Bootcamp Recipe Thread

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Asparagus Frittata (serves 2)

250g/9oz asparagus, trimmed and cut into 5cm/2in pieces
4 eggs
4 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan or Pecorino cheese
225g/8oz spring onions, finely chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil

• Cook asparagus in boiling water until tender (7-10 minutes)
• Whisk the eggs and add the cheese and the spring onions
• Pre-heat the grill
• Heat the oil in a large frying pan that can go under the grill
• Put in the asparagus; stir-fry for a minute, then pour in the eaten eggs, moving the asparagus around gently to make sure the egg mixture gets right through, and that the grated cheese is well distributed
• Let the frittata cook over a moderate heat for a few minutes until the underside is cooked and lightly browned, then put the pan under a hot grill for a minute or two until the top is set and golden brown

5.5g carbs per serving

Recipe from Rose Elliot's "The Vegetarian Low-Carb Diet Book"

My fat bomb recipe:

1 tablespoon almond butter
1 bar aldi moser Roth dark chocolate - any flavour. There is 12.5 carbs in most of the mini bars. I like the orange one.
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp butter
Sweetener to taste - I don't use it but you might.

Melt the almond butter in a pan and when it's melted take the pan off the heat and add all other ingredients. Add sweetener to taste ( liquid stevia?). You may need to heat the pan a little more, but I usually find it's hot enough to melt everything. Pour yummy liquid into mini muffin cases ( in shaped cake tin) and freeze.

Fat bomb 2

1 pack of sugar free jelly made with 1/2 water and 1/2 cream, I like raspberry and add a few raspberries. Freeze in mini muffins as above. Gelatine is suppose to help with skin tightness.

Fat bombs:

4oz unsalted butter, 4oz coconut oil, 3oz 90% chocolate melted together and poured into mini muffin cases in the fridge. Mine separated but they taste ok. I haven't tried being a bit more cautious with the heat yet to see if that stops separation.

Almond bombs of diet destruction:
(adapted from the Grass Fed Girl blog)

I think these are a treat item rather than a fat bomb!

250g almond butter, 100ml coconut milk, 150g unsalted butter, vanilla (ground or essence), 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Desiccated coconut for rolling.

You could add sweetener if you want but they probably don't need it.

Put a bowl over a waterbath in a saucepan and gently melt the ingredients in it. Put the mixture in the fridge until firmed and roll into 1 inch balls. Roll in the desiccated coconut.

Dairy free courgette fritters here

Hi. Just joined, whats the IPD cookbook?

Its the cookbook that accompanies the Neris and India's Idiot Proof Diet book. Very similar to Bootcamp on phase one of IPD.

Have been googling the IPD book and have discovered that there are two versions...one with a cream cover and one with a pink cover. Which one should I buy for the best low-carb recipes please?

I got mine on Kindle so I'm not sure. Theres the IPD diet book and theres a follow on recipe book. The diet book has quite a lot of useful 'head stuff' as well as the diet back ground and a few recipes and meal ideas. The recipe book has the food lists for the stages and, obviously, more recipes. Hope this helps.

Back again! Found pictures on Kindle. The diet book is pink. the recipe book is cream.

Ah, thanks Miffy

Not sure if this is the right place to put this but I found that Onken Natural Set Bio Yogurt is lower in carbs than Total, which a few people have said they think is the lowest carbs, also sliced sandwhich smoked salmon from Sainsburys is only 0.1g carbs per 100g, which is a whole pack.

I'm new to this so hopefully this recipe is okay.

Leek carbonara

Fry leek, bacon and mushrooms in butter/olive oil.

Mix eggs, double cream, Parmesan and black pepper together and add to the leeks bacon and mushrooms, mix everything together until the sauce is cooked.

I had this last night. It was beautiful.

That sounds lovely, Dalmation!

Couple of quick questions ...

Are tinned tomatoes OK? I have found a recipe for madras curry sauce which the whole family will eat. Tesco tinned toms are 4g per 100g so is this ok?

Also, has anyone frozen batches of cauliflower rice? Would it be best to do it pre-cooked or would you cook it first?

I'm trying to plan ahead a bit

Yes, tinned tomatoes are fine, as long as you're not having that much. A normal tin of tomatoes is 400g, so on that basis the Tesco ones are 16g carbs. If the tin is split between 4 of you, then obviously that's not too many. But if you end up eating a sauce or curry made with half the tin, it starts to get a bit carby, especially when you add it to whatever else you've used to make the sauce/dish!

No idea about frozen cauliflower rice - worth giving it a try though! Frozen cauliflower is surprisingly good, so it may work well.

Thank you biwi xx

I haven't tried frozen cauli as rice but I know it roasts well. If you have your oven fairly hot any water evaporates fast and leaves it nice and crispy but the stalks are soft. I like it better than fresh for roast cauli.

Goodness - there are some yummy sounding things here! Almost makes me think they're too good to be true ?!

Low carbing is so not about deprivation Earlybird!!!

A rare treat...

Chocolate cheesecake, I froze these and the centre turned out like chocolate ice cream.

Melted butter and ground almonds together and made a base in silicone cupcake cups, lined cases with melted very dark choc.

Mixed together, cream cheese, 1 tbsp cocoa powder, some double cream and a little stevia and a couple of blobs on pb, filled cupcake cases and covered with melted dark choc.

In the morning they were the consistancy of ice cream but able to bite through, in the fridge they will just be all lovely and runny cheesecakey.

They sound nice! Do you think they would work without the stevia? Or, could you use some vanilla bean paste instead? It is sweetened, but you only need a very small amount to get a sweet taste.

Can you post some quantities as well?

I think it would work with very little sweetener, I didn't really have much left so there was only a tiny bit and I only used that as I had run out of peanut butter! (was meant to be peanut butter, cream cheese and cream and I wouldn't have used any sweetener in that), will posts some amounts later as I am struggling to load this thread properly on my phone for long. :)

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Hi all, haven't really got a clue what I'm doing here but I would like to lose around a stone and a half to get back to my usual size 12. I'm a pescetarian and all the recipes I've found so far have seemed a little dull. Can anyone tell me if I'm moving along the right lines?
Breakfast : pear and two coffees with milk.
Lunch mackerel, feta and olives and cucumber and full fat greek yogurt
Dinner: veg sausage, cabbage and half baby potato with soya sauce. Then full fat greek yogurt with fresh cream. A glass of white wine (not usual but I've had a shit and very stressful day)