Being the over achiever that I am, I tend to very quickly learn about anything that I wish. Lately, it's been diabetes and low carb living.
I've been reading a lot about low carb eating and there is much evidence that says it's actually the way we should be eating as a general way of life. I'm not going to get preachy because gee... it's been there all the time and I sure didn't embrace it before now either. I just hadn't done too much of the research before now, so while I had an overall knowledge that yea, I shouldn't eat all that bad processed food, restaurant foods, fast foods, it's a little different when you actually do some of the research.
So.. the diet. I have accumulated some low carb cook books by Dana Carpender so far. I have Jennifer Eloff's cookbooks in my sites right now as well. I've been stalking several blogs and websites - LowCarbFriends being one of them. Tons of good information out there.
There are some really good low carb foods products available that is making life a little easier during this transition. Many of them are available only online, but some can be found at Whole Foods or Central Market, even HEB has a few.
Alternate Flours - flaxseed meal, almond flour, coconut flour, whole wheat pastry flour, etc.
Alternate Sugars - Splenda, Erythritol, Xylitol, Truvia
Low Carb Pastas - Angel Hair, Spaghetti, Elbow noodles, etc.
Sunday - I made some kick butt wings that everyone in the family LOVED! They were gone very quickly.
Monday - I made a quiche lorraine and a great spinach salad with a wonderful balsamic vinegar dressing. Net Carbs: 15 because I used a regular flour pie crust which had 11 carbs per slice. Next time, I will either do it crustless or try a LC pie crust recipe. Rachel and I loved it the most. Stephen wasn't a huge fan because I snuck some spinach in there. John liked it but probably not quite filling enough for him.
Tuesday - I experimented with a couple One Minute Muffins which were really so impressing and allowed me to have a "bread" for breakfast this morning that was only 2 carbs. One was a flax seed based bread that I toasted and put two fried eggs over to eat. Wow... was good. The other was almond flour based bread that I toasted and just put butter on it. Yummy and sweet. I tried both versions just to be able to compare the differences.
Tonight - I made beef stroganoff with low carb pasta and some really good parmesan spaghetti squash. Net carbs: 16
My goal is to try a good deal of low carb recipes to find ones that please my family and fit in my world for the most part. I'm also happy to add on some carby items for the rest of them when needed. I just want to make sure I can get comfortable with the cooking, have the ingredients I need on hand and have a few go to recipes so that I'm not tempted to eat something I shouldn't on days/evenings when no one feels like cooking! I also will, hopefully, get John in on the cooking part of it. He's sooooo good about cooking and I really love that!! But... we just have to make it low carb at this point.
Not sure yet what is on tap for tomorrow... I'm still on medical leave from the surgery in December, so I have all day (by myself!) to figure it out! I think I may try to make some low carb bread and crackers. We'll see!!
MA
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