Favorite low-carb snacks?

[Fallgal]

I'm getting more sophisticated in my choice of chocolate. Am up to 85% now, lol. Tried Lindt 98% but it bares little resemblance to chocolate so will stick where I am...... Stifling the urge to eat a bar of good old Dairy Milk.
Fall gal, sorry for digressing

Never apologize for talking about chocolate!

 

[Beachbag]

Never apologize for talking about chocolate!

Lol. Hard going for us chocolate addicts isn't it. However, I'm less of an addict than I was and the high cocoa stuff does take the edge off.
Lots of luck with your battle to gain control of your diabetes x

 

[Samanthacxo]

You guys have put me in the mood for melting some chocolate (high cocoa of course) & dipping in some strawberries & nuts!

Trip to the supermarket tomorrow!

Yummy!


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[luceeloo]

hmmm i never tried jelly wrapped in lettuce but i also never found a bad way to eat it so.....

I found myself obscurely on the daily mail website yesterday (don't hold it against me, I was directed to another article there)... Anyway, there was an article about gross foods from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Once of the foods was a salad set in jelly... lettuce, greens, all the usual salad bits set into a green jelly (I think it was green). There was also a "cheese salad jelly", which was some kind of monstrosity with cheese in the jelly, set into a mould with a hole in the middle, and seafood salad filling the hole.
I think jelly has far many uses than even you can imagine, Andy.

 

[Fallgal]

I found myself obscurely on the daily mail website yesterday (don't hold it against me, I was directed to another article there)... Anyway, there was an article about gross foods from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. Once of the foods was a salad set in jelly... lettuce, greens, all the usual salad bits set into a green jelly (I think it was green). There was also a "cheese salad jelly", which was some kind of monstrosity with cheese in the jelly, set into a mould with a hole in the middle, and seafood salad filling the hole.
I think jelly has far many uses than even you can imagine, Andy.

I remember some of these things from my childhood in the 70's (I'm from USA). Those jello mold monstrosities were all the rage! I've always liked jelly. I've always liked salad, even as a child. But together - ICK! I also remember going to diners where the "diet plate" would be a big salad, with a scoop of cottage cheese on top, and a scoop of jelly. Nothankyou. Those molds with the hole in the middle are called bundt cake molds, just in case you were wondering. (I'm sure you weren't. LOL!)

 

[Andy12345]

this has got me thinking of what would work in a jelly apart from eels

 

[luceeloo]

Do you think that it was the abundance of hallucinogenics that made people design really random food combinations??? It was definitely an experimental era!


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[Andy12345]

so jelly with berries and purple ohms

 

[luceeloo]

this has got me thinking of what would work in a jelly apart from eels

Chicken in lemon and lime jelly with tarragon?
Duck l'orange jelly ?
Beef and mushroom in blackcurrant?



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[Fallgal]

How about little sardines floating in lemon jelly?

 

[luceeloo]

How about little sardines floating in lemon jelly?

Yum. Can we have parsley too... Just to finish it off? Lol


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[Fallgal]

Of course. It has to look pretty.

 

[Mud Island Dweller]

Erpp feel sick l am a non jelly eater

Back home it came in powdered form pre mix and that was what l loved pre made.

Sardines

l can just about eat if mashed and deboned and mixed with other food which isnt jelly and seeing them floating in jelly no matter what the colour

Next you lot will say baked beans in jelly ...oh god baked beans

Ruining other food items that are good putting them in Jelly......Food philistines alert

MID

 

[paul-1976]

Nibble/snacky wise I like

so jelly with berries and purple ohms

lol That jelly would sure expand your mind!

 

[Fallgal]

Also make a packet of sugar free jelly up with just half pint water, add a packet of gelatine then pour into ice cube moulds, set and hey presto you've got sweets.

I went out today and got the 2-pack of Hartley's sugarfree jelly, and the 3-pack of Dr. Otker powdered gelatin.

Now - when you say to make up the packet of SF jelly with just half pint of water - do you mean a half pint of hot water and a half pint of cold water? or 1/4 pint hot water and 1/4 pint cold water?

Thanks!

 

[Lenny3]

I went out today and got the 2-pack of Hartley's sugarfree jelly, and the 3-pack of Dr. Otker powdered gelatin.

Now - when you say to make up the packet of SF jelly with just half pint of water - do you mean a half pint of hot water and a half pint of cold water? or 1/4 pint hot water and 1/4 pint cold water?

Thanks!

You need to put the sachet of jelly in your jug or bowl then pour half pint of boiling water and mix, then add the sachet of gelatin, this will take a bit longer to mix, sometimes you get lumps, I use the spoon and sort of rub it on the side of the jug till its melted. Then pour into your ice cube tray, or silicone moulds.

 

[Fallgal]

Thank you! I can't wait to make these tomorrow.

 

[modesty007]

On the chocolate topic melt and mix chocolate 75% or more with almost equal amount of coconut oil, like 50 grams of each pour into silicone forms or ice cube trays or any kind of tiny forms, after cooling into the freezer (this is by tradition a Swedish Christmas treat), a lovely way to have chocolate and some healthy coconut oil.

 

[fatbird]

Nuts are a very good snack-macadamias are wonderful-walnuts-and almonds are also good. Not cheap but you don't need many to bridge that gap. Celery sticks and pepper sticks are good and low calorie-low carb and cheap.

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