Beef Short Ribs...
 

This afternoon I'm making Beef Short Ribs for dinner. I've been in my butcher's "marked down for quick sale" section again and found some great-looking short ribs. I'm also finishing up the rest of the homemade tomato soup and spinach for my green veggie.

Broccoli salad!
I made my own variation of a broccoli salad yesterday, and let me tell you it is scrumptious. I think most broccoli salads are made with raw broccoli, but I steamed mine and prefer it steamed. I don't have an exact recipe, but it was something like:

2 cups of steamed broccoli (let it cool completely. I didn't but it would be better if I had)
crumbled bacon
shredded cheddar cheese
about 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
2-3tbsp mayonnaise
2tbsp white vinegar
1tbsp splenda/other sweetener

Steam the broccoli and let it cool in the fridge. Mix with the onion, crumbled bacon, and cheddar cheese. Whisk together mayo, vinegar, and splenda. Taste the sauce to make sure you don't need to tweak it a little bit. Pour the sauce over the broccoli and mix well, then chill so the flavors can meld. Delicious way to get your veggies in! You could probably find a recipe much more exact than mine on the internet, but I wanted to give you an idea of what's in it. I very much recommend this!

What a great idea, Linsy. I love broccoli salad. I think I'll steam mine lightly too. I'm making some as soon as I go to the store...no broccoli!

Dinner tonight: beef short ribs I cooked yesterday and a spinach salad, ranch dressing.

Lemon cheesecake muffin with whipped cream for dessert. I add a little finely grated lemon peel to the batter - delicious!

Dinner is going to be cheese-stuffed meatballs with homemade sauce served over spaghetti squash instead of noodles.

My mom found the meatball recipe in a cookbook, and it looks fabulous! Make meatballs the way you normally prepare them, and then cut hunks of string cheese sticks and wrap the meatballs around them. Once they're cooked, every meatball has a gooey cheese center.

The cheese-stuffed meatballs sound amazing...you guys come up with some good stuff to eat! Thanks.

I'm feeling "iffy" about dinner tonight. I'm not sure what I want. I think I may use Hardee's chicken tenders (13 carbs for 3) to top a spinach salad with homemade honey mustard dressing. I've been wanting fried chicken for days, and I don't want to cook it myself.

If I subtract the 2 grams of fiber, it doesn't sound so bad...maybe.

Meatloaf with a side of mashed cauliflower. I've never had mashed cauli, and I'm not a big fan of cauliflower, so hopefully it's good and not a waste!

I hope you like your dinner. What I like about cauliflower is that it's so mild in flavor, it takes on the flavor of what you put with it...cauliflower and cheese, cauliflower and bacon, butter...whatever.

I had a Starbucks frap for breakfast, Wendy's Baja salad with frenchfries for lunch, chia seeds with decaf tea and some dried Ancho Chilis with Splenda for snack. Not hungry now for sure. Hope I can get through this evening without eating any more. We'll see.

What I had after dinner...about 10 o'clock I wanted "something" so I made hot chocolate using the recipe in "Recipes from 'What's for Dinner?'" It more than did the trick! I recommend it when you want something hot, comforting and sweet. No cheese involved!

I made some hot chocolate the other day, but it didn't turn out great. I'll definitely check that recipe out.

The mashed cauliflower was a success--a little bit chunky because we don't have a food processor and the magic bullet didn't work, but it did the trick. I steamed the cauliflower, drained the water really well, and then mashed it and added heavy cream, shredded cheese, butter, salt, and pepper. A few minutes ago I sampled it and decided to add some garlic salt and granulated garlic. Delicious! Garlic mashed potatoes. :)

Tomorrow's breakfast is going to be great--I'll probably skip lunch because it'll be a big brunch-type meal. A 2-egg omelet with cheese (the only cheese I'll be eating all day) and patties made from fresh sausage from the butcher. I'm also going to make jicama hashbrowns (http://blog.yourlighterside.com/2009...ed-browns.html). I've never had jicama so hopefully they turn out and I like them. I'm trying to experiment with more veggies!

