We often get stuck when our diet which consists mostly of low-GI foods, but may sound limiting when we are told we have to stay off the mashed and roasted potatoes that we usually eat and the white breads that we are so used to eating. Instead we have to aclimatise our taste buds with brown rice and pasta and lots of beans. There might be a problem if we have a sweet tooth and don’t enjoy fruits and vegetables too much. Low carb diet meals doesn’t have to be as bad as it sounds.
My thoughts are that if you can make food appealing enough and tasty with extra flavorings and a couple of spices anything can taste good.
Here are a list of healthy low carb meals recipes that you could try out:
- Shitake mushrooms and herbed omelette with feta cheese
- orange pancakes using wholemeal self raising flour and buttermilk
- lightly fried banana with light cream cheese
- granola with mixed fruit and yogurt, include blueberries and peaches
- summer berry smoothie with low fat yogurt
- tomato and feta soup
- cauliflower and blue cheese soup
- grilled chicken with couscous
- pasta with a spinach and tomato sauce
- pasta with tomato and basil sauce
- wrap with grilled vegetables and feta
- tortilla pizza
- sweet potato fritters with a basil pesto sauce
- moroccan lamb stew, using lots of spices and a little flour, mixing it with bulgar wheat
- rosemary chicken on skewers in a bbq marinade with stir fry vegetables
- stuffed chicken with feta cheese and a red pepper sauce
- sweet potato chips with a steak of your choice, served with salad
- fruity frozen yogurt
- lemon cheesecake using diabetic sugar and oatmeal biscuits
- chocolate mousse using diabetic chocolate
Once you have tried these out you will find making low carb meals easy as pie. Everything in life takes a little perseverance and patience.