Photos of Low Carb Meals

[glamazon]

ooooo I love Moroccan food! There's a restaurant downtown called Marrakesh that I adore... I wonder how I can make a Low Carb Bastilla?? HAHAHA!

[pure]

Originally Posted by glamazon

ooooo I love Moroccan food! There's a restaurant downtown called Marrakesh that I adore... I wonder how I can make a Low Carb Bastilla?? HAHAHA!

cool , that was nice to hear , what kind of Bastilla do you want ? traditional one chicken bastilla with almond its sweet and salty , new ones are fish bastilla and spinach with cheese . please let me know wish one u want

[glamazon]

oh, definitely the chicken and almond and powdered sugar one! I could eat those all day long! Do you have a good recipe? I WILL TAKE IT! The Fish one, too! YUM! In the near future I am going to try and branch out and really make some interesting dishes. Thank you!

[pure]

hmmm i dont think the chicken bastilla will be good for diet lol , fish bastilla is little bet low of calories , and you always can make mini pastila ( individual and small or roll it like spring rolls ) , here a channel i like and its trusted she just cooks like how we cook at home , sousoukitchen channel is good too if you are interested of Moroccan food.




this is Moroccan Fish Bastila

Moroccan Fish Bastila (Pastilla) - YouTube


Moroccan Chicken Bastilla

Moroccan Chicken Bastilla (Bastila / Pastilla) - YouTube

Mini Shrimp Bastila

Mini Shrimp Bastila - Ramadan Specials - YouTube


sousoukitchen's Channel
sousoukitchen's Channel - YouTube


Cooking with Alia
cookingwithalia's Channel - YouTube


welcome if you have any question

[glamazon]

Thank you, Pure! I love those links! Alia is totally beautiful and charming and her instruction is perfect! I am thinking I can make the chicken/egg/almond filling low carb at least-- Ideal Sweetener has a Confectioner's powdered "sugar" that is awesome. The crust? I don't know, lol! Now I want Moroccan food!

[pure]

Originally Posted by glamazon

Thank you, Pure! I love those links! Alia is totally beautiful and charming and her instruction is perfect! I am thinking I can make the chicken/egg/almond filling low carb at least-- Ideal Sweetener has a Confectioner's powdered "sugar" that is awesome. The crust? I don't know, lol! Now I want Moroccan food!

welcome Angela , glad that you like it , the dough is made from white flower , water and salt only its easy to make but takes soooo much patient and practicing
it doesnt matter you can use phyllo dough or spring roll pastry feel free to try the one made from eggs or rice , I'm sure you will find a way

[glamazon]

Oh, I will figure something out, I love bastilla so much! Even if I just eat the filling with a spoon-- okay! I was looking around at her other recipes-- so much can be made low carb! YEAH!

[glamazon]

(no breakfast today)

First Lunch:
Leftover crab salad
Leftover homemade chicken soup w/ parm/asiago/romano shaved cheese



Second Lunch:
Leftover turkey breast w/ snooty Hawaiian red finishing salt
Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese
Celery sticks




Dinner:
7 foster farm wing pieces
Leftover homemade blue cheese dressing
Celery, English cucumber, grape tomatoes, red pepper, avocado

[Bejewelme]

Hey Ang is your marrakesh the same as the one in Vegas I wonder? That is where we had our wedding reception, OMG the Bastilla, everything was pretty much low carb, sans dessert and the cous cous, and OK the bread, LOL I love it too, that was the best place for our reception! I wish we had one around here!

[kittycitygirl]

Love the snooty finishing salt!

You make leftovers and freezer food look good! You should have your own Food Network show....maybe in Sweden to start! Pack lots of butter first for leverage!

[glamazon]

Amber, it is different, but very very similar! Gorgeous belly dancers and sitting on pillows and eating with your hands and I just love it.

Kitty, I never thought finishing salts would be exciting to me, but I love them! They really do add just an extra dimension of enjoyment to otherwise simple food. Boring old cold leftover turkey breast was made mighty fine with the red salt on it! LOL! The salts were a starter set from "The Meadow Shop" if anyone wants to google it and see what it's about.

[vaatje]

Hello Angela,

I'm new here. Just wanted to let you know that I've spent quite some time drooling over all your food pictures. I started Atkins Induction again recently so I'm trying to keep my meals very simple right now but I'm getting some great ideas from your pictures. Thank you!

