Carb cravings and - Muffins!

[MikePollard]

Just a short one.

One of the problems with transitioning to a largely low carb high fat lifestyle is the inevitable craving for bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. When I was a child it was only bread and potatoes - pasta was largely unknown, and rice was a pudding.

Anyway, many, many low carb recipes call for carb substitutes such as cauliflower rice or courgetti spaghetti. For me, they just don't work, in fact I can hardly stand cauliflower and courgettes are a line I cannot cross. So, why bother looking for substitutes - that just keeps the monster alive?

So, what's the alternative? Well for me I keep it as simple as I can and if overwhelmed will have a little potato or small piece of bread - strictly as a treat and all the while being aware that it is strictly a treat. After all, if you have lost you fear of fat, something our immediate forebears would have looked at you askance had you posited the concept, you can hardly over consume those wicked carbs. And our ancestors ate liberally of bread and potatoes, but were NOT fat.

Here's one solution, and it's become a staple now. Simple to make, loaded with fat and protein and essentially zero carb. I have one or two a day.

One thing to bear in mind, and it's important, is that it's not carbs per say that are the problem - excess carbs are. So cutting down carbs does work even if you are not full on, as insulin spikes will be mitigated as indeed our immediate and past forebears illustrated.

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[bigleg]

Hi Mike - trust you are keeping well? I was in hospital recently and the only offer for breakfast was a choice of cereals and toast. Well of course useless for a low carber. I was eating lunch, which had somethiong we could eat and a nurse came in with a plastic container. She had 4 eggy muffines, 2 hardboiled eggs, 2 tomatoes and a couple of slices of ham - what an amazing friend. The ward was a closed ward but my dear friend got in and I was able to see her lovely smiley face around the door and we were able to wave to each other!!! We low carbers need friends like that in the current hospital food environment.

[MikePollard in reply to bigleg]

Hi Bigleg, Good to hear from you and glad you are on the mend. I don't post much nowadays, been there done that etc. However the 5.5 day fast was interesting. I'm on a new project now and will put something up if what I'm hoping for pans out.

[over61andstilltrying]

Hello Mike, I make something very similar. It was from a muffin recipe on dietdoctor , but I now call it crustless quiche. I make it with 12 eggs in a square silicon baking tray. I find it much less time consuming to prepare compared to individual muffins. I divide it into triangular portions. They freeze and re-heat fine.We like cauliflower rice better than rice and courgetti better than pasta. just shows how different people enjoy different things.