Is all food carbohydrate?

slemons

Fup me, but it seems that way.
Im home at the parents for the weekend and there literaly nothing in the house bar carbs.
Some eggs and cheese aside, that it...

So it has me thinking. Can we get together a list of recipe's for fat and protein rich meals that are low on carbs?

I usually go with:
Chicken fajita's
Chicken ommelette's
Cottage cheese
Baked fish with lemon and garlic
Seed and nut mix.
Some kind of mince dish burrito's, bolognese etc
Coconut oil, with a spoon. Yum!
Boiled eggs with cheese and milk. yummy

Anything else tasty?

Im trying to put together a simple diet, where pretty much all my carbs come from brocolli, cabbage, carrots etc.
Id love to ditch bread and anything else grain based, if i just had the options...

Help appreciated...
Thanks
John

LeggyBrunette

Homemade Turkey/Beef burgers, Turkey/Beef meatballs with homemade tomato meatball sauce.

Chicken/Beef/Turley mince stirfry.

Beef Stew (use oxo cubes) without spuds.

Tofu/Smoked Tofu.

Beef/chicken stirfried, and put in a lettuce 'cup' intead of a wrap, with green salad.

EileenG

All meat, fish, fowl, eggs.

Most cheese except processed cheese.

Any green or leafy or salad veg: aubergine, avocado, asparagus, broccoli, beetroot greens, bokchoy, brussels spourts, beansprouts, cabbage, courgettes, cucucmber, chard, cauliflower, celery, celeriac, dandelion, endive, fennel, green beans, garlic, kale, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, mangetout, olives, peppers, pumpkin, rhubarb, radish, spinach, spring onion, baby sweetcorn, sugar snaps, turnip tops, turnips, watercress. (There are more, those are off the top of my head)

Most berries: raspberries, strawberries, billberries, gooseberries, raw cranberries, tayberries, logenberries, blueberries, red currents, white currents, blackcurrents, blackberries.

Most nuts and seeds: almond, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, coconuts, walnuts, flaxseeds, peanuts etc.

floggg

slemons wrote: »

Fup me, but it seems that way.
Im home at the parents for the weekend and there literaly nothing in the house bar carbs.
Some eggs and cheese aside, that it...

So it has me thinking. Can we get together a list of recipe's for fat and protein rich meals that are low on carbs?

I usually go with:
Chicken fajita's
Chicken ommelette's
Cottage cheese
Baked fish with lemon and garlic
Seed and nut mix.
Some kind of mince dish burrito's, bolognese etc
Coconut oil, with a spoon. Yum!
Boiled eggs with cheese and milk. yummy

Anything else tasty?

Im trying to put together a simple diet, where pretty much all my carbs come from brocolli, cabbage, carrots etc.
Id love to ditch bread and anything else grain based, if i just had the options...

Help appreciated...
Thanks
John

Chicken fajitas - isn't the wrap a fair lump of carbs? Same goes for the burritos.

I presume the bolognese is spaghetti free?

EileenG

Most ordinary meals can be made low carb by replacing the pasta/rice/spuds with green veg. Mashed cauliflower is a good substitute for things like pasta and rice in curry and bogolonese.

Bog Butter

Sardines/tuna with baby spinach/rocket/iceberg lettue, baby tomatoes, sweet corn and red pepper. I like to flavour that with black peppercorn too. Perhaps also a drizzle of olive oil if I may be so bold.

dlofnep

Bacon omelette too, make sure you grill the bacon first and remove the fat. The low carb diet is a real tough one to maintain. I'd rather a low-fat, high protein diet with regular excercise. Much more beneficial. Low-carb may shed weight faster, but you're inclined to put it back on and it's a much tougher diet to keep up.

Bog Butter

EileenG wrote: »

Most ordinary meals can be made low carb by replacing the pasta/rice/spuds with green veg. Mashed cauliflower is a good substitute for things like pasta and rice in curry and bogolonese.

Mashed cauliflower, hmm I might try that. I like to steam my vegtables and I have taken to trowing some garlic powder in while they are steaming to give some extra flavour.

Bog Butter

I used to have a big appitite but not so much anymore since I eased up on the carbs.

EileenG

dlofnep wrote: »

Bacon omelette too, make sure you grill the bacon first and remove the fat. The low carb diet is a real tough one to maintain. I'd rather a low-fat, high protein diet with regular excercise. Much more beneficial. Low-carb may shed weight faster, but you're inclined to put it back on and it's a much tougher diet to keep up.

Speak for yourself. If I never have to eat another bowl of brown rice, I'll die happy.

However, while bacon omlettes are undoubtedly low carb, I'd much rather have an omlette with piles of mushroom and spinach, and maybe a sprinkle of goat's cheese. Bacon is a very processed meat that should be treated with caution.

floggg

malman wrote: »

Sardines/tuna with baby spinach/rocket/iceberg lettue, baby tomatoes, sweet corn and red pepper. I like to flavour that with black peppercorn too. Perhaps also a drizzle of olive oil if I may be so bold.

Sounds like my lunch. I tend to add in a hard boiled egg and a small bit of mayo (just to spice things up a bit)

Scrambbled eggs with cherry tomatoes and scallions and chopped chicken breast.

chicken and veg stirfry. if you're not too worried about overall cals and fats, throw in some coconut milk, some chilli, and some lime.

beef chilli with lots of veg - no rice.

Your regular meat and two veg dinner, with a lump of corn on the cob instead of spuds. You eat with your eyes so it looks like you're getting a bigger lump of food than you are.

Bog Butter

floggg wrote: »

Sounds like my lunch. I tend to add in a hard boiled egg and a small bit of mayo (just to spice things up a bit)

Scrambbled eggs with cherry tomatoes and scallions and chopped chicken breast.

chicken and veg stirfry. if you're not too worried about overall cals and fats, throw in some coconut milk, some chilli, and some lime.

beef chilli with lots of veg - no rice.

Your regular meat and two veg dinner, with a lump of corn on the cob instead of spuds. You eat with your eyes so it looks like you're getting a bigger lump of food than you are.

Unfortunately I am calorie conscience. I love my stir frys too but I have taken to steaming my vege now though to cut down on the calories.

Khannie

EileenG wrote: »

Most ordinary meals can be made low carb by replacing the pasta/rice/spuds with green veg. Mashed cauliflower is a good substitute for things like pasta and rice in curry and bogolonese.

This is more or less what i do. When the family is having Spaghetti bolognese (for example) I'll just eat very little pasta, or ditch the pasta entirely and replace it with some steamed frozen veg. Of course I allow myself one piece of delicious garlic bread.

Similar story for spuds: I just ditch them entirely and have more meat and veg, or maybe have 1.