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Rhune
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Low Carb Food
« on: Jun 15^th, 2004, 6:51pm »

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Since many of us appear to be doing the low carb thing lately, I thought this might be a good place to share some recipes or tips we might have. Here are a couple we've been doing at my house:

No Carb Lemonade - Take one glass of water, squirt some lemon juice in it and add a packet or two of splenda.

Low Carb Cheesecake -

Crust = Graham Cracker and melted butter. Crumble up enough crackers to cover the bottom of your pan and enough butter to get it all damp. (a lot of my recipes are not in exact measurements) This is where most of the carbs will come from. You don't want it any thicker than a cracker would be on it's own. It comes out to about 8 carbs per slice with crust. Alternately you can skip the crust or scoop it out of the crust and not eat that part.

Filling = 2 pkg 8 oz cream cheese, 1 cup of sour cream, a spalsh of vanilla, a splash of lemon juice, 1 cup splenda (alternately sometimes I use 1/2 cup splenda and a 1/2 cup of raw cane sugar, it has the same carbs per serving as white refined sugar, but since it's less refined the carbs are more complex and break down slower and don't affect blood sugar as badly), 3 eggs, 1/3 cup of heavy cream. Mix er all together and blend until the cream cheese is smooth. This will go a lot faster and easier if you let the cream cheese sit out for awhile first and let it warm up and soften that way. You can use a traditional mixer for this, but I usually just use my blender.

Bake the crust without filling in it yet for 7 minutes at 350, then pull it out, pour in the filling and put it back in and bake until you can stick a butter knife in the middle and it comes out clean (usually just before it starts to seriously brown on top). Pull it out and put it straight into the fridge and let it sit for at least an hour.

I find that when you cook with the splenda, the cheesecake is more like a cross between the texture of quiche and cheesecake (a little spongier than normal cheesecake), but tastes just as good. If you're going low carb, it's better than no cheesecake at all. Wink

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #1 on: Jun 15^th, 2004, 6:55pm »

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Oh, for a chocolate version of the cheesecake skip the splash of lemon juice and add about 4 tablespoons unsweetened dutch processed cocoa powder (has like 1 carb per tablespoon) and add an extra 1/4 cup of splenda. Check it to make sure it's chocolately/sweet enough, bearing in mind that it will be a slightly less sweet when baked as it tastes before you bake it, so if it tastes just right, add a little more splenda so it will taste just right when finished.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #2 on: Jun 15^th, 2004, 9:03pm »

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Rhune, I mostly just cook for myself...if I made that yummy cake I'd just eat it all myself, it really sounds yummy!

I find I do best just keeping it simple. Do you ever by atkins products or other premade low carb food...I havent tried yet mostly due to the possible presence of nuts but I am curious if they are any good...Id like to have something handy when to snack on when I am out hiking or biking and am looking for something quick ,easy , yummy that you can eat with one hand...any ideas?

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« Reply #3 on: Jun 15^th, 2004, 9:39pm »

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Hmm, well I haven't really purchased much of the atkins premade stuff, but I've bought a few things like the russel stover candies made with splenda and some of the low carb high protien drink stuff for quick breakfasting. I have tried a few of the low carb bars you can get, but they all have tasted like crap so far. A friend of mine tells me she tried one she loved but couldn't remember the brand name. Sad

Mostly I have been using low carb substitues for regular meals, like I found a pasta made locally that is not a soybean noodle, but a fairly normal looking and tasting noodle that's only 19 carbs per cup, as opposed to regular pasta wich is around 40 carbs per 2 oz (thats 160 per cup), and made some of my regular recipes using those, etc. My doctor has told me I have to go low carb, but I'm not relegated to any specific low-carb diet, so I'm mostly just trying to have my regular meals but find a way to do it in a low carb way, like I'll order a pizza for the family, but I won't eat the bread, I just pull the tops off and eat that...lol.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #4 on: Jun 16^th, 2004, 9:01am »

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I'm doing a sort of low card thing and my favorite place to shop is Trader Joes. The have a line now of lower carb options at very reasonable prices. They have chips there that are Very good.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #5 on: Jun 16^th, 2004, 12:48pm »

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I am on Total low carb diet. I always liked breakfast cereals so buy the Total, or Special K low carb versions and pur a little light cream on them and a handfull of blueberries. Yummy! For orange juice replacement I buy the Crystal Light Sunrise and mix it myself. It is wonderful. I drink a lot of the crystal light drinks. Lunch is usually one of the low carb yogurts, Yopliat and Dannon now make them. For dinner I make a large salad, and have either chicken or seafood. For deserts I make sugar free jello and even bought some of the ben and jerry low carb ice cream. I snack on a small bit of cheese, don't overdo that! The low carb bread is good, I get the Pepperidge Farm carb style bread (5 grams per silce) I drink the Hood low carb milk, the chocolate is delicious!

