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NDR: What's your go-to *non-carb* dinner?
I'm trying to cut carbs at dinner... but really struggling because I always want to make some sort of pasta! What do you do for dinner that isn't pasta? Any suggestions?
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Re: NDR: What's your go-to *non-carb* dinner?
Spaghetti Squash Lasagna is a personal favorite.
Soups-chicken tortilla (minus the tortilla part), tomato bisque,
Salsa chicken in the crockpot. I add black beans and sometimes serve wtih salad so it's sort of a taco salad
Meatloaf/roasted veggies
Asian chicken salad
Golly, I haven't made pasta in months. We usually do a protein, a small amount of carbs (either a slice of bread or a spoonful of quinoa or brown rice) and a ton of veggies - sauteed or steamed or whatever. We eat via the sonoma diet, mostly. This is the most recent protein we did (last Friday): http://www.food.com/recipe/mediterranean-pork-chops-233893
And we're having this tonight: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chinese-Takeout-on-a-stick
So usually 50% veggies, 20% carbs, and 30% protein. We'll have a spoonful of honey greek yogurt and some strawberries for dessert.
Spaghetti squash "spaghetti". So ridiculously good.
This soup has 5 tbsp of flour in the roux - is that ok? It's my husband's favorite soup.
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Salads with leftover protein on top (steak strips, chicken pieces, beans)
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The thing for me is replacing crappy carbs with whole grain and/or high fiber carbs. We've discovered this higher fiber pasta that is really tasty, for example. Whole grain bread.
We don't eat pasta terribly often, but sometimes I'll have a really small portion of whole-wheat pasta with a larger portion of sauce/meat, then have veggies on the side.
We have roasted veggies on the side a lot.
Stuffed Zucchini is good, as is spaghetti squash - it's a good pasta sub, or the spaghetti squash lasagna pp linked to is really good. I've also seen a lot of recipes for veggie lasagna that use eggplant, zucchini, etc instead of noodles.
Also, for me, once I broke the habit of always having a starch with dinner on weeknights, it didn't feel like I was "missing" something.
Google Kalyn's Kitchen - she has a ton of low/no carb recipes and the ones I've tried have all been pretty good.
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chicken cutlets with capers, onions and mushrooms and a lemon/white wine sauce over spinach. Or parmesan tilapia over wilted spinach.
steak or chicken kabobs with red onion, squash, zucchini and a tomato cucumber salad
I also really like Barefoot Contessa's roasted broccoli that's all over pinterest as the worlds best broccoli. But I usually leave out the pinenuts and basil because I didn't realize they were part of the original recipe.
I don't miss the pasta/rice/potatoes as much if I have several veggie sides. So sometimes I'll make asparagus, roasted broccoli, sauteed mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, etc. to go along side whatever meat I cook.
I love this post! We just started to cut out carbs at dinner. Last night was a great salad, bunless burgers and grilled asparagus. So carbs, but trying to stay away from starch.
Glad to see this post.
We like chicken broccoli alfredo with spaghetti squash instead of pasta as well as lasagna.
We also enjoy Greek chicken salads and taco salads.
When I want to try something different, I check out this blog: www.yourlighterside.com The chicken/cheese pizza crust was actually really good!
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