Fooling my Feast Beast...Yay, ME!!!

Well, I must admit I have never even tried sardines at all...so I can't say that sounds like a treat to me, but if it works for you, that's great!

Uh-oh, I think maybe it's not a good idea to brag on how I fooled my Feast Beast. Makes for a craftier Feast Beast, as I am discovering. Had a fierce battle last night to avoid a bad carbolicious digression. Finally went with a nightcap of WPP at 500calories and 40g protein. Not quite in my plan, but better than what the Feast Beast was luring me to eat!

Find what works for you. The point is to find what works!!

I like sardines every once in a blue moon. But when that blue moon comes, I have to have them, lol!!!

Sardines are very nutricious and a good source of protein, fish oils, and vitamin D.

Long before Atkins and before I learned to read a nutrition label, I ate sardines. Usually with a box of crackers. Now I use a bran-rye crisp or just go with straight fish-on-a-fork - no cracker at all!

It's as Zule says, once in a blue moon.

I'd discover a tin of sardines in my cupboard and rediscover the amazing taste of tiny fish netted and canned in Morocco. I always wonder who put my fish into the can, as if maybe someone doing that job might wonder a bit about who would open THAT can, taste the fish so nicely laid to rest in a bath of olive oil. Yeah, I read where my fishies come from. I think what the life of a sardine may be like, as it swims in glistening array of Busby Berkeley coordination, with whole schools of fish darting here and there with one mind. Berkeley? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley if you are not familiar with his choreography.

Cool...I use whipped cream, flavored cream cheeses and atkins candy bars to "fool" mine, as mine has a sweet tooth.

Happy VD day, Zer!

Cream cheese...dare I try to have that on hand again? Love it mixed with chopt green olives. Also great mixed with fish or eggs, in lieu of mayo. What a lot of delish LC food there is, for folks who learn their way about the LC world! Yum!

I still regard cream and cream cheese as sinfully illicit food!

Wonder if my Feast Beast will find salmon jerky delish if I do it myself and use that too-sweet LC rootbeer flavoring in lieu of all the sugar that seems to be a BIG part of any recipe I've found so far. I'm thinking of making my own salmon jerky! Yep, I'm now browsing for jerky makers and recipes for LC salmon jerky! Got started after I read this thread: http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/ma...ml#post9949727 - an interesting thread. Anyone into jerky?

Isn't it great when we can "fool" our inner beast like that? I am still amazed at what revolution rolls do for me! I could swear I'm eating carby bread everytime I eat them! Finding those little "pick-me-ups" that are "LC legal" are so wonderful!

Apparently, Cleochatra's Oopsie Rolls are even better - more sturdy, able to be packed and carried and substitute for rolls at fast food burger places. I'm just reading up now on how Cleo has adapted the Rev-roll recipe - and her pix are yummy!

Sounds interesting! I took a couple to my in-laws last weekend to make a barbeque sandwich. At first they thought they were little pancakes until I explained it was LC bread! lol... But they worked great! I've thought about taking them with me when I eat out sometimes. Ditch the regular buns and substitute my own. I have always hated trying to eat a burger sans the bun... It can get messy at times!

Packing a LC Oopsie bun makes it possible to enjoy a burger in a bun, according to what I'm reading on Cleo's Oopsie thread. Folks just rave about how sturdy the adaptation is, compared to the Revolution rolls that (I gather) crumble under pressure. All of this depends on eggwhites whipped to stiff peaks, but I am hearing that a simple handheld whisk or eggbeater will do the job faster than a mixer does.

MoscowFoodCo-op has a site worth reading, if you are fond of sardines and do not yet know that they are just tiny HERRING! Well, that's news to me!

Just wrote the following on a thread encouraging lurkers to write - not just read in lurkdom - and to share their LC journey so that we writers may see who else is here at LCFriends. So many lurkers. So few writers, actually.

In writing out my problems about dealing with food - an addiction to milk in particular - I have found my own solutions and have discovered that risking writing my foolishness out for a world of LC'ers to read is not the Worst Possible Thing I Can Do. Sure, I feel silly at times. However, I have seen changes in how I think about things like scales and weighing myself. Someday I hope to be unmoved by how sweet milk calls my name, promises me satisfaction, lies to me about lies I was taught in grade school: MILK IS NATURE'S MOST NEARLY PERFECT FOOD!

So help me, that was what I was taught in grade school and that is something imprinted on my soul. Why else do I crave milk as I do? I actually dream about milk, about the joy of chugging cold sweet milk. Crazy dreams! Crazy how I crave milk. Just sheer lunacy!

Cow juice is probably responsible for more than half my excess weight, as I drank close to a gallon a day for decades. Yes, I did.

I'm switching over to eggs as nature's most nearly perfect food!

Fact is, I worship eggs - the incredible edible egg is the ultimate cell, nature's sign of a new life, a promise that I too can be reborn as a healthy LC person with a slim body if I embrace the incredible edible egg in its many forms. Just a boiled egg is a thing of beauty, with its rich fatty yellow yolk and a barely firm eggwhite so filled with protein! Scrambled to a soft custardy golden firmness, an egg satisfies hunger perfectly. Add a bit of butter to melt atop a scrambly egg, add a bit of fresh-grated Asiago. Ah, heaven!

Still touting sardines as a fallback fishy protein+fat RESCUE in a pinch!

My stash of sardines in olive oil has helped me avoid prowling for "something to eat" at odd hours. Having a tin of sardines gives me a fast 20g of protein+fat that quells appetite. Recently I tried a few drops of balsamic vinegar that turned simple sardines into a dish that fooled my Feast Beast into thinking I'd ditched my LC program.

Hey, whatEVER works! A few drops of balsamic vinegar is all it takes to fool my Feast Beast, not a bright guy at best, operating on impulse with expectations of immediate gratification. Kind of like a toddler, my Feast Beast!

With a stash of sardines, I'm no longer finding myself at the bottom of a bag of crinkly stuff, wondering Wha'Happened? and wishing I would wake up from a bad dream. No more!
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WOE: Atkins+ALGittleman
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