Didn't get a chance to post yesterday did some playing around in the kitchen since the kids had only a half day.
I found a really good desert or snack, cause I have to have something to eat before bed cause if I don't I am hungry all night long LOL.

Low Carb Cheesecake Desert by Food.com

SERVINGS 6 UNITS US
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup cold water
1 (1 ounce) package sugar-free instant pudding mix (any flavor, I like white chocolate and cheesecake the best)

Beat all ingredients together. Enjoy on its own or top with fruit or sugar free jelly for a treat.

only 7.77 net carbs per serving. Taste really great too 

For dinner I made some Ranch Chicken Burgers, they were awesome 

Got the recipe from The Girl Whole Ate Everything, I changed it a bit to make it more carb friendly.

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground chicken
• 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs (Japanese bread crumbs found by the regular bread crumbs)
• 1/4 cup Italian bread crumbs
• 1 Tablespoon dried onion (or use finely chopped fresh onion)
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon dry Ranch dressing mix (unprepared)
• 4 slices cheddar cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 4 hamburger buns
• Optional Toppings: lettuce, prepared Ranch dressing

I only used 1/4 cup Panko Bread Crumbs, no buns and no seasoning salt only cause I have a problem with too much sodium. 

Instructions

1. Preheat your grill to medium high or the broiler on your oven.
2. In a large bowl mix together the chicken, Panko crumbs, bread crumbs, onion, seasoned salt, garlic powder and dry ranch dressing.
3. Form chicken mixture into 4 patties. Place on oiled grill or greased broiler pan.
4. Grill/broil for 4-6 minutes on each side or until internal temp reaches 160 degrees. for the last minute of cooking place a slice of cheese on each burger to melt. Remove from grill/oven/
5. Spread butter on the inside of the buns. Place on broiler pan and broil for a few minutes until golden brown or on the grill for a couple of minutes. Put chicken burger on bun and top with additional prepared ranch dressing or desired condiment.

4.86 net carbs per burger. 

Zucchini Chips

INGREDIENTS

2 medium zucchini
Ingredients

2 Tablespoons olive oil
1/4 Teaspoon salt
1/4 Teaspoon black pepper
2 Tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
DIRECTIONS

Cut zucchini into 1/4-inch slices (on a diagonal if they're small). Brush both sides with extra-virgin olive oil and season with salt, pepper and Parmesan (add whatever else strikes your fancy - garlic powder, Italian seasoning, rosemary or dill). The nutritionals include 2 tablespoons of Parmesan.
Instructions

Set on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake in a preheated 400°F oven for 10 minutes, turning once. Cool on a wire rack.

4 Servings, 2,3 net carbs per serving 

and of course I had to make some prerogies for my daughter and husband.

High Fat/Low Carb Lifestyle Beginning

I know it's been a month since I posted last. I have been concentrating on my new life style change and have gotten things started. So I am going to try hard and post ever day with my trials and tribulations of this new life style.

I do miss some things, and others I really don't. My biggest problem is the amount of eggs and cheese this style has.

The basics behind Low Carb High Fat life style is you eat very little NET carbs. Which are the bad ones like flour, bread, white rice, potatoes and pasta.
I do miss my bagels and English muffins terrible. My digestive system particular doesn't like too high fat so that I am not eating so much of. But I am eat lots of veggies and meat. I am have never been an egg person and where a lot of the things you make for breakfast have that eggie taste so I don't do too well with them.

I bought a book from Amazon for my kindle called What the Fork are you Eating by  Stefanie Sacks, MS, CNS, CDN.  It's a very interesting book and I learned a lot plus all the things I read on the web. In there she has a pancake recipe that her husband grew up on. They are really good, they remind me more a  crepe and that what his grandmother would make. It is a cross between a pancake and a crepe. I love them.  There is flour in it, I am waiting for my new bag of Almond flour to come to try it with just almond flour. The original Almond flour I bought I didn't care for. It's by Bob's Red Mill Almond Flour/Meal. I didn't like the texture at all. The new bag I am getting is from Honeyville which is suppose to be very fine. Hoping so.
I did however make the pancake/crepe using Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix by Jennifer Eloff Splendid Low Carbing.  I did substitute the coconut flour for more Almond Flour, my digestion doesn't like Coconut Flour what so ever, it gives me horrible problems so I am not using it anymore. If your interested in this style of eating check out Jennifer's blog cause she has some recipes.

Beginning of a new life style change

Yes I have decided it's time to change the way I am living. I am not very happy and tired of all the pain I am in. Nobody understands how much pain I am in every day and I just can't deal with it any more. Back in Nov I talked with my doctor about the bariatric surgery, we decided I would call in Feb to start the work on getting the surgery done. He also suggested to me since cutting my calories wasn't doing anything to lose weight. I can't exercise cause the pain in my knees and feet is just to great and my knees give out too much. He suggest a low carb high fat diet. So that is what I am trying.  I have been doing it a few days a week for the last month to get my body use it, plus didn't have the money to buy all the replacements you need for flour.  No more flour, white rice, pasta, potatoes, bread or processed foods. I had stopped a while back to getting processed food for the most part.

