Looking for some help

In article <[email hidden]>, Dale Kipling

Quoted message said:

Hello:

I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong bachelor I
cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for some easy
low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation items and cooking
utensils, pots and pans etc.

Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions would
be welcome. Thanks.

If you do a search of this newsgroup you'll find a ton of suggestions.
That said, for real basic starters...
pre-packaged salad mix
frozen low carb veggies (such as broccoli, cauliflower, string beans,
asparagus)
chicken parts of your choice (I prefer thighs and freeze them
individually)
steak (rib eye is my fave and I cut up and freeze in individual
portions)
fish (Costco's salmon, individual flash-frozen servings, is a time
saver)
Gardenburger and Boca Burger patties (the various flavors have various
carb counts...be sure to read the label)
And...a George Foreman grill!

In addition...
Yogurt (I love Stoneyfield Farms)
frozen blueberries
eggs...hard boil 'em

That's off the top of my very tired head! G'night!

Mele Kalikimaka...Sue

Go to foodtv.com and check out the recipes from Low Carb and Loving It.

"Dale Kipling" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hello:

I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong bachelor I
cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for some easy
low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation items and cooking
utensils, pots and pans etc.

Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions would
be welcome. Thanks.

I love Dana Carpender's recipes - I cook them for the family often.

Here's the content of my low-carb recipes bookmark, hope they help!

vegetabulous.com - home of the happy hen
Google Groups : alt.support.diet.low-carb
Low Carb Energy Magazine .com - Low-carb recipes
Low Carbohydrate Cooking - Recipes
Low Carbohydrate Dieting - Hold The Toast!
CARB-LITE Low carb Recipes and Advice
Balderon's Low Carb Recipes - Low Carbohydrate Recipes - Low Carb Cooking
BBC - Food - Recipes - Orange and almond cake
Lore's Lowcarb Recipes
Linda's Low Carb Menus & Recipes
Low Carb Recipes - Breakfast
Fineli : Foods containing most and least
Crustless Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe | Chocolate Cheesecakes Recipes | Low
Carb Desserts Recipes @ CDKitchen.com :: it's what's cooking online!
Intheknow Cooking - Pam's RecipeXchange - Low carb
LowCarbFriends Forums - Carbquik RecipesSage and Onion Stuffing

Nicky.

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trader joe's if you have a store near you, has excellent ready to eat and
frozen meals. read the labels.
teresa

Ham is a great handy food, can be eaten cold or hot, mixed with eggs, on a
salad. At Costco or Sam's you can buy ground sirloin patties that are
great and cook up fast even when frozen. They also have bags of frozen
fish, salmon, tilapia and sometimes others. These are frozen separately in
vacuum sealed plastic, can be thawed in minutes in warm water. Just fry in
a little butter, add seasoning or sauce as desired. My favorite fish sauce
is Jimmy's Dill Dip which Sam's Club carries. Veggies cook well in the
microwave, add just a little water and cover and nuke till done--not too
long.

In news:[email hidden],
Sue Larkin <[email hidden]> stated
| In article <[email hidden]>, Dale
| Kipling <[email hidden]> wrote:
|
|| Hello:
||
|| I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
|| Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong
|| bachelor I cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for
|| some easy low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation
|| items and cooking utensils, pots and pans etc.
||
|| Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions
|| would be welcome. Thanks.
|
| If you do a search of this newsgroup you'll find a ton of suggestions.
| That said, for real basic starters...
| pre-packaged salad mix
| frozen low carb veggies (such as broccoli, cauliflower, string beans,
| asparagus)
| chicken parts of your choice (I prefer thighs and freeze them
| individually)
| steak (rib eye is my fave and I cut up and freeze in individual
| portions)
| fish (Costco's salmon, individual flash-frozen servings, is a time
| saver)
| Gardenburger and Boca Burger patties (the various flavors have various
| carb counts...be sure to read the label)
| And...a George Foreman grill!
|
| In addition...
| Yogurt (I love Stoneyfield Farms)
| frozen blueberries
| eggs...hard boil 'em
|
| That's off the top of my very tired head! G'night!
|
| Mele Kalikimaka...Sue

I'm not much of a cook either.

LC can be done with lots of cheeses, pre-cooked hotdogs, pre-cooked sausage,
pastrami, lunch meats, LC ice creams, heavy cream, hard boiled eggs, etc. I
almost never cook. If I do, it is typically scrambled eggs, bacon, or
ground beef.

Cooking takes time, and after spending 30 minutes intimately handling food I
am likely to be too hungry to eat just a tiny portion size. It is better to
measure out .5 ounce of cheese and then go watch TV for an hour.

YMMV

"Dale Kipling" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hello:

I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong bachelor I
cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for some easy
low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation items and cooking
utensils, pots and pans etc.

Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions would
be welcome. Thanks.

