Low carb foods to go alongside Chicken breasts

[Taita]

I eat a lot of chicken breasts in the evening, for the protein, however I would like to try and reduce the amount of carbs I take in with it.

I tend to eat brown pasta / brown rice with 3 - 4 types of vegetables. What else could I use. Ideally nice and cheap

[grumbledoak]

You can do some good stuff with pulses, e.g. butter bean salads, or even butter bean mash!

Or, <spits> an actual salad.

[Papoo]

Sweet potatoes, great as a slow-release carb. I make fresh tortillas, and creat all manner of wraps on an evening..

[Taita]

grumbledoak said:

You can do some good stuff with pulses, e.g. butter bean salads, or even butter bean mash!

Or, <spits> an actual salad.

Hmm, maybe I'm not preparing the salads properly, but they always taste gash.

I wash them in water then swing it round in a colander. Still manky.

[grumbledoak]

Taita said:

Hmm, maybe I'm not preparing the salads properly, but they always taste gash.

Most Brits cannot make a decent salad; undressed leaves and tomatoes straight from the fridge. It is possible to make good ones, the Italians and French do it very well. But they use dressings well and pack in more varied, and fresh, ingredients.

You can do some fun stuff with (cooked) pulses (warm in a pan with a little oil and garlic), red onion, sweetcorn, and lime/lemon juice for a bit of zing. Or just cook your beans and mash them as a substitute for the real thing.

hth

[Stu R]

Small portions of salad, plenty of cheeses and stuff to go with it that you can have too that are low carb. I tend to stick with mozarella and feta.

My favourite is chicken breasts stuffed with garlic and mozarella, wrapped in either parma ham or some smoked streaky bacon, and a few sundried tomatoes with basil to go with it.

Eggs are ace too, any amount of possibilities there.

[Henry Hawthorne]

Have salad if you want to do a proper low carb diet.

[Mobile Chicane]

Roasted root/winter vegetables, etc:

Sweet potatoes, butternut squash, beetroot, parsnips, onions, etc are all delicious peeled, chunked, marinated in herbs, garlic and a splash of olive oil, then roasted in a medium oven for 30 minutes or so.

I make huge batches of this and combine it with salad greens, feta cheese, tomatoes and pumpkin seeds as a meal in itself, or with cucumber raita/tsatziki as a sandwich filler.

Also works well with ham/sausages, salmon or chicken.

[zakelwe]

Taita said:

I eat a lot of chicken breasts in the evening, for the protein, however I would like to try and reduce the amount of carbs I take in with it.

I tend to eat brown pasta / brown rice with 3 - 4 types of vegetables. What else could I use. Ideally nice and cheap

The answer is simply, just eat the chicken breasts.

Regards

Andy

[Kneetrembler]

grumbledoak said:

Taita said:

Hmm, maybe I'm not preparing the salads properly, but they always taste gash.

Most Brits cannot make a decent salad; undressed leaves and tomatoes straight from the fridge. It is possible to make good ones, the Italians and French do it very well. But they use dressings well and pack in more varied, and fresh, ingredients.

You can do some fun stuff with (cooked) pulses (warm in a pan with a little oil and garlic), red onion, sweetcorn, and lime/lemon juice for a bit of zing. Or just cook your beans and mash them as a substitute for the real thing.

hth

+1

With cooked pulses and beans add some chilli then mash