Cheeseburger Meatloaf, Greek Pot Roast and Deviled Eggs
 

I'm making that yummy pot roast with the Greek seasoning. I just made some delicious deviled eggs to take to school this week. And I'm trying the Cheeseburger Meatloaf recipe...cooking ahead for a busy week of after-school meetings and packed lunches.

Deviled Eggs

Hard-boiled eggs, peeled under cold, running water
mayonnaise
2 tsp. vinegar
1/2 pack Splenda
1 T. celery seed
salt, coarse ground pepper

Halve the peeled eggs. Remove yolks, mash them fine (I use a fork or a potato masher) and add remaining ingredientsand mix. I wish I liked dill pickles, but I don't, so the Splenda and vinegar give me the taste of sweet relish. Garnish with paprika and/or finely chopped scallion tops or chives.

Pot Roast ...
 

I love a chuck roast; this one's been smelling like heaven all afternoon. Puddin' the Giant German Shepherd is beside herself...literally. She keeps turning around in circles in the kitchen.

I'm having roast and a spinach salad with cucumber, red onion, and ranch dressing. Cherry SF jello with whipped cream for dessert. YUM!

:moo:

Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken
 

Tonight I'm having chicken breast pan fried in a little part olive oil/part butter and chopped garlic. When the chicken's done, I'm adding a couple of tablespoons of sun-dried tomatoes and topping it with grated jack cheese and a dollop of sour cream. I wish I had some green chilis...Mediterranean meets Mexican?

Steamed asparagus with butter and lemon on the side. :dizzy:

keepin' it pretty simple today ....

roasted chicken w. steamed brocolli :broc:

Me too!
 

Sounds like a perfect Atkins dinner, Cher. I'm keeping it simple too. Pot Roast left from my cook-a-thon Monday and spinach salad - spinach, cucumber, red onion, and ranch dressing.

Appetizer: ham salad scooped up in pork rinds (I came home from school starving even though my meatloaf and deviled egg lunch was very good) :dizzy:

Had a craving for a stir fry. I made chicken thighs. Made a peanut sauce from unsweetened peanut butter, water, vinegar and tabasco ( sort of based on a szechuan peanut sauce available in the local grocery store, with no sugar of course. I figured it out to be about 4 g carbs on my chicken.)
instead of rice, I grated a zucchini and fried it in olive oil until crispy. I think having the new fan helps to suck the moisture away tho.
So tasted pretty good I think. Figured a good supper was about 6g carbs that way!

I had a protein shake and a banana. My son has swim practice tonight so I had to grab something quick. I love everyone's ideas!

Ground chuck with mixed greens, cream cheese, 1/2 & 1/2, a spoon of Rotel, a few green olives and pimientos. Was okay, wouldn't necessarily recommend it.

Cream cheese whip for dessert (unsweetened).

egg, brocolli, onion, bacon & cheese frittata :eating2:

Cheeseburger Meatloaf...
 

Cook once, eat many times, this week. I'm having cheeseburger meatloaf from Monday's cook-a-thon. With it, I'm thinking sauteed asparagus (in olive oil) sprinkled with a little grated parmesan.

Hungry Girl Cheesecake (adapted for Atkins) for dessert.

It's been a long week - really glad tomorrow's Friday! :dance:This week has been much easier because I cooked ahead and didn't have to come home from school exhausted and prep and cook!

I'm cooking oven barbecued baby back ribs Sunday night to make three meals next week. (They were on sale last weekend) I'll probably buy a rotisserie chicken Sunday night and a steak for next week's dinners and lunches.

Cauliflower Bacon Potato Salad...
 

I have a new recipe I've adapted to Atkins: Cauliflower Bacon Potato Salad:

1 head cauliflower, broken into florets and steamed until soft, but not
"mushy"
1/2 c. mayonnaise
1/4 c. sour cream
3 T. white vinegar (add a packet of Splenda if you like a sweeter dressing)
8 slices of bacon, cooked and drained
3 ribs of celery finely chopped
1/4 c. chopped parsley (or chopped green onion tops if you like the flavor...or use both parsley and scallion tops)
Salt, freshly ground pepper to taste

Whisk the mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, salt and pepper together in a small bowl. Add dressing to cauliflower florets. Add celery. Break the bacon into pieces and add bacon and parsley (or scallions). Chill for at least half an hour. If you make this a day ahead of serving, reserve the bacon and parsley to add near desired serving time.

Sorry, but I'm having the last of my delicious pot roast tonight with asparagus sauteed in olive oil and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. Nothing new except the cauliflower potato salad! :dizzy:

The cauliflower-bacon salad looks nice.

Today's supper: HB eggs, lettuce, picked green beans, side of cream cheese whip

I had seaweed chips for a snack and then 3 eggs and a chicken sausage. I was starving when I got home!

