Low-carb diets support thread

murphydog999

Butternut squash soup recipe - easily adaptable.

!/2 onion
2 cloves garlic,
2 rashers streaky bacon (finely chopped)
1/2 red chilli (optional)
thyme and oregano
4 baby leeks (equiv to 1/4 normal size leek)
Butter or coconut oil.
S & P to taste.

Fry off bacon till starting to colour, add herbs chilli, onion, after a couple of minutes add garlic (it will colour too much otherwise). 5 mins later add chopped squash, add chicken or veg stock. Boil 'til tender. Take off the heat

Add a good splosh of cream, pulverise with a hand blender or liquidiser until smooth, check seasoning, serve and add crispy bacon bits on top with a swirl of cream if you fancy. (I often add some cooked prawns if I want a bit of extra protein, or some chopped turkey.)

You could actually roast the squash beforehand it will deepen the flavour, great if you have got something else in the oven, but not totally necessary.

Nothing is exact, but that's the beauty of soups.

SHEILA54

Thanks everyone who has posted great recipes and ideas to make food taste yummy :T

sweet - if it is hard for you to sort out a menu then tell us what you have / what you like and maybe we can help you?

Have a good evening x

Mercy

Hello there

I've updated the recipe list on page 1 but if I have missed a fave and you can pm me the post number and page, I'll put any other one suggested up too. :beer:

We now have

Audrey's cauliflower hummus
murphdog's links to biscuits / crackers
and Butternut Squash Soup
andrewsmum's baked swede
and CHEESE SCONES!!!!!
daska's fridge raiders

Please don't think I'll have a problem if a recipe appears and you instantly pm me to put it on the list. I will have no problem with that. Indeed, I thank you in advance for bothering :j We are all busy. I keep a pad beside the pc and note down post numbers if I realise what I'm reading. :rotfl:

I want the list to be HUGE and comprehensive. :j :rotfl:

Do help me out as it is for us all. :A

Big love
MXXX

Mercy

aliasojo wrote: »

Well I've had .....

a cheese omellette, 2 bowls of pea and mint soup and a bowl of ham and veg mush (consists of a diced gammon steak, mushrooms and grated cauli all kinda stir fried in together with a small amout of grated cheese chucked on top)...looks dodgy but tastes just fine. :rotfl:

I have no idea how many carbs all that would have been but I know it's a lot better than the last 3 days worth of eating crap.

Now I want chocolate.

Well, hunni, that's the point.:) Don't fret over pulses and good veg just for now. Start easy like by following Dr Dahlqvist's plan - link on page one. Don't do anything more than that for at least 4 weeks. No pressure, no need to lose a stone in 7 days. :eek:
Give it a read and relax. Once you are happy with that as a lifestyle alter as necessary.

We love you and want you to succeed. :beer::j:D So don't punish yourself by 'dieting'. Simply eat better. If after 4 weeks of chillin with Dr Dahlqvist you don't feel better and have not lost some weight, I will personally go on the Cambridge diet. :eek::eek::eek:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lurve you hun, don't make me do it

Mxxx

Mercy

Singing to aliasojo is a thing we do

She was a fat girl
Her name was JoJo
She went with Dahlqvist
A Doctor we know
Her life became sublime
Fat melted off in time

Her name was JoJo
She was a dancer.......:j

Mwah X

MXXX

aliasojo

Mercy wrote: »

If after 4 weeks of chillin with Dr Dahlqvist you don't feel better and have not lost some weight, I will personally go on the Cambridge diet. :eek::eek::eek:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lurve you hun, don't make me do it

Mxxx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That was so supportive Merc. It made me smile so much so, that the bag of Wispa chunks I had hidden down the side of the couch (:o) have now been given to daughter with not one of them passing my lips. :rotfl:

('Tis ok though...you don't have to sing. No honestly, you don't. :rotfl:)

Mercy

sweetserendipity wrote: »

SHEILA, I'm convinced my carb-fest has triggered the painful ankles again. When I was LCing I was fine, although I didn't actually realise this until I fell off the wagon & the pain returned with a vengeance. It was a case of not realising I was ok until I wasn't, iyswim??

Anyway, I'm slowly but surely getting back to the LC way of thinking. I've already bought a few LC items, just need to do a meal plan (been saying this for weeks ), buy a few more things & away I go...

Maybe you too, as well as alias should just start it off Dr Dahlqvist's way? Why try to fit a program? You two are both revisitors to this Way Of Eating so why jump in at the deep end?

Just get used to feeling better.

Love you as well babelicious and it'd be nice if you found a way where you could keep it going easily. Dr D makes it simple and relaxingly easy to do. You can always ramp it up if you choose, but in the mean time just chill and feel better.

Mwah X

Mx

Mercy

aliasojo wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That was so supportive Merc. It made me smile so much so, that the bag of Wispa chunks I had hidden down the side of the couch (:o) have now been given to daughter with not one of them passing my lips. :rotfl:

('Tis ok though...you don't have to sing. No honestly, you don't. :rotfl:)

Praps as well as I bring pigeons off buildings with my vocal efforts. :rotfl:

Mxxx

Mercy

sweetserendipity wrote: »

Aww, alias I'm sorry you've fallen off the wagon Really hope you manage to get back on. I'm experiencing the worst symptoms after stopping LCing - my ankle joints are so painful I can barely walk sometimes & you don't want to know about my gut problems

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Stop eating wheat for 1 week.

See how you feel.

Mxxx

Mercy

Originally Posted by Mercy
Started eating more weds and another pound has dropped off

Eat enough of the good things.

Well done on the lb off & the not smoking, you're doing so well!! Absolutely agree with the "eating enough of the good things".

Thanks for that sweetserendipity, my sweet.

Since I had a scare (March ish? ) where they thought I'd had a stroke but as I hadn't and they said it must have been a virus, I had to think about things.

I had so many blood tests over a few weeks that when they all came back as OK, and my brain scan said it was normal (:mad: always thort I was special - heyho) I had a need to keep it all that way. :rotfl:

So the fags went as did the booze for 5/7. Glad I did both as I'd've put on more weight otherwise :rotfl:

Then the pounds came on 8 weeks after stopping fags. At that point I was on <20g carbs a day.

Needed a shake up and Dukan has worked for me weightwise, though I'm still learning. Need to eat enough whether I'm hungry or not, apparently :rotfl:

Striving in a mild way to lose 2 stone, 10lbs gone so far.

Hasn't helped that I had Birthday 26/7 and did my back in for a week 5-10/8 and now find I've been eating too little :rotfl:

That all said, I'm losing. :j I can see that 1st stone on my personal horizon and if it takes me 3 or 4 weeks then so what?

In all the recent putting on and taking back off, I've settled each time quickly at 9lbs off.

Moving further off but a plateau for whatever reason, is a chance for this poor old system of mine to get used to being smaller

I love every one of the lovely low carbers here. :beer:

MXXX