I'm so glad your garlic mashed potatoes did it for you. Cauliflower is super-useful and part of so many recipes. The stuffed baked "potatoes" on Linda's Low Carb site looks delicious too, but I haven't gotten around to trying it. I make a cauliflower "potato" salad I really like also.

Good for you for experimenting with veggies...the key to losing all of our weight has to be learning to eat a wider variety of veggies every day along with our proteins. And you're on it! Happy Last Day of 2010...

Dinner at Macaroni Grill...
 

I ordered a green salad with peppercorn ranch dressing - ditched the croutons - and their chicken with olive oil and lemon grilled on skewers, a side of grilled eggplant, zucchini, red and yellow peppers - ditched three potatoe wedges that were somehow in my vegetables.

The order is two skewers of chickens and a nice serving of veggies. I ate one skewer of chicken, about half the veggies and brought the rest home for lunch today.

I checked a website for nutritional information: grilled chicken spiedini with grilled vegetable sides is 9 net carbs (which includes the potatoes I didn't eat).
The green salad is listed at 17 net carbs which includes the croutons and dressing. I don't know how they figured all dressings were the same carb count, because they obviously aren't...whatever. I did pretty well.

After shopping snack stop: a decaf coffee with sugar-free raspberry syrup and half and half.

Dessert at home: low-carb cheesecake muffin with a tablespoon of sugar-free raspberry jam and whipped cream.

Tonight was roast with greek seasoning, green beans tossed in oil/butter and green onions, and a salad with ranch dressing. Dessert will be pumpkin "pudding"...

Last night I wanted to do something with the can of pumpkin I had in the cabinet, so I was going to make Jody's pumpkin bake. I decided to ditch the eggs and just make the batter--I used 3/4c splenda and a few tablespoons of Torvani sugar-free vanilla syrup. It tastes great! I call it my pumpkin pudding. Cream cheese, pumpkin, splenda, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and torvani vanilla syrup.

Tomorrow for dinner I'm making pizzas for the whole family--cauliflower, egg, and cheese crust for me and regular flour for them. I'm topping it with homemade pizza sauce, cheese, black olives, pepperoni, and jalapenos. Mmm.

Lazy Chicken Alfredo...
 

Tonight I'm having Lazy Chicken Alfredo - refrigerated pre-made Alfredo sauce, rotisserie chicken breast and fresh cooked broccoli layered in a little casserole. YUM!

I'm using Buitoni - 4 carbs per 1/4 cup of sauce. :)

And I'm making a broccoli salad (as long as I'm microwaving broccoli) with broccoli, sweet chopped onion, lots of crumbled bacon and homemade honey mustard salad dressing. I'll pop it in the refrigerator, and it'll be ready to eat with my dinner tomorrow night.

Tonight I'm grilling some chicken and will top it with mushrooms and maybe a slice of swiss cheese - today has been cheese-heavy and i may not feel like having more. Then alongside it, a serving of italian zucchini casserole (basically zucchini, a smidge of onion, butter, 2 eggs, italian herbs, baked and topped with cheese).

Making chicken legs that have been m arinating in poultry seasoning, olive oil and lemon juice....will bake them along with some yellow zucchini.leftover baby broccoli..will also make a salad with caesar dressing.....

I'm having broccoli salad and leftover chicken alfredo...my little recipe made enough for three meals, maybe four.

Late afternoon at work. I'm glad I have some broccoli/chicken alfredo left. I'm having the rest of it and some chicken salad with the yummy cheese thingeys. I'm glad they don't come in a box; I'd eat 'em all!

Hot green tea...it's cold again! Maybe a cheesecake muffin later...I don't really need to make a dozen of those at a time. They're way too good.

Hamburger steak (90 /10 ground beef) with sauteed Vidalia onions and a spinach salad, ranch dressing. Hot green tea.

I need to go to the grocery store...

