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A fat-added lunch

By Jim April 17, 2015

Canned salmon, avocado oil mayo, and fresh avocado. Photo by Jim Anderson.

Eating a low-carb high-fat (LCHF) diet as I do, it isn't good enough to avoid or reduce carbohydrates in my meals. I also need to eat plenty of healthy, tasty, satisfying fat. Ideally, I want the grams of fat in my meals to out-number the grams of carbs and protein combined, and I want the carbs to be minimal. (See my post on the fat-burning quotient.) Often, that means I need to find a way to add some extra fat. Take my lunch yesterday, pictured below. The base is three ounces of canned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: avocados, high-fat, LCHF, low-carb, mayo, salmon

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