Total for today (I am on induction but last time I did it I didn't know you weren't supposed to eat cheese or nuts on induction and ended up losing 20 lbs really fast so I am going to be flexible on the cheese and nuts again and see if I can still lose weight).

Bfast- string cheese (1), coffee with small amount of cream and half a sweet and lot (2)

snack - 1 slice cheese (1) and roast beef slice.

lunch - greek yogurt (7), cheese (1), roast beef

snack - seaweed chips (4)

dinner - 3 eggs (3) and 1 sausage (1)

I didn't do great on my veggies today although I ate a lot of dried seaweed.

Total - 20 carbs.

Readyfreddy, were those seaweed chips made of only seaweed? They sound interesting. I like seaweed.


Dinner today was quick and easy as I had to dash: ground chuck burger and lettuce.

Dinner at Chili's
 

Shopping and dinner out with a friend at Chili's...my order:

1/2 rack Baby Back Ribs (original) 15 carbs*
steamed broccoli w/ranch dressing 2 carbs*:broc:
unsweetened iced tea

(Lots of water before and after)

*This information comes from Chili's nutritional information web site. Very handy if you're a Chili's fan.

Sounds great!
 

Cher, your fritatta sounds really yummy. Would you share your recipe please or reference a cookbook or web site for me?

Thanks so much. We're going to have a great week!:carrot:

Silver - ya just seaweed and seasoning! One had seasame oil and one wasabi poweder. They're good!

Last night I ate a looooot. But I did pretty well staying on plan but I don't feel like I'm in ketosis this am. I'll find out tomorrow.

Today: 2 eggs and 2.5 slices of bacon and coffee w cream and splenda (5 carbs)

lunch - avo (4), sauage (1)

dinner - salad (5) and sausage(1)

total 16

Readyfreddy, thanks. I'm going to go through my bags of seaweed and pick out something. Do you make your own sausage?

When I first started low carb, it took me several weeks to adjust. It was easier to eat less after those first few weeks of adapting to ketosis. I remember one morning that something just "clicked in" and I knew that I had finished that initial keto-adaptation. I find there are always adjustments and settling in periods.

I made a fancy breakfast this morning, so midday and evening are simple meals today. Ground chuck burger, freshly picked tomato, almond butter and mascarpone.

fAV ATKINS SALAD
 

Diced avocado, diced cucumbers, diced red pepper (or tomatoes), a little vinegar to keep the avocado from browning, (can also used lemon juice, but I am allergic to it) and a bit of mayo to dress it.
mmm. went well with my little steak and scallions.

Worst Dinner Ever!
 

I had dinner at Flo's Place in Garden City, SC - worst food ever! It's a hilarious place and might be lots of fun to go and drink there, but NEVER eat. The people were really nice, but the food was so bad, my daughter and I burst out laughing when we saw our dinner.

Thank God we decided to split an entree - should've been awesome. Baked Flounder garnished with a fried green tomato and a white cheese sauce. It WAS TERRIBLE and looked awful. My daughter had a salad on the side...totally sad and uninspiring; I had a side order of green beans. I ate all my green beans; they were decent. The flounder dish was a DEE-ASTER!

I didn't eat much for dinner...I'm having some sugar-free jello right now.

The awful dinner gave me a good idea on a new way to cook flounder; I'm sure I could use the idea and execute the dish so it would be wonderful.

Anybody on the South Carolina coast know someplace yummy to eat seafood in the Murrell's Inlet, Garden City, Surfside Beach, Pawley's Island area? :rollpin:

Fatmad, your dinner sounds scrumptious.

Silver - I do make my own sausage sometimes but these were store bought!

Also thought of a good salad that I make sometimes but its perfect for atkins!

half an avo (leave whole as much as possible, scoop out with spoon).

about a 3/4 cup bay shrimp rinsed and dried, some dill, lemon, mayo

mix lemon, dill and mayo to make a mixture

mix shrimp with small amount of mayo mixture to coat, put shrimp in avo center, drizzle with balsamic. service.

Readyfreddy, your shrimp/avo dish is very popular with some ladies I know.

I like sliced avo with a burger and bacon.

Do you make breakfast sausage with ground meat or the kind in casings?

w the casings. I have an attachment to my kitchenaid to grind the meat and then stuff the casings.

I usually do an italian herb mix. But once I made an asian mix with cilantro, serranos, seasame oil etc that turned out quite well!

Meal plan for today:

bfast - string cheese (1), coffee with half and half and sweetner (2)

lunch - tandori chicken w spinach (8)

snack - cheese (1)

dinner - cucumber small lemon type (4), 2 cups cabbage (4), sausage (1)

total = 21

Readyfreddy, your sausages sound grand!

Dinner today: Soup made w/ bacon, greens, chives, with an egg mixed in.
Almond butter. Whipped cream w/ blueberries

Barbecued Baby Backs...
 

