Low Carb/Keto Recipe Thread

[Ridgetop]

2. What are fat bombs?
3. What is a keto diet?
4. What are ketos?
5. Is coconut oil lower in calories, fat, or carbs than olive oil? Olive oil is good for you.

Sadly, sugar, fat, cream, calories are what make food taste good. I usually only eat 1 meal a day (dinner) with occasionally some cheese and apple in the middle of the day. I drink a lot of coffee and don't usually feel hungry. This is not good my friend says because I need to eat breakfast. But it really doesn't matter since I don't lose any weight no matter what I eat or don't eat. I did chemo about 16 years ago and afterwards put on some weight and never could lose it, no matter what. I am active but am getting older and having ankle and knee problems. I have considered getting stationary bicycle to ride while watching TV at night. DH has a knee so bad that he can't stand or walk for long times. We are considering joining the Y so we can swim since that would be good exercise without putting weight on the bad joints.

 

[Ridgetop]

I will look for it at Costco. Ground almonds actually make almond paste which I have used in pastries. They must dry it out to make it like flour. Luckily I love almond flavor.

 

[Baymule]

I made these this weekend and they were pretty good. the gelatin keeps it from being crumbly.

Keto Coconut pancakes with gelatin

Ingredients
¼ cup coconut flour,
1 Tbs. gelatin
4 eggs, at room temperature
1 heaping Tbs. softened butter or coconut oil
½ cup canned coconut milk
Coconut oil or ghee, for the pan

Instructions

Start heating a seasoned cast iron skillet or enamel skillet over medium heat. Whisk together the coconut flour and gelatin. Stir in the eggs, beating until a smooth paste forms.
Stir in the butter/coconut oil until combined, then add the coconut milk.
Cook the pancakes in the hot skillet with coconut oil/ghee. Cook until the edges and center starts to look opaque, then flip. Smaller pancakes will be easier to flip.

To me, the batter was too thick, so I added almond milk 1/4 cup at a time until I had added 3/4 cup.

 

[Baymule]

@Ridgetop giving up carbohydrates is HARD. I think I could eat a whole box of Coco Puffs and a gallon of milk right now. My husband and I are both working to lose about 15 pounds each. I am working this diet by doing the Keto recipes and watching calories as well. I love wheat flour products. I love sugary stuff and CHOCOLATE. Brownies top the list for the first 10 spaces. I an 5'8" tall and weigh 150 pounds, not really fat, but overweight. I need to weigh in the 130-135 range. I have lost 3 pounds so far.

My husband was knocking on the door at 300 pounds when we married. He has a terrible junk food love fest. I bought a calorie counting book and started him counting calories. It took him a year to lose 70 pounds. His weight has yo-yo'ed around 250, up and down. He lost weight after we moved here and he had several surgeries. He got to 204 and looked like a skeleton. He is now 235 and wants to get to 220 pounds. At 220, he feels good and looks good. He has crept up, still not fat, but he doesn't want to BE fat.

The Keto diet is not one of those deprived diets. No one can stay on a diet that everything is healthy and has no taste. We get full. We have a meal and are not still hungry. The meals are good and satisfying.

I bought a couple of cookbooks and I am making the recipes that have lower calories. Staying away from carbs and high calorie foods.

Somewhere in this thread, I posted my recipe for chicken wings, using crushed pork skins (chips) I'm going to try it for pork chops. I'll let everybody know how it goes.

 

[Baymule]

I thawed out a package of Wilbur pork chops. Three pork chops weighed 4 1/2 pounds! Two covered a full size cookie sheet. I used my chicken wing recipe. I breaded them and drizzled more butter over them. I forgot about all the fat that cooks out of the pork chops. So the pork skin breading wasn’t crispy, but it was still delicious. I baked them in the oven at 400 degrees.

Before I cooked them.

In the oven.

Done. We split one and had some mixed veggies. I’m stuffed.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yum! Looks good.

I'm tired - I've worked 8 days in a row and no relief until the weekend. I think we're having an omelets tonight. (and wine)

 

[Baymule]

Make it easy on yourself and bake frittatas in the oven rather than flipping the omelets.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oh no... I like frittata's when I want a frittata. Tonight I wanted an omelet. Helps that I'm an omelet flipping pro, lol! Cheese, mushroom and ham tonight... delish!!

 

[Baymule]

My omelets are usually raw in the middle.

 

[Mini Horses]

3. What is a keto diet?
4. What are ketos?

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What you may want to look into is a Mediterranean based diet --
The Mediterranean diet is a diet inspired by the eating habits of Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain in the 1940s and 1950s. Wikipedia

Probably somewhere in the middle of these two will be doable. As both have good points. Cholesterol may be an issue for your DH -- so type fats would be important. Also, med diet style allows more breads/potatoes BUT-- a diabetic must cut these due to carbs. So modified med diet for them. Lower sugar veggies for both (low-glycemic)...more than high sugar ones (corn, limas, potatoes, etc.).

OBVIOUSLY -- if DH is pre-diabetic, sugars (carbs) need to be eliminated. Of course, to burn the fat and what sugar is in the body, exercise will be required., regularly. Low-glycemic foods are recommended. Weight loss will help with blood sugar numbers, stress on the limbs & joints, etc. It's hard to give up all that which has been enjoyed. But it sounds like a "must" for your DH. Oh, pretty much you will give up artificial sweeteners, too. Yeah, your body still "sees" them as sugars. Yep, bread, desserts, chips, cookies, all gone. Smaller meals, more often to keep blood sugar levels stabilized. Once you do this for a few months you will mellow
to it and find when/what you can tolerate for treats. Pool exercise is good!

The good news -- re-working your eating habits will become second nature in a couple of months. Now you will need to measure & swap ingredients in the kitchen, not just the barns.

I'm sure you will research these, & should. Plus your doctor may set an appointment with a nutritionist. Most insurances will pay for that with needed weight management & diabetic issues needing control.