Slow carb recipes here please!

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Started following a slow carb diet after reading The 4-Hour Body back in June. I can't say I've been following religiously but I'm trying to get back into it now and the biggest problem I'm finding is the sheer boredom of eating the same few meals every day. So I thought I'd start a recipe thread here and nick some other people's ideas to vary my input with. :)

The biggest problem for me is lunch: there's just nothing as quick, light and convenient as a sandwich, especially if you're not at home at lunchtime like most of us. You could make yourself a tuna salad or something at home and take it with you but that's not always practical. So I'm down to buying packets of sliced salami from supermarkets and stuffing those into my mouth like an animal, which was nice for a bit but it's gotten kinda boring. So any lunch-on-the-go-specific suggestions would be particularly welcome!

Don't have time to post any of mine right now but I'll come back to it tonight with some of my beans or lentils recipes - being Cypriot I know more ways to cook legumes than most of you have had hot legume dinners! :D
 
Wholemeal bread sandwich?

Brown pasta/rice with chicken/onion/mushroom/whatever veg you like added?

Oh are you after specific recipes? If so then excuse me for being obtuse. I don't know any real recipes, I just make stuff up as I go along :p
 
What's a slow carb diet when it's at home? If that's LOW carb, then I read that like Atkins...

In which case, I have exactly the same issue. Salads and Meat are fine and well a couple of days, but by the end of the week I'm really sick and tired of it and keep going back to Rice and potato dishes to stave off my cravings.
 
manveruppd said:
You guys don't really know what the slow carb diet is do you? :p
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I'm pretty sure it's not me that's failing to understand... it's all about the GI of foods, surely?

Fast - "simple" - carbs are sugars and basic carbs such as white bread, pasta and rice.

Complex - "slow" - carbs are wholemeal equivalents, veggies etc, no?

Have I been getting it wrong this whole time?
 
Zefan said:
Fast - "simple" - carbs are sugars and basic carbs such as white bread, pasta and rice.

Complex - "slow" - carbs are wholemeal equivalents, veggies etc, no?

Have I been getting it wrong this whole time?
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I'll give you that the term "slow carb" might be something of a misnomer, as it also cuts out stuff like brown rice, wholemeal bread etc. At least that's the way Ferriss defines it, and he's not a scientist so he might've been wrong to call it that, but the term's been popularised now so we're stuck with it! :p

The way he describes it it's similar to the Atkins in that it cuts out all white carbohydrates, sugar, fructose (including from fruit), starchy vegetables, all cereal-based foods, all dairy and rice. So you can have all the legumes, meat, and non-starchy vegetables you want. That's for 6 days a week. And on the 7th day, the Ferriss decreed a day of bingeing, that thy calorie consumption be spiked and thy body not go into starvation mode. Thus the faithful did feast upon the pasta, and the pizzas, and the sweets, forever and ever (until the 7th day was over), Amen. :p

For instance tonight I'm having some diced pork loin pan-fried with chopped leeks and put out with soy sauce, and as a side some sauerkraut and a simple salad with some olive oil and balsamic vinegar. It's more filling than it sounds.

I can make plenty of different foods that meet this diet's requirements, I could eat something different every day if I wanted to be honest, it's just that I've gotten a little stuck in a rut and thought that getting a few more original ideas from the culinary geniuses in here might help get me a bit more excited about this and thus help me stick to it more religiously.

I'm surprised more people don't know what this is, I've seen some threads on it in the sports forums, but I thought posting here would be more appropriate cause I'm looking for recipe ideas, not diet advice.
 
FrenchTart said:
To be honest, Zefan's description of the diet is more factually correct.
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Oh I'm sure, as I said the dude that wrote that is no food scientist, he's just a self-experimenting amateur, but the diet he suggests is what I described and, rightly or wrongly, that's what he called it.
 
A good helping of fat slows down how fast you absorb carbs. Add more fat to your diet instead of cutting out the spuds, you'll enjoy it more ;)
 
manveruppd said:
Oh I'm sure, as I said the dude that wrote that is no food scientist, he's just a self-experimenting amateur, but the diet he suggests is what I described and, rightly or wrongly, that's what he called it.
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But, he is experimenting on you!
Buy the book ''Low G.I. for dummies'' which has some good ideas and recipes
 
manveruppd said:
That's for 6 days a week. And on the 7th day, the Ferriss decreed a day of bingeing, that thy calorie consumption be spiked and thy body not go into starvation mode. Thus the faithful did feast upon the pasta, and the pizzas, and the sweets, forever and ever (until the 7th day was over), Amen. :p
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All I could think of was this. :D

 
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