Exodus Strength

A few of the things I've done to make low-carb dieting more tolerable:

1) Mix chocolate protein powder with peanut butter.
Real peanut butter, like Smuckers or Adams. Instead of following an exact ratio, I just fill a bowl with however much peanut butter I feel like eating, then mix in as much protein powder as it can hold. I find more than half a jar makes me sick.

2) Heating up a Quest bar.
At room temperature, quest bars are disgusting. But 10-15 seconds in the microwave really improves them; it's almost like a fresh cookie.

3) Homemade ice cream
Put one cup of cream, 1-2 tbsp of Swerve, and a drop of vanilla extract into a mason jar. Then shake it violently for 10 minutes and then put it in the freezer for 4-5 hours. It has a distinctly creamy taste unlike store-bought ice cream, but it is still good. Don't leave it in the freezer too long or it'll harden.

I’ll eat cottage cheese and pretend it’s ice cream

platypus wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:05 am Adams

I miss that stuff.
The big jars were nice too.

Our grocery store brand is suitable.
Otherwise it's Teddy's, which is good, but too expensive.

High % cacao chocolate is doable on LCHF
If you like that sort of thing.
Even 72% is ok.
I feel like that can still be sweet enough for people.
A few squares doesn't add much carb.

I haven't done this yet, but our store has organic coconut milk for $2 a can, and when you open it about half the can is basically coconut creme, which is much more expensive on its own.

It's a perfect pudding texture and consistency, and i imagine adding some good cacao powder and erythritol or stevia could make a really awesome dessert.

I really have no sweets anymore, and even the heavy cream i put in my coffee tastes really sweet to me now.
Not once it's in the coffee of course.

I will sometimes have a couple dried prunes (9 grams carbs) and a little peanut butter, like just a teaspoon, and chew up that up together.
Nice treat for me anyway.

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Also, Enlightened has a really good keto ice cream.
https://eatenlightened.com/collections/keto

Our store only carries the chocolate peanut butter, but it's good.
Wife likes it, and i'll have little bites when we get it.

She's not keto, but i did get her off sugar, and on a low(er) carb diet.

mgil wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:28 pm I’ll eat cottage cheese and pretend it’s ice cream

I haven't done this in a while, so it might actually be not as good as I recall... but cottage cheese with a spoonful or two of peanut butter put through a blender was fuckin bananas... side note... it was really good with chopped up bananas...

I literally just stir in pistachios and eat a 1lbs tub as a meal.