Thursday, May 1, 2014

excuses, excuses...

I just can't justify myself...!  ;-)  I'm adding another blog to my collection, and i feel a bit guilty that it's loaded with low-carb "junk food" recipes.

You see, i believe that snacking and indulging in a lot of substitute-foods in a low-carb diet is just asking for trouble.  When LCers eat their versions of breads, pancakes, cereals, muffins, cakes and so on, more than just as an occasional treat, they add many more grams of carb than they often think.  Trust me -- i've paid attention to how easy it is, when i've tried out new LC cookie recipes!  (Those Expert Foods butter cookies are EEEEEVIL!)

But to get alerts when potentially-helpful recipes come up, i'm adding All Day I Dream About Food to my blog list.  I'm sorry.  ;-)  I'll figure out some kind of penance later....

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  1. Haha, I know there's no such thing as "paleo" cupcakes and so on, but denying yourself the pleasure of eating is a one-way ticket of falling off the LC wagon. :)

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  2. In fact, I just made a blog post about non-Paleo treats, a short excerpt:

    " I have a hard and fast rule of not browsing food porn at night, especially after dinner. Though my inner gluttonous soul yearns to be fed with images of succulent pork wrapped around deep fried (dark) chocolate bars doused in organic coconut palm sugar crystals (coconut sugar is paleo, no?), I know the food reward circuits in my brain cannot be trusted with the obesity-inducing reward-rich visual representations of food. If I do happen to catch a glimpse of a bare chicken breast, I take a cold shower immediately afterwards to scrub off the impure, calorie-laden thoughts. I then self flagellate for a full hour before bed, in feeble hopes that it will be enough penance for my fat soul to get into heaven."

    Personally I feel like some people look down on "Paleo-fied" treats because pleasure from food => too much reward in brain => fat gain. Well, we all know how well the hedonistic theory has fared...

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    1. i'm glad you see you're blogging again! :-)

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  3. LC goodies are a good thing for people making a transition, since the thought of never having (fill in the blank) again is too much of a commitment. But I've been off cookies, cakes, wraps, etc. so long that hardly anything on that site looks like food to me. And the stuff looks like a lot of trouble to make. I do have a few things I make, like LC ice cream, coconut flax seed bread, and I eat dark chocolate and once in a great while, a gluten-free goodie. But I'd no sooner make a frosted cake than I'd go into one of Denver's many pot shops and buy a bong.

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    1. yeah, definitely in transition and on special occasions, ya GOTTA make special treats! i'm the last person to claim i never stray from the straight and narrow.... i just suspect that some people sabotage themselves because they've heard you can stuff yourself so long as the food is LC -- not us long-timers, but SOME....

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    2. Lori, do you make your own ice-cream? I m thinking about it. My guys love to have it in a fridge, and I am sure home version would be a hit.

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    3. All the time. (I suppose that makes me a hypocrite.)
      http://relievemypain.blogspot.com/2012/12/xxx-chocolate-ice-cream-low-carb-non.html
      http://relievemypain.blogspot.com/2012/07/non-dairy-low-carb-lemon-ice-cream.html

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    4. It is very possible I will join you in your hypocrisy as soon as I buy an ice-cream maker. In our town they stopped selling my guy's favorite flavor of Haagen-Dazs - with pistachio nuts. How big is your ice-cream maker?

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    5. Lori's chocolate ice-cream recipe is DELICIOUS! and ice-cream is definitely Real Food -- eggs, cream, flavoring....

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    6. My ice cream maker is 1.5 quart.

      I use coconut milk to make ice cream since cream doesn't agree with me. I also use Splenda; I don't know how it would turn out with a different sweetener.

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    7. Sounds like a right size, I wrongly assumed ice-cream makers were all huge. Thank you, Tess, for you review. I use Splenda too as a sugar substitute.

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    8. Not huge, and you don't have to hand-crank it, either.

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  4. Recipe's are good to share .....and why not.

    It is then up to each individual do they use the recipe, amend it slightly ....

    All the best Jan

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    1. ...and you never know when you'll find the perfect recipe for someone who loves carrot-cake, for instance, but who mustn't eat the full-carb version anymore....

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    1. lol -- i didn't look at her recipe, as i have one i'm very fond of already.

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  6. I use LC versions of cookies and other goodies for special occasions and when my husband complains that other people eat baked things during Christmas season but he is not. I believe in people's right to choose their diet, LC recreations of regular food is our compromise.

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    1. truth be told, i was first drawn to her site because of a meat-pie recipe she posted -- i LOVE meat pies! ;-)

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  7. I'm getting to that point, three years in, where I just think "WHY" when I see these recipes. For example, WHY paleo bread???? I've lost my desire for bread along the way.

    But, such stuff (mostly chocolate creations) were good transition foods for me at first, and I know other people must need them. Plus, how boring would it be to blog about meat and veggies day in and day out (although Michele Tam over at Nom Nom does it pretty well--she keeps the treats to a minimum).

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    1. May be a LC bread would be an acceptable compromise as an ingredient for a staffing during family gatherings?
      I made an almond sponge cake couple times, what I liked about it, it stayed fresh for a surprisingly long time, unlike a wheat-based biscuit.

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    2. I like paleo bread as something to put eggs or butter or sandwich meat on.

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    3. I mostly use Wooo's flax bread recipe -- it's VERY low-carb when you subtract out the fiber, and the texture is more truly bread-like than most of the recipes I've tried. I bought myself a "whoopee-pie" pan, too, and half the recipe makes excellent buns in it! i'm still awfully fond of certain hot sandwiches....

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  8. I agree with your main point: the whole ill-advised phenomenon of faux-foods in LC circles. Here's my question, though: Why don't more prominent low-carbers such as yourself take Jimmy Moore, arguably your de-facto leader, to task for his endless promotion of such frankenfoods? Even though HIS diet may have changed, he's still shilling for those companies on his site. Even Wooo is reluctant to criticize Jimmy too harshly, and it makes absolutely no sense. All the REAL LCers out there should rise up and force this man to have to get a real job and earn a living like everyone else. Before departing the Paleo/LC world, this was Dr. Kurt Harris' last admonition. But will they - rise up OR heed the great doctor? Highly doubtful.

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    1. You are knocking the wrong door, Chris. BTW, Wooo blogged some time ago about her wish JM would find a real job. The LC is not monolithic, from how I see it , Jimmy is not a member, let alone the leader of the group of a LC zealots, of which Tess is the one of prominent members, and Wooo is the leader, Peter/Hyperlipid is the main authority. From that group perspective JM is mainly a N=1 self-reporting experiment and discussed as such. I guess, if one made a strange decision to make a living from promoting LCarbing, it is not surprising he is receiving money from promoting products. I am still puzzled at adult's people's surprise that our world is not a flawless place. Almost nothing is bad or great 100%. Lets take Atkins company as the example. They sell some garbage snacking bars and other junk, but also frozen meals which some people find almost life-saving in certain situations, like Lori did who had to find something super convenient for her old parents(mother is a diabetic) who lived alone.I sent several people to the net-work of LC physicians on Jimmy's blog, especially mothers of girls with PSOS because one of doctors on that list practices in my city.

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