Low Carb Diet (atkins)

mazzers

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Hooray, my favourite subject - packed lunches!

Sandwiches made with spinach/flax bread (basically spinach/ground flax mixed with egg and baking soda, then baked for 15 mins) - fill with meat/fish/cream cheese etc

Wraps made with thin "pancake" (egg, milk, optional ground flax) - fill with anything chunkier

Romaine lettuce leaves utilised as a "wrap" with fillings.

Salads - caesar salad with almonds instead of croutons (or omit them entirely for Atkins induction). Or Greek salad with olives and feta. Or pretty much any other salad you can think of.

Stuffed vine leaves - stuffed with mincemeat (or soya mince) instead of rice

Boiled eggs, egg mayonnaise or devillied eggs

Sausages

Homemade soups

Thanks, def gonna try the flax bread everyones been raving about, be great for work as this is the most awkward time for me, needing something to keep going til next break as cant nip off for snack.

mazzers

Trouble is tho, Ive got low potassium and had bit of heart scare due to this so really need dried apricots or bananas or something else not good for low carb.
And no good going to doc for any such advice as we all know

lemonade_money

So on the Dr D's low carb plan are smoothies allowed (ie fruit whizzed with full cream milk/yogurt and ice)? I'm not very good with eating breakfast - it's usually an english muffin/toast/cereal. Is tea/coffee allowed?

jprettypicture2

Ok I need a low carb pancake mix any ideas peeps? I have soya flour and almond flour here

Badger_Lady

Smoothies - nooooooooo to pure fruit ones, which contain far too much fructose, but yeeeessss to protein shakes in the morning!

Pancakes - pretty, I'm going to a pancake party next Tuesday so I'm interested in this too. My plan is to experiment with a mix of ground almond and ground flax, with the usual eggs, butter and soya milk...

jprettypicture2

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Smoothies - nooooooooo to pure fruit ones, which contain far too much fructose, but yeeeessss to protein shakes in the morning!

Pancakes - pretty, I'm going to a pancake party next Tuesday so I'm interested in this too. My plan is to experiment with a mix of ground almond and ground flax, with the usual eggs, butter and soya milk...

I can just taste me pancakes now yum yum. I am now craving some I usally have cooking apple and cream on them

shykins

aww badger big hugs its always worse when u feel bored, ujust want to snack on stuff, cant u do something to keep u busy ANYTHING???

u can have almond flour on atkins when u have finished induction but not fruit i am afraid...mazzers if u want to do atkins cant u take a potassium supplement? sorry not really up on this ted may be able to help

lemonade there is no need to get bored if u look at some of the recipes on here and on other atkins sites u realise just what u CAN eat and after that rotten boring old rice and potatoes seem pointless lol

umm gravity not too bad??? are u insane u could not of got much worse!!!

just got back from gym ..oh i am just SOOO good :A



NOT!!
x

Badger_Lady

Cooooorrr! Sounds lush I have to confess I've been dreaming about pancakes every since I recieved the party invite on Monday!

shykins

duuuh forgot the recipe lol .. here it is

• 1 cup almond flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup water (for puffier pancakes, you can use sparkling water)
• 2 T oil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 T sweetener

Mix ingredients together and cook as you would other pancakes. I like to use a nonstick pan with a little oil. The only real difference is that they won't "bubble" on top the same way as regular pancakes. Flip them when the underside is brown.

shykins

those will be like a thicker american pancake but for the more english version try this

2oz cream cheese
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tblsp cream

mix and cook as per normal pancakes