[glamazon]

Vaatje! Thank you! You'll notice a lot of my food is indeed induction friendly-- meat and veg, meat and veg, meat and veg! I try to jazz it up a little to keep it interesting, but usually, just more meat and veg! The more simple you keep the food, the better the weightloss-- I've proven that to myself over and over again. I hope you are very successful and keep posting about your thoughts and triumphs and questions. Low carb is a great way to get healthy and lose fat... all by eating AWESOME FILLING SATISFYING food!

[cara7166]

Angela,

I also want to thank you for taking all the time to photograph your food. It is very inspiring!!

Cara

[glamazon]

Thank you, Cara! to you, too! I hope you find a lot of success and good health!

[glamazon]

Breakfast:
4 egg scramble w/ butter, mixed baby kales, grape tomatoes, sharp cheddar cheese



Lunch:
Leftover turkey breast w/ snooty guava smoked finishing salt (YUM)
Fresh green beans, red pepper, celery, Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese



Dinner:
Baked chicken breast, diced
Trader Joe’s Masala Simmer Sauce (jar, 9 carbs per 1/3 cup—less than that used on my dinner portion)
Baby kale mix sautéed in butter and garlic
Easy, tasty and recommended meal!

[glamazon]

Breakfast:
Leftover masala chicken (I know, weird, but there wasn’t a lot left and it needed to be eaten.)
½ avocado w/ snooty (and cool!) Black Diamond salt



Lunch:
Leftover chicken breast, diced, mixed with mayo, sour cream, garlic, Spice islands curry powder, celery, walnuts, green onion
On a bed of romaine & baby kales



Dinner:
Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup
(Pacific Natural Foods Organic Beef Broth, diced beef, onion, garlic, can of diced tomatoes, cabbage, green beans, celery, mushrooms, rutabaga, carrot, red wine, thyme, salt, pepper)
Topped with fresh Italian flat leaf parsley and TJ’s parmesan/asiago/romano cheese mix
(yes, of course I had seconds!)

[cookwithme65]

Originally Posted by glamazon

Breakfast:
3 egg scramble w/ butter, mushrooms, 3 slices chopped Costco Hormel pre-cooked bacon, julienned baby kales, Trader Joe’s shaved Parmesan/Romano/Asiago



Lunch:
½ can Costco Albacore tuna mixed with: Mayo, sour cream, artichoke tapenade, walnuts, diced celery, green onion, cracked pepper, Crispy onions. Yum! Loving the walnuts in everything lately!



Dinner:
CHINESE RESTAURANT TAKE OUT ALERT!
Spicy peanut chicken, deep fried green beans, chicken lettuce cups, Chinese chicken salad w/ ginger vinegar dressing
(Oh yes, I had seconds!)

Angela, this looks amazing. Can you share the recipes or point me in the direction to find these. This is my kind of food! - Krtistan

[glamazon]

Ha! Ha! Kristan! This is some seriously easy food to put together! Well, okay, so the last photo only took a phone call and a short drive to the Chinese Restaurant for pick up, but the others were on-the-fly meals!

For Breakfast:

Heat up your pan on medium heat, add pre-cooked chopped bacon and enough butter to make it nice and slippery. (Don't be stingy with the butter!) I use kitchen shears to snip up the bacon very quickly. The bacon came from Costco, but is the Hormel Pre-Cooked variety.

At this point I also added mushrooms for what you see in the photo-- but you can add whatever veggie needs a little extra cooking, a little onion or peppers or whatever. Add the kale or spinach last, it takes just seconds for that stuff to cook.

Then add your whisked eggs, and scramble it all up! Dump on a plate, add grated cheese-- any kind you have hanging around-- and I threw a little tomato on top. Easy peasy! It can also be made into omelet form, which is usually how these things begin, but I screw them up and they become "Scrambles." lol! This is a meal I make almost everyday, just using up whatever veggies I have hanging around!

For Lunch:

Seriously, just dump it all in abowl and mix! The Artichoke Tapenade was a jar made by Gertie's I got at Costco. The crispy onions were from Trader Joe's, but they are only seasonal and not in stock at the moment. You can buy the same onions from a Kroger under their house label, if you have a Kroger-owned store near you. (Mine is Fred Meyer, they own several chains. Ralphs? QVC?)

