When it's hot, most people like to eat light. Low-carb makes that easy. Lately, it's been hot all over, including here in Michigan. Locally, our temperatures have been in the 90s all week; today's high is predicted to be 98 degrees with a heat index of 110. If you live in Oklahoma or Texas, that may seem like a cool breeze to you, but up here, we aren't accustomed to temps in the upper 90s. After all, not only is Michigan a northern state, but it's surrounded by the largest bodies of … [Read more...]
Dealing with the risk of hidden calories in restaurant meals
Half of Americans eat out three or more meals a week, and 12% eat out more than seven meals a week. These statistics are cited by the authors of a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) to establish the importance knowing how many calories we're getting in all of those restaurant meals. It turns out we're often getting a significantly different number of calories than we think we're getting, at least where individual menu items are concerned. … [Read more...]
Great foods for a low carb diet (part 4): salmon and sardines
Before adopting a low carb diet, the only canned fish I ever ate was tuna, mostly in the form of the classic tuna-salad sandwich. I still eat canned tuna, minus the bread, but because of two concerns, I restrict the amount. First, there is my concern about mercury in tuna. I'm not in one of the government's "high risk" groups for mercury consumption (pregnant women, nursing mothers, children), but I figure, why take chances? I buy only light tuna, which tests significantly lower for … [Read more...]
A typical day in my life after carbs
Following up on my post "What is a low carb diet?" I'm presenting here a typical day of low carbing. The day was a Saturday. Breakfast (6:30 a.m.) Most days, I'm an early riser. The sun comes up, and I'm right there with it. no-filler salmon patty (leftover) two eggs scrambled with butter two mugs of coffee, each with two teaspoons of half-and-half one multi-vitamin for men Morning Snack (10:00 a.m.) Having this mid-morning snack was a-typical. Often I make it to lunch … [Read more...]
For that special low-carb eater, a bouquet of beef jerky
When I was a kid in the previous millenium, TV was a big deal. Until the late 1960s, my family had one set, a black-and-white model in a blond-wood cabinet, and we gathered around it to watch programs as a family. Interesting, you say (being nice to the old guy), and a little quaint, but what has it got to do with beef jerky? I was getting to that. Words have emotive as well as cognitive meaning. They can point outward at things in the world, and at the same time inward to our … [Read more...]
Great foods for a low carb diet (part 3): red wine
Some may quibble that wine is a beverage, not a food, to which I say -- go get your own blog and quibble away. Others may object to calling any food/ beverage containing alcohol "great." That point I will take under consideration, but only for those of you with a relevant addiction, religion or age status. Still, even readers who are OK with drinking alcohol on occasion might question if there is enough nutritional value in red wine to qualify it as a "great" food. After all, just the other … [Read more...]
Fudge on granola bars
For the sake of argument, let's say that a granola bar by itself is "wholesome." Is it still wholesome after you dip it in fudge? Traditional fudge is made with sugar, milk and butter. I don't see butter and milk listed in the ingredients of the Keebler Granola Fudge Bars, but among the listed ingredients are sugar, brown sugar syrup, corn syrup, and hydrogenated and/or partially hydrogenated oils. If the granola bars are truly wholesome to start with, as Keebler claims in its ad … [Read more...]
Junk food smack-down: pork rinds vs. potato chips
Pork rinds (also called pork skins or chicharrones) are another food I never ate before going low-carb. I considered including them in my "Great foods" series, but decided they aren't in the same nutritional class as foods like almonds, avocados and salmon. Still, pork rinds do fill a need many low-carbers have for a crunchy, salty snack that isn't a nut. Pork rinds are a specialty item in comparison to potato chips. The local market where I do most of my shopping carries two brands of … [Read more...]
Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 2): seeds
Maybe it's a stretch to call seeds "great food." Also, a reader new to low-carbing might get the impression that low-carb is a diet for the birds. That impression would be wrong unless we're talking about birds of prey! Seeds are at least a useful food, packing plenty of nutrition into a tiny space, and I have added a couple of seed products to my diet since going low-carb: sunflower kernels and flax seed meal. As you can see from the above, neither photographs well. Roasted sunflower … [Read more...]
Bring on the Bacon Bacon Truck!
I briefly lived on the West Coast in my long-ago and largely mis-spent youth. My most notable encounter with food out there was when a cabbage rolled off a produce truck, bounced on the road, and punched a hole through the grill of my Buick. Mechanics at a Bay Area GM dealership combed the slaw out of my radiator, but said it would take a few weeks to get a replacement grill shipped out from Flint. I said never mind. The Buick and I would just head home. If the Bacon Bacon Truck had … [Read more...]
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