Lunch: salad with salmon (skin left on and cooked super crisp..YUM!) and pomegranate dijon dressing (2tbsp pomegranate infused red wine vinegar, 1 tbsp olive oil, 2 tsp dijon -- I like mine more vinegary but you could reverse and do 2tbsp oil and 1 of vinegar. and make sure the dijon doesn't have added sugar!)

Dinner: Juan Pollo! Love this place...its a Southern California chain that does rotisserie chicken that is insane! WAY better (and cheaper) than El Pollo Loco even. For $12 I got 2 whole chickens, salsa, flour tortillas and a side (side and tortillas for hubs). I ate a whole half of one of the chickens on cabbage leaves with the salsa.

Oven Roasted Smokey Brisket
Adapted from Paula Deen at Food Network


Ingredients

4 lb. beef brisket, trimmed
2 teaspoons liquid smoke (a little goes a long way)
2 Tablespoons salt, kosher
2 Tablespoons chili powder
1 Tablespoon Chipotle chili powder
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
1Tablespoon onion powder
1 Tablespoon black pepper, freshly ground
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 Tablespoon sugar (splenda)
1 bay leaf, ground
1½ - 2 cups beef stock


Directions

Preheat oven to 350° F.
Start by rubbing brisket with the liquid smoke.In a small mixing bowl, combine the salt, chili powder, chipotle chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, dry mustard, sugar, ground bay and mix well. POur and rub in this seasoning mixture on both sides of the brisket, covering well. Place brisket into a roasting pan, uncovered, and roast for 1 hour.

After 1 hour, lower oven to 300° F. Add enough beef stock to coome up about ½ inch in pan. Cover tightly with aluminum foil and continue to cook for 3 hours, or until fork tender.

Trim any excess fat and slice thinly. Serve accompanied by pan juices.
Serves 10

Cloud Bread
3 eggs, separated
3 tablespoons whole milk cottage cheese or 3 tablespoons cream cheese
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1pk (1 g) packet artificial sweetener
Directions: 1 Preheat oven to 300 degrees. 2 Separate the eggs very carefully, there must be no yolk in the white. 3 In one bowl, mix together the egg yolks, the 3 T. of Cottage Cheese OR Cream Cheese and the one packet of Sweetener until smooth. 4 In the other bowl add 1/4 teaspoon of Cream of Tartar to the whites and beat the whites on high speed until they are fluffy and form nice peaks. 5 Very carefully fold the egg yolk mixture into the egg whites until mixed, but try and not break down the fluffiness of the egg whites too much. 6 Spray two cookie sheets with Pam or other fat-free cooking spray. 7 With a large spoon, "scoop" the mixture into 10 even rounds on the sheets (about the size of the top-half of the McDonalds hamburger bun; roughly 3/4 inch thick and 4 to 5 inches across). 8 Bake on the middle rack. Here is when you have to watch them, because the cooking time the same on any two batches. It is somewhere around 1/2 hour, but it could be less or more. You just need to watch them until them become nice and golden brown (again, the color of a McDonalds bun). 9 Remove from the pans and cool on a rack or cutting board. 10 While warm they are crumbly and similar to cooked meringue - but don't let this fool you! Once completely cool, seal them in a ziplock storage baggie or a tupperware over night. They will totally change their consistency, to something much more like bread - a softer texture that is nice and chewy. If you do not like softer chewy bread, then eat them as they are, nice and crisp. 11 Since the sides that were facing the pan are perfectly flat, you use these to spread things on, or make sandwiches, or even as a burger bun! The choice is up to you, and you will be quite amazed at how much like a bun these really are!

i'm gonna cook a burger and put it on my salad wit some pickles and mayo.

not feeling very inventive :P

A spicy bacon/salad/spinach/cheese mix to jump start my day and blow away some cobwebs from last night.

Some homemade rissoles and salad later.

I logged my booze for yesterday as far as I can recall and suffice to say that putting away pints of real ale do nothing for low-carbing

Fun though, and the social aspects outweighed the less than stellar nutrition ... back on it today ...

Meal 1--Salad from Chipotle--carnitas, lettuce, cheese, salsas, guac, sour cream
Meal 2--summer sausage, cottage cheese
Meal 3--Sirloin Steak
Snacks--Atkins caramel nut roll, cucumber

I am doing just Meat, Eggs and Cheese with a few Veggies for 2 weeks.

Steak with Eggs and Cheese for Breakfast

Meatloaf for dinner there is Broccoli but I only ate 2 bites just not hungry

Fat Bomb for Snack

Meal 1: Crockpot round steak with "gravy" and veggies
Snack: Fried Cajun cashews
Meal 2: Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich made with Oopsie rolls
Snack: Protein Shake
Meal 3: Curry Chicken

I made my first batch of Oopsie rolls this morning and my sandwich was so yummy! I hear they're better the second day though?

I feel the need for copious amounts of meat today so I will be cooking up much diced beef with some garlic, spinach and lobbing it in with some leafy veggies today.

Cooked in Supafry 100% animal fat, spice it up and there we have a couple of meals that cannot fail on all levels. And not a "healthy whole grain" in sight.

My weaning off cheese is going well and I think it's having a positive effect on the blubber slashing. I also haven't had any dry skin issues for ages so maybe there is some connection there too.

Onwards ...