The Chinese food I can kind of figure out how they made it (really, just meat and veg) but to get the right flavor profile? I have no idea! There should be some good recipes out there for Kung Pao Chicken... I should get to looking!

[cookwithme65]

for all these great inspiring photos of the meals your eating. It's amazing you are losing eating all this great food.

[glamazon]

I'm a little astonished myself. That's the beauty of Low Carb Dieting: NO SUFFERING!

[aharris30]

Thanks for posting your pics....you've actually inspired me to learn how to cook! These food items look so good!

[glamazon]

Hi aharris30! Thank you! Most of my meals are little more than throwing stuff together out of the freezer or out of cans or jars. Not too many fussy things going on! Happy Cooking!

[glamazon]

Breakfast:
3 egg omelet w/ butter, fresh spinach, bacon, sharp cheddar



Lunch:
Leftover homemade Vegetable Beef Soup
(Pacific Natural Foods Organic Beef Broth, diced beef, onion, garlic, canned diced tomatoes, cabbage, green beans, celery, mushrooms, rutabaga, carrot, red wine, thyme, salt, pepper)
Topped with fresh Italian flat leaf parsley and TJ’s parmesan/asiago/romano cheese mix and snooty smoked guava salt



Dinner:
2 mahi mahi fillets (from Costco frozen) baked with olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper
Salad topping: tomato, avocado, green onion, fresh basil, wine vinegar, fresh garlic, evoo, cracked pepper
Scoop cottage cheese
(This meal was created out of thin air using what was in the fridge before it all went bad! Turned out awesome! The fish mixed with the salad topping was DELICIOUS! The cottage cheese was just because we needed to use it, and it was a surprisingly good accompaniment!)

[Karra]

Hi. New to this but I love seeing your pics so I am going to start posting mine too. How do you attach photos?

[glamazon]

That's great, Karra! I'm looking forward to seeing your pics!

Easiest way is to open a Photobucket account and then copy/paste the photo's IMG code into the window here.

Posting these photos has really helped me stick to my plan!

[Karra]

Okay: Today's lunch (2nd day on Atkins) Turkey, garlic chive cream cheese, sprouts, hot pepper cheese, tomatoes.
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[Karra]

Originally Posted by glamazon

That's great, Karra! I'm looking forward to seeing your pics!

Easiest way is to open a Photobucket account and then copy/paste the photo's IMG code into the window here.

Posting these photos has really helped me stick to my plan!

No one has been able to answer me yet and I thought maybe you might be able to....can you have spaghetti squash during induction? Can you recommend a good sweet treat for induction?

Thanks for your help on posting my pictures!!! Can't wait to get started.

[glamazon]

Yummy lunch, Karra! You almost have what my sister and I call "Meat Slugs." Take the turkey (Or any sliced meat, really) and roll up the cream cheese inside-- sometimes adding a pickle sliver or cucumber or something. Keep the photos coming!

[glamazon]

Karra, do you have the book? I don't have mine handy. I assume the spaghetti squash is alright, as long as your daily total is less than 20 carbs. Maybe ****** (a free website) can help you keep track of how many carbs you're using in a day? Watch your tomatoes, too! They can add up fast. There is an induction thread on the boards here, I bet you will find lots of answers and inspiration--and more food photos-- there!

As for an induction dessert-- CHEATER MOUSSE! It was always my favorite. Induction doesn't allow for too much cream, but I always had more than I was suppose to. Oops. Anyway, heavy cream, cocoa powder, vanilla, salt, sweetener (Ideal or Steviva was always my choice) whip it up with some beaters until overdone-- just a little past the proper whip cream stage. Also, Chocoperfection bars are an easy and tasty one. You can also make coconut oil candy, which would probably be the best induction option. I don't have a recipe for that, but there are several here on the board if you use the search feature. It's basically melted coconut oil, cocoa, sweetener, then frozen into little cups or piles. Some add nuts or peanut butter or coconut flakes. Be wary of sweets! They are a slippery slope for me and I don't lose while eating a lot of them. For induction you are just better off with meat, fat and green veg for 14 days to truly break your carb addictions. Some people are totally fine eating sweets & other low carb products during induction, but I am not one of them. Truly, for a super successful induction, just fats, meats, green veg will really get the job done! Keep up the good work!

Oh yeah! Some people like the sugar free jello for an induction sweet.