Here's mine...

I posted this in my journal, but thought it would be fun to share and hear about other people's 'carb creep' experiences.

Sara's Carb Creep Lessons:
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1. Goop on thick blue cheese or ranch dressings onto salads and meats
2. Add something like alfredo sauce to a breakfast scramble
3. Eat sausage patties with breakfast
4. Eat sliced deli meats - they ALL have some carbs
5. Cheese on every meal - cheese on eggs in the morning, cheese at lunch and melted cheese on dinner - also slices of cheese during the day as a 'snack'.
6. Add nuts and avocado to salads, also add lots of onions and tons of tomatoes, then goop on the thick dressing - so as not to be able to even see the salad underneath all the add-ons.
7.Use sour cream, guacamole, shredded cheese and salsa on mexican style foods, again so as not to even see the spiced meat underneath all the goop.
8. When bored or lonely - eat a bunch of nuts...like the whole can.
9. Use tons of mayo in tuna and egg salads, goop mayo onto meats. Be sure it's the store bought kind so as to ensure a dubious carb count.
10. Invent new uses for cream cheese and whipping cream - creating meals such as baked pork chops with Boursin cheese, mushrooms and tons of whipping cream. Make Donald's Awesome Chicken Broccoli Casserole with twice the cheese called for in his recipe...call it "low carb".
11. Try out some of the "low carb" dessert recipes, especially for special occasions, but then like the recipe so much, make it again and again in the following weeks (this happened with 4Bean's pumpkin bars recipe).
12. Decide you really like 4Bean's maple cream cheese icing on the said pumpkin bars, and make bowls of it several evenings in a row...eat it out of the fridge...pretending to eat only a tablespoon's worth, going into denial about the fact that the bowl's pretty much empty the next morning...leave bowl in the fridge so as not to admit to having eaten it all.
13. Make fancy spiced/sweetened nuts in the crockpot for Thanksgiving, but make so much that they're in the house for weeks afterwards - snack on these all day long
14. Eat 1/2 cup or more of sauteed mushrooms with almost every meal, and consider it merely a garnish.
15. Consider sliced avocado as 'just a garnish' too.
16. Eat Carb Control (ha ha ha) fudgesicles three or four times weekly
17. Drink wine with dinner three or four times weekly
18. Discover a specialty nut shop in the Boston airport - sold by the pound or half pound - buy a whole pound of several varieties in case you get hungry on the flight home.
19. Become friendly with fancy salami - genoa salami, hard salami or what have you - it looks really low carb...but if you want carb creep, be sure to eat the whole package at once.
20. Make Karen's fabulous spinach, bacon, tomato salad - but use twice as much bacon, and ignore the fact that the unsalted peanuts are 'optional' - use twice as many roasted peanuts as called for
21. Discover that those big bags of cubed cheese - are the perfect size and shape for making 'cheese chips' in the microwave - dip these into sour cream to counteract the saltiness of the chips - eat at least 12 of these while sitting in front of the computer
22. Make 'sandwiches' out of cheese slices - put mayo and a dill pickle slice in between the two slices. Eat a plateful of these in the afternoon between lunch and dinner
23. Decide that no food is 'good enough' without gooping on all manner of accompaniments - sour cream, guacamole, blue cheese dressing, shredded cheese, nuts, onions, alfredo sauce, whipping cream...whatever. Get to the point where you forget what the food underneath actually tastes like.
24. Buy 3-5 litres of heavy cream a week, and use it to cook with regularly
25. Use up that cream, but let the baby spinach go bad in the fridge.
26. Pay no attention to spice blends...it's just a spice right? Coat meats in spice blends that have trans fats in them and a carb count of 1 gram per 1/4 teaspoon serving.

Wonder why you're in this really long "stall"....

And finally - complain loudly and often about how "Low Carb doesn't work".