285/285/195

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email: dale <dot> kipling <at> sympatico <dot> ca

I should give lessons, I can throw a whole meal together in 15-20 minutes.
Meat or fish, a veggie and a salad. I have more complicated things I cook
but a lot of them last for several meals, like a big pot of soup or a pot
roast with veggies.

In news:[email hidden],
Cubit <[email hidden]> stated
| I'm not much of a cook either.
|
| LC can be done with lots of cheeses, pre-cooked hotdogs, pre-cooked
| sausage, pastrami, lunch meats, LC ice creams, heavy cream, hard
| boiled eggs, etc. I almost never cook. If I do, it is typically
| scrambled eggs, bacon, or ground beef.
|
| Cooking takes time, and after spending 30 minutes intimately handling
| food I am likely to be too hungry to eat just a tiny portion size.
| It is better to measure out .5 ounce of cheese and then go watch TV
| for an hour.
|
| YMMV
|
|
| "Dale Kipling" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
| news:[email hidden]...
|| Hello:
||
|| I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
|| Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong
|| bachelor I cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for
|| some easy low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation
|| items and cooking utensils, pots and pans etc.
||
|| Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions
|| would be welcome. Thanks.
||
|| 285/285/195
||
||
|| --
|| email: dale <dot> kipling <at> sympatico <dot> ca

While it may take 20- 30 mins, I think the results are well worth it.
Last night I had fried flounder with string beans which was wonderful
which came together in no time. I also cook ahead for a few days.
Today I made roasted peppers and a southwestern chipotle chicken salad.
Both of those will last 4 days or so. For lunch, I just take some
mesculin mix, some marinated artichokes, and a scoop of the chicken
salad, which takes like 5 mins. There are also lots of great vegetable
sides that come together easily, like braised escarole with lemon, my
current favorite.

I always cooked some, but I find myself enjoying it a lot more now.
And I'm exploring new things and many times just wing it. Like a
couple weeks ago, I made a slaw type salad from anise and it came out
wonderful. I also enjoy watching the FoodTV channel. I record it on
my Tivo and then if it looks interesting, I can watch it anytime. Lots
of great ideas there, LC and Loving It and Food 911 are my favorites.

BTW, if you don't have a Tivo or a similar PVR, I highly recommend it.
I could never go back to being without it.

Dale Kipling said:

Hello:

I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong bachelor I
cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for some easy
low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation items and cooking
utensils, pots and pans etc.

Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions would
be welcome. Thanks.

285/285/195

As a fellow lifelong bachelor who can barely cook I sympathize. When I
started Atkins last year I (this is no joke) had to look up on the
Internet how to boil eggs!

I make almost all my own meals and rarely eat out. This is even more
compounded by the fact that I work out of my home.

Here are some simple staples anybody can put together!

My standard breakfast: poached eggs over cottage cheese

This is a good breakfast on low-carb AND low-cal diets. And I find it
staves off hunger for hours.

Poached eggs, it turns out, are trivially easy to make without a poacher.

1. Bring a pot of water to a simmer.
2. Crack the eggs on the side of the pot and let the innards fall into
the simmering water.

You will want to lower the flame a bit because if it comes to a full
boil the white foam will overflow the pot.

Let them simmer for a good 5 minutes. More if you hate runny eggs (I
like them).

Scoop them out with a big spoon with holes in the bottom (I'm sure there
must be a cooking expert name for this utensil) so that the water drains
and plop on top of some cottage cheese. Season to taste and enjoy.

Nutrition count:

3 eggs: 240 cals / 1.8 carbs
200 gm cottage cheese: 214 cals / 3.8 carbs
total: 454 cals / 5.6 carbs

Some other super quick meals:

Hamburgers:

Get 250-300 gm of ground beef
In your hands, create two beef patties from the meat.
Put in a dry fry pan on low heat. Season and heat one side til done.
Turn over, put a slice of cheese on each patty and cook the other side
'til done and the cheese melts.
Add spices, mustard, mayo or low-carb dressing as a sauce.

This is a bit high calorie, but almost no carbs. You just need to count
the small amount of carbs for the cheese and any sauces you put on top.

If you want to save on calories too, substitute ground chicken for the beef.

Grilled chicken breasts:

Incredibly easy to make! Put aluminum foil on top of your grill pan.
Add one or two chicken breasts skin side down. Spice. Put in the oven
and grill (high setting) for 15 minutes.

Remove, turn the breasts over, spice again and return to the oven to
grill for another 15 minutes.

You get delicious, juicy chicken breasts with skin that is crunchy just
right.

While doing the breats I often boil some fresh brocolli in boiling
water at the same time and end up with a very satisfying and healthy low
carb and also low calorie dinner.

Fried chicken:

When you gotta have something fried and want to stick with low carb,
get some of those keto crumbs (or a competing brand). They aren't bad!
And it is really easy to make.

