low carb

I want to do that, too, but I'll wait until February as there are too many anniversaries in January.

I am not doing dry January because of what anyone has said , I am doing it because I want shift some of this damn weight , It is getting on my pip a bit .

Thought so. Not doing dry January, as I will not be told what to do by anyone, but still too early in the day.
Anyone who can have deliveries from Waitrose, they are giving a free bottle of Champagne for all orders in January. We drank ours last night, and very nice it was, too!

It sure is durham , , oh no just remembered dry January . Damn !

Don't like to say, but isn't alcohol pure carbohydrate?

I was wondering what to use instead, I suppose I may need to try the recipe out with sugar on the males, and with stevia or something for me to see what difference it makes to the texture. Maybe ground almonds would fix it, but only half a cup.

I'm a little hesitant to use Splenda in large amounts. Just don't like it.

Repeat...I've never actually tried that recipe. Let me know if it works or is even half way decent.

Wow from me too about the cookies! I'm on very low carbs at the moment. Weight-wise it's working, but it's hard to resist the occasional craving for something sweet. The cookies sound just the job

I'll try the cake recipe too for DD2 and her family. She's on a reasonably low carb diet and is also gluten intolerant, but it should be OK with gluten free flour.

Wow. I am on a lowish carb diet and those sound perfect.

I would also add a friend's fruit cake which does have flour, but very little, no egg, no fat, no sugar. It tastes a bit like an extremely fruity bread pudding and of course it does have loads of dried fruit, but it lasts for ages and you only need a thin slice.

Sugar free Fruit Cake

6 0z flour
3 teaspoons Baking powder
2 oz ground almonds
2 teaspoons Mixed Spice
1 lb mixed fruit
4 0z Dates
4 oz dried apricots
grated rind of an orange
1/2 pint of water (alcohol if required added to make up the water)
2 tablespoons of Orange juice

Soak fruit over night in liquid
Add dry ingredients and stir well
2 lb loaf tin. for 1 and 1/2 hours at 160 c. Cover for the last hour.

Freezes well too.

Can use any combination of dried fruit that you choose.

I add lots of cinnamon and nutmeg and glace cherries and stuff at xmas to make a healthier xmas cake, with alcohol and orange juice instead of water.

Maybe the flour could be reduced and more ground almonds substituted, I shall have to try that.

Flourless Sugar Free Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies

Minutes to Prepare: 5
Minutes to Cook: 10
Number of Servings: 12

Ingredients

1 Cup Natural Peanut Butter
1 Cup Splenda
1 Large Egg
1 Cap Vanilla Extract
Pinch Salt

Directions

Mix Everything together. Place in 1 tbsp. mounds on a cookie sheet. Bake until lightly brown around the edges.
Makes 12 Peanut Butter Cookies

Number of Servings: 12

Not guaranteeing these, best try first!!

I don't think low carb cookies would be be achievable bichonmad because of the flour and sugar. His treats could include some avocados, a vacuum pack of smoked mackerel or a box of free range eggs maybe?