Peanut butter and sweet potato soup

I know it sounds weird, but my goodness it tasted good. Really yummy, satisfying and flavoursome soup. Super easy to make as well.
Here is the link for this soup plus other really simple soups: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/549861435731377926/

A normal breakfast for me - LCHF

Recently I posted a Chia Pudding that I have for breakfast, but on the days I don't have that I have a hot brekkie. Who doesn't love a hot brekkie of bacon and eggs, but who has time to do a big breakfast every morning, not me! So to make it simple I make more of a scrambled eggs/omelette sort of thing and its great! It fills me up for ages and can be made in advance and reheated. This is what I do:

Ingredients

• 2-3 rashers of bacon
• coconut oil for cooking 
• 2 x whisked eggs with a dash of milk
• 4 x small sliced mushrooms
• capsicum
• half a tomato 
• goats cheese
• half an avocado 
• can also add onion, chorizo, zucchini and whatever veggies you want 

Cook the mushrooms first until soft/golden in some coconut oil, add everything else (but the eggs, avocado and cheese) and cook until your happy. Then add the egg, avocado and cheese and stir constantly until cook through. 

Easy peasy! 

Mug Cakes - LCHF

Mug Cakes seem to be all the rage at the moment, quick and easy cakes all made in the one mug. So I found some recipes for LCHF mug cakes. Like I stated it was easy, mess free, quick and tasted pretty good. The first one I made was a bit dry and bland, but the 2nd lot I made that had peanut butter and choc chips in it was really really good. They really hit that carb/sweet craving while sticking to LCHF. See links below for the recipes, the peanut butter one is best. Serve with cream (I used goats yoghurt)

Peanut butter: http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2015/01/low-carb-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-mug-cakes.html#VdwAqPdDiLbuF19y.32
Chocolate: http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/2015/05/22/low-carb-mug-cakes/

Fat bombs - LCHF

Fat bombs are a great treat to have when on a LCHF diet, they satisfy you, are high fat and low carb and can be made with many different flavours and ingredients. While on holidays I recreated the peppermint ones from a previous post, I also made roasted coconut ones and some peanut butter ones. They are so easy to make, cheap and a great snack.
Coconut: http://ketodietapp.com/Blog/post/2014/07/01/Keto-Coconut-Fat-Bombs
Peanut butter: http://uplateanyway.com/keto/chocolate-peanut-butter-fat-bombs-low-carb-gluten-free/ 

Winter stew in the slow cooker

Last week I had a whole week off work, it was so nice to do some things around the house, take the dog to the park and finally do some cooking. I really wanted to make a hearty winter dinner in the slow cooker, so I bought a heap of different vegetables, some beef and the best part, some red wine.

I didn't use a recipe, just used all my favourite vegetables, onion, garlic, ginger, rump steak, 2 cups of red wine, 4 cups of beef stock and some herbs. Cooked it for 8 hours and it was wonderful, perfect for a cold winters night.

Olives for dinner

For dinner we wanted something, quick, easy and satisfying on a cold night, so we headed to Olives in Newstead for a bite. Firstly I googled their menu online and had great success with that (basically deciding what I wanted before I even got there). The menu had plenty of GF labeled food and they even did wood-fired pizza's. We went with a shared nacho's for entree but it didn't have guacamole unfortunately and I had a rather large chicken caesar salad for main. The meals were quick, service was friendly and there was a lovely wood heater to sit next to. I really enjoyed my meal here and will return again.
http://www.newsteadhotel.com.au/p/olives_bistro

Controversy over LCHF

Interesting conversation today in the lunch room:
A colleague said to me as I was preparing my salad for lunch (kale, avocado, tomato, spring onion, tuna, eggplant, sheeps cheese, olive oil), "geee you need to get some carbs into you girl, you will waste away soon! Havent you heard of the food pyramid" I responded with, "na I dont need carbs, I eat lots of good fats. The original food pyramid doesn't exist in my eating plan anymore". Another colleague turned to me and said "there are carbs in that salad you know, you cant avoid them all together, I dont believe in no/low carbs, life is too short to have such a complex diet". Meanwhile another lady who eats like me was smirking at me from across the table and backed me up with a comment about her athletic sister who does endurance bike riding and never needs to refuel while out riding because her diet is so good (while others need too). The conversation then turned to a comment about anorexia and you should eat carbs to be healthy. 
I just laughed at all of this and shrugged it off, I believe everyone should have their opinion and the same diet is not right for everyone. But this is the way I have chosen to go and I love it. I feel the best I ever have, lost weight, kept it off and I look the best I ever have. (I ate some rice with curry the other night, uggghh I felt gross the next day) Anyway just thought I would share as its rather amusing and intriguing the way we all think differently. 
I know that before I was exposed to this diet, I never ate fat, I HATED butter/cheese/full cream dairy/meat fat, but now that I have overcome that fear its the best decision I have made on something! 


(this food pyramid is better smile emoticon)