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Category Archives: Recipes
From Cheap Cut of Beef To Culinary Triumph
1-38pm I don’t often watch the cooking channel, but one day I did and this was the outcome. The chef (whose name I didn’t catch) used a cheap cut of meet and dolled it up to become an impressive culinary masterpiece … Continue reading
Festive Berry Meringue Dessert
10-49am I’ve often wondered if you can make meringue with a substitute sugar and the answer is yes you can! I went onto a couple of meringue websites and then substituting xylitol for sugar, I started experimenting. Just a note, … Continue reading
Banting Chocolate Brownies
9-50am If it’s chocolate, I’m in! I actually went looking for a form of Banting Christmas Cake, but trust me, with all that fruit, they are going to be a real trick to get vaguely into a low carb zone. … Continue reading
Avocado and Bacon Salad
10-30am My Saturday Banting recipe has only a few ingredients, is uber easy, very quick and delicious! I saw this recipe in a magazine, but didn’t have all their suggested ingredients so I adapted it and it turned out pretty … Continue reading
Banting Chocolate Ice Cream
8-21am Stacey (my daughter) sent me this one. She experimented with it and it turned out well, so I attempted it as well and it is delicious! There are 4 ingredients. Short story: Blend 1 x 400ml tin coconut cream, … Continue reading
Banting Coconut Macaroons
8-16am It’s just under 7 weeks before Christmas! This is probably not something you want to hear, but if you are aiming for a low carb festive season, you’re going to need to do some planning. Banting Coconut Macaroons are … Continue reading
Banting Cheese and Onion Pie
11-14am Today’s amazingly simple (mainly) 4 ingredient Banting recipe originates from www.genaw.com. My friend, Riana sent me the link when I said I needed a Banting recipe for today’s blog. This recipe speaks a lot about how well Riana knows me. … Continue reading
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Tagged Banting Pie, Banting quiche, Banting recipes, Eating LCHF, LCHF - what to eat
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Melt in Your Mouth Chicken
9-47am Aah, Saturday….the day I bring you a recipe. It’s almost like a blog day off, it’s so easy! This recipe I learned about just over a year ago. Not only is it low carb, but it is also not … Continue reading
Step by Step Lazy Eggs for Whole Family
11-25am This is a fabulous option for breakfast, brunch or simple Sunday supper. Lazy Eggs Here’s what you do: Using a 12 well muffin pan: 1) Spray a muffin pan with nonstick spray. 2) Place a slice of ham in the bottom … Continue reading
Ingrid’s Banting Bread
12-04pm Here is another option for making low carb bread. Thanks Ingrid and also Jo who have both tried it. This is actually quick and easy to make once you have all the ingredients. Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour (I … Continue reading
Riana’s (Banting) Lemon & Coconut Mug Muffin
2-21pm These take 1 and a half minutes in the microwave. I have clever friends. Riana is one of them. As she doesn’t eat chocolate, she experimented with the Banting Chocolate cake in a mug recipe and came up with … Continue reading
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Jo’s AMAZING Banting Seed Loaf
8-05am Let me pre-empt this by saying that Jo did not have a dream and wake up one morning with this recipe in her head. When I asked her where she got it, she said, ‘one of the banting sites.’ … Continue reading
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3 Minute Banting Chocolate Cake in a Mug
1-14pm At the ladies retreat I went to this last weekend, in our gift pack was a little recipe called Sweet Love. … So what I did was go and buy Banting substitutes which are almond flour and sugar substitute … Continue reading
Three Banting Recipes – And Some Beautiful Sea Point Views
11-45am Yesterday, I took a drive to Sea Point to meet up with a friend – Mary. She’s staying in a friend’s apartment while hers is being renovated. Wow, what a view! It was like being on a ship, looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Banting snack recipes, LCHF - what to eat, Sea Point Views
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Sweet Potato Waffle/Pancake with Berries & Cream
2-08pm Those of you following my life and not my recipes get the day off from reading today’s post! The other day Caroline Leaf posted a Facebook status that her daughter Dominique had made a sweet potato waffle. It looks … Continue reading