mmultanen wrote: »

NAAAACHOS. I love nachos. LOVE THEM. I tried a bunch of substitutes for tortilla chips including the whole mini pepper thing. yeah. no. that's....not nachos. I have had some limited success with plain unseasoned pork rinds.

I've recently become a pork rind connoisseur. lol

I loved nachos too. Had stopped eating them except for some I made with pork rinds, which I love by the way. But then I found out how to make tortillas with baby corn. Give this a try.

In a bowl, add 5 tablespoons almond flour, one tablespoon ground flaxseed, one egg white and 1/2 cup baby corn purée and 1/4 t. of salt. Blend together well.

Form into a ball Take about a tablespoon of the dough and form into a ball. Place it between two sheets of parchment paper or you can cut a sturdy ziplock bag along the seams to make two sheets of that. Now press down with a sturdy pan or a tortilla press if you own one. Makes a nice roung tortilla. Repeat until the dough is gone. Bake at 350F for 10 mins. They should be flexible now, stack them up and cut into quarters for making your chips.

Heat up some fat in a roomy pan, lard is great, but avocado oil will do a good job too. Place as many chips as fit in the pan easily without over lapping. Cook for 1 min. they should be browned and done take them out quickly and place on a cooling rack with a paper towel to absorb the extra fat, this will make them chrunchy, and let them cool. Enjoy with salsa, guacamole, or make nachos with them.

You can cook up larger batchs and freeze them before the cooking step.

Baby corn is primarily fiber but adds tons of corny tasting goodness.

What I have given up is sour dough breads, home made. Can't stop eating that stuff, so I just don't make it anymore. Don't really miss anything else. I focus on all the goodies I didn't eat for decades because of the low fat crap diets.

Party sized bags of candy. I can eat the entire thing.

Most refined and processed carbs will lead to cravings for me. I'm okay with something once in a while, but when it is eaten often, like every day such as right at Xmas, It takes quite an effort to get back out of that rut.

shelbydodgeguy wrote: »

sometimes the smell of something super sugary sweet will literally make my stomach queasy.

Vanilla does this to me. In any form. Ice cream, cakes, hand lotion...... barf.

juststartedrunningagain wrote: »

So cricket power interestingly my brain was almost on fire it lit up so much. Yet yesterday all these things were tempting but I could easily ignore... today all gone.

Ive been thinking about trying that!

Does it help to limit nuts or berries to the weekend?

Conchas are my weakness. If I have one I try to cut it up and make it last days so I get the taste and don't feel deprived. But sometimes... Lol

Salted anything I have to watch. I eat a ton of nuts but I do not buy ones that are salted. If salted I can eat a pound without stopping.

Cheetos. The hard crunchy ones not puffs. Will eat til I'm sick.

Gum. It never occurred to me that sugar free gum could have carbs. I chew it on and off all day while I'm at work because it helps me stay alert and I didn't think I needed to track it because it was sugar free. I am positive it has thrown me off my carb counts big time. Now I log it.

...not the food, it's the mood... seems to be a very true phrase. Many times I can have a dessert or a carb and be ok. But other times it gets me into a binge. I have tried to figure out why one exception would sometimes make me go over the edge - was I annoyed by something or someone? Was it just too many exceptions over a few day period that got me into the sugars and the craving?