Week 7 - Summer Low Carb Bootcamp - Hurtling to the Finish Line!

[BIWI]

Morning everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend and that there wasn't too much cheating!

Here is the Spreadsheet of Fabulousness

So we have four weeks left. Time to shed a good few more pounds if you stick to the rules

I go on holiday in less than three weeks, so it's nose to the grindstone for me from now on.

Crabby beautiful blog - am now following!

Crabby - the blog is great and the meal looks delicious!

I am an ok cook and would be fine with no quantities but I probably would probably find them comforting - I am a bit of rule follower at heart

I also really like the photos of the different stages.

Last night my 8yo took initiative and cooked tea for us all. Not woe friendly but I am very impressed by his kindness and forethought. Just need to teach him how to cook some veg based dinners now. Not as easy as just throwing something sausages and chips into the oven from the freezer though.

I was thinking are there ideas for stuff that can be prepped, thrown in the freezer as a complete meal that can just be grabbed for tea? I don't always have time to prep and having stuff ready made freezer is good for days like this when there is zero energy reserves.

Crabby it is exactly that atm. I spent energy i didn't have and am completely wiped. My normal stimulant to push more then i should is coffee. In an ideal world i would have non at all. But atm need some just to get up in the morning. Slept through the morning and on reduced coffee amounts. Migraine has gone and there is a bit less pain but drained today. There will be no exercise this week other then walking the school run.

Crabby, your blog is lovely, and photos look great.

I suppose the techniques are something you could build on, so for example for the next recipe with leeks you wouldn't need to give as detailed an explanation on how to prepare leeks, you could link to your previous blog; same for how to bash garlic.

I'm fairly ok without quantities, but some people might prefer them.

Another one very impressed with your blog crabby that food looks amazing.

crabby, Your recipe is good, easy to follow and the photos of the different stages are very helpful. It would be better with quantities for a more universal appeal. If you are going to add carb counts - which would be useful for people tracking their carbs - then you need to show exact quantities. :)

Does anyone have any experience of fat burning supplements? CLA in particular. I am wondering of there are any that would complement this WOE.

Crabby, your photos are great, they really make the food look tempting

I'm happy enough to cook without quantities so the recipe was fine for me and I liked the way in which you talked through each step. My favourite cookery books are the ones that are a bit 'chatty' ie talk about how dishes have come about or where favourite ingredients are sourced. I felt your style was quite like that and would look forward to more of your recipes and photos.

Quick question...is Splenda ok occasionally on this WOE?

Only if it's occasional, tigerchair - remember we are trying to avoid artificial sweeteners. You might also want to consider Stevia instead, as it's supposed to be more 'natural'.

Thank you all very very much for your comments - I really appreciate them and will take them all on board. Thank you for the praise too - I'm glowing with pride now!

I will add amounts from now on, and I'll calculate the carb count too I think, as I imagine quite a few low-carbers do so.

One more question... I intend to reference the source of every recipe that I haven't made up or been using for years. For the ones devised by people on here, I'm not sure how to do that. Normally when I blog I link to the source info by adding the link to the text, but I can't really do that with the recipe thread/this thread (and wouldn't want to link to this thread as it feels like a sort of private space - loony I know when anyone can read it!). Any ideas?

Who's idea was the shredded cabbage fried in butter? I'm going to make that tonight with gammon. I don't want to be nicking people's recipes and not crediting them.

Whose not who's!

I suppose the thing to do, Crabby, is to ask the person who has posted the recipe on here first if they mind you posting it on your blog. And then you simply credit them with their posting name (or their real name if they share that with you.)

I don't know if you can copyright a recipe - I suspect you can't! - but I think if I came across something I'd created for here, and you hadn't asked me, I'd be a bit cheesed off! I wouldn't mind you replicating it, and I absolutely get that you wouldn't necessarily want to link to this thread - but nothing to stop you linking to the recipe thread.

interesting article here about copyrighting recipes

Thanks BIWI, I'm asking because if I get a craving for something bit sweet then would it be ok to have a sweetener in coffee to instead of falling headfirst into the biscuit tin. I tend to crave sweet/starchy stuff just before my totm and I want to be prepared!!