3 egg muffins (egg, cheese, and jalapenos) and about 2 cups of a mixed green salad topped with an entire mashed avocado seasoned with minced onion, garlic powder, salt, and a dash of hot sauce. Delicious! I think I found a new favorite salad topping, but maybe I'll only use half of the avocado instead of the entire one next time. I need to be careful with the seasonings, they have more carbs than I thought they did. :eek:

I had the same thing I had for lunch. A salad with chicken cut up in it, along with peppers, onions, tomato (just a couple little cherry ones) and some pepper jack sliced into it. I'm not a very creative/inventive eater. If it's fast and easy I'll try it, otherwise I eat the same thing over and over.

Sandy,

What is the cheesecake muffin, and hot chocolate recipes? I can't seem to find them.

Stuffed bell peppers tonight. I'm going to try not to overload mine with cheese. ;)

Luckie13, here's a link to the recipes for cheesecake muffins and hot chocolate:

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/atki...ts-dinner.html

Both recipes are on the first page. You'll have to scroll down a ways for the cheesecake muffin recipe. Enjoy!

Beef Tenderloin Steak...
 

Brown Butter Steak with sauteed sweet onions and spinach salad for dinner. Easy, delicious.

hot wings, brussel sprouts+broccoli+cauliflower. it's my "splurge". lol

Rotisserie chicken and a salad w/ ranch.

As you know, Linsy, I LOVE a rotisserie chicken! How did I live before grocery stores starting cooking them for me!

Winter Storm...
 

I live on the NC Carolina coast, almost as far south as you can get and stay in NC. A winter storm is cause for big excitement. I went to the grocery store to get a few things, but I really went out to buy an extra bag of this big girl's food. I don't want to be iced-in with a "hangry" Puddin' - that's our word for hungry and angry.

I'm in the mood for comfort food...tonight I'm making almond flour pancakes and having bacon and sugar-free raspberry jam with them. I hope they're as good as the picture looks! They should check out at 8 carbs per serving including the sugar-free jam. I love breakfast for dinner when it's cold outside; it reminds me of being a little girl.

Pot roast and salad with dressing. I swear, I love this WOE simply because I can eat lots of pot roast! It's one of my favorite foods of all time.

I love pot roast, too! It's easy, tastes fabulous and I can eat well for days without cooking again. What could be better?

This is soup week for me. It is cold ~ YUK!~ So I made cauliflower soup today. I will eat that for lunch tomorrow as well. Then I will make a spicy beef stew tomorrow night.

I'm making cream of tomato soup for lunch; I'm sure I'll have a bowl with the pot roast I'm working on for dinner. We have snow on the ground...sort of. No school for me, so I'm cooking for the week.

That pot roast with the Greek seasoning and sweet onions is absolutely delicious. Dinner's AWESOME. I had pot roast and a spinach salad. Perfect for my winter storm day...and lots left for another winter storm day tomorrow. Two days out of school for ice - that's unusual for us on the Carolina coast, but I can adjust.

I'm going to have breakfast for dinner, yum. Tonight is a cheese omelet and sausage patties.

I think tomorrow I'm going to make Dottie's Green Bean Casserole (http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/dotties...casserole.html) with the leftover pot roast if I'm not busy. If I don't have time I'll just heat up the roast and a salad.

Sandy, how long does pot roast stay good for in the refrigerator? I'm the only one around here who eats leftovers and I don't want it to go to waste. It's sealed in a Tupperware container.

I made Chicken/Bacon roll ups! Sooo good.
They're just chicken w/ chive and onion cream cheese on the chicken, and then bacon rolled up on the outside! :)
LOVED them!

Linsy, your pot roast should be fine for three or four days...if it lasts that long. I just put mine in a smaller ceramic casserole with a lid and popped it in the fridge.

I wonder if it would work to make something like beef hash using drained, cooked cauliflower in chunks and some of the pot roast - mixing it with onion, salt, pepper and then frying it up in a little butter - sort of like corned beef hash. Usually it's made with potatoes, but why not cauliflower?

What do you think?

Cassie, your chicken and bacon roll ups sound great...how do you make them? Do you use cooked chicken and bacon? Or do you bake them? Details, please.

Pot Roast with veggies...
 

I'm having some of that delicious pot roast with steamed baby vegetables (from a box!), a spinach salad and homemade sugar-free honey mustard dressing. :hun: