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re: Low Carb favorites
Posted on 8/24/16 at 10:31 am to 24dive
Posted on 8/24/16 at 10:31 am to 24dive
Are you on Instagram? Start following people who have keto or low carb in their user names. You will get fantastic meal ideas as well as recipes.
Don't start playing with the low carb sweets and desserts until you've followed the diet for a while. Those really should only be for occasional treats.
Some of my favorite meals:
Crustless quiche, with any number of interesting meat and veg combos.
Steak and eggs. Steak and avocado. Steak and mashed cauliflower. Steak and asparagus. You get the idea.
Stir fry combos, using vegetables like cabbage, mushrooms, zucchini, and proteins like beef, chicken or shrimp.
Meatballs and or meat sauce over zoodles (zucchini noodles). Zucchini noodles are an awesome vehicle for the sauces you usually eat with pasta. It's not pasta, it doesn't taste like pasta, but you can have spaghetti sauce (make sure you use tomato products that have no added sugar) or Alfredo sauce or the like.
Cauliflower in a number of ways. If you buy the bags of riced cauliflower (or do it yourself), you can have mashed cauli, cauli rice, cauliflower crust pizza, cheese cauli mac (no real mac used).
I love to have bunless cheese burgers with good toppings like avocado or bacon or grilled onions. I prefer my own homemade burgers, but that's just me.
If I feel the need for fries, zucchini fries (dipped in egg, dredged in parmesan cheese and a little almond flour and then baked) are awesome.
Almond flour is a good substitute for regular flour, (Google Fathead Pizza) but should not be a daily thing. Maybe once a week.
Tacos, using shells made of cheese. AWESOME!
Nachos, using nacho chips made of cheese.
Stuffed bellpeppers, no rice in the stuffing. Usually a combo of ground beef and pork or ground beef and bulk sausage along with mushrooms and maybe cabbage, topped with cheese.
Pay attention to things that you might think you can use freely, like the trinity. The carbs add up. As much as I love onions, I am much more careful with the amount I use in cooking. Tomatoes are not carb free. I count the number of grape tomatoes I use. Broccoli is not carb free! Cauliflower is lower in carbs than broccoli, just so you know.
Wings (not breaded, no sweet sauces), baked chicken, grilled chicken, baked or grilled fish.
Fast food:
McDonald's breakfast, I order scrambled eggs and a sausage patty or bacon.
Wendy's: Bunless Baconator (I sometimes forget to say no ketchup, and then I have to scrape it off).
Hardee's menu has a couple of low carb options. A chicken club and a burger that they serve wrapped in lettuce. They also have a low carb breakfast bowl, which I have not tried.
And really, any place will give you a burger without the bun, but Wendy's and Hardee's don't question it.
I would've posted some pics, but I'm annoying enough in the WFDT threads.
ETA: Thanks, Tiger Ree!
Don't start playing with the low carb sweets and desserts until you've followed the diet for a while. Those really should only be for occasional treats.
Some of my favorite meals:
Crustless quiche, with any number of interesting meat and veg combos.
Steak and eggs. Steak and avocado. Steak and mashed cauliflower. Steak and asparagus. You get the idea.
Stir fry combos, using vegetables like cabbage, mushrooms, zucchini, and proteins like beef, chicken or shrimp.
Meatballs and or meat sauce over zoodles (zucchini noodles). Zucchini noodles are an awesome vehicle for the sauces you usually eat with pasta. It's not pasta, it doesn't taste like pasta, but you can have spaghetti sauce (make sure you use tomato products that have no added sugar) or Alfredo sauce or the like.
Cauliflower in a number of ways. If you buy the bags of riced cauliflower (or do it yourself), you can have mashed cauli, cauli rice, cauliflower crust pizza, cheese cauli mac (no real mac used).
I love to have bunless cheese burgers with good toppings like avocado or bacon or grilled onions. I prefer my own homemade burgers, but that's just me.
If I feel the need for fries, zucchini fries (dipped in egg, dredged in parmesan cheese and a little almond flour and then baked) are awesome.
Almond flour is a good substitute for regular flour, (Google Fathead Pizza) but should not be a daily thing. Maybe once a week.
Tacos, using shells made of cheese. AWESOME!
Nachos, using nacho chips made of cheese.
Stuffed bellpeppers, no rice in the stuffing. Usually a combo of ground beef and pork or ground beef and bulk sausage along with mushrooms and maybe cabbage, topped with cheese.
Pay attention to things that you might think you can use freely, like the trinity. The carbs add up. As much as I love onions, I am much more careful with the amount I use in cooking. Tomatoes are not carb free. I count the number of grape tomatoes I use. Broccoli is not carb free! Cauliflower is lower in carbs than broccoli, just so you know.
Wings (not breaded, no sweet sauces), baked chicken, grilled chicken, baked or grilled fish.
Fast food:
McDonald's breakfast, I order scrambled eggs and a sausage patty or bacon.
Wendy's: Bunless Baconator (I sometimes forget to say no ketchup, and then I have to scrape it off).
Hardee's menu has a couple of low carb options. A chicken club and a burger that they serve wrapped in lettuce. They also have a low carb breakfast bowl, which I have not tried.
And really, any place will give you a burger without the bun, but Wendy's and Hardee's don't question it.
I would've posted some pics, but I'm annoying enough in the WFDT threads.
ETA: Thanks, Tiger Ree!
This post was edited on 8/24/16 at 10:32 am
Posted on 8/24/16 at 10:55 am to Darla Hood
Requesting stickied Darla low carb thread.
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