Vegetables

[ania]

I do not like vegetables. I will not eat lettuce. Is anyone here with the same problem? What kind of veggies are you eating? How you prepare them?

[AndrewH]

Re: Vegetables

I eat tomato paste with most meals. It's not ideal but I can't stand veggies and since I started I tried about 50+ different kinds.

[mission to lose]

Re: Vegetables

I do not like vegetables. I will not eat lettuce. Is anyone here with the same problem? What kind of veggies are you eating? How you prepare them?

Hi Anai,

I also could barely look at many veggies not too long ago...LOL...to me corn on the cob was a GREAT VEGGIE!!!

Anyway, my hubby started roasting them and I really began to love more of them...he would combine--asparagus, baby bok choy, mushrooms, green onion, leeks, ....add some sea salt, fresh ground pepper, drizzle on some olive oil...great.

If you can not stand veggies, try hiding them in casseroles, or other veggie recipes...here are tons...but you can not follow the ATKINS WOE without the proper amount of veggies. It just will not work.

Lots of veggies recipes.
Recipes

Linda's Low Carb Menus & Recipes - Home

The Lighter Side of Low-Carb


Atkins Food and Recipes - Atkins Diet

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-diet-14-day-induction/58513-never-ending-induction-recipes.html

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-diet-14-day-induction/6807-induction-recipe-basics-more-recipes-added.html

Veggie Help----

Go to this journal, and click on her blog link in her siggy. Then navigate around until you find her 11 in 3 series.

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ournal-14.html

Or try this link- you are looking for her 11 in 3 series...It shows how to get 11g of carbs in 3 cups. Scroll thru menu 1, menu 2, etc. She did a lot of work putting this together:

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ml#comment3330

[mission to lose]

Re: Vegetables

And Ania,
Did you know you could get some veggies in by making Nacho Doritos?
You don't believe me??? I would not lie...I have made this recipe 3X. It is not hard, either. But it is pretty good. You can use it as a dip chip or just a snack by itself.

The Lighter Side of Low-Carb



Nacho Doritos

Crunch time-- Doritos style chips makes mouths munchier

Sour cream and onion flavor didn't last long near my taste testers.
When you left your high-carb lifestyle, you didn't have to leave crunch behind. Now, with the nacho chip recipe and some popcorn salts, you can savor the flavor of Doritos and celebrate like it was 1999 (and not your waistline measurements).
These chips travel well in lunches and can be stored at room temperature in a loose bag or an open container for up to a week. With so many flavors of popcorn seasoning (see below), you can go from zippy to zesty, to tangy to sweet in an instant to change a mood, and make various single-serving sized of flavored chips to please even the pickiest bunch.
Low-carb, gluten-free and corn-free (this could change with the seasoning, so read labels!), you can use up that extra zucchini from the garden, or pop open a frozen bag of cauliflower and take your tastebuds to town.
Zucchini Doritos-style chips

1 large zucchini, shredded
2 eggs
2 cups cheese (Low fat ok, I use cheddar or Colby jack)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Grease 2 cookie sheets.
Cut ends from zucchini. Shred. Mix with egg and cheese. Make 6-8” circles on greased cookie sheet(s). Bake at 450 degrees for 12 minutes. Loosen and flip the circles. Bake for another 5 minutes at 450 degrees.
With a pizza cutter, cut rounds into triangles (about 6 per round).


Let cool on a rack for 6-8 hours in a cool oven. To store, keep loosely in a bag or a plastic container in the refrigerator or on the counter. Best used within a week of preparation.

***(I do not put these in any bag they will not stay crispy if you close them up.)

***The second and third time I made these, I didn't make 6 circles, I made 8-10 smaller ones. Doesn't matter how many or how you cut them up, just make sure you spread them out on 2 parchment covered cookie sheets, and make sure they are not too thick. You will learn.


After chips have dried substantially, in a plastic container toss with popcorn seasoning for desired flavor.(For Super Bowl I used Nacho flavored Popcorn Salt)

Makes 36 chips.

[Elizellen]

Re: Vegetables

I do not like vegetables. I will not eat lettuce. Is anyone here with the same problem? What kind of veggies are you eating? How you prepare them?

No-one has to eat lettuce on Atkins It is only one out of the 54 possible options, so if you don't like lettuce don't eat it
When eating out it is usually the main component of most salads but at home I never use lettuce.

Lately I have been using a lot of those pointed sweet red peppers (about 9 net carbs per pepper depending on size) which I usually eat raw (sprinkled with some seasalt to enhance the flavour) or chopped up and mixed with celery, mayonnaise and some chopped meat, or sliced and sautééd in butter to make a great tasty sauce/garnish for pork chops or other meats either with extra cream added or just as is.

I have even used strips of pepper as 'soldiers' to dip into soft boiled eggs when I can't be bothered to make flax bread for the purpose

And if taking food to a party I usually deseed them and stuff with cream cheese and slice into small bite-sized rings on a veg/cheese/meat platter.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Vegetables

>>I do not like vegetables.>>

It's impossible to do Atkins without eating them.

[2big4mysize]

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you can roast them and make sauces for your foods. you can purree them and eat as soup. you can get a great recipe ofr making a cualiflower pizza on The Lighter Side of Low-Carb HSe had all kinds of ways to hide veggies and with 5 kids she knows what will hide them and what won't