Have you planned your lowcarb holiday eating?

[Elizellen]

For many first-time Atkineers their first Christmas/festive holiday is a stumbling block, where they find it hard to stay on-plan.

So what plans have YOU made to stick to induction eating over the next few days?

Over my first Christmas I found it vital to make detailed plans of what I was intending to eat, so I would not get to the stage of not knowing what I could eat and make wrong choices.

Our UK traditional fare over the festive season contains many induction-legal foods as well as the 'no-nos' so you can pick your way through the average British Christmas menu unscathed with a little forethought

So print out your list of allowed induction foods and work out what you CAN eat rather than thinking of those things you CAN'T eat!

My Christmas eating choices included:

Starters
smoked salmon spread with cream cheese and rolled up into salmon fingers
prawns with mayonnaise
red, yellow and orange sweet peppers stuffed with cream cheese
cream cheese mixed with herbs or spices made into balls or a log and sliced
olives stuffed with pepper or cream cheese
mixed green salad with oil and vinegar
salad with sweet peppers, mushrooms, lettuce, radishes, celery and anyhting from the two vegetables lists
celery stuffed with pate or cream cheese
celery soup
broccolli and blue cheese soup
mushroom soup

Main dish
Turkey, ham, roast beef, roast pork, salmon, trout or chicken
vegetables from either induction-allowed list - including:
roasted peeled broccoli stalks
celeriac (celery root) peeled and boiled then mashed with butter and pepper, or roasted
mashed cauliflower mixed with cream cheese and baked in the oven (like duchess potatoes or just in a casserole dish)
scalloped turnips
radishes boiled to take out the colour then served hot with melted butter or cold mixed with mayonnaise and herbs as a salad dish.
braised celery

Dessert
cheese with flax crackers or a slice of flax bread
celery stuffed with cream cheese
no-crust cheesecake made with splenda and topped with whipped cream
jelly (jello in USA) made from unsweetened gelatine with some davinci sugarfree flavoured syrup

What other favourites can anyone else add as suggestions to help our newer members and secondtimers keep on track?

[MaggieBE]

Edited to add that I am on OWL and not on Induction. I didn't realize what forum this was posted on until now.


Dinner tonight normally will be scampi's in a garlic butter sauce, 1 cup salad with ceasar salad dressing, 1 cup creamed spinach(2oz cream, 2oz parm cheese, 1 tablespoon butter), 2 tablespoons of the chocolate mousse(in dessert section)


Tomorrow for brunch I am going to try making the mock danish for the first time. Dinner will be turkey, fauxtatoes, leftover creamed spinach, green beans with garlic and likely 2 tablespoons of the chocolate mousse

Probably will snack on salmi and cheese blocks dipped in mustard. Bought some olives too.

It isn't perfect I'm sure(too much cream). However these foods will make me feel happy.

[Elizellen]

That looks a yummy Christmas Day menu, Maggie!

Actually it looks not too far from being induction-legal too

[MaggieBE]

My food was very yummy. Actually the rest of the family was jealous because I was able to eat such great foods. I left the table feeling content but I sure didn't overeat. I am looking forward to tomorrow!

[Faith04]

How do you make the smoked salmon spread w/ cream cheese? i made this before a couple of years ago, and it was horrible..yuck!

[Elizellen]

I just lay out slices of smoked salmon and spread cream cheese over them then roll them up.
For festive occasions I chill the rolls then slice them into smaller rounds to lay out in a pretty pattern.
Of course you do have to like the taste of smoked salmon for this to be a 'treat' LOL

[MaggieBE]

Mummm smoked salmon with mayo! Think that is an idea for new years!