[greeneyes]

I am on low carb diabetic diet myself (dr.’s orders)but she didn’t say I was pre-diabetic. I need to lose weight to bring down blood pressure.

I don’t lose unless I keep carbs at <50g.

Seeing these pictures of cakes, has made me very very hungry for Red Velvet Cake or even a hostess chocolate crème filled cupcake, or almost any other cake you can mention and a huge glass of milk to wash it down. sigh.

[Liz]

Looking at the nostalgia candy posts, I came across a recipe for these. They taste great but don't have the same dark red color of the original.

Remember Brach's French Burnt Peanuts?

METHOD Cook/stir on med-high heat til moisture evaporates 1 1/2 c br/sugar, 1/2 c water, 2 cs dry roasted peanuts, 6 drops red food coloring.

This takes long. Careful at the end....if all the liquid evaporates, the remaining sugar will burn.

Now spread out on parchmented sheetpan. Bake 250 deg 45 min, stir/breakup large clumps every 15 min. Let cool completely. Store air-tight up to 10 days.

[Jamestown1630]

Those Atkins bars are pretty good if you get a real need for something sweet on a low carb diet; but after you’ve been on the diet for awhile, they seem horribly, sickly sweet.

-JT

[txnativegop]

I understand your feelings completely.

[bgill]

Have you seen these two low carb recipe sites? They’ve been my go to for years.

http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html

http://texascookin.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-06:00&max-results=20