One of my favorite things I've given up is chips & salsa. So what have you been eating salsa with? (aside from cooking it within a main dish) I just made a huge batch of roasted salsa for a party (not going to cheat), and it's bumming me out a little...

I put salsa on my salad sometimes. I also like it on cauliflower or portabella mushrooms! also it is wonderful on eggs or as a Mexican omelet !

Ditto on the eggs. Also on top of a veggie burger, hot dog, baked potato, or piece of fish.

Salad, rutabaga "potatoes", tossed with zucchini pasta, on taco lettuce wraps, with turnip or zuchinni chips, on top of chicken breasts and baked or slow cooked then served with cauliflower "spanish" rice, pescado vera cruz, salsa shrimp, or a modified Rocky Point Shrimp Cockatail.

If you are allowed the crepes, you could use them to make a tortilla like wrapper fill it with shredded meat, lettuce or cabbage (if fish), finely chopped onions and cilantro then serve with a side of black edamame seasoned southwest style and your salsa.

I use a little with my fine herbs and cheese egg omelette in the morning.

Um, just wanted to point out to nicholeah that hot dogs, potatoes and the majority of veggie burgers are not allowed in this plan. Are you perhaps on a different plan that allows these, or in phase IV maintenace?

My favorite way to use salsa is with eggs. I've also used it to top zucchini, taco salads (really good mixed with WF thousand island dressing), on top of a hamburger or chicken, you could add it to soups for a little zip...the possibilities are endless.

One word of caution, I was told by my coach that salsa, as long as it doesn't include added sugar, could be used in the place of your tomatoes. Which means it's a restricted item and you are only allowed a certain amount per week.

I am not on IP and don't know what it entails, but I love eating salsa with celery, carrots, zucchini, or cucumbers.

Thanks for bringing this up, Stacey... when I started IP, I had about a half jar left of my favorite salsa... I finished it off & haven't bought more, figuring it surely would count as tomato... I miss it, but I can hold out 'til later...

hugs

I asked my coach this very question last week at WI. My son had made a huge batch of fresh salsa. I have a 5oz sirloin burger and put a heaping tablespoon on top. She told me that if you use it like that, it is just a condiment. If you use say a half cup-then you would need to count the tomatoes and onion. Mmmm....it was delish! I had been missing salsa.

Thanks for the ideas! I ended up just scooping some of the salsa into a bowl of Romaine lettuce. It was my first social gathering without drinking alcohol or eating whatever, I did fine but it was weird! I think I am going to hire myself out as a designated driver to help pay for IP food.
No worries here about added sugar in salsa, I make my own and it's always been sugar-free.

I love salsa and I make it myself or buy it in the produce dept. I use dill pickle juice and a couple tablespoons of salsa on my salad, instead of dressing. It is delicious.

I don't know if any of you have tried the new WF Chipotle Ranch dressing, but it goes really well with fresh salsa.

I miss the tortilla chips, not the salsa! I've cheated a few times by indulging in these. Can't find any no/low-carb ones or substitutes. Any suggestions??

Hey Christina

There are several low carb no carb type websites that sell "chips". The best I ever tried were at a girlfriends house and they were basically crushed soynuts and ground flax seed. They were VERY high in fiber and tasty. I will double check but I think she got them at trader joes and I think they were available online.

I know they are an off protocol food, unless you are in phase 4, because they won't meet the "any food of zero calories, zero fat, zero protein, zero carb may be added" guideline. They are still probably better than a cheat and are equivalent to a restricted soy nut packet, if I am remembering correctly.

I will post them later today.

If you could find them and post them that would be great, Carla! Thanks!

They have low carb tortilla chips at Trader Joes. Off protocol, so you didn't hear it from me (I liked them before IP)