dough, dumplings and shortcake all come out of the same box. Carbquik is wheat-based, so it isn't gluten-free; Carbonaut and Farm Girl are.

Most mixes need eggs and butter or oil, and some want your own sweetener. Pancake mixes are in the Breakfast department. Keep a bag of sugar-free chocolate chips from Baking Chips nearby and the brownies get noticeably better.