lunches & dinners – slow carb ideas

I’ve decided to structure the class so we focus on different meal occasions each week. It’s up to you whether you start small (recommended) with just changing your breakfast this week or jump right in.

why breakfast?

Breakfast is the best place to start because it tends to be our most carb-heavy meal. There’s also a bonus in switching to a high protein breakfast, it raises your metabolism for the rest of the day helping you to burn your fat stores.

what about lunches & dinners?

We’ll focus on lunches next week. I either try and make extra at dinner so there are leftovers for lunch OR I make a quick salad or soup.

Dinners tend to be easier because you will already have some Slow Carb options in your repertoire like steak (or fish) & salad. We’ll cover this in more depth, but I find making a big batch of breakfast lentils can be great way to convert your current meals into Slow Carb. Just serve the lentils in place of rice or other grains. Mashed white beans make a brilliant Slow Carb alternative to mashed potato. And shaved carrot or zucchini are the best way I know to overcome any pasta cravings.

For those of you keen to apply the Slow Carb way of eating now, here are a list of recipes on Stonesoup and from previous classes in the Virtual Cookery School to give you some ideas.

Note: in the earlier Virtual Cookery School classes, the password to the video is written at the bottom of the recipe page.

recipes

soup
– hearty red lentil soup
– super simple carrot soup
– minimalist minestrone soup
– chickpea & spinach soup
– ‘healthy’ green goddess soup

salad
– warm chickpea salad with almonds rosemary & garlic
– green bean, dill & mustard salad
– shaved cabbage & white bean salad
– the classic mixed green salad
– washing up-free salad

veg
– super simple broccoli

beans & lentils
– hearty red lentil stew
– butter beans with tomato & chorizo
– warm lentils with brussels sprouts & proscuitto
– butter bean & tuna salad
– red lentils with tomato & (frozen )spinach

eggs & tofu
-‘carotti tofunaise’
– scrambled tofu with tomato & peppers
– chilli spiced tofu with hummus
– minimalist tofu sang choi bau

fish & seafood
– soybeans with tuna & cherry tomatoes
– sardines with chickpeas

meat & poultry
– ‘european’ beef burgers with red wine sauce
– spanish chicken with chickpeas & almonds
– saag lamb (lamb & spinach curry) serve with breakfast lentils instead of rice
– lamb cutlets with crushed chickpeas & sugar snap peas
– minute steak with chilli oil & broccolini
– lamb cutlets with white bean mash & tomatoes
– butter chicken curry served with lentils not rice.
– thai stir fry of cashew nuts & chickenserve with lentils or salad.

extras
– sicilian nut pesto
– red pepper & hazelnut dip

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