Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs - best high protein start to the day!

I love bacon and eggs for breakfast, and probably have it at least twice a week.

Here's some tips to make it healthier:

1. Cut the excess fat off your bacon, I know it's tasty, but you DON'T need it
2. Use a spray oil for the bacon, rather than pouring oil into the pan
3. Place the bacon in a cold pan and allow it to heat up as you heat the pan, this helps more fat drain out of the meat which you can remove
4. Eggs don't go well in spray oil (in my opinion) so add 1 tea spoon of oil into a corner of the pan, tilting the pan to keep it there. Allow the oil to heat through then crack the egg into the oil
5. Use a healthy tasty oil like Peanut oil

Ideally you'd also add some beans and greens to your fry-up - I'll do a future post about quick ways of doing that.

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Low Carb (High Protein!) Alcoholic drink...

So after not posting for 3 days (I was at a conference and my TOTAL lack of organisation led to me eating junk carbs for at least one meal each day... and even have a few beers) I'm back on the (low carb) wagon.

Today is Saturday and /should/ be my carb binge day, but since my week has been lame I'm skipping it.

I'm just getting ready to go out and meet some friends, but fancied a drink first. But all I had in was some beer I'd put aside for today and some spirits but no mixers (and the only spirits I could drink straight are pretty high carb so they are out).

SO what to do?

More LOW carb iced coffee! low carb snack: iced soya milk coffee

With:

30g of protein power (vanilla) - this does add 3.5g of carbs but also adds 22g of protein so not too bad if I only have one. Or two...

Small slug of some JD
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Someone had left it at my house (I don't like JD, not even with diet coke) but this worked well. I'd have preferred a brandy, so it would be more like a brand alexander, but the JD worked fine. I'd only suggest 1 shot of JD to a large glass of iced coffee, as I tried too and had to totally water it down with more soya milk, as it tasted too strong for me to enjoy.

So there you have it, low carb, high protein, skinny, soya, iced, JD whiskey, coffee!

Any other inventive '#lchp' drinks you would suggest? Comment below or tweet me at @LowCarbLiam

Breakfast: Mackerel and egg - zero carb breakfast

Had my dad over and he is now eating gluten free, so thought we would have some fish for breakfast.

I love mackerel, it's a great fish, really cheap (about 80p a portion) great for you and almost instant to prepare and cook.

You can eat it cold, but I love it heated through in a frying pan (no oil needed), once you've heated it on high on one side for about 2 or 3 minutes, turn the fish over and move to the other side of the pan, then use the oil from the fish to fry and egg. The salty tasting oil heats to a really high temperature and cooks eggs amazingly!

For my dad I added a couple of slices of gluten free toast, but for me both the fish and the egg are more than enough for a filling low carb high protein, high GOOD fat breakfast. Cup of black coffee and you are ready for anything and everything!

Dinner - NO CARB Indian Lamb Burgers, plus chickpea veg curry and salad

I LOVE lamb, and it was a lovely day so I fancied a BBQ.

Sadly by the time I'd got everything together it was going to be too slow before it go dark, but never mind, was still a lovely summer meal.

Chickpea Veg curry:

In a saucepan throw:

1 chopped onion
3 copped garlic
1 chopped courgette
1 tin of chickpeas (drained)
1 teaspoon of my friends curry power
1 teaspoon of tomato paste
3 teaspoons of red pepper paste
splash of water

Turn on the heat and let it simmer while you get on with the lamb burgers

450g of lamb mince
1 teaspoon of gram-masala
1 teaspoon of course mustard
1 finely chopped onion
2 closes of chopped garlic
1 teaspoon of paprika

Mix together with hands and makes about 6 burgers - place in frying pan and fry WITHOUT oil, there will be enough fat in the lamb. Frying these burgers is OK - lamb fat is good for you, but frying them helps release the fat from the meat - drain off to lower the fat content if you are watching fat too - but I'm not worrying to much about fat and am loosing plenty of weight. Cook until just brown.

Salad:

1 carrot chopped into thin slices using a vegetable peeler
1 red bell pepper thinly chopped (I used a roasted and pickled one)
1/4 thinly sliced cucumber
1 tablespoon of yoghurt
1 teaspoon of mint sause

Mix well! Can add a squeeze of lemon or lime if you want it tarter.

There you go, a really filling protein heavy dinner, that's pretty fast (sub 30 mins) that is very low carb.

If you want me to add the carb, protein and fat details for these or any of the recipes please just comment below.