[overstuffedchick]

The cold weather has begun and I am on Phase II of SBD. How do you make a pot roast without potatoes and carrots? Also Lasagna and spagetti? What do I substitute for the comfort foods? Or at least, can anyone tell me where to go to look for recipes. Thanks

[Ruthxxx]

As I said in my PM to you, carrots and sweet potatoes and whole wheat pasta are fine for Phase II.
I'm sure the rest of the chicks have other suggestions.
My favourites are the Taco Bake and Meatball casserole from the Phase I Entree Recipes.

[Heidi]

Hi,
I've found that bean and soup recipes make great comfort foods. A large pot of chili, heavy on the beans (ground beef cooked, then rinsed with boiling water to remove as much bad fat as possible), lentil soup, chicken & chick pea curry, zucchini based lasagna. If you do a google search you can find the best recipe to adapt to your particular phase.

As it gets colder the salads definitely don't do it for me. Veggie soup is my particular substitute. Also broth with bok-choy and ginger.

Hope some of that helps. Share whatever works for you - share the inspiration!

[H-ko]

I posted a recipe for a slow-cooker cassoulet (Frenchy baked beans with meats, basically) that I adapted in the Phase 2 Entrees - we love it. I also have somewhere a recipe for a Scandinavian Dilled Pot Roast - the only pot roast I can stand. I think it could be adapted to SBD; I'll have to take a look. It's slow-cooked meat in a sour cream and dill sauce. We eat a lot of soup in cold weather, too - there's a lot of good ones in the recipe forum. And finally, I have a recipe for Beef Burgundy Stew that I adapted to SBD - it wasn't quite as good (thinner than non-SBD), but it was tasty. Let me know if you're interested in either the roast or the stew, and I'll post them when I get a chance (between homework assignments!).

[roxy55]

I've discovered a good substitute (for me) for mashed potatoes. I adapted a Martha Stewart recipe for a cauliflower puree that I LOVE! Dh calls it "creamed cauliflower"! You cook/steam the cauliflower (about 1-2 lbs weighed before trimming the leaves) in chicken broth (approx 2-3 cups), drain the broth after the cauli gets pretty soft, then puree it with about 2T of FF sour cream & 1-2T of margerine (I use a hand/stick blender). Salt and pepper. Yum!!! The past 2 weeks I've made a huge batch of it & use it over the course of a week. For me, it makes up for the starch I*used* to have with every meal.

Try it, you might like it.

[beachgal]

Overstuffed, like Ruth said, it's easy to modify those dishes in Phase 2. You can even have the little red potatoes once a month...they'd be very good in pot roast!

For lasagna, in P1, try using long strips of zucchini or eggplant instead of noodles. There are tons of recipes out there that use this technique...try www.allrecipes.com and www.cookinglight.com (you have to register but it's free and worth it!) for ideas. In the SBD cookbook, there's a recipe for a chicken and eggplant casserole. I never liked eggplant until I tried this...it's AMAZING! Anyways, it uses eggplant much as you would for lasagna, so you could try using that recipe and combine it with your favorite lasagna recipe. Just make sure you use part skim mozzerella and ricotta, lean ground beef, and that your tomato sauce doesn't have sugar in it (just check the label, many do and some don't).

For spaghetti, in P1, try spaghetti squash. I finally had this when I was in CA last month and it's delicious! It really looks like spaghetti, and if you are involved in a conversation with someone, you may not even know the difference! In P2, try WW spaghetti, use tomato sauce without sugar, and lean meat for the meatballs (if you do those). Consider adding some veggies in to the sauce in both phases.

Some of my comfort foods are cheesy casseroles with cauliflower and/or broccoli, sauteed cabbage, the turkey cacciatore dish (in our recipe forum under P1), taco bake, chicken divan, soups (especially the Broccoli and Cheese one I posted in P2 soups), White Chili (in P1 entrees or soups in our forum), and as a side dish/snack, refried beans with Lawry's seasoning salt, garlic powder, heated, with salsa and LF cheddar cheese on top. MMMMM!

Hope this helps, hon!

[kyemom]

Laurie- The chicken & eggplant casserole is my favorite too...I think I am gonna try the meatball casserole this week.

[pearshape]

Kyemom, I just pulled out some ground beef to defrost for meatball casserole last night. Yummy!! I love that stuff. I made it about a month ago and couldn't believe how good it was. I'll make it tonight when I get home. Not sure what to have as a side. I guess I could do the mashed white beans w/ cheese and basil. What are you having?

In the winter I love soups. They're my version of comfort food. I also make a mean pot roast but can't make it too often as its got a few things like cream of mushroom soup and powdered onion soup mix in it that are not OK for SBD, at least I think. I end up making it about once a year. I also have a clam chowder recipe that's made with collard greens. It's yummy. And I want to try Barb's clam chowder recipe. I think I'll make a batch this weekend.

Has anyone tried the chicken paprikash out of the first SBD cookbook? I've been wanting to try that also. So many recipes.....so little time!!

H-ko, yes, denitely post the beef burgundy recipe. I've been wanting to try something like that.

I just ordered two more cookbooks from Amazon. One is a bunch of low cal meal recipes to add up to 1200 calories a day and the other is a low GI cookbook that sould be pretty SBD friendly. One thing about this diet is its really easy to adjust things to fit it. Makes it easy to stay on, that's for sure.

[kyemom]

I went to the store last night. I bought stuff to make soup galore...We will be eating a lot of different soups...I love soup when it is cold!!!