Low Carb Diet Menu for Breakfast
- Make and freeze an egg and vegetable frittata. Then thaw it in the morning in the microwave. Makes an quick and easy but oh so filling breakfast.
- Scramble leftover vegetables, cheese, and eggs.
- Special K now has a low carb version.
- Make muffins and biscuits from flax or almond meal.
- Use yogurt, cottage cheese or tofu to make a shake.
- Make your meal salad with dark salad greens instead of iceberg lettuce. It will be much tastier.
- Use an olive oil based dressing.
- A Greek Salad is a naturally low carb diet menu option for lunch with feta cheese, olives, hard boiled eggs, and chicken.)
- Go for a luscious salad such as a salmon salad or steak strip salad.
- Use lettuce or low carb tortillas to make a roll up.
- Soups are excellent low carb lunch ideas.
Dinner is where you can either serve naturally low carb foods or de-carb some of your favorites. Here are some low carb diet menu options for dinner:
- Grill or pan fry your meat dish. Then add low carb sides such as Cauli-rice as well as vegetables. If you need more food, add a green salad.
- Make a skillet meal where the veggies and meat are mixed such as chicken stir fry or steak fajitas.
- Make a crustless quiche.
- Use vegetables instead of pasta to support your favorite sauce. Examples include zucchini cut into ribbons with a peeler, shredded and sauted cabbage, or bean sprouts. Use low carb sauces such as pesto on top.
- Make your “pasta” with tofu noodles found in Asian supermarkets.
Low Carb Diet Menu for Snacks
- Celery with tuna salad
- Deviled Eggs
- Sunflower seeds (get them in the shell so that it takes longer to eat them).
- Low sugar Turkey Jerkey
- Sugar free lime jello made with part coconut milk.
- Lettuce Roll-ups – roll luncheon meat, tuna, egg salad or other filling and veggies in lettuce leaves
- Spread bean dip, spinach dip, or other low-carb dip on the lunch meat or lettuce and then roll it up
- Serve tasty appetizer mushrooms with cheese spread inside
- String cheese, cubed cheese, cheese balls, anything cheese!
- A thick slice of deli turkey, rolled around spinach leaves and a spring onion, dipped in ranch.
Read More, Go To: Dr. Atkins Diet
No comments:
Post a Comment