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<blockquote data-quote="TeddyTottie" data-source="post: 2394290" data-attributes="member: 519030"><p>I would absolutely not try and force yourself to eat anything, that will just put you off for life. There is no requirement to eat almond flour if you don’t like it.</p><p></p><p>Try and find a handful of safe foods (use your meter) and then expand from there. If you don’t enjoy food in one form, maybe a slightly different presentation might help, for example mince instead of a slab of meat. You can try minced pork, turkey or chicken as a change from beef. How about some good sausages or some cold meat or salami. Or you could try some varieties of cheese that perhaps you haven’t eaten before - just pick one and give it a go!</p><p></p><p>I find salads dull - but that was before I realised that actually it was lettuce I was bored by. I grow (in the summer, which is pretty much the only time I fancy salad anyway) all sorts of spicy leaves which are much tastier, and make a dressing I enjoy or use Cardini’s Caesar Salad dressing which is pretty low-carb. But I mostly make chopped salads from tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, chillis and no leaves at all. A tomato, sweet onion and mozzarella salad with a sharp, mustardy dressing is pretty good too.</p><p></p><p>Again, lots of varieties of fish to play with - I like plain salmon cooked in the oven (well, air fryer, but this bit of kit is not essential) with roasted veggies or courgette, aubergine and swede ‘chips’. Also fried fillets of cod, plaice or tuna. Or cheap white frozen fish bricks (coley) in a fish stew is good.</p><p></p><p>You can make veggie currys or chillis or stews and/or add some chicken thighs if you like. Or Paneer. Or just the veg, although I do add a tin of chickpeas or a few red lentils to my mine, I find I tolerate them ok since a batch makes multiple meals.</p><p></p><p>Maybe suggest a few things you do like and we can see if we can help you build a low-carb meal around them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TeddyTottie, post: 2394290, member: 519030"] I would absolutely not try and force yourself to eat anything, that will just put you off for life. There is no requirement to eat almond flour if you don’t like it. Try and find a handful of safe foods (use your meter) and then expand from there. If you don’t enjoy food in one form, maybe a slightly different presentation might help, for example mince instead of a slab of meat. You can try minced pork, turkey or chicken as a change from beef. How about some good sausages or some cold meat or salami. Or you could try some varieties of cheese that perhaps you haven’t eaten before - just pick one and give it a go! I find salads dull - but that was before I realised that actually it was lettuce I was bored by. I grow (in the summer, which is pretty much the only time I fancy salad anyway) all sorts of spicy leaves which are much tastier, and make a dressing I enjoy or use Cardini’s Caesar Salad dressing which is pretty low-carb. But I mostly make chopped salads from tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, chillis and no leaves at all. A tomato, sweet onion and mozzarella salad with a sharp, mustardy dressing is pretty good too. Again, lots of varieties of fish to play with - I like plain salmon cooked in the oven (well, air fryer, but this bit of kit is not essential) with roasted veggies or courgette, aubergine and swede ‘chips’. Also fried fillets of cod, plaice or tuna. Or cheap white frozen fish bricks (coley) in a fish stew is good. You can make veggie currys or chillis or stews and/or add some chicken thighs if you like. Or Paneer. Or just the veg, although I do add a tin of chickpeas or a few red lentils to my mine, I find I tolerate them ok since a batch makes multiple meals. Maybe suggest a few things you do like and we can see if we can help you build a low-carb meal around them. [/QUOTE]
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