For the love of god... a quick easy dessert recipe please before . . .

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Please can anyone suggest a quick and easy dessert recipe that is low carb and low calorie (other than fresh berries) that (here's the crunch)

does not involve tons of ingredients I do not have ( no almond milk, almond flour, stevia, tears of angels and hair of a unicorn blah blah blah)

I am over whelmed with a sweet craving and need to plan for when I get home.

All the online recipes I can find are cake or cream type things that need lots of obscure flours or other stuff. Can anyone suggest an easy sweet mainstream dessert that will be quick to make?

Please.

Do you have dark chocolate, eggs, milk and an orange (technically you also need cardamom - but you could do it without)?

If so, search the Boot Camp recipe thread for chocolate pots - a recipe I posted.

My go to is sugar free jelly with cream. I try and keep some in the fridge all the time and a couple of spoonfuls with some cream on top is the perfect guilt free snack.

An apple (sliced), some peanut butter and a couple of squares of dark chocolate.

I have a flourless chocolate cake recipe I can share. I sometimes make a yogurt brûlée. You can whip double cream with good cocoa to make a chocolate mousse. Alfaba meringues. Lemon soufflé omelette. Dark chocolate pots. Sugar and flour free brownies. Cheesecake.

Oooh - all good ideas. Thank you. I will look for your recipe prettybird

Is cream ok? Isn't that very high calories? I'm trying to stick to the blood sugar diet principles which is low carb and low calorie.

This is low carb and guess you could make it lower calorie?

Philadelphia cheese ( I use full fat but you could use low fat one )
Splenda
Cocoa powder
Vanilla essence

Mix together and enjoy!

That depends. On Boot Camp we don't count calories and positively encourage fat

My recipe originally had whipped cream folded through it but I made a mistake and missed that step out. When my dad repeated the recipe and followed it properly, we realised my version was better!

Buy at tub of full fat cream and blend or squish a handful of strawberries

Mix and leave it out to set for an hour or so

prettybird please could you link your or repost your recipe. I've tried searching but with no luck

I’m a BSDer too.

I have cream, just not huge quantities. You can’t really do high fat and low calorie - you have to eat less!

I know you said no almond milk. Is that because you dislike it, or because you don't have any in? There are various other milks you could try for this, my saviour when there's no dessert.
A green smoothie:
200 ml water
200 ml almond milk (unsweetened)
I piece of frozen spinach
Half a large or one tiny banana (strictly not low carb but...)
2 teaspoons peanut butter

Whizz in a blender and drink the lot! I swear I'm addicted to this and so is my friend!

Drinking half a stock cube in water can help with sweet cravings, by the way.

Had to scroll through a gazillion posts on the Boot Camp recipe thread as I can't do an Advanced search on the phone but here you are:

Chocolate pots with orange and cardamom

The pudding is quick to make but takes a few hours to set. Original recipe used 250ml whipped cream folded in at the end - but I left it out by accident and after trying it the "correct" way, decided my mistaken way was better I'd like to try it with different spices and/or add some raspberries (either at the bottom of the ramekin, or as decoration - or both )

Makes 6-8

8 cardamom pods
100ml milk
200g good quality plain chocolate
1 orange
2 eggs

1 Slit the cardamom pods open and prise out the seeds. Crush the seeds a little with the back of a spoon or in a pestle and mortar and put in a small pan with the milk. Slowly bring to boiling point, then remove from the heat and leave to infuse while preparing the other ingredients.

2 Break the chocolate into a large bowl, cover with clingfilm and place over a pan of boiling water – try not to let the water touch the bottom of the bowl as this will make the chocolate lumpy. Leave the chocolate to melt. Or do what I do and melt it carefully in the microwave.

3 While the chocolate is melting, grate the zest of the orange and squeeze out its juice.

4 Separate the eggs, then whisk the egg yolks until they turn thick.

5 When the chocolate has melted, stir in the yolks, zest and juice then mix in the infused milk (pour it through a sieve so that all the cardamom pods are caught).

6 Whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks and fold them gently into the chocolate mixture using a large metal spoon.

7 Scrape the chocolate mixture into six or eight small ramekins or pots (I use little espresso coffee cups, which look elegant). Cover with clingfilm and refrigerate for a couple of hours or overnight.

Yummy

....it actually doesn't need that long to set

I'm doing weightwatchers. I have fat free yogurt with 1tsp honey and 1 pecan nut. Often over sliced banana and red grapes. Works for me 😊

I'm doing weightwatchers. I have fat free yogurt with 1tsp honey and 1 pecan nut. Often over sliced banana and red grapes. Works for me

Weight watchers is the opposite of the BSD.........

Very low carb coconut raspberry mousse

Open a tin of full fat coconut milk. Stick a knife in it and drain off all the water so you only have the solid coconut milk left. Put in a saucepan and simmer and add a leaf of gelatine. Reduce. In a blender (or use a stick blender and jug) put a tub of thick double cream, a punnet of raspberries, the warm coconut/gelatine mix and a spoonful of splenda. Put in ramekins and leave to set in fridge.

I meant to say, once blended put in ramekins and leave in fridge.

Thanks all.

In the end I used a combination of the ideas above - I whipped 2 tblespoons of cream and blended about 4 or 5 strawberries and mixed it in. It was good but not enough so I then had an apple with a bit of peanut butter and a bit of Philadelphia light.
It wasn't exactly a chocolate binge but I felt like I'd fallen off the wagon.

Prettybird thanks for digging out the recipe - I will try that.

I've been doing this (low carb, low calorie - approximation of the blood sugar diet) since the new year. I'm not drinking alcohol either - which I really enjoy and that has been hard.

At the start I felt good -better and more healthy - rather than losing weight. It was all fine but yesterday I had a massive sweet craving (hence my post)

This is now Day 24/25 and I feel really down - sort of sad and depressed. I'm not hungry I just feel miserable. Will this pass or is it a permanent state if you are in life without carbs and wine?

I think doing low carb and low calorie must be really hard and I’d be miserable too!

I’ve been doing low carb high fat since 3 Jan and I’ve lost 9lbs. It’s not really been difficult and the food you can have is so delicious that you don’t feel deprived.

It really isn’t. Even being veggie I love the 800 cal days on the BSD

I don't know what has suddenly caused this up to about 21/22 days I was fine and it seemed easy.

I just now feel depressed and am craving sweet things badly. Badly.

Is your periods due?

no

this is what I have... either extra thick double cream on its own with a tiny bit of cocao powder and the tiniest amount of stevia or sometimes I also add greek yoghurt. Really easy and i always have those ingredients to hand. Takes seconds to make and yum x

I can't believe I read a recipe containing one nut !!!!!
One poor nut .. it's like a pudding the Borrowers would make