Low Carb / Recipes

One of the foods that is off the list for both low-carb eaters and gluten-intolerant people, is wheat products, bread being one of the main ones.
I have been following a low-carb diet for most of this year, and after reading more about ketogenic diets, have settled into that routine, and am now finding some new low-carb recipes that I think I will like.

Anyway, on to the adventure ! !
This is such a simple bread to make, and takes just a little over a minute to cook in the microwave. You can be proud of me, @Frank Sanoica , because I did actually cook food in the microwave.
No phytonutrients in eggs, so I guess I am safe on this one.
It is just coconut flour, butter, egg, and cream/water with some baking soda and cream of tartar , and here is the link for the recipe:
https://ketoincognito.wordpress.com...ead-and-then-there-was-bread-and-it-was-good/

Here is the picture of how it turned out after cooking and then toasting for a few minutes to brown it. I made a cheese and bacon with romaine sandwich, and it tasted pretty good, too ! !
I am impressed and will be experimenting with more recipes soon.

 

I have been on the low-carb diet for a while now, @Krissttina Isobe , and I just love it ! While I can't say that the pounds are just melting off of me, they are slowly disappearing, and I have lost over 30 lbs so far, and all with not ever feeling hungry.
I sometimes do miss the high-carb foods that we are used to having in the diet, like bread for sandwiches, and this microwave recipe is not only easy, there are only about 5 carbs in both slices of bread ! !
It only took a few minutes to stir everything up and then another minute or so to microwave it. The finished product was kind of an off-white, but I toasted it a bit in the pan and that gave it the look of real toast.
I added ham and cheese and a bit of lettuce, and it was a proper sandwich, and barely added any carbs to my day's food intake.
Not only that, but this, or a similar recipe can be used to make other things that are usually made with regular wheat flour, so I am looking forward to expanding my horizons again soon.

 

The hardest thing when you are on a diet is dealing with hunger pangs. With the low-carb diet, there is NO hunger pangs, and you actually eat less just naturally because the foods you eat are satisfying and keep you feeling full much longer.
Even though foods that I used to crave still look appealing to me, it is not like before where I used to literally crave those foods, and could not say no to them. Now, it is easy to just walk on past and not even look when I am grocery shopping, and I detour right on past the whole bakery department.
I still allow myself "anything goes" meals, but I do it once a week, so it does not become a habit again, and I stil feel like I can have any food that I want, just not all of the time.
Not only that, but besides losing weight, I also have so much more energy, and I am walking more, usually over a mile each day. That is not a lot; but it is much better than I was doing before, and I can feel my muscles toning up now, too.

 

I don't know that much about baking dough using only whole grain flours, @Frank Sanoica . When I have made WW bread, the dough is a lot heavier than when using regular dough, and takes a lot longer to rise. They are bound to have a lot more nutrients than the stripped and bleached white flour has.
I imagine that you can find recipes that use only whole grains if you look online.

I am not much of a baker, and since I am on a low-carb eating plan, I don't eat any kind of regular bread, regardless of whether it is made with white or whole wheat flours. They all have way too much carbs for me to even think about.
That is the reason that I tried making the coconut flour microwaved bread; because sometimes it is just nice to have a regular sandwich to eat.
I feel so much better now, and I am losing weight and exercising so much more than I was able to do before, and don't have hunger pangs or low-energy days like I used to have.
When I am worn out now, it is because I have burned up enough calories that I am legitimately tired out, not just because I am low-energy.

 

Awesome ! I am sure that you will start losing weight soon, too, @Kate Ellery . There is a great website called Carb Manager which has some excellent tools for keeping track of your carb intake. I have posted more info and the link in the low-carb diet thread in the health/diet section of this forum.
It takes a while for your body to change over from fueling itself with sugar to fueling itself with fat ketones instead, which is why you have to be so very low-carb at first.
Once that happens, and you start burning fat for fuel, then the fat should start coming off, and you will notice the difference, and you won't be hungry, either.