Oh, thank you so much for the website and information!! I’ve tried low carb eating once or twice before, but I struggled with breakfast: I’m a devoted cereal eater and am not crazy about having much meat...and I can barely stomach eggs (occasionally scrambled; no other style). I’ll do my homework this time around and have some other options lined up in advance. Your information will definitely help. Thanks again!
If you do go low carb, you won’t be going to bed with a carby snack, so you won’t wake up with the gnawing hunger that eating carbs the day before gives people in the morning. So you can hold off maybe to lunch, then have whatever you would have inside a sandwich, without the bread. And you will be more satisfied than during your carb days.
If you work out in the morning though, you should follow up the workout with protein. Maybe some powder in something, veg juice, I don’t know.
Sorry, can’t help with the cereal. Maybe try a breakfast of - a bowl of berries with splenda or whipped cream or cream. Or leftovers. Or LC muffins or flax seed pancakes with SF syrup.
I’m currently looking for my tried and true flax seed pancake recipe on my cluttered desk. I think the batter is 1 egg, 1/4 C flax seed meal (regular or golden - regular is cheaper), dash of cinnamon and a good splash of SF syrup (found in the coffee section at the grocery). Makes about 3 small pancakes. Some say to add baking soda but don’t bother because they’re not going rise. Serve with butter and/or SF pancake syrup. You can add a spoon of peanut butter to change things up.
At Linda’s site, the site I linked, there should be some pancakes that use cream cheese that are pretty good, too. Only problem is I tend to eat too much cheese through the day to eat more at breakfast. YMMV.
She also has several breakfast type muffins using cream cheese, flax seed meal and almond flour. But watch the carb counts.
Are crepes too eggy for you? 3 oz cream cheese, 4 eggs, 3 T almond flour (buy packaged or cheaper to grind almonds), 4 t splenda, 1/2 t vanilla. Makes about 9 6” crepes. Fill them as you wish.
Crepes can be sliced into strips and added to chicken soup for “noodles.”
Is quiche too eggy? In an 8x8” square pan or pie plate, mix together 4 eggs, cream or half n half (eyeball amount, maybe a cup), lots of shredded cheese, seasonings and herbs and veggies or cooked meat. Bake 350 for 30 minutes or until golden and set. Great way to use up leftovers. In many recipes, like this one, if cream is too fatty tasting, dilute it with some water or use half n half but it will take longer to bake since the water needs to evaporate.
These are great grab and go muffin thingies. Mix 2-3 eggs with shredded cheese and seasonings. Add leftover veggies, or leftover cooked meat. Or 2 well drained 6 oz cans of tuna or salmon, shredded cheese and/or canned parm, Old Bay, celery and bell pepper. Bake in muffin tins at 350 for about 30 minutes.
Yes, I’m throwing breakfast egg recipes at you just in case. It might give you some ideas for them that you can tolerate.
Linda also has some entree dishes that use eggs as the base for crusts/bottom layer of things like Mexican enchilada bakes and Italian dishes. Maybe you can play around with those recipes.
No eggs! When you get a craving for a Big Mac, have a Big Mac Salad. I used to take this to work and nuke it for lunch. Tastes just like a Big Mac. Soak 1 T dehydrated chopped onion bits in some hot water until re-hydrated (yes, this is a must for the right taste). Nuke some cooked ground beef with a slice of American cheese and the onion until cheese is melted. Toss in lettuce and LC thousand island dressing.
LC Thousand Island Dressing - in a pint jar combine 1 1/4 C mayo, 2 T ketchup, 2 T dill pickle relish, dash Worcestershire, 1 T vinegar, 4 t splenda. This stuff is addictive. The original recipe called for LC ketchup but I don’t think that’s produced anymore. Linda has a recipe for LC ketchup but regular ketchup has 9 carbs per those two tablespoons and it’s not like you’re going to eat the whole jar at one sitting so it shouldn’t be enough to worry about.
Give me a holler anytime you wish.
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/breakfast_ideas.html
Hubby finally realized he HAS to go LC after years of fighting against the idea. His numbers are bad and on insulin. We’ll see how long until he sneaks ice cream in. Asked this morning if he’d mulch the leaves when it warms up a bit so I can get a little exercise picking pecans in the yard. Pecans are the lowest net carb nuts! Of course, they take forever to shell.