Nuts & chocolate

Pecans, shelled peanuts and Lily chocolate. BG was on the lower side, so peanuts will bring him up a tad. I do shelled to slow the kids eating down some.

Note:  BG was low'ish, but not truly low.  When truly low, I only correct with glucose.

Chocolate Avocado Cookies

A few thoughts after making these a few times...

1) I use Walden Farms pancake syrup - 0 carbs
2) I used the optional vanilla and extra sweetener. I don't like stevia, so I used 2 Tbsp of birch xylitol. I thought it was too bitter without.
3) I put half the chocolate chips in the batter and sprinkle the rest on top. I use KNOW chocolate chips.
4) The recipe calls for 6 giant cookies. I made 12 smaller cookies, but still baked for 12-14 minutes.

https://www.sweetashoney.co/chocolate-avocado-cookies/

Simple Breakfast

3 scrambled eggs, hot "cereal", full-fat plain yogurt. 

6 net carbs and 31g protein.

Colton's Steakhouse

Steak - no sauce, cauliflower, broccoli and a few carrots.  Colton's also has buckets of peanuts on the table.  We let Samuel partake, but we include that in his meal/bolus and limit it to just a few.

No Corections!

Love days with no glucose or insulin corrections. And a super tight Standard Deviation to boot. Finished out a respectable week. On to tomorrow and next week...

 

Great Day

Love days with no glucose or insulin corrections. And a super tight Standard Deviation to boot. Finished out a respectable week. On to tomorrow and next week...

Wine Spritzer

5 oz of cold white wine
5 oz cold seltzer
3/4 oz sugar-free fruit-flavored syrup

Shake and pour over lots of ice. Perfect for a hot, sunny day.

* I used Riesling, which is 5 carbs. My T1 friends may want to use a drier, lower carb white wine.

Snack with bacon

Bits of bacon (no sugar), pecans, olive, 1 piece of Lily's chocolate.

Skinny Girl Dressing

Low carb, sugar-free Balsamic vinaigrette dressing. I found it at Walmart.

Roasted turkey

Roasted turkey with Walden Farms BBQ sauce, Peas, Guacamole, and Swiss cheese.

7 net carbs

New and Improved - Stay-Soft Lower Carb Ice Cream

I've tweaked my ice cream recipe to reduce the amount of heavy cream and eliminate the half and half - both have a lot of calories and excess fat, and half and half can spike some T1's.

I replaced the half and half with almond milk, but it has a tendency to freeze rock hard and have more of an ice milk consistency. A secret ingredient...ok, not really secret, but very important, allows it to get super thick and creamy, but stay scoopable! This is such a TINY amount of vodka for the amount of ice cream it makes, I have no concerns about feeding this to the kids once per week (at the most).

I play around a lot with flavor add-in’s. This version used almond extract and about 1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg. It was SOOOOO good!!!

Basic vanilla recipe is posted, but the sky's the limit on varieties!

Italian sausage

Italian sausage (4.5 oz), Southern-style smoked green beans (90g/3oz), and "Corn" bread.

7 net carbs.

Sugarfire BBQ

First time taking the kids here. Lots of meats, burgers and salads to choose from. Sides are the toughest part to stay low carb - only viable option was cole slow. I tested with Diastix and got some definite glucose detection, but not horrible. We proceeded since that was his only carb.
Underbolused just a tad (he had more protein here than he normally would at home)- spiked about 2 hours after eating to 114 so did a tiny correction and he settled in the 70's.

You may be able to tell from the 2-handed shoveling that he liked it. 

Virgil's Zero Soda

Virgil's 0 carb/calorie soda. Stevia sweetened. Several flavors.

 

 

Bear Foot Cafe Breakfast

Low carb breakfast with these cuties...

🧒 Samuel = breakfast skillet with sausage, ham, bacon, green peppers and 3 eggs. (Hold the potatoes, onions and toast)
👧 Evie = 3 eggs & 2 sausage patties. (Hold the hashbrowns and toast.)
👩 Me = 3 egg omelet with sausage, ham, bacon and cheese. (Hold the hashbrowns and toast.)

BG at breakfast was 76, 11am was 68, 12:40pm was 63 (1g glucose).

⚠️Omlelet Tip⚠️ Many restaurants use pre-made omelet mix that includes wheat, sugar and even pancake batter. Always make sure they use whole, fresh eggs! IHOP is an example that puts pancake batter in their omelet mix!

Low carb Margarita

2 oz. Lemon juice
2 oz. Tequila
1.5 oz sugar-free vanilla syrup
1/2 tsp orange extract OR orange oil

Shake over ice and pour into salted glass (if you like salt). This isn't a super-sweet Margarita. If you like sweeter Margarita’s, I'd reduce the lemon juice to 1.5oz.

 

Crispy Low Carb Pizza

This is my take on a fathead-style pizza.  My husband says what he dislikes about most LC pizza is that it's trying too hard to be like wheat pizza when it's obviously not.  Of all the pizza I've made, this is his favorite. (He grew up just outside NYC and is picky about his pizza, so I take this as a compliment, lol!)  This pizza gets quite crisp if rolled thin, but still has a little chew.  I included some pics to try to help guide the thickness.

NOTES:
1) I never use pre-shredded cheese.  I grate my own.
2) You can cover the edges of your pizza with aluminum foil after your toppings are on to prevent over browning.

RECENT EDIT /VARIATION:

I was recently making this and as I was dumping in the almond flour (because I bake by weight, not volume) I accidentally added too much.  Instead of trying to scoop it out I decided to leave it and see what happened. Turns out we lived it!  The original amount (85g) makes a more cracker-like crust. The "oops!" amount (110g ~ a little less than a cup) makes for a breadier dough.  Both are good... just a little different.

Flavored Yogurt

I've been using flavored oils a lot more to add flavor to foods (baked goods, yogurt, ice cream, etc). 

Yesterday the kids had "banana" yogurt for the first time with no added carbs.
I used Walden Farms pancake syrup as my 0 carb sweetener, but stevia, monk fruit, etc would work just fine. I add about 8 drops of the oil per 1/4 cup (56g) of yogurt and mix well.

The sky's the limit on flavored oils... there are a 100+ flavors out there.