A new low-carb support thread for 2016

I think it will certainly keep a couple of days. You could just do one portion though? You just need to be careful melting the chocolate and then not letting it re-set before you put the egg in, but I had everything ready and to hand and it worked fine.
We had a lemon tree when we were in Spain in January and it was wonderful - don't think it would work in Normandy though!

It is rather nice to walk out side and pick lemons and oranges, at least I know they are organic and HUGE

Thanks Pippa and Mamie for two delicious sounding puds. Your lemons sound amazing .

Mamie, I love chocolate mousse (or mouse, whatever), but can't get it here in Cyprus, so will be trying your recipe, how long does it keep as DH is not really into chocolate, and I would feel awful if I had to eat two portions all by myself.

Those both sound lovely.

I fell off the carb-wagon resoundingly over Easter and have just climbed back on

Thanks Pippa, that looks delicious. Not sure if I reported back that the chocolate mouse of melted chocolate and eggs worked really well. It was 30g of very dark chocolate and one egg each. Melt chocolate in bowl over simmering water (not touching) take off heat, stir egg yolks and add them, then add whipped egg whites. Put in fridge for a few hours.

Should be 300 gm cream cheese.

Hi Lazigirl, Cheese cake recipe to follow -
Make a base with Brazil nuts and almonds whizzed up to make a 'flour' like base enough to cover the bottom of a loose bottomed baking tin (mine was 6 inches as this was an experiment) add enough butter to make it all stick together.

Then mix full fat 200 gm cream cheese, three medium eggs, 100 ml ( approx) cream, a teaspoon of vanilla paste , grated lemon peel to taste, our lemons here are just off the tree and the size of a jaffa orange, so I used just one.

You will need to increase the amounts of ingredients if you use a bigger baking tin
Cook at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes, until it is set. I do leave it in the oven while it cools just to make sure, but my oven can be temperamental, rather like DH
The top should have been covered in sliced strawberries but I had eaten them.
Enjoy

Plus 400g of chickpeas.

The original recipe is 500g of rice for 6 people - how can anyone eat that much? We have rice about once a month in a kedgeree and that is 50g between us.
Bizarre.

Enjoyed it so much just had to share it.

Looks delicious - definitely our sort of thing. Love coriander, but quite hard to find here, we have to grow it!

Here's the recipe - I left out the coriander as I can't stand it.

I can only find one online with pistachio and apricot? No Sainsbury's here.

Keep at it Lazigirl. They do say it is much easier for men to lose weight than women.
Are you drinking enough water. 3 litres a day is recommended.? I find I lose weight more easily if I do just a half hour to an hour of exercise a day. Good luck and don't get despondent.

Just have to flag up this recipe.

Anyone seen the recipe for Persian Chicken on the front of this months Sainsbury's magazine? Well I've just tried it and replaced the rice element with raw cauliflower rice ( which is then cooked inside the recipe)

It was Absolutely Delicious and so filling ... a must try treat

This thread has been a great support and menu inspiration whilst I struggle with the 8 week diet, especially difficult over Easter entertaining family, out with friends etc. And I don't want to become a diet bore. I have kept to carb less main meals as far as possible and a bit despondent as only lost about 6lbs in about 5 weeks. My main concern is not weight loss but that my pre diabetes does not progress to Type II. My DH has lost more weight and he isn't trying! Main weakness is beer at weekends, which is a treat and I know it's loaded with sugar but finding difficult to give up. Help. Could you share your cheesecake recipe Pippa000 please?

Thanks, Mamie, great explanation and I have copied some recipes.

Love this low-carb explained in 60 seconds link.
www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/60-seconds
Some good looking recipes too.

Shysal, glad you like the cheesy buns. I did a cooked cheese cake yesterday, with a ground mixed nut and almond flour base, very successful, nice to have a sweet again after a meal. Now I just need to perfect crisp bread.

Just got the veg tagine going smelling good but I haven't bothered to drag the Tagine out as it doesn't take long to cook. Having it lunch time as visiting offspring today. Going away for the rest if Easter with new diet firmly in mind

Tried your cheesy bun recipe from this thread today, Pippa000. They are the nicest thing I have tried with almond flour. I shall have to freeze them quickly before I eat the lot! Thank you very much.

I have noticed a lot of my recipes use xanthan gum to give a more bread-like texture, does anyone use it, and does it make a difference?

Just to say always use quite a bit of olive oil on everything really.

I suppose if we lose weight it will be a bonus but really we are doing it for entirely health reasons. Perversely I have spent the entire last 10 years trying to lose weight with zero success, and it would be brilliant if I lost weight at the same time.

Ingredients for tagine - red onion,cauliflower,butternut, tomatoes, aubergine,chickpeas, preserved lemon, spices, harissa, root ginger, garlic. Shall try the curry.

This is a good thread.

Lunch is going to be smoked mackerel salad.

Sounds excellent! The curry was delicious. I do miss naan a bit, but worth it to fit into a size 10.