Lo-Carb Inspiration Please

[A*O]

I'm doing the pre-summer panic Lo-Carb diet which seems to be the only one that works for me as I am a hardened carb addict and usually eat WAY too much bread/pasta etc with catastrophic results.

I can/will eat pretty much anything but am finding the daily grind of grilled meat/chicken/fish with plain salad/veggies and the occasional egg and very limited fruit is getting VERY tedious (plus I am constipated to hell).

Anyone know some good lo-carb dishes (no more than 5g carb) to relieve the boredom (and maybe my bowels)??

[chuckpony]

I LOVE spaghetti squash for low carb.

[ReinaBikipatra]

Do you ever use soya powder? You can make things like cheese pancakes with them. Take a cup of cottage cheese, 6 eggs, 3 tablespoons soya powder, 3 tablespoons butter and 1 teaspoon salt. Mix to smooth in blender. Heat an olied griddle until really hot. Then cook like pancakes. The recipe makes 6 servings and each has 2.6 grams of carbs.

[A*O]

Thanks! I'll try those. There's an excellent UK product, sadly not available in Oz, called Quorn. It's a kinda of TVP (textured vegetable protein) basically made from mushrooms and made into mince, burgers, sausages, etc. Some of the Quorn "TV dinners" are really good. Oh well.

[Grove]

try eating 'exotic' meats...you know different kinds of fish, maybe small game? oysters, sea food etc

[A*O]

Good idea! I'll go and shoot me a 'roo.

[SVZ]

oooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! i want the pouch

[Glasgow53]

I love spaghetti squash. Either I bake it as a side dish with butter and a little maple syrup and cinnamon on it, or steam it and use it in place of spaghetti with sauce. Good stuff! Good for the poops, too.

[pacific breeze]

There are some tasty-looking low-carb recipies on this blog:

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/low_carb/

They have lots of other good recipes on the site as well.

[SVZ]

wow great find PB, i like how they have pictures too

[pacific breeze]

Yeah, it's one of my favourites. Every recipe I have made from the site has been good, and the site looks great, too.

[A*O]

Thanks! The Liver Pate looks good - unfortunately I can't have the toast to accompany it! I am in severe bread withdrawal........

[pacific breeze]

You could put the pate in an endive leaf or something. Or even a celery stick.

[A*O]

But it's not the saaaaaaaaaaaame

[Rogue]

Not even some little melba toasts?!