My weight remains to be dropping. 🙌 Yay! I attempted a couple of new issues this week, and I cooked – for a change! lol 🙃 A number of the new issues I attempted had been “meh” 👎 and a few had been GREAT.
Right here’s a photograph tour of my low carb life this week…
I’ll simply begin proper within the center, as a result of Wednesday’s meals had been GREAT – that’s the someday that I cooked. 😉 I truly made two meals without delay whereas I used to be up and within the kitchen. One was impressed by a Fb Advert 👀 ha!, and I did NOT count on it to end up as nice because it did.
First ➡️ BBQ Burger Stack with sautéed onions, sugar free bbq sauce & colby jack cheese. 😋
I normally add spinach, however was going for fast & straightforward – and already had the onion sautéed and able to use. 🧅👍 I prefer to preserve onions prepped upfront so as to add to omelets, sausage balls, rooster salad, my ham & egg scramble, and many others.
Talking of Sausage Balls (that’s my unique recipe), see this AMAZING model: Spinach & Onion Sausage Balls 😍 these are SO good!
The burgers had been FABULOUS. I didn’t make a facet this time, however a bag of frozen steamable broccoli is my go-to more often than not 🥦 (you simply microwave it proper within the bag: steam & serve!) or you might throw collectively a facet salad for a fast dinner too, as an alternative choice. 🥗
I made 1/3 pound patties, seasoned them a bit with a touch of this & that, added a little bit of Man’s Sugar Free BBQ Sauce to every facet plus the sautéed onions – then topped them with cheese on the finish. Straightforward!
👩🍳 That is my unique Low Carb Spinach Burger Recipe
I used Man’s Sugar Free BBQ Sauce – it’s keto pleasant and scrumptious! The right mixture of candy & tangy. 👌
Good Keto is operating a sale/promo on their Keto Mac & Cheese this week 🧀🥣 so whereas I had the meat out… I made a decision to make a low carb model of Hamburger Helper with that.
It turned out manner higher than I anticipated! 😋👌
Mock Hamburger Helper (Keto Type)
The Good Keto Mac & Cheese will get blended critiques, and lots of people right here in our group mentioned they didn’t find it irresistible. But it surely did make a REALLY GOOD mock Hamburger Helper.
I added slightly further cream, the non-obligatory butter (all the time!) and 🪄 pimento cheese. That plus floor beef & onions. 🥰 About half pound of browned floor beef is ideal for this recipe.
I had firm. He DEVOURED it – plus a double BBQ burger. I had one burger patty and a small serving to of the burger-mac. There have been NO leftovers lol – all the time a excessive praise, proper? ✅
I used floor beef & onion browned collectively + pimento cheese, butter & cream… 🧅 🧀 🥣
I used the Good Keto Yellow Cheddar Mac & Cheese (one field). 1/3 or half pound of floor beef is about excellent, crumbled & browned. Non-obligatory: toss in diced onion to brown with the meat.
I used 2 tbsp of butter, began with about 1/4 cup of pimento cheese, and “eyeballed it” with the cream & pimento cheese to get the right quantity of creaminess – then completed it off with a sprinkle of black pepper.
That was SO good! I’ll be making this once more. 💯❣️
📲 Good Keto Mac & Cheese
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I even have the White Cheddar Mac, and assume I’ll add grilled rooster, sautéed onions + Queso Blanco Dip – and perhaps a mixture of diced purple & inexperienced pepper 🧄🌶🧅 then high with cheddar and bake… and serve it with avocado or guacamole, plus salsa & bitter cream. 🥑 🤩
Should you nonetheless have a field of the PK mac & cheese in your pantry (too), attempt a kind of concepts!
I find it irresistible manner higher as a meal than as a facet by itself. 😉
I’ve been craving onion and having fun with it in just about every thing recently! 🧅 You possibly can cube or chop contemporary onions and freeze them, then simply seize what you want for any recipe anytime.
For comfort, I exploit frozen diced onion and saute the entire bag in butter – then preserve it within the fridge to simply add to meals all week as I’m going. * see this video
Apart from these two meals I made on the similar time on Wednesday, I’ve been having my normal “meals on repeat” recently – nonetheless. I ate this one FOUR days in a row. 🙃
It’s rooster, broccoli, spinach, cauliflower – and I added slightly cheese. 🥦 🧀
It’s the Atkins crustless rooster pot pie bowl, only a warmth & eat meal. 🥣👌
Right here’s my recipe for making it at house 👩🍳 very versatile & nice for meal prep!
EASY Low Carb “Oven Stew” Recipe: Rooster & Veggies in Alfredo Broth
I’ve been preserving my meals actually easy recently, so after I do “prepare dinner” I normally simply have my ham & egg scramble. I exploit 3 eggs, 2 ounces of diced ham, the pimento cheese & sauteed onions, and scramble all of it in half tbsp of butter:
I begin every single day with my collagen espresso very first thing within the morning ☕️ then normally a protein bar for lunch 🍫 then a kind of two meals for dinner (the eggs, or rooster & veggie bowl) – on repeat.
I don’t thoughts consuming the identical factor most days, if it’s good. I’m fairly blissful to be consuming day by day once more! It additionally makes purchasing straightforward – lol. I really feel good right this moment 🙂 and I felt nice on Wednesday, however in any other case I’ve been resting quite a bit (nonetheless) and catching up on work when I’m up, so I don’t have lots of further time & vitality to spend on purchasing & cooking.
