You can add me, I don't know that you'll want to eat like me. My daily diet is a pretty good base though, just add in some spinach, broccoli, and other leafy green veggies.

I'm not super low carb, as I'm closer to my goal now (T-2lbs), and I've recently increased my weekly average carb level to 30 NET (carbs - fiber) per day, but add me and view away.

Feel free to add me, I am new as well and shooting for 20g or less per day. I try to log every time I put something in my mouth so that 1) I don't forget, 2) I know where I am always so I don't try to log it all at once only to find out that I went way over.

Feel free to add me but I'm not always consistent in logging.

I currently am trying to stick more to keto eating. I have to warn you...Im not creative at all.
Breakfast - usually eggs, egg with sausage, an omelet

For lunch or dinners I like having ground beef over lettuce with cheese, hot sauce, and sour cream. I like buying good salad dressings in a variety to use on salads or to put over a bunless burger. Chicken fajitas (with no tortilla), modified chili, bacon wrapped chicken, crustless pizza, and mashed cauliflower.

I'm not sure if you're cooking for others but to avoid making completely two separate meals I cook the meat and take a portion aside for me and then continue making the dish.

Honestly pinterest has really saved me with creativity. For example, I made bacon cups and filled with scrambled eggs and baked in the oven. Makes 12 and SO good! I also did an asparagus stuffed steak wrapped in bacon for dinner. I just typed "low carb recipes" into pinterest and amazing-ness followed. Good luck!

You can add me as well. I do 20g net carbs daily. I just started and have a long way to go.

I am not creative either. My goal is to not spend time cooking or obsessing about food. A hunk of cheese for dinner, call it good. The more I cook, the more the carbs add up. I am focusing on spending time at the gym.

Also, my food bill and shopping time has gone way down. Lettuce, eggs, cheese, a chicken, yogurt. Shopping done for week.

I know I already added you and you can always look at my diary. I'm pretty basic with most of my meals like for lunch I do an easy combo of almonds, cheese, and some pepperoni or summer sausage, or if I'm home a salad. For breakfast I haven't really been eating eggs much, cuz I seem to have lost a taste for fried eggs. Now I can only seem to eat them hard boiled and really enjoy them. But I eat a lot of deviled eggs, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, etc. And for dinner sometimes taco salad or sometimes I try other recipes, basically meat, veggies, and cheese/sour cream type stuff. Like tonight I'm probably having some pot roast (if my bf remembered to start it) and veggies. Mmmm.

Lei9785gha wrote: »

Can I request friends from the discussion board?

Yes. Friend request away. You don't need to ask. If people are like me, they won't mind a random friend request. I will sometimes send a request if I read a post and see someone is eating like me or whatever.

Add me please. LCHF for nine months now. Down 75 pounds. Carbs set at 20 net or below. Fat at 70% or higher. Protein under 90 grams per day. Do occasional fat fasts to break plateaus. Need some SERIOUS low carb friends. I log every day. Ride bike or SPIN for exercise. Occasionally hit the gym. Exercise 5 to 6 days per week.

I am not very low carb right now, but if you need suggestions for something specific I have a million ideas! Was on Atkins for years, and am now low-er carb but also Paleo and trying to focus on eliminating some other things and allowing myself some leeway. Message me your questions!

Hey everyone.... Add me too, I can't request from my iPad for some weird reason. I love Pinterest for ideas & variety and I'm fairly consistent with tracking !!!!

So I want to try and make kale chips, baked or fried in coconut oil. I read about it somewhere, can't remember where. My concern is that when I tried adding it to my Nutribullet shakes it was so bitter I had to add a banana to tolerate it. Not going to do a banana of course. Does anyone know how to get it to not be so bitter?

dawlfin318 wrote: »

So I want to try and make kale chips, baked or fried in coconut oil. I read about it somewhere, can't remember where. My concern is that when I tried adding it to my Nutribullet shakes it was so bitter I had to add a banana to tolerate it. Not going to do a banana of course. Does anyone know how to get it to not be so bitter?

You don't have to eat kale if you don't want to, so don't feel pressured into it. I can taste the bitter in kale (and other greens...and nearly all coffees....and grapefruits....), and even a single leaf will overwhelm the rest of the ingredients in my smoothie, so I don't even bother. If I want a green smoothie, I'll use spinach instead, which blends a lot more easily.

Kale's major claims to fame are its vitamin A, C, and K, and manganese content. You can get better A and K from butter (the active form A, and K2; as opposed to beta carotene and K1, both of which need to be converted to be used) -- plus, you get the fat required to absorb those vitamins to begin with. Vitamin C is available in just about everything (including other greens, like spinach, and other vegetables, like peppers and broccoli). Manganese is also found in spinach (in fact, spinach's nutrient profile is pretty similar to kale), and...well...pretty much everything else (seriously, apparently it's even in the basic black tea you can get from the store). Spices (cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, saffron, you name it), nuts, cocoa, seeds, freshwater fish (including bass, trout, pike, and perch).

That said, in my experimentation with coffee, I found that fat plays a big role in neutralizing the bitterness, as does the quality of the coffee. I've found that I can do lattes with half & half from a local coffee shop that uses a local, high quality roaster and do it almost without any flavoring. For cheaper coffees (basically, anything from a grocery store), heavy cream in about 1-to-1, plus about a teaspoon or so of xylitol make for a pretty tasty drink.

The only way I've been able to completely neutralize the bitter flavors in coffee, though, to the point that I could taste the coffee, was with a concoction that I created based on Mark Sisson's Primal Egg Coffee -- cup of coffee, 2-3 eggs, 3 tbsp butter, 1 tsp sugar, ~1 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp vanilla extract, 1/4 c whole milk, 1 tsp ground cinnamon. Yes, it sounds horrid, but throw it all in a blender and you a custard-like coffee drink that's actually pretty good. Unfortunately, it took pretty much all of that to make a drink that neutralized the bitter compounds and didn't have a flat flavor profile (seriously, I tried without the sugar one time, and the whole damn thing tasted flat, it was like the sugar acted like how salt normally acts in most cooking -- bring out the different flavors).

(Side-by-side comparison of spinach and kale, linked above -- http://www.healthaliciousness.com/nutritionfacts/nutrition-facts-compare.php )