As of this week, I am going all low carb. I am doing pretty good on the life style change. Thou can't say too much for my husband, but I do give him credit he did try some of the things I have made, didn't care for them but he tried them. LOL

So all the recipes I am going to post will be ones that i have found on Pinterest for my low carb/high fat life style change. I won't lie the first few times I tried breakfast and lunch low carb was not easy cause I was starving a couple hours later, but now it seems as long as I eat enough protein I am good till the next meal. I am proud of myself.

Today I tried this Minute French Toast. Recipe by Up Late Anyway.

Ingredients

1. 3 tbsp plus 1 heaping tsp almond flour
2. 2 tsp coconut flour
3. 1/4 tsp baking powder
4. 1/2 tsp cinnamon (add half to batter and use the other half on top)
5. 3 tbsp sugar free maple syrup
6. 1 tsp vanilla extract
7. 1 tbsp butter
8. 1 egg

Instructions
Crack egg into coffee mug, mix in all ingredients EXCEPT for the butter.
When the batter is smooth and completely mixed, then add your tablespoon of butter right into the center. No need to mix it in or melt it first.
Microwave for 1 to 2 minutes, depending on your microwave strength. When it's done it should still be soft and spongy.
Carefully slice it in half and stick the two halves in the toaster (I pan fry this after microwaving. Our toaster tends to trap this in the slots and makes it difficult to get out after toasting.)
Top with more butter, cinnamon, sweetener or sugar free pancake syrup.
Notes
326 Calories; 27g Fat; 13g Protein; 12g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 5 net carbs
By Leanna

Check out her blog, this is the first recipe of her's I have tried and it was so good. Really good even my daughter liked it. YEAH For me . 

Shake and Bake - This week's dinners

I know I have posted all week, been sick with a cold thanks to my husband. So I haven't felt like doing much but sleep. I did have to work on a Save the Date card for an order. Other than that, grocery lists and rested as much as I could.
Dinner have been kind of uninspiring to say the least.
Monday I made Shake N' Bake pork chops - which is my favorite and I bet your saying HUH she used a processed food and I am going to say NO I didn't LOL. I made my own and it's so much better than what you buy in the store. I love this recipe.

Shake and Bake - now I have no idea where I found this recipe
3 cups bread crumbs
1 cup panko bread crumbs
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp paprika
1 tbsp celery salt
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 minced garlic
1/4 minced onion
pinch of basil
pinch of parsley
pinch of oregano

I only add half the salt with adding celery salt.

Tuesday night's dinner was simple, some lightly bread chicken and fettuccine alfredo and yes here I used canned alfredo sauce cause that is what my daughter likes.

Wednesday - we have one of my all time favorites Sausage, biscuits and gravy.
one of our local supermarkets here Strupples, makes the best breakfast sausage or some call country sausage. It's out of this world.

Thursday - night I made a chuck roast using this recipe
Crockpot Steak and Gravy by DeDe Smith

awesome recipe check it out 

Tonight's dinner is even going to be easier, Price Chopper here you can buy 8 cans of Cream of soups and get a free Roisterer chicken, nothing easier than that and cheep too. Along with salad and bread, nice and easy. 

Hot Pockets

For dinner tonight I saw on Rachael Ray this week or maybe last week, they made hot pockets and they looked so good so that is what we are having tonight for dinner.
Chicken, Broccoli and Cheese
Ham and Cheese
and pizza hot pockets. Plus making a pizza for my daughter. I can't wait will try to remember to take a photo for you all.

Update
I made my hot pockets and they came out really great. My family said they were the best
here are some picks but they didn't come out really great

chicken, broccoli with some alfredo sauce and creamy Havarti cheese 

                                                                     ham and montery jack cheese

                                                pepperoni and mozzarella cheese

Our Anniversary

Yes, my anniversary is on Halloween and on purpose too. LOL
For one reason I love Halloween so much. Secondly my husband can always remember our anniversary.
Since it was our anniversary, I didn't cook. We had Mr. Mikes which is the local seafood place here. Haddock, scallops, fries, onion rings and some macaroni salad and let me just tell you how good dinner was. OMG It was sooooooooooo good. I love Mr. Mikes.
Happy Halloween everyone,.

Split Pea Soup

I had a left over ham bone from Sunday's dinner of baked ham and Monday's dinner of Scalloped Potatoes and ham that I decided to try my hand at homemade split pea soup. I love peas but nobody else in my family likes them. So by bff Cindy and I get together every week and make things our families won't eat that have lots of veggies and things they won't eat.
Well, my soup came out so good, I was so proud of myself.

I took two different recipes and made my own soup.
Boiled my ham one in 6 cups of water for an hour and then just let it sit till I was ready to make my soup.
took the meat off the bone, and removed at much fat from the broth that I could.
cut the meat into bit size pieces, along with the leftover ham.

This is one of the recipes I modified, the other was on the back of the pea bag.

1 lb bag of slit peas, rinsed and sorted
1 can of chicken broth
5 cups water of which I used the broth I made with the ham bone and what ever I was lacking I used water
2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed I didn't add these
2 large onions, chopped
2 medium carrots, bite size
2 cups cubed cooked ham
1/2 cup chopped celery
1 teaspoon dried marjoram
1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/2 to 1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoon dried thyme

Throw everything in the pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, stirring occasionally.