I've never heard of peanut butter sold with the bacon already mixed in, but I don't doubt it existed. Maybe that was during the era of the bacon bits craze (there's something for a cultural historian to pursue).

Pecans and mozzarella sounds just weird enough to be delicious!

Today for lunch we had pork rind nachos. Melted cheese over pork rinds and topped with a few jalapenos and some green enchilada sauce my husband made. It was actually really good... but weird.

hmmm - don't know if this is too weird, but here goes:
cream cheese, chunky natural peanut butter - mix and spread over strawberries

I also find I don't eat traditional meals - like cheeseburger quishe for b-fast or faux french toast for dinner.

Tonight I did an experiment with the japanese yam noodles...instead of cooking them oriental-style, I sautee'd beefsteak strips, zukes, spinach, with garlic and onion, added the noodles, and dressed it with pesto sauce...to my surprise it was good and the yam noodles (1 g carbs a serve) didn't do too bad as pretend pasta...they are not full of flavor and so coated with the pesto they did the trick.

Val

Yam noodles -- I'd forgotten about those! They taste very much like rice noodles and my Chinese mother serves them cold, by the bundle, doused with some soya sauce, sesame oil, and sprinkled with chopped green onion. They're also good hot with broth. Thanks for the reminder!

How do you make yam noodles?

You buy them in packages found in the refridgerated goods area of Asian supermarkets.

Here's a picture and some information:
http://www.kikkoman.com/contents/co.../list/gs60.html

The place where I've gotten them sells them in packages that look like rice crackers or cookies - each bundle of noodles is in its own little compartment.

I bet there's such thing as yam noodle ramen!

What is Yumm! sauce?

Oh, okay. Looks good!

There's a restaurant here in Eugene called Cafe Yumm! Unfortunately, Yumm! as a dish is beans and rice, but the sauce that they put on it is okay for LCing. The following is from the Yumm! web site at:

http://www.cafeyumm.com/Index.html

Original Yumm!™ Sauce is a delicious, creamy blend of garlic, lemon, basil, almonds, and more. Our sauce is also egg free, dairy free, wheat free, and gluten free. It is suitable for vegans, vegetarians and others on certain restricted diets.

I really can't think of an adequate description for the sauce, except that it is primarily nutty with the spices providing a nice overtone. I love mixing it into ground turkey or dipping pork in it. There are six different Yumm! sauces, but I've only tried the original sauce. It's 1 gram carb per Tbsp.

They may be able to ship outside of the area. The website has a link for ordering information if you're interested. In town, it's about $4 a jar, and that lasts me about one to two months.

Japanese yam (different apparently in starch to ours) noodles are also sold dried- they look like rice vermicelli noodles and are a bit chewier when cooked up due to being almost all fibre. Dr Atkins talked about them somewhere.....perhaps in his book? (Can't recall).

They are fantastic done in traditional oriental stir-fry. My package says they are 1 g carbs/serving.

There have been a few forum discussions about this product e.g.http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...ese+yam+noodles

...it sure is tasty!

Tuna mixed with Salsa and Cottage cheese! As long as you don't look at it too much, it's a nice treat...well, I think so anyway!

Through fixing my lunch while half asleep and some strange meal planning I ended up about 600 calories short of covering my basal metabolism after dinner was all said and done. And I needed to increase my fat grams. (Ain't it wonderful to be able to say that?? ) I still fell about 50 calories short but I came up with the strangest dessert I've ever eaten: creamed butter with cream.

Using the mixer on high cream half a stick (4 tablespoons) of butter. Add to this 3 tablespoons of heavy cream and one packet of Splenda and two drops of vanilla extract. Mix well. 560 cal and 2 carbs

Eat and marvel at the peculiar substance in your mouth.

I don't think I'll do that again.

I don't think I'll do that again. -LOL!

I haven't tried anything strange in awhile. Sticking to the old standby's.

I try to stick to the tried and true also, but ya know, some times you gotta do what you gotta do.

Besides, that answered a lot of questions I had on the idea of a fat fast.

Blech!

P.S. Pretty baby!