Looking for a really nice low carb recipe

[Caz]

My boyfriend is doing Exante (a VLCD) but is coming to visit me this weekend and has decided to have a meal on the Friday and Saturday night. I was thinking that if I make it relatively low carb then he's likely to stay in ketosis or be not far out of it. I do calorie counting so I know how to make things low calorie but I don't really know about low carb. It'll be our first home cooked meal rather than out so I want to make something really nice. Any suggestions? It can be up to 10g of carbs.

 

[reluctant_whale]

I would go for a lamb or pork chop with cauliflower mash and string beans - the recipe for cauli mash is all over the internet - and it is absolutely delicious. I add a clove of roasted garlic to give it even more flavour. Butter your string beans and pan fry your chop. Pile it up in a bit "stack" he will think you are a chef

I can't really help you with the low calorie aspect as I am afraid most Atkins recipes seem pretty hellish to calorie counters (they did to me initially but now it works id never go back to low fat!)

 

[Caz]

I'm not too bothered about the low calorie bit as I can work the calories in to my day either by eating less during the day or doing more exercise It's the fat aspect of Atkins that puts me off!

I might give cauliflower mash a go at some point this week, see if I like it first. I used to hate cauliflower! Thanks for the idea

 

[reluctant_whale]

My OH HATES cauliflower too but he LOVES Cauli mash - it's all we have now and he isn't on Atkins. Can understand why the high fat puts you off but on Atkins eating fat burns fat - and it works. It took me a while to get my head around it as I came from Weight Watchers but I am glad I did

 

[dizzydawnie]

the cauliflower mash is fabulous and it doesn't taste like cauli, its like proper mash (I put a drizzle of cream and a pinch of grated cheese in mine) and has the consistency of proper mash too, its fab!!

 

[Caz]

I might give it a try, thanks

 

[boggins]

There's a recipes thread in the stickies at the top there, have a look.

I've been slow roasting things recently, with great success. Pork shoulder, whole chicken, lamb shank. Might be a bit loooong to wait for dinner though.

Baking or pan-frying salmon with a cream sauce is quicker and very tasty, serve with whatever veg you like (I use green beans).

 

[Caz]

I'm going to do the pork and cauliflower mash with green beans. Still got a few more calories to fill though, what other veg do you think would be good that's low carb?

 

[reluctant_whale]

If you look on the sticky there are lists of all the low carb veg - maybe you could cook your pork with some chopped onions - will make the gravy taste nom

 

[Caz]

Turns out that I should be aiming for under 10g of carbs in each meal, the pork, cauli mash and string beans is 15g and so is the chicken and broccoli stir fry I had planned. Back to the drawing board then!

 

[Quak]

When I was doing my add a meal weeks I kept it fairly straightforward, chicken and salad being a favourite, when you are on the sachets, ANY food just tastes so good, so don't worry about being too creative xx

 

[europabug]

Roast chicken is both lean and low carb. roast some carrot and boil some broccoli to go with it and use the chicken juice with a bit of bisto as a thickener for gravy. If you want a carb sustitute, celariac is good mashed, though i don't know what carbs it will be.

Bare in mind, if he has been doing a VLCD he will probably not be able to eat very much anyway especially if he has been on a liquid diet!

X

 

[Caz]

Thanks for all the advice, has really helped.

I made pork, apple and sage burgers yesterday, with fine beans, broccoli and salad. Today I'm making salmon and prawn in a ricotta sauce with courgette 'linguine' which I found on the thread here.

 

[autumnbabe]

Sound lovely. what time shall i be there. Lol.

 

[Caz]

I'm afraid it all got eaten! They seemed to be a success though

 

[autumnbabe]

Fantastic it did sound lovely. Glad it was a hit.