Valentines Day

So, here is my first installment of "what I ate today" LOL

This morning I got up around 9:30 but I wasn't really hungry. Darrell got up before I did & had already eaten his bacon & eggs so I didn't have to cook. I kept thinking I'd fix something in a few minutes. But a few minutes later ended up being about 12:30.

Still wasn't extreamly hungry but I knew I should eat. Whitney went to her boyfriend's so I was just cooking for Darrell & me. I just made 2 hamburger patties on the George Forman grill. That was 2 each. I put a slice of swiss cheese on them. The burgers were 0 carbs each and the cheese was 1 carb each. (sometimes I will saute some onions peppers & mushrooms but today I didn't)I ended up just eating 1 burger.

For a side dish, I made a mock baked potato. I got the recipe from a youtube user who goes by wanna be loser. She did it for 1 serving I'll tell you how I did it for Darrell & me.

• 12 oz bag of frozen cauliflower
• about 2 tablespoons butter
• about 1/2 cup shredded chedder cheese
• an equivelant to about 4 slices of bacon. I used the "real" bacon bits from walmart.

I didn't really measure this exactly. After I microwaved the cauliflower I mashed it up a little bit with a fork then I added the butter, cheese, and bacon bits and mixed it up. Microwaved another minute or two. You can put a little bit of sour cream if you want & it tases a lot like a loaded baked potato. If I counted it right, the carb count is 7.4g of carbs with 4.9g of fiber which makes 2.5g net carbs

Last week, I found on the internet that almond flour is something good to use for many things. You can either buy some or they say you can just make your own. It's just ground almonds as fine as you can get them. I found a pretty good sized bag at Kroger on sale for 2.99. They still had the skins on them but I read that that is ok too. So I used my blender and pulsed them till they were like corn meal. I got a recipe for muffins from lowcarbdiets.about.com.

• 2 cups almond meal
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• about 1/3 cup splenda, I think I used 8 or 10 packets do to your taste
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1/3 cup water
• 4 eggs
• vanilla
  

Mix the dry intredients & the wet seperately then mix them together. The recipe says to put into 12 greased muffin tins and they should be 1.5 net carbs each.

I found some foil baking cups that you don't have to put into muffin tins, so I made smaller muffins and got 18 of them. After I put the batter in 6 cups, I halved the rest of the batter. In one half I put 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder. (it probably needed more though) In the other half I put some orange extract (I always loved orange danish rolls) I made 6 of each of these. Baked in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes. My carb count if I did it right is 1.2 net carbs for each muffin. You can also add some cream cheese frosting if you'd like by just mixing some softened cream cheese some splenda to taste and a little vanilla. Pic posted below.

Tonight, I didn't feel like cooking so I just microwaved 2 oscar meyer hotdogs. The package said each hotdog was less than 1 carb each.

So my total net carbs for the day was somewhere around 10.5. (I had 3 of the muffins) I drank 1 cup of coffee (caffeine is not supposed to be too good) and a couple glasses of generic crystal light. Strawberry orange banana. Gotta work on drinking more water.

Now this was not a typical day for me. I usually eat more and get much closer to my 20grams of carbs but for some reason I was really satisfied today.

Will post more tomorrow.