Suggestions for low-carb lunches and dinners: Meat, fish or chicken dishes with vegetables and a rich full-fat sauce. Stews, soups or casseroles with low-carb ingredients. You can use most recipes in cookbooks if you avoid the carbohydrate-rich ingredients. Drink water with your meal or (occasionally) a glass of wine.
Low-carb foods include meat, fish, eggs, vegetables and natural fats, like butter. It’s possible to eat delicious real food until you are satisfied… and still lose weight.
Nuts or cheese are good “emergency food” when there are no other low-carb options to be found. Remember to ask they leave the crackers out, possibly substituting walnuts or almonds, you may even get more cheese! If you eat strictly everyday it’s less of a problem to make a few exceptions when you are invited out.
Low-carb snacks and desserts 1 Rolled-up cheese or ham with a vegetable (some people even spread butter on cheese). 2 A piece of cheese. 3 A boiled egg from the refrigerator. 4 Canned mackerel in tomato sauce. 5 Cheese cubes.