Favorite Low Carb Treat
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What are your favorite low carb treats that are already ready in the store that you don't have to pick up all the fancy ingredients to make them for a special occasion in addition to your normal daily diets? I could be a desert a snack or something that you use in one of your main meals just to keep things interesting that are already low carb that doesn't take like 10 fancy ingredients to make. Always looking for new ideas. Thank you
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Well, I really enjoy a few squares of the Lindt 90% Dark chocolate. I believe it's 5g NET carbs for 30g (approx. 3 squares). After eating LCHF for almost a year, it is perfect sweetness for me.
I also like the Parsnip chips from either Trader Joes or Hard Bite. The Hard Bite brand is 3g NET carbs per serving, I believe so. And it is available at Whole Foods or World Market.
If you're looking for a little sweet treat, you can try doing an avocado chocolate pudding. Take a ripe avocado and mash it with some cocoa powder and truvia (or sweetener of your choice). Blend it together and it's quite rich, so you only need a little bit.
Love Trader Joe's Thai Chili Lime almonds as well.
Blue Diamond brand also has Sriracha almonds out and wasabi/soy sauce flavours. I get them at 7-11 in Canada in the single serving packs because I can't be trusted...2 -
The only thing I can think of is Lindt chocolate, other than that I pretty much make everything. Lol0
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A square of 90% Lindt chocolate topped with either peanut or cashew butter (with no sugar, just nuts and salt).2
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I also like Halo Top ice cream on occasion!1
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Publix has these low carb muffins I can't remember if they make them in their bakery or they are made elsewhere. They are delicious but they are very tiny so it is easy to want to eat 3+ in a single session. If I can manage to eat just one then they are very low carb. However, I only purchased them once because I ended up eating an entire cart at once. I'm thinking about buying them now since my hunger is much more managed now.
Other than that I can't think of anything. I use Flat Out wraps to make tortilla chips. I've tried low carb and keto tortilla recipes but none of them converted to crispy chips. I haven't tried any recipes for crackers using almond flour, flax seeds, etc. But the Flat Out wraps are nice because they are 5g net carbs each and it goes nicely with a big bowl of homemade guacamole.1 -
Salt and pepper pistachios and a diet root beer got me through some rough "I want a treat" days. That and celery with PB.
I've made coconut cream/chia pudding with no sweetener and have a few berries on top. It's delicious and easy and both are ingredients we've always had in our pantry.
I also made an easy pumpkin cheesecake with canned pumpkin, mascarpone, 1 egg and some SF caramel Torani. With walnuts on top it was good, but I like my coconut cream pudding better.1 -
Slim Thin brownies, cookies and muffins are my new fav. Can't buy them at the store but they are available online. And since they are nearly $3.00 a brownie you don't buy a lot at a time. I pop em in the freezer and they keep for a while and take a second to warm in the microwave.1
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Look for Green & Blacks dark chocolate. Waaaay better than Lindt imo. I like both, but G&B is my favorite. I always thought it had a creamier texture and I never noticed until recently it has more fat than Lindt so that actually makes sense. At 85 or 86% it's smooth more similarly to milk chocolate than Lindt is.
If I wanted an actual dessert for some occasion, I would probably make a sugar free pudding pie. There's a recipe out there where you add cream cheese and cream or half n half and it's thicker than pudding. I made it a few times last year with almond flour as the crust.
As far as something already made, I consider Atkins products desserts, so eating one of those is like a candy bar.1 -
These aren't premade but they're simple and only take a few minutes to put together. They might be too high carb for some but they fit my 50g carb limit.
A huge bowl of sliced strawberries with whipped cream sweetened with confectioners sugar. It's pretty indulgent these days because of the sugar (and not something I'd eat often) but still has only about 20g carbs and 300 calories.
Raw vegetables and sour cream and onion dip (made with Lipton's Onion Soup Mix) is a more anytime sort of treat I like. I'm pretty sure the dip is 8g carbs for 4oz plus a few carbs for the veggies. It's about 300 calories too.1 -
My go tos for snacks are nuts (walnuts, pecans, almonds) and dark chocolate. If I don't have those available, I will eat cheese (any kind of cheese works for me - I'm part mouse!).4
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Put a layer of pepperoni on a paper plate (with or without a paper towel underneath) and microwave for one minute. Allow to cool (if you're able to wait, lol!) and they eat like crackers! Use mayo as a dip. Yum! Are good for a crunchy, yet simple, snack!1
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Nuts (especially pecans or almonds)
Celery sticks with PB
String cheese sticks (any cheese)
Frozen berries on a little full fat plain yogurt (unsweet) or sometimes on ricotta
Atkins makes littke snack packs but the only one that doesnt affect my tummy are the trail mix packs (mostly nuts)
Coffee with sweetener and extra heavy cream makes a nice warm treat too
Pepperoni and olives, sometimes with marinated feta cubes
Dill pickles (1 carb) or the sugar free bread and butter pickles (I love them!)
When watching TV, either sunflower seeds in the shell or pistachios in the shell - both salty and take time to eat
This is more for dessert, but we often have a 1/2 cup Carb Smart chocolate ice cream (4 net carbs) with pecans on top
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Halo Top ice cream
Blue Diamond Almonds in salt and vinegar, smokehouse and habanero BBQ flavors
Russell Stover sugar free pecan delights and sugar free toffee
Cheese strings
Starbucks unsweetened (no classic) passion tea, swap the classic for SF vanilla syrup, add heavy cream
Lindt 90% dark chocolate
Lilys Crispy Rice, milk chocolate or almond chocolate bars
Parsnip chips from either Whole Foods or Trader Joes
Breyers Carb Smart ice cream
Quest bars in Smores and Double chocolate chunk
Oh Yeah One bars in Birthday cake
Pepperoni, especially the sticks with cheese inside (these are found in Canada, east coast knows their pepperoni. I promise you I haven't found better pepperoni then from here: http://www.thepepperoniguy.com/chris-brothers-pepperoni.html)
And if you have the time to make them, fat bombs made out of low sugar peanut butter or almond butter and dark chocolate, frozen. Basically a Reese pieces cup.
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JessicaLCHF wrote: »Nuts (especially pecans or almonds)
Pepperoni and olives, sometimes with marinated feta cubes
YUM! I almost bought feta and olive salad at the deli the other day then thought I could make it myself and save a few pennies...adding pepperoni?! GENIUS!!
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A little bowl of salted and chilli peanuts, yum!0
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