Comments on: HEALTHY LOW CARB MEAL IDEAS – Our First Real Food Wednesday Blog Carnival!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:06:13 +0000

I posted this comment at Ann Marie’s site, but wanted to tell my readers this, too:

I just made the bacon, egg & cheese muffins above, and they were SO GOOD! The whole family scarfed them down.

I figured out the carb content: only 1g/muffin! Even less, if you make them a bit smaller like I did (I didn’t know how much they would puff up, next time I’ll fill them almost all the way to the top) – a double batch made 17.

I figured the comparison if you were to make it with whole wheat flour or white flour. The coconut flour makes it 6g net carbs/batch, whole wheat would be 15g, and white would be 19 1/2/batch – a big difference!

BTW, I didn’t feel like getting my food processor out, so I just crumbled the bacon small and used my shredded raw cheddar. Also, in my oven they took 19 minutes.

Last thing: I’m learning to like coconut very slowly, so I was wondering if I would notice a coconut taste in these, but I didn’t AT ALL! I think with the bacon grease and enough other ingredients, it becomes unnoticeable. Yay!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:58:03 +0000

Hi Christine, I’d say it’s not necessarily low-carb, but not as high as some treats, and super nutritious, though!

By: Christine Kennedy

Christine Kennedy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:20:53 +0000

Hi Kelly,

With that fudge recipe, you could maybe do a couple tablespoons of the honey or maple syrup for flavor, and a few drops of stevia to get it to the right sweetness. To substitute the protein powder, what about using coconut milk powder? Would that be low carb?

I made peanut butter balls for my kids a little while back with natural peanut butter, coconut milk powder, and some raw honey. I also rolled them in shredded coconut. They LOVED them! I’m not sure that is really low carb though.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:29:30 +0000

Kelly, I just checked out your recipe and my mouth is watering. You did it right! Thanks for joining in!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:18 +0000

It’s me again…..I forgot to tell you that “I’m new”!!!! I hope I’m doing this thing right!!!!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:40:23 +0000

Thanks, Kelly!!! I love your website, very informative and interesting!!! Lookin’ forward to Wednesdays.

By: Henriette

Henriette — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:46:56 +0000

Interesting – thanks
I am a honey – maple syrup girl myself
I keep bees so I have enough honey.
But the interesting thing is that my taste-buds seem to have changed,
I don´t need much honey/maple syrup to be satisfied.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:31:35 +0000

Hi Henriette,

Another place to read more about erythritol – I did a post on it a while back: http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/04/xylitol-safety-other-sugar-alcohols.html

Thanks, Kelly

By: Blog Carnival: Real Food Wednesdays | CHEESESLAVE

Blog Carnival: Real Food Wednesdays | CHEESESLAVE — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:00:51 +0000

[...] We are going to have a different theme each week. This week, Kelly’s theme was Healthy Low Carb Meal Ideas. [...]

By: Henriette

Henriette — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:36:13 +0000

Well I don´t like any artificial sweetners…
But I tasted some low carb cakes made with erythriol and they wew very good and the product sounds promising – but we can´t get it here yet.
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/products/p/erythritol.htm