Massive carb cravings! What foods satisfy that need.

concavenotconvex

That bread, pasta, cookie loving need. Please no more baby carrots, I'm afraid I'll turn orange very soon.

BiomedDent

Rice cakes with peanut butter ❤

cityruss

Bread, pasta and cookies.

Savagedistraction

Oatmeal.

concavenotconvex

@BiomedDent I forgot about peanut butter!

concavenotconvex

@Savagedistraction peanut butter banana oatmeal seems to be what I'll be having for dinner. Thank you!

@cityruss I can't.

BiomedDent

concavenotconvex wrote: »

@Savagedistraction peanut butter banana oatmeal seems to be what I'll be having for dinner. Thank you!

@cityruss I can't.

Enjoy!

Hamsibian

Are you okay with starchy vegetables? Potatoes, sweet potatoes, taro, parsnips, pumpkin and winter squashes. They're higher in carbs, but you can portion them if you're trying to go low carb all around. Also up your fats and protein - poultry thighs, nuts, avocados, fatty seafood to name a few examples.

suruda

I just did my first attempt at cauliflower rice....It was most excellent smothered in gravy (a few carbs in the gravy) and would definitely curb those cravings for me (mashed potato cravings). Now, the cookie cravings are a different story, peanut butter might do it...I like celery and peanut butter. I did have a banana with peanut butter the other night and that worked well for a sweet craving! Good luck!

concavenotconvex

@Hamsibian you mentioned potatoes and my first thought was leek and potato soup. Going for low carb though I do well with my protein, though some extra eel or salmon never hurts. Thank you.

concavenotconvex

@suruda going to look up cauliflower rice...I know about half a dozen rice recipes, but this one is knew. Peanut butter does seem like the cure all. Thank you for the new recipe.

cwolfman13

concavenotconvex wrote: »

That bread, pasta, cookie loving need. Please no more baby carrots, I'm afraid I'll turn orange very soon.

While bread and pasta are primarily carbs, a cookie is a highly palatable combination of carbs and fat...a typical chocolate chip cookie will give you around 6% of your DV of fat at around 4.5 grams and 3% of your DV of carbohydrates at around 9 grams. This would mean that the calories from carbs and fat are pretty close to equal. I only throw it out there because after four years here I'm tired of people talking about "devil" carbs when they're mostly talking about things like cookies for which carbs seem to get the bad rap, but nobody talks about the fact that about a roughly equal number of calories are coming from fat...but I digress.

Personally, I eat bread and pasta...I'm not a big cookie guy though. I don't buy into the hype that there's something wrong with bread and pasta. I'm a sourdough guy myself...I also eat a lot of lentils and legumes and whole food starches like potatoes and sweet potatoes and other root vegetables.

Hamsibian

@concavenotconvex I am low carb as well, around 100 net. That way I feel good but not too restrictive with my options. I'm really curious though, how do you prepare eel??

ahoy_m8

concavenotconvex wrote: »

@Savagedistraction peanut butter banana oatmeal seems to be what I'll be having for dinner. Thank you!

@cityruss I can't.

Ok, if you are going for banana and oatmeal, here is an idea: cookies. Mash up 40g oats into 100g banana (the riper the better) with a pinch of salt & cinnamon. I mix in 10g protein powder because it gives it a more baked product feel--I think the protein acts a little like gluten in giving it a bit of structure & it browns more like baked goods. The protein powder isn't essential, though. If you have the calories for it, add pecans or whatever nuts you have on hand. The kids and DH like this one.

ETA: Sorry forgot the baking part. Spray a little circle of canola (or whatever oil) on parchment and bake at 350F for 20 minutes or until brown. I make 5 cookies from one 150g batch. They also freeze well if you have bananas about to get too ripe. Just put them on wax paper & freeze. Pop them onto parchment and bake from frozen.

cwolfman13

concavenotconvex wrote: »

@Hamsibian you mentioned potatoes and my first thought was leek and potato soup. Going for low carb though I do well with my protein, though some extra eel or salmon never hurts. Thank you.

Serious question...if you're going for low carb, how do oats and banana qualify? One serving of my Coach's Oats is 27 grams of carbs...a banana is around 27 grams of carbs as well...213 grams of potato is about 37 grams of carbs.

kimny72

I'm really confused. Why can you have oatmeal, bananas, and potatoes but not bread and pasta?

concavenotconvex

@cwolfman13 While I don't buy the devil carbs hookum, I'm not trying to waste calories on a snack when I could save it for dinner. I'm looking for alternatives not slandering the good name of carbohydrates which you so defend. I enjoy bread, and pasta, a little too much over the holiday. Gained four pounds. Need to restrict so i can enjoy them in moderation again. I promise i won't insult carbs again.

concavenotconvex

@Hamsibian Asian markets usually have it and I recommend you get it cleaned up there, don't get any eel blood on you it's poisonous. Freshwater is better in taste. Okay. Eel is like fish. You can smoke it, grill it, fry it, sear it. It just takes a shorter cooking time since the meat cooks fast. Pepper, chili paste, a little salt.

@ahoy_m8 that sounds like something my niece would love to make as a snack for her soccer team. Thanks.

ahoy_m8

As cwolfman points out, they are not low carb. This is with 20g pecans. 282 kcal without nuts.
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concavenotconvex

@cwolfman13 @kimnny72 I do half servings. I thought of the potatoes never said I'd have them.i thought of the bread too doesn't mean I'm going to eat an entire loaf.

concavenotconvex

@ahoy_m8 I'd be helping her with the oven. She loves to bake and it's better than someone taking chips or cupcakes as an aftergame snack. When the season starts back up.