The ketchup that saved breakfast
daylitemag
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I've been LCHF since mid-October and have lost 35lbs! I'm very happy with this new WOE and it gets easier all the time. A major part of my success has been eating a large breakfast with three eggs. I'm so full that I no longer need to eat lunch (a big win). However, I have recently been getting VERY sick of the eggy, meaty, salty breakfast and was almost dreading it. This morning I added a single tsp of ketchup and it made all the difference. Only 1.7g of carbs and really changed the flavour profile.
Anyone have other suggestions for helping eggs not get boring?
Anyone have other suggestions for helping eggs not get boring?
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I love them with some chipotle seasoning, Monterey cheese and sliced avocado on top. Yum!0
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I love my eggs over steamed vegies (like spinach or broccoli) some bacon cut up in there too. I don't put any sauce on it -- but fresh ground pepper is great. Sometimes 1 oz. of sharp cheddar melted on top. There is sugar free catsup out there, because catsup really has a lot of sugar in it. But I've kind of given up on catsup because I used to drench food in in. I'm really enjoying mustard now, which has no carbs. I particularly like it on turkey meatloaf and even chicken!0
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I cycle eggs out every couple of months. I switch in meats, veggies, cheese, or (lately) bulletproof coffee.
If I do eat eggs, I tend to eat them frittata style and mix in different veggies, mayo, cheeses and meats.0 -
I make a packet of hollandaise sauce to use over my eggs and bacon or whatever meat I eat at breakfast. It's 2 carbs per 2 tablespoons. It's the kind you can buy in the store and mix with half s stick of butter and a cup of water. I typically use 4 tablespoons per day and I stay under 30 carbs per day. Like eggs Benedict without the English muffin.0
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I sometimes put a tbsp of salsa in my eggs. It seasons them nicely. I also sometimes put some avocado on top, then I'm even fuller for the next 5 hours or so.0
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I add salsa to mine!0
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Chipotle tabasco
pesto
those are my go tos.0 -
hello
I feel you pain. I hate salty fatty meaty breakfast. it actually makes me sluggish and heavy.
I have found that for me the best thing in the morning is a large portion of nothing served with a side if coffee. if I feel crazy that day I will add a couple of tablespoons of heavy cream to the coffee. I don't eat lunch until 2 or 3 pm and it is generally just a chicken leg or a chicken breast. Then at night I go crazy with the steak and sides and eggs and salt. it just seems like my body does not like breakfast. before keto I could only have a 1 donut or 1 bagel before noon. then I could eat a dozen.0 -
Add dill and cream cheese. Yum! Also, low carb crepes with cinnamon and sweetener sound yummy.0
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hot sauce
cheese and salsa
sour cream
I do sometimes mix it up and instead do a breakfast shake, dinner leftovers, ham and cheese roll-up, etc.0 -
I like to mix things up too. When I first started LCHF I ate eggs with spinach and cheese every morning. It got old after a while. Now I like to add in different vegetables, use different kinds of cheese, add different meats (last night for dinner I had leftover crockpot chicken scrambled into some eggs and topped it with cheese sauce), change the way I cook them (some days I'm craving a runny yolk, other days scrambled, sometimes boiled, etc.), top with sour cream and salsa, use different seasonings to change the flavors, make an omelette, make a cream cheese "pancake"... the possibilities are endless. However, most days during the work week I skip breakfast and call it a fast.
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salsa- pepperjack cheese
spinach & feta
I even made a pizza omelet moz & pep was REALLY GOOD
may make that for lunch today ; )0 -
petunia773 wrote: »I make a packet of hollandaise sauce to use over my eggs and bacon or whatever meat I eat at breakfast. It's 2 carbs per 2 tablespoons. It's the kind you can buy in the store and mix with half s stick of butter and a cup of water. I typically use 4 tablespoons per day and I stay under 30 carbs per day. Like eggs Benedict without the English muffin.
I like this idrs0 -
I love to add Cholula chipotle sauce to my eggs. I miss ketchup but don't want to add any carbs I don't have to.0
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Sirachi.0
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I found another egg "helper" that works for me. I added 1tbsp of peanut butter as a topping to my scrambled eggs.0
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Pick-a-peppa....the most delicious condiment ever made! Try it....you will fall in LOVE !
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Bacon. I cannot eat a scrambled/over easy/fried egg without bacon anymore. I also add almonds as a side for some crunch and have been considering adding some pork rinds to runny yolks as a soak-up substitute
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Siracha, Franks, or Salsa all work on eggs for me. That and cheese. At least scrambled eggs or omelets. For fried eggs, it's salt, pepper, and butter or mayo.0
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Salsa or hot sauce here too. I used to think putting anything on eggs was disgusting. That was when I ate it with toast. Now that it's usually eggs and bacon I love adding some spice to it0
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Second the Cholula! (I buy huge bottles of it when we travel to Mexico... forget duty free alcohol. All my imports are hot sauces, lol.)0
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I stared at about a dozen hard boiled eggs in the fridge yesterday and thought "ugh." So, I went back to my childhood and conjured up a memory of creamed eggs (over toast then, alone now). Didn't have a recipe, so I used HWC, a couple of sliced mushrooms, salt, pepper and 4 hard boiled eggs all sliced up, heated it up, added a tiny pinch of xanthum gum to thicken... and I was right back to being 8 years old. Mmmm!0
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I do eggs with peppers & onions most often. Eggs with diced leftover meat too, particularly sausage is good. I'll also eat them poached over veggies. Or hard boiled & chopped with some mayo, salt, pepper, mustard - an egg salad. I'll also crack a dozen & put in a casserole with sliced tomato, raw spinach, sautéed onion & sprinkled feta cheese. Bake till set & it's fabulous. Basil is also nice in the casserole.
Sometimes I just get sick of eggs and I'll do a LC flax meal muffin in a mug instead. (Goggle, theres a few good recipes out there). I'll pop that out of the mug & slice & lather with almond butter. A couple days of flax muffin & I find I'm ready for eggs again.0 -
mug muffins!
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baconslave wrote: »mug muffins!
What does your mug muffin have in it?0 -
I know I'm really late to this party, but I like to scramble some cooked ground beef into my eggs. Add a dash or 3 of seasoned salt, and extra pat of butter, and top with some salsa. I've discovered if I do this, 90% of the time, I don't miss cheese at all.0
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I sprinkle nutritional yeast on my eggs, only about 1/2 tsp, it's .5 g carbs. It's my cheese substitute as I try to limit cheese to 1 oz a day. Avocados, Sriracha, fresh chives, garlic, spring onions or dill, salsa and creme fraiche are my other go-to additions to keep eggs interesting. I love a fresh herb omelette and will just let my herbs mingle in the sizzling butter for a moment before I add my eggs.0
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I had baked eggs last night. They were so good! Drop an egg over a pat of butter plus salt and pepper in ramekin and bake @ 375 in a shallow pan of water.0
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creamcake2 wrote: »Pick-a-peppa....the most delicious condiment ever made! Try it....you will fall in LOVE !
The brown or the orange / red version? I am guessing the latter.0
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