Getting healthy by adopting a low carb lifestyle whilst enjoying food, drink, holidays and gadgets.
Hello. Missed me ? It has been a while since my last post, 572 days in fact. This will be a rambling catch up post, shorter updates and new recipes will follow along with whatever else I think to share. So, what have I been up to and why did I stop writing I started … Continue reading 572 Days Later…..
There was a need for our household to go vegetarian for 11 days in October, so I decided to eat a version of my low carb pizza each day - it was an easy option and I wanted to see if I would get sick of it (yeah right!), see what impact it had on … Continue reading 11 Day Pizza Challenge
I have been meaning to write this up for a few weeks now, but each time I made it, there was something not quite right. It was all to do with ratios: the ratio between almond flour and butter for the base, as well as the ratio between the base, caramel and chocolate. I think … Continue reading #4: Chocolate Salted Caramel Shortbread
It has been a strange 6 weeks. It started with my Birthday at the end of August, then it seemed we had something to do, somewhere to go, someone to see every week and I ended up not really been tracking my intake and this of course resulted in taking in more carbs than I … Continue reading Reboot time
I have already wrote about what drove me to adopting a low carb lifestyle - my own health indicators and physically seeing the impact this way of eating had on my friend Jim. If I am being totally honest with myself, I doubt I would have believed never mind started this it was not for … Continue reading Starting Low Carb (my FAQs)
We have a rule in our house - no meat/eggs/alcohol for 2 days a week, Tuesdays and Fridays. Was not really a problem in my carb eating days, but without carbs it was going to be a struggle. I had heard of fathead pizza, but that needed an egg, so was a non-starter for me. Once … Continue reading #3: Pizza (Egg Free Base)
Got two new gadgets on Friday afternoon, however have had a very busy holiday weekend so not have had a chance to get stuck in. The tablet replaces my "old" Samsung Note 10.1 that I got in 2014 and the Arsenal is a kickstarter camera gadget that is full of the latest industry buzzwords like … Continue reading The New and the Old
It is said that once you start going low carb, your taste buds will change, especially in terms of sweet foods. This is the case for me, where before I would quite happily have a chunk of say Bournville dark chocolate, I now find this too sweet, so now seek out 85%-100% dark chocolate for … Continue reading #2: Pecan Pie Bites
I love cheese and biscuits so was delighted when I learnt that cheese is a low carb food. During the early days I had a sneaky cream cracker and then added it to my food tracker - the amount of carbs in a single cracker was a shock. I was gutted that I would now … Continue reading #1: Flax Seed Crackers
Busy day today, had a coffee with expert blogger Graham to get some tips on how to set up my page and link to other social media outlets, so most of my evening has been spent on setting these up and now this is the first test. I do have some recipes in the pipeline, … Continue reading Site Update
