Need interesting and tasty ideas for a no meat, no carb eating friend

[nappyaddict]

It's just completely alien to me. For me a meal is a combination of carbs, veg/salad, meat/fish or carbs, veg/salad, no meat/fish or no carbs, veg/salad, meat/fish. To eat a meal based on just one of these groups seems impossible and BORING. HELP!!

Ratatouille with a handful of mixed seeds on top.

A goats cheese salad with walnuts.

Finely shredded courgettes stir fried and used as a pasta type base for sauce.

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Oooh Ratatouille is a good one.

Thought about doing stuffed aubergines, mushrooms, courgettes, sweet potato, butternut squash or peppers but is there something apart from cheese I could stuff them with? I would usually put rice or something in.

I guess cheese, eggs and nuts are you friends here

Maybe blend cottage cheese so it's smooth and add garlic, chilli and sundried tomatoes with herbs and use for a dip with veg or you could mix with some beaten eggs and bake it into a savoury cheesecake.

Omelette or mushroom frittata with pesto

Stuff the aubergines/veg with fried mushrooms, and roasted peppers and toasted pinenuts?

Delia has a lovely tasty recipe for red peppers roasted with tomatoes and garlic (although she does recommend mopping up the juices with hunks of fresh Frech bread )

Does she eat fish? I have a lovely salmon recipe which everyone loves (another Delia!!) and you could serve it with salad.

Chickpea, squash and spinach curry with coconut milk

Cauliflower cheese

There's a great Nigella recipe for grilled marinaded aubergine slices rolled up and stuffed with feta and mint - scrumptious

You can also make a dessert cheesecake out of cottage cheese or quark mixed with marscapone - blend it with sweetener (splenda or truvia maybe?) and vanilla seeds, mix with eggs and bake till set. You could do it with a nut and seed crust crust if you wanted to be clever - walnuts, blanched almonds and a couple of tbs ground flax seed blitzed together to a breadcrumb texture, pour some melted butter and some splenda in it and press in to a baking tin before you bake the cheesecake

Broccoli and almond salad - cooked broccoli (still nice and firm and green), olive oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, sherry vinegar, slivered almonds, chilli, salt, garlic powder.

You can apparently grate cauliflouer in to rice sized pieces and use that in place of rice! I think you grate it raw, then fry in a pan with a little oil, salt and garlic. Sounds nice to me!

Fish and salad. eg Salad Nicoise. Lots of interest in that - You can have new potatoes in it - she doesn't need to.I have it often, and am a low carber. (ALthough I do eat meat.)

If she doesnt eat fish it's a PITA though. I think it must be very hard to low carb as a vegetarian.

Strawberries and cream is low carb. Berries in general are the lowest carb fruits.

Custardo Your recipes seem to contain meat or fish? There are however some lovely ones I want to try for myself.

Chickpea, squash and spinach curry with coconut milk and Cauliflower cheese sound nice but IMO really need to be served with something and salad doesn't really go.

Low carbers are quite used to having things that don't really 'go' with anything! I regularly sit down to just roast chicken and cabbage, or just steak and green beans! Admittedly though, if the 'main' is veggie based it's harder to go a vegetable side dish. Damn those Vegetarians. I refuse to invite them myself.

Fellatio, I know that Nigella recipe and its yummy - I thought of it too but doesn't it contain breadcrumbs? Suppose you could always leave them out. Is it called involtini or something similar?

No it's just called 'grilled aubergines with feta, mint and chilli' and it's in the Forever Summer Nigella book. There are virtually no carbs in it at all. You should be able to google it, but if not, I'll type it out for you. It's really really yummy.

It's the Delia one that has breadcrumbs, our Delia does love a carb or five :o

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?key=G&rid=284

I used really hot chillies, so I stirred a bit of greek yoghurt in and used sless leom juice.

Do you have it on it's own?

Leeks a la greque
I would usually make a chickpea salad to go with this. Chickpeas, peppers, red onions and then whizz up fresh coriander, olive oil and lemon for a dressing.

That looks really tasty fellatio

My fave is aubergine sandwiches - griddled sliced aubergine with a slice of mozzarella and some mushrooms (or whatever you've got) stuffed between them, placed on a bed of tomato sauce and baked until the cheese melts. Yum.

That sounds nice but I'd have it perhaps with peppers instead of mushrooms.

Do sweet potatoes count as carbs or not?

According to my collins gem carb counter...90g would have 16.4g of carbs so deffo high carb if she's being fairly strict about it

sweet potatoes are better for people on low gylcaemic index diets than normal potatoes, and if you are just trying to maintain your weight, but they are not strictly low carb if you are still trying to lose - but then neither are chickpeas.