I'm a sweets junkie at heart, and would like a little variety in my egg, cheese & meat diet. Does anyone have a good low carb custard or pudding recipe?

Thanks!

Kallyn posted an excellent chocolate pudding made with avocados in the recipe thread. You can replace the dates or honey with sweetzfree with excellent results. I ate a LOT of that before avocados went out of season.

I've also found that adding a smidge of orange extract, salt, and 2 drops of sweetzfree to a jar of macadamia nut butter makes an excellent treat, by itself or warm drizzled over strawberries instead of cream.

I recently discovered that Almond Breeze unsweetened chocolate almond milk is very nice with 2 drops of sweetzfree per carton. Not really like chocolate milk. More like the milk at the bottom of a bowl of cocopuffs. But very nice all the same. Not perfectly paleo but very near and it really satisfies that craving for something with a creamy mouth feel.

I make lemon curd quite often (eggs, lemon, sweetener). There's a recipe in the Sweet Treats forum. Last night I was thinking of modifying it so the lemon was milder and putting vanilla with it, but I don't think I have any vanilla extract!

I've also made custard with egg and coconut milk. Recipe in our recipe thread here.

Avocados aren't out of season! I think I can buy them year round.

I make this all the time.


PANNA COTTA
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
2 cups heavy cream
1/3 cup granulated Splenda or equivalent liquid Splenda
1/2 teaspoon almond extract or 1 teaspoon vanilla

Spray six 6-ounce custard dishes with non-stick spray. In a small bowl, sprinkle gelatin over 3 tablespoons cold water; let stand 5 minutes to soften. Bring cream, 1/2 cup water, Splenda and extract to a boil on medium heat. Remove from heat; add gelatin mixture; stir until gelatin is completely melted. Pour into custard cups Cover surface with plastic wrap, to prevent skin from forming. Chill at least 3 hours.

Makes 6 servings

(Courtesy of Linda's Low Carb Site)

I used Sweetzfree instead of Splenda and the carb count is 2 with Sweetzfree, 4 with granular Splenda.

ETA: OOPS, not sure if you can eat these ingredients as I am not familiar with your diet.

Nancy darling, YOU live in California, home of fresh everything year round. I live in Colorado home of things trucked in periodically FROM California.

Last time I checked the avocados, when I could find them, are $2 EACH and quite small. That's crazy talk!

if it makes you feel better i live in oregon and avocados here are $3 each i eat one/day so that adds up

Do they even grow avo's in CO any time of the year? Ok, I pay about $3 for a bag of 4 largish avos.

No, avocados won't grow here. I believe they're a tropical plant. We get plenty of local berries, peaches, melon, summer squash, tomatos. All those things are in season NOW, this very late in the summer. Next month it will be apples and pears and cruciferous veggies, and then it will be back to imports from CA and Mexico until next summer.

$3 each? Wow. I don't know that I could make myself pay that. Maybe for a holiday treat. In any case, the few that are in our stores right now are tiny and pathetic looking.

So they're imported all year round... so still wondering how you can say whether they're in season or not, they're never in season for you. You can get avocado trees that produce at varying times of the year plus we get a lot from mexico.

In season for 'us' means there are lots in the store and they're cheap.

I should have said "before avocados went out of season *here*."

I guess I just find it strange since they're never actually in season for you and they're never really out-of-season for us.

Oh! Frozen avocado halves are pretty decent, btw.

Finding avocados is no problem here for most of the year. Finding good ones, however, is a different story. Half of them end up thrown away because they are more black than green on the inside.

We also get the FL version of the avocado. A largish, paler-green pear-looking monster thing. These aren't as buttery, they have more water, and are often billed as a "low-fat" alternative to the Haas Avocado. If you get a good one, a spoonful of mayo will usually make it palatable.

Avocados are usually no more than .88 here, and they're often on sale in a bag of 5 for 1.99. Strange, considering Ontario is a little further from Mexico than you guys.

I've combined a 16 ounce jar of unsweetened raw almond butter, a bag of unsweetened coconut flour, a cup of unsweetened applesauce and a half cup of unsweetened raisins.

Very sweet.

I'll go to Trader Joe's and check the prices. I think it was 2.99 for 4 avo's. A lot of Avo trees produce in Winter actually. Mine does, but it is a baby still. I only get 1 avo every other year from it so far.