Our last week - Spring Low Carb Bootcamp

[BIWI]

So our last week! Here's the Spreadsheet for its penultimate outing

One more week could see another couple of pounds off.

Fingers crossed, and good luck!

Thanks stunt, good point about the BC losses - if I could get 2 pounds a week from now until summer wedding (not mine!) then I could lose over 2 stone. That would be amazing. And it's not like I'm starting close to target I'm BMI of 31...

Other snacks Marion:
Exploded babybells or cheese crisps
Hard boiled eggs
Kind prawns with mayo to dip
Celery sticks or cucumber with pâté or nut butter
Chunks of Brie spread with butter

Battle stations folks, I'm baking tonight

So, flax, ground almond and egg bread that someone posted: any tips on how not to ruin it??

I do it like this Jim, basically the same as the recipe:
Very small loaf tin (doesn't rise much you see), buttered or lined with baking parchment (it sticks otherwise) -this gets you about a french stick diameter 'loaf', or a tiger baton diameter.
4 eggs
3 tsp water
^ whisk together

150g ground flax seed
75g ground almonds
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
^ hand mix together

mix wet and dry together, bang in tin
25 mins in pre-heated oven gas mark 6.

Keeps for about 5 days/a week in the fridge. It is very filling. The salt is important or it's a bit bland.

Hesdead Yes, I use the same recipe as Kleptronic I find 20 minutes is enough, though and I use a silicon loaf tin as it is easier to remove then.
Jim this thread is going to be ongoing now until bootcamp starts again - from what BIWI has said, this is likely to be mid May. So, you are welcome to join us here.

I thought I would do some baking tonight as well. I need more flax bread, plus I thought I would do some lc amaretti biscuits from this site I'm going to try freezing them, so I don't eat too many at once. I'm also going to put less sweetener in as last time I made them they were too sweet.

Thanks guys, pray for me...

Good luck Hesdead, but remember photo or it didn't happen.

Welcome 'back' dust
And thank you all for your kind words

It's very simple, Hesdeadjim - and I'm fairly sure foolproof

Captain

I have had so little appetite today. I have been a bit confused by that until i realised it must have been the flax meal in the pizza. Flax is v high in fat right? Prepared to say that isn't it but it's making me think I'm not eating quite enough fat generally. Because I am still struggling a little with hunger. Only a wee bit but it might help me overall to eat more. I might just have lost a little hunger from the virus though.

I will definitely be making flax meal bread soon. The pizza base was so good and bread like.

Here's my proof.
Flax bread and amaretti biscuits. I put 2 instead of 3 tablespoons of truvia in the biscuits and they tasted much better. Might try even less next time.
I've also been for a run, but I'm not showing photographic proof of that - no one needs to see a sweaty middle aged woman in Lycra.

Made a lovely chicken chorizo stew thing last night with mashed celeriac. Just made curried butternut soup tonight but I feel wholly unsatisfied. Need to find something else to eat before I get distracted.

The loaf is in the oven, 18 minutes to go...

BIWI you say fool proof but the last time I tried banking I managed to turn coconut macaroons into toffee...

marion butternut squash is quite carby, so that might be making you feel hungry. Also, was there much fat in it? It's the fat that really keeps me satisfied with this woe.
Hesdead can't wait.

Banking?!

typo fail!

This stuff is awesome! It stuck to the pan but I know to grease it next time!

Having it with butter and smoked mackerel pate... may have died and gone to heaven

Looking good hesdead and it's so quick and easy to do.

And now I need to make flax bread! Those photos!!! Hesead mine usually comes out looking exactly like yours on the top, except your slice picture looks very big? My loaf is really small like half that size. Love it with butter and marmite. Mmmm

Oh yum all the baking looks good. If you guys feel really full the day after consuming the flax bread it would be good to know. I want to pin down if that's what suppressed my appetite today.

Does flax bread make people stall ever too?

Dusty Depends if you eat too much, seen the youtube video's where a lady makes it in a mould looking like a slice of bread in a micro wave.

Takes it out waits till it cools and slices it in half to make a sarnie.

I have done it spread really thin and cooked on a low heat to create crackers worked ok, but seems a waste heating a large or for such a small batch. need to plan on doing a few different things in there.
cleangreensimple.com/2011/05/flax-crackers/

The 'slice' is the bit that stick to the bottom of the pan so it's lengthways :)

Is it Cap'n? I thought it was ok . The recipe is in the Idiot Proof Diet book (although I added some cream).

Talk to me about water. If I don't drink enough will I just feel shit or will I not lose weight?