Making low carb easier- planning

One of the tricky things on this diet can be making life easy. Think about some of the easy meals you make in life.

Pasta - Can’t have ever again.

Jacket Potato - Nope

Cheese / Beans on Toast - You can have cheese - no bread

Cereal or toast for breakfast - Really you shouldn't even be having much milk 0 no bread

Sandwich for lunch - Again you can’t have bread

Above are just some of the example, but there are many other things. If you have stews, or chilli etc you have them with rice? Can’t have rice…. You can start to get to the point where you want something a bit easier.

For breakfast I really recommend either bacon or turkey rasher and if you are vegetarian I would go for egg, feel free to add an egg to any meal you like anyway. This are simple, only take 10 minutes or so and keep you full, plus I remember the days when bacon used to be a treat.

Lunches are slightly more problematic but this does depend on what you like. I like chicken and so we get bags of frozen chicken, then I cook enough to last me a few days, I tend to cover them in spices or herbs and really mix it up, this means I am sorted for the week and can have variety. Typically add some lettuce or cucumber, the odd splash of mayo. Another alternative here for simple is just some cold meat wrapped in lettuce, again stick some mayo in there. May not be inspiring but mix up the meat, get the garlic mayo (you colleagues with love you for it), with the chicken occasionally stick some cheese on it and wrapped in all in bacon.

Dinners are tricky… we have found a great way to solve this problem is to cooked lots of meat. So buy a chicken and a gammon joint (or lamb we love lamb) and portion them out. Alternate between the 2 for a week and you just have to make veg and reheat the meat. Very simple. You can use some stock as gravy, this is normally very low carb and goes well. You can still make other things for dinner, meatballs in a tomato, spinach and herb sauce, it is still fairly low in carb, taste great and you can make in bulk, just don’t eat it with pasta.

There are some ideas of how to make your life a bit easier. If you have any suggestions then let me know.