Low-carb diets support thread

daska

OK, well I thought I'd get back to you with the 'solution' I eventually went with. I took inspiration from a recipe I found online

I substituted and adapted a bit and what I came up with was

Blackberry and Raspberry Clafoutis.
1 punnet berries (I made two and shared one punnet blackberries and one punnet raspberries between the dishes)
100g butter (melted)
150g ground almonds
50g coconut flour
1 large egg
400g full cream milk
2 tbsp splenda (Yes, I gave in and we seem to be doing ok so far )
Flaked almonds

This is how I would do it if I were making it by hand (I have a Thermomix)
Measure everything out before you start - put dried ingredients in a large bowl and make a well in the centre.
Turn oven on - I used a fan oven at 180C
Arrange fruit in a 8 - 9" round oven dish (I used a loose bottom sponge tin)
Melt butter, add half the milk and the beaten egg, stir quickly and pour into the dried ingredients. Incorporate quickly with a firm spatula making sure to scrape the sides of the bowl well. Add the rest of the liquid and mix well. The batter will thicken slightly as the liquid is absorbed.
Cover the berries with the batter, sprinkle on flaked almonds as desired.
Bake for 40 minutes. Allow to cool to luke warm before eating with a dollop of lightly whipped cream.

(I've not done a carb count - sorry)

It was lighter than I expected, not eggy, you will need a pie slice to get whole slices out (rather than the very ineffective fish slice which was all my FIL could volunteer) but after a decent meal I reckon this would do 8 satisfactory portions or 6 greedy ones.

I was planning to serve this with whipped coconut cream but I've not managed to find a can of milk without stabilisers and I didn't think about reconstituting it from a block until it was too late.
:mad:

Next time I make this (yes, it was good) I think I will try 50:50 almond/coconut and maybe a tsp of vanilla essence.

Gloomendoom

DEBTMONKEY1A wrote: »

Anyone care to advise? E-mailed web-site but no reply...thanks!!

Try this bread-even at 58.5 you'll get ten thick slices at 5.8/slice!

It's a tricky one. Mrs G was trying to work out the carb content of one of her recipes. It was all going well until she stumbled across some research that suggested that the carbs made up of fibre should be ignored as they are not actually digested by the body. It made the whole process of interpreting the nutritional info on the various ingredients that much harder.

sistercas

been so bad over the weekend chocolate , sweets , pancakes ( yummy ) and ice cream , i couldnt stop . been good so far today , there was even a buffet at work and thankfully they bought meat and bread seperately( no prepacked sandwches ) so i had turkey , beef, salad, a babybel , pate and tomatoes. :A
about to go and cut the grass , that will be my exercise for today

hope everyones ok xx

DEBTMONKEY1A

That recipe....baked a new loaf on wholewheat-large setting, light crust (about 3 hrs 50 mins)-rose SUPERBLY!. Will reduce water by say 30ml as top collapsed a bit. SO light....got an e-mail back for the New Zealand site-it IS 25 net carbs per loaf-2.5 a slice! Tastes fab-now i have an electric knife I'll slice & freeze...wish I had a ddata lead-would upload a pic!!!

I Honestly wouldn't tell the difference between this & normal bread if toasted-fresh theres a very 'slight' chewiness-but hardly perceptable. I put 1/2 tsp xantham gum in (not sure if it needed it) which apperently helps it not collapse. I'M SO CHUFFED!

mazzers

DEBTMONKEY1A wrote: »

I'M SO CHUFFED!

It's a lovely feeling when something turns out well

I've not been lc-ing of late but will have to give that a go.. well done, pity about a pic.

SHEILA54

DEBTMONKEY1A wrote: »

That recipe....baked a new loaf on wholewheat-large setting, light crust (about 3 hrs 50 mins)-rose SUPERBLY!. Will reduce water by say 30ml as top collapsed a bit. SO light....got an e-mail back for the New Zealand site-it IS 25 net carbs per loaf-2.5 a slice! Tastes fab-now i have an electric knife I'll slice & freeze...wish I had a ddata lead-would upload a pic!!!

I Honestly wouldn't tell the difference between this & normal bread if toasted-fresh theres a very 'slight' chewiness-but hardly perceptable. I put 1/2 tsp xantham gum in (not sure if it needed it) which apperently helps it not collapse. I'M SO CHUFFED!

Really pleased for you as it's good when something works out, tastes good and is low carb. Would like to try but has gluten and flax. Waiting to try a coconut flour loaf when the flour arrives.

mazzers - not heard much from you - how are you doing?

daska - your recipe looks good but contains milk, which I am avoiding. Could it be made with cream? Glad that Splenda is not causing side effects.

hannoja - well done with the exercise. How are the kids doing?

alias & focus888 - have you weighed yet?

sunnyday - how is hubby today and are you feeling any better?

sistercas - sounds like a blow out at the weekend but maybe it will do some good.

To all I have not mentioned as the post would be too long:wave:

Bought coconut oil from holland and barratt & could eat 2 tbsp with one of the choclate cupcakes.

Weigh day tomorrow.

Lovely day, doesn't it make a difference x

focus888

Evening all hope you all having a good Monday and good start to the week. Well better than mine as been in bed pretty much all day conked out to the world. Been really really unwell recently (nothing to do with lc) think i drank too much on Friday night and made myself ill.

Weighed myself today and proud to report a loss of 10.5lbs in one week. i am so happy with this result. i know i wont be able to keep this up but i am just happy i made a lil dent in how much i have to lose overall.

Loving the recipes being posted on here, will wait to use them a lil later on in my journey as right now i dont have much self control when it comes to food which i have to limit. From past experience i have always had a weakness for nuts, i know i can have it in proportions but i never did and ended up eating way too many carbs because of it. so this time really cutting the carbs for while to get used to it before re-introducing higher carb food groups. x

SHEILA54

Well done for weight loss:T and get well soon.

DEBTMONKEY1A

sheila54-u can buy coconut flour at holland & barrets!

daska

SHEILA54 wrote: »

daska - your recipe looks good but contains milk, which I am avoiding. Could it be made with cream? Glad that Splenda is not causing side effects.

I suspect it will prove a very forgiving recipe. I'm not sure I'd use all cream but watered down would be fine, water would probably be ok for those looking to make it slightly less rich and I suspect coconut milk would work for people avoiding dairy.

As I said, my original plan had been to serve it with whipped coconut cream and I would have skimmed the cream off a can of milk and used the remaining liquid in the clafoutis - but where we are a tiny Holland and Barrett is about as exciting as it gets and all the major brands are chock full of xanthan gum etc.