Easter 2018

My kiddos non-food themed Easter baskets. Filled with stuffed animals, stickers, trinket-toys, What's in the Bible DVD's, t-shirts & art supplies.  There's a small bag in there of 7 homemade 0-carb chocolates.

Reality Check

I've "felt" like our control has been off. Colds, flu, growth, winter blues, etc. I decided to do a home A1c to see if how I feel has any validity.

A1c is up a tad at 4.8, but still fine. Standard Deviation not as tight as it has been so hopefully being past sickness will help that. Not as bad as I feared.

This is his 6th straight A1c in the 4's. 10th in a row at 5.0% or less.

Low Carb Easter Chocolates

We try not to make food the focus of celebrations, but I do like to include special treats so 1) my kids don't feel left out or deprived and 2) to teach them that just about anything can be made delicious and still be low carb. 

The kids Easter baskets are primarily non-food items, but I did want them to have a few pieces of chocolate. I made these 0 net carb chocolates by melting KNOW brand chocolate chips (sweetened with allulose) in a bowl over simmering water. Put in an Easter mold and threw it in the fridge for the day. Popped them out and put in little baggies. I'll put them in their Easter baskets Sunday morning. 10 - 15 minutes of work and no blood sugar spikes. WIN!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Martini

5 oz unsweetened vanilla almond milk
2 oz vodka
1 1/2 oz Jordan's Sugar-free Peanut Butter Cup syrup
1/2 oz heavy cream

Shake above with ice and strain into martini glass. You can either prep martini glass with sugar-free chocolate syrup and/or peanut butter sauce.

To make peanut butter sauce, at VERY low heat, microwave 1 tsp creamy PB with a few drops of water (stirred) for a few seconds, stir, then drizzle in glass.

About 1 - 1.5 net carb(s).

Low Carb Irish Coffee

Today was beautiful and sunny and then it quickly turned cold and gloomy, which made me want something warm to drink. This hit the spot!

8 oz hot coffee
2 oz Irish Whiskey
1 oz Jordan's Sugar-free Irish Cream syrup

Add above to coffee and stir. Top with homemade whipped cream sweetened with more of the Irish Cream syrup. 💋

Heath Bar Martini

1 oz Jordan's Sugar-free Toffee syrup
1/2 oz Jordan's Sugar-free Mocha syrup
1 1/2 oz vodka (or chocolate vodka!)
6 oz unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Prep martini glass by drizzling a little sugar-free chocolate syrup in the glass. Shake over ice and strain into prepped glass.

Less than 1 net carb! 

Bread Baking Tip

The next time you have your ingredients out to make low carb bread, take a few extra minutes to pre-bag the dry ingredients for several loaves. Then all you have to do each time you want to make bread is to mix up the wet ingredients and bake!

The dry ingredients for 3 loaves of my Rustic Faux Wheat bread fits in a quart bag. I make up 4 of these bags at a time.

Five Guys

Five Guys double pattie, double cheese burger bowl. Lettuce, tomato, pickle, grilled mushrooms (for me; none for Samuel), green peppers, mayo and mustard on the side.

Hardees 1/3 lb Thickburger with Cheese Combos

✅ No bun - subbed a low carb lettuce wrap. No ketchup, no onions.
✅ Subbed a side salad instead of fries.
✅ Diet Coke - a special treat for them.

Happiest 2 kiddos in the restaurant despite no fries, cookies or milkshakes.

Iced Chocolate Mocha Martini

🔸🔸This can be made alcoholic or virgin! 🔸🔸

Holy moly, this might be my favorite drink concoction yet! 1.5 net carbs!

1 Tbsp Jordan's Skinny Mocha Syrup
1 Tbsp Hershey's Sugar-free Syrup
1 Tbsp heavy cream
1 - 2 oz vodka (optional, omit to make virgin)
2 oz cold espresso or strong coffee
1/2 cup vanilla almond milk

Prep martini glass by drizzling a little more Hershey's Sugar-free Syrup inside. Shake well over ice and strain into chocolate-prepped martini glass.

Apple Martini

2 parts Jordan's Skinny Appletini Syrup
1 part vodka
Shake well with ice and strain into martini glass.

0 carbs!

 

Low Carb Corn Dogs

We've been having lots of fun lately with low carb corn dogs (and other fun fillings).
I most frequently fill with hotdogs, sausage links, mozzarella cheese and cinnamon "apple" zucchini.