Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

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Thank you, I'm going to make that tonight, veggie DD will love it I hope!

Yes loopy I simply spirilised 1large sweet potato and fried in in a touch of oil for 2 minutes. The reaction was 'can we have this again?' From DGSs and DH.

Did you make the pasta Anya? Sounds delicious.

Just made spag bol with sweet potato pasta. Very simple and tasty. Both GS1 and GS3 demolished it! Never seen plates emptied so quickly and completely with calls for more

ooh, marshmallows...

I usually have a small handful of mixed fruit and nuts after my evening meal. DBH has a packet of finely chopped dates to add to his, I dare not! Luckily I don't actually like his chopped dates, they really are very dried up. I do however love fresh dates. The pineapple acted like a switch, it instantly turned off my craving for sweet stuff or crisps or any of the other demons I have to fight before bed. It will be interesting to see if it works as well tonight, as I am usually ravenous when I get back from choir.

Well you get some (marshmallow style) delayed gratification from the bits that get stuck to your teeth!

Respect Mamie

How can anyone eat just ONE date? That's willpower indeed. I'd always be thinking 'there's more where that came from' as sadly I do have a very sweet tooth.

Yesterday I had a cake craving when I made my afternoon cuppa so satisfied it with a few slices of apple cubes of cheddar cheese.

I don't have a sweet tooth so it doesn't happen very often thank goodness.

I must check out my tub of dried fruit!

We are having paella too! Mostly squid and prawns from the freezer as they won't be out catching much fish at the moment...
If I feel a need for something sweet I eat a date.

Merlot Goat's cheese and beetroot are amazing together. Must try chilli sauce with it next.

I was reading that 'courgetti' is best quick fried in oil for a minute or two and added to stir fries at the last minutes....so that's Plan B. Plan C is to add it raw.

Tonight it's paella made with carrot and cauliflower rice and then all the usual ingredients.

Just spiralised an apple for GD2, for a fun way to eat it.

Jane I'm having the odd cake/sugar craving too and I'm dealing with it by looking in the calendar to see when the next birthday/feast day/bank holiday/Diwali/etc is, there's usually one each month so I promise myself I'll have something then instead. It's breaking the 'instant gratification' urge and replacing it with 'deferred gratification' - a kind of Marshmallow Test for old folk grown ups

Beetroot, spiralised,(raw) with loads of chopped mint is lovely. Oil, lemon and salt and pepper.

I had a real craving for cake recently, and was getting fed up with the fruit I was buying. DBH bought me home two pineapples today! I had a slice after tea, and it has completely killed off my cravings, thank goodness.

Oh that sounds yummy Merlot. Love beetroot and goat's cheese together. Tomorrow we are having chicken and spiralizer middle-bit-leftovers soup for lunch!

I didn't cook it first, just added it raw to the sauce and warmed it through.
The apple worked, but shan't try the spiralizer with celery again!

It would probably be better stir-fried raw, Anya but my spiraliser didn't turn up today so I haven't had a chance to experiment yet.

Thanks for the link, janer. I've bookmarked it.

Since starting this diet I've stumbled across some lovely flavour combinations. My current favourite is baked beetroot, goats cheese and chilli sauce.

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Bit of a soggy disaster with courgette spaghetti added toy stir fry. Was it a mistake to steam it first, would it be better added raw????

Was pleased with today's lunchtime salad which was sort of Waldorfy. Celery, apple (spiralized), walnuts, avocado, baby tomatoes, cold chicken in a mayo / yoghurt dressing on a bed of salad leaves.
Tonight is sausages (chipolata 100% pork from the butcher) with cauli mash and braised spinach.

People might find this article useful, on how to keep and store spiralised veg.

www.inspiralized.com/2013/10/04/ground-rules-spiralizing-and-storing-noodles/

It's a good way to eat more veg, less carbs. Most people find it quite hard to eat as many veg as they should. Spiralisers slice veg lengthways into a veggie type of pasta. Lightly cooked, it's a good way of increasing the amount of veg you eat.

For a lasagne, you can cut leeks lengthways and blanch them, flatten them out and layer them up as you would the pasta sheets.

Yes spiralised veg can taste different eg raw beetroot, carrot, sweet potato can be tossed in a touch of sesame oil with fresh ground pepper and quickly roasted in the oven. Served hot or left to go cold.

I presume that vegetables are less filling than carbs (although take longer to eat?) so I will eat more to fill myself up granjura, or is that wishful thinking!

Someone on this thread said some similar about cooking courgetti with a sauce but it not being filling.

I have done a sort of version of my recipe ages ago using a julienne device. Oh didn't like it although I did! It was very labour intensive tat way.

I'll let you know when I've tried it tomorrow!
Home made chicken curry tonight.

Not sure I understand your post, sorry? A chunk of cucumber can be eaten in one bite- but a spiral will take more 'work' and time (not that it matters much with cucumber, lol- but perhaps with carrots due to sugar content. With a spiral doodah, you could have a very full looking plate- perhaps double or more if it was not spiralled- and would take about twice as long to eat. So win win.