Looking for Carb-less Recipes

[tootsieroll]

hello,

a friend of mine from california is coming to visit in a few weeks; she's on a low-carb diet right now. she can't eat noodles, pasta, or rice. i'm looking for ideas for entrees to make her during her visit.

thanks in advance!

[sneezles]

Does she eat veggies or fruit? Both of these have carbs but they are the complex ones.

[wallycat]

If she wishes not to eat rice, pasta, potatoes, etc., I'd simply make whatever you normally make, add an extra serving of a green veggie and make the rest as you would for your family.

There are several websites that discuss low-carb eating as well as books like Atkins or Zone...as well as books with catchy titles like eating the low-carb way or things like that.....

For example, if you make, say, a chicken and rice dish, you can also have a salad and broccoli side and she can just skip the rice.
Or if you make broiled salmon with couscous and a salad, simply have a serving of spinach or broccoli or asparagus or something....

For breakfast, have eggs and cottage cheese available.....

hope this helps.

[shoyski]

How about the recent BBQ Chicken and Grape Salad? It received many postive reviews and we enjoyed it as well. My neighbor's kid is on that kind of diet and I was asked for the recipe.

Does anyone have this in MC? Sorry, it's not in the recipe finder and I couldn't locate a copy by doing a search.

[kwormann]

Just wanted to point out, if she is on a strict carb-less diet, veggies like corn and peas will be out, as will things like barbaque sauce, lots of salad dressings, ketsup....any sauce that has cornstarch, flour or sugar.

[tootsieroll]

wow, thanks so much to those who've responded!

sneezles, yes, i believe she does eat fruits and veggies; the portions are very controlled, though. wallycat, good idea on simply having an extra purely-vegetable dish or salad on top of what i usually make. now, why didn't i think of that? shoyski, thanks for reminding me about that bbq chicken and grape salad! and kwormann, i definitely have to ask her exactly what she eats and doesn't eat. that'll give me a better idea as to what ingredients i can play with.