Put an egg into a bowl and beat it.
Add a few strips of boneless breast of chicken.
Put some of the keto crumbs on a plate and put the egg-dripped chicken
into the crumbs, covering it to make a batter.
Preheat a frying pan with some olive oil.
Add the battered chicken breasts to the oil and cook until both sides
are brown. It only takes a few minutes. Very tasty!

And as a bonus: take the left over keto crumbs and mix them into the
left over egg and make a batter. Fry that batter, which rises slightly,
and you have a pancake/bisquit like thing to have as a side dish!

Vegies:

Bags of frozen green beans, spinach and brocolli are your best friends.

Your bachelor cook in Tokyo,

doug

"Dale Kipling" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Hello:

I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong bachelor I
cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for some easy
low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation items and cooking
utensils, pots and pans etc.

Does anyone know of a site that would be of help?, other suggestions would
be welcome. Thanks.

285/285/195

What others have said here is excellent. Here is another tip for the
non-cook:

Two appliances that make excellent meals with little skill or effort are the
electric rotisserie and the slow cooker. Both are available at Wal-Mart for
about $30 or $40 each. The rotisserie is good for whole chickens, steaks,
pork chops, etc. It works by searing the outside of the meat so most of the
juices are sealed in and cook within the meat, giving a moist and wonderful
flavor. The slow cooker works by, well, cooking slowly in liquid. It is
good for roasts, chicken and pork, and a variety of other foods, and the
liquid added to the cooker is absorbed into the meat. Both are "fix it and
forget it" appliances. With the slow cooker you can add selected veggies
later in the cooking, if you wish. Both turn the inexperienced bachelor
into gourmet chefs, with a little practice. Well worth the investment.

Much cheaper than a wife. 😄

(I'm gonna get in trouble for that one)

Cubit said:

I'm not much of a cook either.

LC can be done with lots of cheeses, pre-cooked hotdogs, pre-cooked sausage,
pastrami, lunch meats, LC ice creams, heavy cream, hard boiled eggs, etc. I
almost never cook. If I do, it is typically scrambled eggs, bacon, or
ground beef.

One thing to be careful of: the carb counts in pre-cooked hotdogs and
pre-cooked sausages, pastrami and other lunch meats vary GREATLY.

Just today at the supermarket I compared two packages of sausages, both
with 200 grams weight. One had 1.8 total carbs and the other almost 14
carbs! That is a huge difference!

Same with luncheon meats.

ALL that stuff contains *sugar*, so you have to pick and choose carefully.

I can probably tell better over here in Tokyo because packages here
typically give nutritional information in 100 gm units and carbs are
given to one-tenth carb. In the U.S. it's so often shown by "serving
size", which might be "one sausage". If it is less than 0.5 carbs they
round down to zero, so you never know.

I don't know why companies in the U.S. can't provide more informative
packaging.

doug

The thing you have to master is getting everything to be ready at the same
time, it just takes a little practice. You learn when to start different
things so they all come together at the end.

In news:[email hidden],
Ignoramus27451 <[email hidden]> stated
| On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 01:20:13 -0500, Dale Kipling
| <[email hidden]> wrote:
|| Hello:
||
|| I'm going back to the low carb woe and need some help.
|| Specifically, I live alone and don't cook much, as a lifelong
|| bachelor I cooked very little and mostly ate out. So I'm looking for
|| some easy low-carb recipes that can be done with basic preparation
|| items and cooking utensils, pots and pans etc.
|
| take any piece of meat, fish or chicken, add salt/spices and throw it
| into the oven for appropriate time. eat with a tomato or cabbage.
|
| Come here. cooking is not rocket science and is basically trivial.

hey doug
try a half teaspoon of white vinager in the boiling water to poach the eggs
in...it keeps the egg whites together.(it will smell vinagery, but will not
taste it)
and swirl the water with a spoon right before sliding the eggs into it.
teresa

In article <eQtxd.307$ZL.169@okepread03>, "Jim Bard"

Quoted message said:

What others have said here is excellent. Here is another tip for the
non-cook:

Two appliances that make excellent meals with little skill or effort are the
electric rotisserie and the slow cooker. Both are available at Wal-Mart for
about $30 or $40 each. The rotisserie is good for whole chickens, [...]

This reminds me...
I buy a rotisserie chicken a couple of times a month from the Safeway
or Costco deli (prefer Costco). If your doing induction and are worried
about the carb count of the basting sauce, just take the skin off.
After induction, a little skin probably won't hurt. Anyway, I pick away
at the chicken for several days. Sometimes I dice up the entire chicken
and freeze in one cup increments for salads or casseroles.

Quoted message said:

Much cheaper than a wife. 😄

(I'm gonna get in trouble for that one)

<8:q <ggg>

Mele Kalikimaka...Sue