I'm doing up some baby back ribs in the oven this evening...since I'm out of Scott's Barbecue sauce, I'm experimenting with making my own sauce using pureed petite dice tomatoes, garlic, a little onion, splenda, vinegar and whatever else sounds good. I'll report on my sauce when I finish!

I'll have a spinach salad: spinach, English cucumber, red onion with bleu cheese dressing.

Sugar-free cherry jello. :p

mmmm BBQ!

Today:

bfast 2 eggs (2), coffee (2)

snack - string cheese (1)

lunch 2 cups cabbage (4), 1 whole avo (6)

snack - cheese (1)

dinner - tuna (1) on salad (4)

total - 21

Readyfreddy, what a lovely menu!

Here's mine:

B: 3 eggs in 1.3 oz. beef fat. 1.3 tsps instant decaf powder, juice of 1 lemon in purified water.
D: 70g ground beef, 46 g. homegrown tom. 1 oz. mozzarella
S: to be decided

Water: one gallon+ per day

Switched it up...
 

Last night I didn't the ribs I'd planned. (That's tonight's dinner instead with a spinach salad) I got involved in making treats for my dog and cook-ahead sausage and egg quiche, so instead of ribs I had:

French onion soup (remember that great pot roast...the jellied stuff at the bottom of the pot became the base for an excellent homemade soup)
A big square of sausage, egg, and cheese quiche

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese quiche deliciousness!


Not a new recipe, but adapted for Atkins Induction...and it's delicious.

3 large eggs
1 pound mild sausage
1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1/3 c. heavy cream diluted with 1/3 water
Salt, freshly- ground pepper, red pepper flakes to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (if using glass pan)
Crumble the sausage into a frying pan on medium. Cook and drain the sausage. Whisk eggs with cream and seasonings. Spray a baking dish or pie pan (I like a pretty ceramic quiche pan) with Pam. Lay sausage in the bottom of the pan, sprinkle the cheese on top of it evenly. Then pour the egg-cream mixture over it evenly. Bake at 350 degrees 30-40 minutes in glass or ceramic dish. If you're using metal, 375 degrees.

Let it cool a few minutes before you slice into servings. Makes 4 - 6 servings.

Everybody loves this as a breakfast / brunch dish. If it's brunch, serve with a green salad, grilled or steamed asparagus, a thick slice of tomato.

Nice adapting on the quiche!

Today's dinner: Corned beef and Brussel sprouts

Barbecue Chicken...
 

Tonight I'm having Barbecue Chicken ( a rotisserie chicken I've carved into serving pieces and put barbecue sauce on some of them and popped back into the oven on low for about 25 min.) and a spinach salad - spinach, red onion, English cucumber and ranch dressing.

I used 2 T. of Kraft's Original Barbecue Sauce (5 carbs) on four pieces of chicken, and I actually ate two of the pieces of chicken. I'm out of Scott's, and it's driving me nuts! :p

I'm staying really close to induction this week, so it's been lots spinach, mixed greens, cucumber, a little red onion, and mostly chicken and eggs as proteins. Just a little cheese spread over the week.

Today

bfast - coffee (2), string cheese (1)

snack - gum, tea w cream (2)

lunch - sausage (1), string cheese (1)

snack - cabbage w dressing (5)

dinner - going out so ?? gonna try to get some steamed veggies or spinach salad and meat!

12 so far which means i have 8 for dinner.

today -

bfast 2 coffees!! (4), and string cheese (1)

lunch and dinner turkey roll ups with cream cheese and avo (10)

snack peanuts (5)

today - 20

I am going to be driving during dinner time so I will eat my dinner at about 5 and then have a snack around 8.

I am breaking atkins by not getting 12 carbs from veggies and I am eating a whole avo! ooops! but weird day. I had a ton of veggies yesterday so hopefully its ok.

Today.
Coffee w a bit of 2% (2) 2 eggs (2)

lunch turkey roll ups w ranch. Am going to try to add a veggie. Spinach? (4)

snack - sausage (1)

dinner hburger Patty. (1). Will be at a BBQ. Will try to find some salad too. (4) Prob a glass of wine or two (6)

Dinner today:

burger, greens cooked in beef fat and chives, spaghetti squash w/ butter

Long, hot week...
 

It's been really hot again this week...record highs and no rain! So, I'm having a cool chicken salad on a bed of salad greens - mayonnaise, green onions, salt & pepper and maybe a little ranch dressing.

:p

Sauteed mushrooms and onions poured on top of chicken breasts seasoned with salt, pepper, and basil then baked...It's almost done and looks delicious! I kind of thought up the recipe in my head so I'm glad it turned out.

Stir fry ....... thinly sliced steak, onion, mushrooms, yellow pepper, cabbage ... seasoned with soya sauce, fish sauce and sambal olek

Thanks for posting, ladies!