Traditional Western main meals tend to include a starchy side dish that is full or carbohydrates – potatoes, rice or pasta. Flour is used extensively in cooking, for sauces, batter and pastry cases. All these foods are loaded with carbs and so would have to go on a low-carb diet.
Avoiding these foods might seem impossible at first, but in reality it is just a matter of habit – you crave these foods not because your body needs them, but because you are used to them.
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Low carb side dishes – Is there a life after pasta?
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Nut cookies with chocolate (9g carbs per 100g)
This recipe has been adapted from Easy Hazelnut Cookies recipe by Louisa Appelkvist @swedish_diet.
Super-easy and takes about 15-20 minutes in total, including baking time.
Total 9g net carbs per 100g
380 calories, 24g fat, 13g protein
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Nut Butter-Frosted Brownies (12g carbs per 100g)
This Nut Butter-Frosted Brownies recipe is from The Low-Carb Gourmet.
It is very easy and takes about 30-40 minutes in total.
Total 12g net carbs per 100g
360 calories, 30g fat, 10g protein
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Low-Carb Peanut Butter Cookies (6g carbs per 100g)
This Peanut Butter Cookies recipe is from the The Illustrated Atkins New Diet Cookbook.
It is super-quick and easy – takes about 5-10 minutes to prepare, and further 10 minutes to bake.
Total 6g net carbs per 100g
40g fat, 12g protein
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Calorie tracker review – MyNetDiary
MyNetDiary is a calorie counter available both online and as an app.
Food tracker is the core of this tool – you input the food you’ve eaten, and MyNetDiary calculates and stores the amount of calories consumed, as well as the breakdown by macronutrients, including carbs and net carbs.
You can also track exercise by choosing from a database of over 500 activities – the amount of calories expended will be calculated, based on your current weight and age, and subtracted from your daily total.
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Book review – "The Big Book of Low-Carb Recipes" by Nicola Graimes
As indicated by the subtitle, the book contains “365 fast and fabulous dishes for sensible low-carb eating”. The book does contain precisely 365 recipes, and unlike some other diet recipe books, it doesn’t try to cheat by counting variations of the same recipe as separate ones.
The book includes sections on breakfasts and desserts – always a bit of a challenge for low-carbers! There are some cakes and a recipe for low-carb brownies. (more…)