A new low-carb support thread for 2016

Barrie who?

Bit chilly here for a Barrie.

Thank you that's helpful

Queezed? Squeezed.

I just stir fry it quickly in a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper.
We are having spag bog and courgetti too tonight. Just queezed a barbie in last night before a massive storm.

So courgette it is thank you. Do you blanch it or eat it raw?

DH can have potatoes, I can't. So he would never eat them in front of me. Bless him. He has lost 7lb by just being considerate.One day we will share a bag of crisps

When spiralized with the plain blade they are called Tornado potatoes, BB, and can be cooked in the microwave on a wooden skewer for fewer calories. Still carb rich of course. GCs like doing them.

I also think courgettes make the best 'spaghetti', although have tried carrot butternut squash and celeriac. Mixed they make a colourful stir fry.

I think courgette makes the best spaghetti*whitewave*. I suppose you could do carrot but I wouldn't like that.
My DH wants to spirallized a potato and then deep fry it. " I bet it makes excellent crisps " he said. I bet it does too but we aren't having them.

What veg makes the best spaghetti - going to have lamb ragu one day this week?

Today's menu
Breakfast porridge sprinkled with ground mixed nuts
Leek and sweet potato soup
Chicken curry with nothing else as there is cauliflower and other vegetables in it.

Another thing I would like to add. We have been fiddling around with diets for ever, then DH has a heart attack and is told his blood sugar is too high.
Nothing like concentrating your mind! And suddenly given the alternative we are finding dieting really easy.

With courgetti Sorry

Mamie bit too wet and cold for the barbecue yet, but will give the cauliflower a try when it gets warmer. Spaghetti Bol tonight with . I am doing a 16: 8 today so haven't had breakfast yet only a fruit tea. Roll on 10:30

Yes , it was fish day here in the Midlands too. Salmon and pesto, with roast vegetables (onions, mushrooms and peppers). Followed by a slice of nice nutty manchego and a handful of walnuts.

Thank you BBbevan I'll try Sainsbury's.

I'd be scared it would explode whole on the barbie!

Well barley is very low GI .. I think it does take time to get going and the low GI grains are helpful. There is an interesting article on cauliflower in the Guardian today - anyone tried it cooked whole on the barbie?

Mamie not doing brilliantly temptation-wise but weight slowly creeping down nevertheless. Today succumbed to ice cream this afternoon and followed that with the barley risotto, wine and roulade....but tomorrow I will be more strict. It's going to take time for me to adjust, I can see that.....

I'm afraid we had barley risotto with chicken, leeks, peas and broad beans and Parmesan - washed down with Sauvignon Blanc, AND I had a slice of meringue roulade afterwards...and enjoyed it all. Oh dear - not a good day for low-carbs.

Not here in leafy Hertfordshire it isn't. Paprika chicken with Savoy cabbage. Lovely

Obviously fish day on the LCHF thread! All sounds delicious. Our monkfish kebabs and garlic mayo were good and (don't tell anybody), but we had six chips each (parboiled new potatoes cooked in olive oil in the oven).
In our defence we have shovelled heaven knows how many wheelbarrows of sand and cement, weeded several raised beds and mowed half an acre of grass today.

We are also having fish and cauliflower tonight - it is almost ready. Ours is salmon and haddock in a white wine sauce with cauliflower and watercress mash. Peas as side.
Kippers for breakfast and Greek salad with feta for lunch.

River walk. Sainsburys have started selling low carb stuff. Rice, courgetti etc. I didn't see any cauliflower rice but they might do it. Worth a try anyway.

Lunch today - salmon fillet and cauliflower rice. The 110g of cauliflower was sauteed in the olive oil that I'd cooked the salmon in with some past its best rocket and seasoning of salt, pepper, few chilli flakes, and pinch of zaatar.

I find the cauli quite filling and as satisfying as rice, pasta etc.

I bought 3 for the price of 2 tubs of the CR from Tesco Local (330g per tub) - the only place that I can find locally that sells it. I don't like Tesco! Does anyone know where else it's sold? Waitrose and Ocado seem not to.

Riverwalk I would just buy whole oats from a health food store (though that may be because they are hard to find in supermarkets here). They should only be a tiny part of what you are eating, though. How is the rest of it going? Are you managing to cut the carbs and eat the good fats?
Lunch is always soup or salad here and today will be a salad of avocado, leaves, walnuts, tomatoes, lardons and melted goat's cheese. Tonight will be monkfish kebabs with homemade mayo and more salad (possibly Greek salad but I haven't decided yet).

Don't overthink this. If they are 100% rolled oats that's fine.

I had posted that yesterday but it isn't there now??? How odd.

You can get pinhead and steel cut oats but they take about 30 minutes but personally there's nothing wrong with rolled oats.

Yes, but there's oats and oats.
The ones I use are nothing but oats, but they're rolled and flaked. Others are nothing but oats but are less processed and take longer to cook.