Here is a version of a cheesecake that I have made that is wonderful and does't need baking.

Dream cheescake
I spray Pam in a 10" square pan
1 graham cracker crushed, I don't even bother with this now, sprinked on the bottom of the pan.
2/3 cups boiling water
1 small pagkage of your favorite flavor sugar free jello
1 cup cottage cheese, the low fat version has more carbs so I get the whole milk cottage cheese, the small container contains 1 cup.
8 oz cream cheese, I get the brick of regular and not low fat, as it has less carbs
cool whip topping, real stuff not the diet version.

Sprinkle crumbs in pan
stir boling water into jello in a bowl -chiil 5 min. (won't be jelled yet)
Pour jello into blender, add cheeses, cover and blend until all mixed
Pour into large bowl, stir in Cool Whip, pour over crumbs, put in fridge until it sets up like Jello. (4 hrs at least)
Cut into 8 squares. Fantastic!

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #6 on: Jun 21^st, 2004, 7:00pm »

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Lately I have been enjoying the new Russell Stover candies made with splenda. I can buy a bulk box of them at Costco for not very much. The bulk box I get has pecan clusters, toffee squares and mint patties. They don't taste EXACTLY the same as chocolate with refined sugar, but they taste similar and don't have a bad aftertaste. Here's a link to the RS site about them...

http://www.russellstover.com/jump.jsp?itemID=82&itemType=CATEGORY&am p;path=1%2C2&KickerID=17&KICKER

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #7 on: Jun 21^st, 2004, 7:56pm »

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Food Science tid-bit on low carb chocolates:
The 'sugars' in low carb chocolate are actually sugar alcohols. Your body doesn't absorb them as well as regular sugar as a result you ferment them when they reach your colon. As a result it acts as a laxative. So don't eat too many...

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« Reply #8 on: Jun 21^st, 2004, 8:16pm »

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Thanks for the info, Shamon. Now I know why low carb Russell Stover
candy does not agree with my system Lips Sealed

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« Reply #9 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 2:11am »

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That is true for the ones that contain sugar alcohols, but these new ones I linked to are sweetened by Splenda instead, not by sugar alcohols.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #10 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 8:18am »

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I think the hershey line does......

Quick question for atkins people:
How is everyone's cholesterol? Before my dad got on the atkins (it really helps his blood sugar being a diabetic), the doctor told him that his cholesterol could go up. As he lost weight, his cholesterol went down, but as he "leveled off" his cholesterol went back up...

Has anyone else had the same pattern?

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« Reply #11 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 12:11pm »

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I'm not actually on the Atkins diet per se, but have been told to reduce carbs and follow the diet I was on when I was pregnant the second time (I had gestational diabetes and had a low carb diet with that). I've only been relegated to this for about a month now, so I'm only had my baseline reading on my stats. I go back in for a checkup at the 3 month mark. My specific problem is that I'm an insulin over producer. All my life I have been the opposite of diabetic - hypoglycemic (low blood sugar), which makes me irritable and weak feeling when I am hungry. This is because I produce too much insulin. It also causes me to crave sugars and sweets badly. So, I've always struggled with my weight as a result. Now, as an adult, the body starts to get tired of processing so much insulin and starts becoming resistant to it. So, even though you are still producing a lot of insulin, it's not affecting blood sugars like it used to and you swing the other way and start to become diabetic. I'm not diabetic yet, but it's clear from my blood reports that I'm starting to swing that direction, so I have to start worrying about carbohydrates and the diabetic diet.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #12 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 12:24pm »

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I stayed on Atkins so well, that I crashed and burned, ws starved for the foods I had discntinued and you can guess the rest.............yep, gained back more than I lost!

My advice would be to eat what you want in moderation and exercize.

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Re: Low Carb Food
« Reply #13 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 2:37pm »

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Rhune, were you able to find Diet Rite sodas locally?

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« Reply #14 on: Jun 22^nd, 2004, 6:31pm »

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I honestly haven't had an opportunity to look yet, but I will have a peek tonight as I'm going grocery shopping after work.

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