Good plan!
You may find, though, that those pre-period cravings are reduced on this WOE.

Hi Negroni (and Buda) - no, sorry, not been on track with ultra bootcamp last couple of days as had parmesan on my leftovers/cabbage rolls dish Monday eve, then had poor choice for lunch (in cafe with work colleagues) so ended up with halloumi salad. AND did you see my post re 100% raw chocolate find - indulged last night?! Sounds like you are doing well, though. Still, tomorrow is another day and I shall start again!
Jealous of Crabby slipping now well below 12st marker. Well done! Am still hovering, hoping to get into the 11st somethings, even if it's 11st 13, next week.
BIWI (hides from big stick) - the 100% raw chocolate is 17g per bar, so around 4g per chunk, ? presumably just about okay if rest of carbs are low that day but note what you say about carb creep in your recent post...
Well done to all you exercisers, too, regular or returning. v. inspiring.

Well done crabby on your milestone. In off for a look at the blog now.

Tonight's experiment is chicken stuffed with pâté wrapped in pancetta....

Crabby - love the blog and recipe. Love the photos of the stages but would appreciate quantities as I'm not an instinctive cook.

Maid/Negroni - I haven't über camped. Had wine for starters! However I have cut way back on cheese/dairy. No feta on my salad which I was tending to just throw on even if I had another protein. No snacking on slices of cheese. No cream in the fridge to have sneaky spoonfuls of. I had creme fraiche last night but not too much and no other dairy. No plate of cheese in front of the tv. But I am really missing yoghurt for breakfast and I have just been to Lidl and bought some of their Greek yoghurt. I won't have it tomorrow and will try to have as little dairy as possible tomorrow but I think I will have it every second day for breakfast.

Picked DS up from school and he had made French apple tart! It smells fab. I suggested I freeze it as I can't have it and he sulked! It's very tempting. Aaaargh!

Oh couch - let us know how that goes! I do chicken stuffed with creamcheese wrapped in pancetta, but not done pate!

Tesco have a new pate - chicken-and-chorizo and it's lovely! It's like the chorizo pate you can get in Spain (that i haven't seen here) I eat it with lettuce/celery/cucumber slices

Here is a really interesting link written in 1958, advocating low carb eating!

(Willie could you add this to the spreadsheet, please? Thx)

Very interesting BIWI, I think this WOE totally makes sense after reading articles such as the one you have linked to and also eg Briffa.

Any ideas...I have developed a taste for peanut butter (used to hate it!) but would like some ideas how to use it seeing as spreading it on toast is off limits.

I really like the sound of the chicken and pate, couch. Might change my dinner plan and do a variation as I have pate in fridge...stuffed chicken breast with cheese and pate wrapped in bacon with buttered veg (diet, what diet???!!)

tigerchair There's a recipe for low-carb peanut butter fudge on the recipe thread! (Near the end) Haven't dared try it in case I scoff the lot ? sounds amazing.
Buda sounds like you're doing pretty well cutting down so much! I am addicted to Total full fat yoghurt and would find it hard to do without it...
Glad there's going to be a chat thread when this has finished to keep (reasonably) motivated as think I'm in for the long haul!

Lovely pic, crabby

B 2 egg omelette with bacon bits and mushrooms
L bowl of salad with feta, walnuts, oil and a slice of ham with Philly
D aubergine, pesto and halloumi bake (from the recipe thread)

I was actually looking for the aubergine melts recipe, I think it was blackaffronted s recipe that was highlighted on someone's blog?? black if you are reading this, can you help, it looked delicious and I remember thinking ooh must try that!

Ps tiger not much to suggest re peanut butter here, I just spoon it straight from the jar

That's what I've been doing Toomuch

Oh my word...peanut butter fudge, sounds mouthwatering maidofmuss

I've just looked up that recipe. I could make it right now (except I don't have sweetener) mmmmmmmmmm