Moreover, it’s simply me right here and I’m straightforward to please. 😉
I’m additionally consuming easy as a part of my restoration, so I’m sticking to meals that don’t trigger me to have flare-ups – so I can get again to work extra hours, and really feel up for getting out slightly extra too!
I’m nonetheless having the Electrolyte / SuperReds drink most days, and that actually appears to be serving to with focus & vitality. 💥❣️ Plus it’s tremendous tasty and completely refreshing on a heat afternoon. 🫐🍹
(be aware: it could be GREAT with a touch of rum, too!!) 😉
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It’s been a LONG time since I’ve switched it up and used some other protein bars, or discovered ANY different bars that I beloved as a lot because the Almond Butter Brownie PK bars – that additionally maintain me over like a real meal substitute. However I used to be actually impressed with the CanDo Keto Krisp Bars I attempted final week, so I ordered extra – to attempt a wide range of their flavors. Then I wrote to them and requested a particular 20% off low cost code for us, in case you need to attempt them too. 😉 * That code is: LOWCARBTRAVELER
I’ve tried A LOT of keto bars over time, however these are my two TOP favorites!
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In my final put up I discussed REALLY desirous to attempt the Blackberry Almond Butter taste of Keto Krisp bars. A good friend discovered a number of the smaller packing containers at a retailer for me, and I ordered a number of different flavors to attempt from their web site too – and simply received these this week! 📦
📲 CAN DO Keto Krisp Bars
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The Salted Peanut Butter Keto Krisp Bars are wonderful!!!
These are my favourite up to now. 😉
I’ve been taking it straightforward for the previous couple of weeks as a result of I crashed fairly onerous after going to that HUGE live performance up on the mountain per week in the past Sunday. It was value it although, I had a good time. 🥰 I’m feeling higher total, and the crashes are much less extreme and don’t final as lengthy, in order that’s GREAT information and thrilling progress!! (lastly)
I’m nonetheless determining my new limits, and nonetheless need to tempo issues out and relaxation quite a bit – and stick with easy consuming as a result of my digestion is tremendous finicky. However I’m SO blissful my restoration goes higher recently, and my baseline has been bumped up a couple of notches. 🙌
We have now a GREAT outside pool right here, and that can reopen in a couple of weeks (yay!!) so I look ahead to getting again to my water exercises. That helped me SO a lot final summer season!
Within the meantime, I’m nonetheless doing “mattress yoga” 🧘♀️ and searching into Wall Pilates on YouTube to see if that’s one thing I can handle too.
I’m going to make the egg wraps I discussed in my final put up – and stuff these with rooster or tuna salad, or perhaps grilled rooster & queso. I’m craving one thing totally different recently!
I’m going attempt making single-serve keto cheesecake bars this weekend too. 😋
I even have some rooster within the freezer, so I could do the Oven Stew recipe or a easy baked rooster or crockpot rooster. All 3 are tremendous straightforward! However parmesan rooster has been on my thoughts the final couple of days…
👩🍳 Rooster Parm is SO good and SO straightforward! 🙌
This put up has some enjoyable twists for mixing it up – plus easy low carb sides you’ll be able to throw collectively tremendous quick for simple keto dinners:
Low Carb Rooster Parmesan Recipes + Easy Sides
What are you consuming right this moment, and the way did your week go?
I began watching The Mentalist which is fairly nice, and averted watching the brand new Whitney Houston film on Netflix (up to now). 🫣 I’m undecided I’m up for that… 😉
It was very nice to have firm someday this week, and somebody to eat with. Being so sick for therefore lengthy (30 months now – geez!) has been insanely isolating, particularly after I can’t drive. After I can get out, it’s SO good to go seize a meal or hear a band or see a live performance – and simply be round individuals!!
That’s one of many issues I really like about doing my bodily remedy & exercises on the public pool. It’s all the time so full of youngsters enjoying, individuals laughing, teenagers goofing off, and simply a lot of actual individuals doing actual life with ZERO filters… I really like that. 🙂
I’ve been placing lots of thought into what I’m going to do subsequent. I’m turning 50 quickly, so it looks like an incredible alternative to brainstorm precisely how I need to spend that decade. The one factor I do know up to now is that I need it to be HAPPY and FUN – every thing else is simply particulars I’m nonetheless figuring out…
What about you?
Should you may do ANYTHING or CHANGE something in your life, what would that be? Should you think about that happiest healthiest model of your self dwelling the lifetime of your desires… how does that look?
Meals for thought! 💕 xo
Finest,
Lynn Terry
aka @LowCarbTraveler
p.s. I reviewed the Good Keto Mac & Cheese when it first got here out, and I prefer it okay as a facet dish. I included a video on this put up so you’ll be able to see how straightforward it’s to make. However like I mentioned, it does have very blended critiques – and I positively prefer it WAY higher was a meal. 😉
It’s not one thing I personally fill up on after they have gross sales. I really like their collagen, protein bars & the newer Tremendous Reds complement. However I had some within the pantry from after I ordered it to attempt earlier than – so it was good to discover a strategy to REALLY ENJOY it. The entire “Hamburger Helper” vibe made me very nostalgic and introduced up some nice reminiscences, lol. ✌️
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