Help me with Sunday roast for an Atkins diet person!

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Got family coming tomorrow and two guests out of 8 are on atkins !

so my menu is

onion soup with cheese toasts
roast beef, roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese and yorkshires
chocolate cake and strawberries and cream

( we love to eat in our family )

so what can I do instead to make life easier ?

am struggling with cheese toast, cauli cheeese alternatives, and yorkshire alternatives

or should i just give them beeef and bagged salad?

pita re atkins but it'll be loely to seee them

I just found out re the atkins by accident !

what is it with guests who dont tell you BEFORE they comeover!

I don't know about the atkins, but I was on the Dukan recently which is a low carb diet.

I made yorkshire puddings by mixing oatbran with natural yoghurt and an egg, which were all 'allowed' foods. They were ok, a bit more spongy than normal yorkies but nice.

Could they have smoked salmon and scrambled egg as a starter? Or make oatbran pancakes (same recipe as yorkshire batter) with smoked salmon, low fat fromage frais and smoked salmon?

They should have let you know sooner... Different phases of atkins allow more of some things but:

they can have onion soup, no toast
Roast beef and cauli, no potatoes, no yorkshires
and just the strawberries for pud, with double cream if its about.

do a portion or two of cauli cheese which is just steamed cauli with grated cheese on top. Plenty of black pepper. Do them some garlic creamed spinach as well - or stir fry cabbage or red cabbage or something. Just don't do spuds for them and beef up the veg.

Agree just the onion soup - maybe with cheese melted into it (bung a slice of cheese on top and sling into the micro for 20 secs).

If you are a good baker, you could probably find a good chocolate 'cake' which uses ground almonds rather than flour. Though the sugar probably nixes it so agree with loads of berries and cream instead.

BooKanga has just said what I would - including they should have let you know earlier.

I think it's bloody rude to grandly announce this sort of thing to folk who habe been kind enough to invite you to dinner.

Bollocks to them-they need to put up with what they have whilst smiling charmingly.It's called good manners.

Cook up a couple of bags of frozen veggies to go with their roast beef and cauli cheese, they'll be fine!
(experienced Atkins person here)

Put more veggies in with the roast (parsnips?, carrots, brocolli in with the cauli cheese) and just don't give them the yorkies or spuds.
Are you allowed parsnips and swede on Atkins? If so, you could do a yummy parsnip/sweet potato/swede/carrot type mash instead for everyone.

omg - dfiffernt phases ? i thought it was just about no carbs !

have called them and apparenlty no carrots or cauli cheese allowed so its just beef and gravy! - am a tad annoyed as i now have to go shopping AGAIN - on a sat afternoon too

carrots are a carb apparently!

How rude! I would tell them not to bother coming!

Extra green veg would be fine - broccoli, cabbage, leeks are all good.

Potatoes and parsnips, as well as carrots, are out - but you could have swede - roasted or mashed.

Caulifower with grated cheese/fromage frais or creme fraiche instead of a flour-based sauce.

Yorkshire puddings aren't all that bad in terms of carbs - but will depend on how many carbs they can have.

Onion soup is probably a bit carby unless it's a brown onion soup made only with stock and not a white onion soup that is thickened with flour.

For dessert, why not just berries and cream? Strawberries, blueberries and raspberries are all relatively low carb, and cream is carb-free (just don't sweeten it).

A roast dinner is actually one of the easiest things to have if you're low carbing.

Does anyone with atkins knowledge know whether mashed swede or turnip is allowed ( or indeed nice?.

going shopping in 15 mins

thanks for replies all helpful stuff

Hi

No you can't have root veg, generally, or any carbs - so no rice. really agree that frozen veg would be fine or those steam bag ones.

veg & meat - it's fine.

Greens tend to be fine! And plain cauliflower (or with just cheese) but not root veggies.
They should have prewarned you but in their defence, myabe they had planned to come and just eat some of the meat and the non starchy veg that you'd provided. They probably didn't expect much. Don't stress it. A typical meal on atkins is meat and green veg.

Mashed swede is allowed and, when made with loads of butter, absolutely gorgeous!

Or celeriac. It's delicious in a gratin with double cream and a smidgeon of garlic, and would be lovely with roast beef.

Cheese sauce for the cauliflower could be cheese melted into double cream.

Before you get too annoyed at your guests, some people deliberately choose not to announce a diet before they come. It just draws attention to it and often means they have to defend it while others have a go at the low-carb approach (that's happened to me often enough). Usually there is something to eat, esp at Sunday lunch when there will always be some meat and some kind of veg. They might have been trying to avoid that scenario, and spare you some of the extra trouble you are going to - but since you are changing things to suit them, I hope it's appreciated!

(Hello BIWI - do you have a low-carb thread on the go at the moment? I fell off a while ago and would like to get back on!)

Second the celeriac suggestion!

tisb - no, I've been very much off the wagon for some time now

But weight gain and sudden onset of raging thrush (TMI) means I will be returning.

Will start something up if you wish!

Yes! I'm just about to go away for 3 weeks so am on for a September restart. Hoping not to do too much damage between now and then...