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A windy, low-carb weekend in Chicago

By Jim November 22, 2011 4 Comments

This past weekend Anita and I traveled to Chicago by train. I was attending a professional conference, and she came along for the ride. The train is our favorite way to get to the City of Broad Shoulders. It picks us up at a small town in mid-Michigan -- a major hub in the old days but now just a place that the train stops at twice a day, going west in the morning and east at night. A few hours after we get on board, the train deposits us at Union Station, a short cab-ride from the Loop. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, Chicago, eating out, low-carb

Building your own breakfast special

By Jim October 13, 2011 3 Comments

Build your own breakfast

Back in my carb-eating days, my favorite meal to eat out was breakfast. There were a couple reasons. First, breakfast is an affordable meal to eat out.  You can usually get a hot breakfast for a few bucks. Even in Manhattan, on the edge of the theater district, Anita and I got a breakfast special at a Greek diner that included eggs, meat, toast, two cups of coffee and a small glass of juice for five dollars each.  In mid-Michigan, breakfast specials typically start at $2.99. Second, breakfast … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: Anita, breakfast, eating out, eggs, low-carb

Low-carb eating at parties and events

By Jim October 9, 2011 4 Comments

Eating low-carb at parties and events can be a challenge. For example, a couple days ago, I was talking with a colleague about the menu for the annual meeting of an organization we both belong to. The plan, he told me, is Italian, which basically means pasta, bread and a salad. There will be a pasta dish with meat and a pasta dish without meat.  I do not think there will be a pasta dish without carbohydrates. In the morning, there will be coffee, juice, ice water and pastries. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, low-carb, party food

Eating ancient wheat

By Jim September 8, 2011 2 Comments

Field of wheat

I fell off the wagon one night, landing mouth-first in a small serving of pasta with meat sauce. Actually, I didn't fall off so much as hop off briefly. It was a calculated act, not a moment of weakness. My wife and I decided to try some fusilli (corkscrew pasta) made with einkorn wheat (a variety now considered a relic, first having been cultivated 12,000 years ago). I had read about this ancient wheat in reviews of Wheat Belly, a new book by Dr. William Davis. (For instance, see the reviews … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, Einkorn, pasta, wheat

Italian Green Bean Salad

By Jim August 25, 2011 2 Comments

For years, Anita has been putting together a summer salad with green beans, tomatoes and red onion. It's an old family recipe. She calls it "Italian Green Bean Salad" in honor of her father, who's an old Italian. It's a delicious, nutritious summer treat, and reasonably low-carb. This summer, with a bumper crop of beans, cucumbers, hot peppers and tomatoes growing in our backyard garden, we were looking forward to making salads with the freshest, most organic of ingredients. Then blossom-end … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, diet, green beans, low-carb, recipe, salad, tomatoes

Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 1): almonds, avocados, macadamias

By Jim July 5, 2011 3 Comments

If you're like me (which you probably aren't, but let's pretend), you may find your food tastes expanding as you adapt to a low carb way of eating.  Over the last few months, I have added several foods to my dietary repertoire, and I have eaten more of some other great foods than I ever did in the past.   In general, I eat more whole foods now than processed/ packaged foods.  Nuts, seeds, berries and fish are classes of foods that I always liked, but eat significantly more of on my low-carb … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: almonds, Anita, Atkins, avocados, food, fruits, guacamole, low-carb, macadamias, nuts

Low-carb road-trip eating

By Jim July 1, 2011 2 Comments

Road

When my wife was 11 years old, she was mesmerized by Peter Tork, a member of the Monkees.  Depending on whom you ask, the Monkees were either actors in a TV comedy or musicians in a rock-band.  Or both. My wife would say both, and more, but her focus was always on the blond, hazel-eyed Mr. Tork. It still is. All of this explains why she and I drove to Merrillville, Indiana, yesterday to watch the Monkees (three of the four, anyway) perform at the Star Plaza Theatre.  It was a stop on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, breakfast, eating out, low-carb, Monkees, salad, salmon

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