Low-carb diets support thread

marrbett

Afternoon all,
I'm just back from our home-ed group, and have been raving on evangelically about low-carbing!! One mum said she could see I've changed shape over the month(hurrah!) and another mum has a daughter who has mild epilepsy, so I was telling her about LCing.
Another mum needs to lose weight, so I told her all about it.I've been spreading the word!!!
The only drawback to LCing for me is the cost of groceries, we all said how much more you spend when LCing, so we're having a mums get-together in June to discuss all about it and how do make it cheaper!!
Devildog, so sorry to hear about your dog. I hope the end to any suffering is swift.

confused76

ahh thanks skymist i'm over the moon....

yeay marrbett, it's great to spread the word! :j

Skymist

confused76 wrote: »

ahh thanks skymist i'm over the moon....

I meant that I hope you're not in bits and floods of tears, and that your dog is not suffering too much or in a lot of pain!

S

Gray_Malkin

Smudge the cat thanks you all for your good wishes:kisses:
She is currently reclining on the bed recovering. My debit card, however, may not be so lucky :eek:

I'm having one more go at low carb bread. This time foccacia style flax bread. I hope it works out with all those ingredients - a whole packet of flax meal and five eggs amongst other things!

I shall hopefully report back after the bun-fight.

sistercas

havent read back over the thread yet as work has been manic and today i have been trying to catch up at home . i am eating badly again , having a complete carb fest i think i had had an epiphany though as to why i do this, i think i stuff myself with carbs A, when im really really tired ( like now) B when i feel unappreciated by the family ( like now) and C when i have PMS ( not now)
I need to address these somehow to try and get myself back to lcarbing because inevitably one or 2 of these reasons are happening most of the time so i need to deal with them without resorting to comfort foods

I wont write what ive eaten today , you would all keel over in shock

Edwardia

marrbett there are a few videos on ketogenic and low carb diets for childhood epilepsy on YouTube from doctors.

I don't think LC is more expensive if the entire family is doing it. Thing is that for families, the kids want some control over what they eat and will happily eat the rubbish their friends are eating. They don't want to be different. Different kids get bullied.

I was reading a letter in the Evening Standard this week about a primary school whose parent-governors wanted to change their packed lunch policy to encourage healthier eating eg fruit not crisps. They were told that the school wouldn't do this, because poorer parents can't afford fruit - complete patronising rubbish. A bag of apples costs less than a pint of beer, in any case.

OH has gone lower carb and additive free as much as he can and is now buying joints to roast, to go in his wholemeal rolls. Works out cheaper than buying 3 slices of beef for 3.20 in ASDA ! Prosciutto di Parma is only 1.99 in Lidl and is additive free.

sistercas - knowing why and when you lapse is half the battle. What you need are low carb snack ideas.

My suggestions are:

bowl of strawberries and cream
tub of clotted cream
2 scoops (ONLY) Wall's Classics Cornish ice cream or Kelly's of Cornwall Cornish clotted cream ice cream
ONE plain digestive biscuit with a mug of tea
Lindt Excellence 90% cocoa chocolate (if you pig out it's not a disaster as the whole bar is only 14g carbs)
shell-on prawns
pistachios
carrot sticks with houmous (lowest carb shop bought one is essentialWaitrose)
bowl of salad with home made dressing or full fat Hellmann's
cottage cheese in ham and rolled up
cottage cheese or Greek yogurt with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or blackberries stirred in
hardboiled quail's eggs
mini Babybel cheeses
couple of fried eggs with a pile of mushrooms or an omelette if really hungry

sure other people can come up with more !

marrbett

Edwardia wrote: »

marrbett there are a few videos on ketogenic and low carb diets for childhood epilepsy on YouTube from doctors.

I don't think LC is more expensive if the entire family is doing it. Thing is that for families, the kids want some control over what they eat and will happily eat the rubbish their friends are eating. They don't want to be different. Different kids get bullied.

I was reading a letter in the Evening Standard this week about a primary school whose parent-governors wanted to change their packed lunch policy to encourage healthier eating eg fruit not crisps. They were told that the school wouldn't do this, because poorer parents can't afford fruit - complete patronising rubbish. A bag of apples costs less than a pint of beer, in any case.

OH has gone lower carb and additive free as much as he can and is now buying joints to roast, to go in his wholemeal rolls. Works out cheaper than buying 3 slices of beef for 3.20 in ASDA ! Prosciutto di Parma is only 1.99 in Lidl and is additive free.

I hear ya Edwardia, I really do. We home ed our 4 kids (so less peer pressure regarding what they eat)and they have always eaten home-made 'nutritious'(or so I thought!!) food, but that meant not so much meat, lots of pasta and jacket potato meals!!! That's why LCing for us is more expensive, I wasn't buying the carp/crisps/ready made stuff, but was bulking out stews with oats/lentils/dumplings.....cheap fillers really.
Now , everyone is having a cooked breakfast(do you know how many eggs I get through a day!!!), meat/tinned fish and salad for lunch(some still have sandwiches) and protein and veg for dinner. Everyone also loves the berries in greek yog,sprinkled with blanched almonds and sesame seeds!!!!
Lovely stuff, but no cheap fillers!!
Anyway, I'm not really complaining, still finding my way round this whole subject, but am fascinated by it all.

Edwardia

On the phone. typing one fingered so just quickly .. we do celeriac and fennel mash, turnip mash and swede oven chips.. also a dish called pot au feu which is really filling, lots of veg with cheese on top..you can also do vegetable bakes with cheese and ham or bacon and sliced veg. Try Iceland or Poundland, you should be able to find a tray of eggs for 99p/£1

sistercas

OMG i have the most terrible heart burn right now :eek: I never have heart burn when i low carb , it just goes to show
edwardia thankyou for those suggestions thats so kind of you , thats what i love about this thread , there is always someone to pull you up again x

im going to have a ham salad for tea and some greek yoghurt with a few strawberries.

I do find it expensive when i'm lcing but thats because i am buying lc stuff for me and carby stuff for everyone else, twice the expense and i end up cooking different meals too , although i do try and keep them similar
im lucky that a local farm supplies us with fresh eggs and milk which is not too expensive
. and we have lovely farm shops for local meat but its too dear for me to buy right now. - one day i hope to buy all my meat from them

Edwardia

Well that learned ya

(((sistercas))) happy to help, am sure we all are.

sistercas and marbett low carbing isn't expensive if you're all doing it, but if you're the only one then yes I agree.

If you're in charge of the food budget then I'd suggest telling em that there's a recession on and cutting down on the number of breakfast cereals. Always buying tea and coffee on offer saves money. Lidl has really good quality veg, foreign cheeses are cheap, you'll find lots of deli meats and pickles for packed lunches.

I'd suggest mysupermarket.co.uk and supermarket websites to look at offers, I found it too much to do them all on my blog and repeat on MSE all by myself.

Recipe stealth.. there are loads of low carb recipes/recipes that adapt out there, Suggest starting with own cook books then photocopying low carb library books or looking at supermarket recipes.

Here's where Evernote gets useful, you can use the freebie version and bookmark them - even email files, photos of products and handwritten notes to Evernote www.evernote.com soon you'll have loads - I've got 200 recipes on my blog now in 2 months. If it looks great and tastes great will they twig it's low carb, probably not.