Easy Low Carb Recipes. Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Natural Ingredients
We all need more fat bomb recipes in our lives!
Friends, I used to shudder when I heard someone utter the words fat bomb. Why would anyone want to eat a fat bomb? Wouldn’t that make you, well, FAT?
Now that I’ve been on a low carb diet, things have changed.
These days, if anyone is offering me a fat bomb, I do a happy dance. And then I eat it. Not the dance. The fat bomb.
Yum!…
Soft and simply irresistible: low carb, grain free pretzels take snacking to the next level. These pretzels are made with the famous Fat Head dough – their secret ingredient is mozzarella!
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These creamy, fruity individual low carb raspberry cheesecakes are a perfectly guilt indulgence.
I’m going to make a rather large statement here. Small, my friends, is better than big. …
Enjoy this rich and creamy chocolate avocado ice cream as a sugar free, low carb and keto treat. And feel that satisfaction of hiding a vegetable in a dessert! 4.9 net carbs per serving.
Do you hide vegetables in meals? If you have children, I’d say that’s a yes. …
This post is sponsored by Vitamix. All opinions are my own.
A showstopper cake to crown a festive meal or mark a special occasion: This rich and creamy spiced orange brandy cheesecake is sugar free, low carb and gluten free. Guilt free dessert heaven.
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A classic Italian starter with a serious wow factor: Mozzarella Prosciutto Parcels with black olive tapenade are easy to make, low carb and an explosion of flavours.
The Italians have just got it sussed when it comes to cooking. Italian food is simple, sexy, irresistible and, unlike French cuisine, always approachable. …
You’d like to have seconds? No problem. These crunchy sugar free cut out cookies with a coconut butter glaze are low carb, gluten free and sweetened with erythritol.
I am so ready for Christmas! No, I haven’t even thought about presents. No ideas, no lists. And no, when the nice guy from the Christmas tree delivery company called me last week with a special offer, I did not take it either.
Don’t get distracted by the fact you are seeing friendly ghosts waving at you. It’s Halloween next week and you’ve got to go with the flow.
In our family we make cut out cookies once a year in the run-up to Christmas, in vast amounts – little hearts, adorable stars and cute Christmas trees. Baking sheet after baking sheet will go into the oven, and it always ends up being me in the kitchen by myself after the second round, with 6 more to go. Before I went sugar free, I used a Nigella recipe which came with the set of cookie cutters I own. It calls for wheat flour and copious amounts of sugar.
Now, if you attempt to replace not only the sugar (with erythritol, in my case), but also the wheat, you are entering tricky territory. It’s the gluten in wheat that makes dough very easy to handle and roll out. Grain free dough is softer and more delicate.
After the success of my Sugar Free Halloween Bat Cookies, which contain cocoa powder to be sufficiently dark and gloomy for Halloween, I adapted the recipe to create a vanilla version. I also added a liberal amount of almond extract, which, if I may say so, makes them taste just irresistible.
The most important step in this recipe is that you freeze the dough after you roll it out between two sheets of baking paper. This is the key to success when making low carb cut out cookies. Trust me. I am an impatient person and I have tried skipping it. It’s not worth the mess you’ll make. Stick it in the freezer, have a cup (or glass) of something and feel smug about being in the know.
The first one was just a mix of powdered erythritol (I used Sukrin Icing), a couple of drops of vanilla essence and a spoonful of water. This went down well with the kids, but for me it was a little sweet. The second type was just up my street – a sugar free coconut butter glaze which I adapted from this recipe by Simply Quinoa.If you spread it thinly, it dries into a nice, firm glaze. Coconut butter, not to be confused with coconut oil, tastes slightly sweet and creamy and is nice enough to be eaten by the spoonful.
And do you know the best thing about this recipe? When my kids are bored after the second round of festive baking and leave sneakily, I can call it a day too. A few days later, they’ll be ready to have another go (kids = short memories). And all I have to do is whisk the rolled out dough for my lovely sugar free cut out cookies from the freezer.
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These crunchy sugar free cut out cookies with a coconut butter glaze are low carb, gluten free and sweetened with erythritol.
Soft, satisfying and subtly spiced: These sugar free Coconut Tahini Bliss Balls are bite-sized portions of…bliss.
Bliss. It’s way more than just happiness. Bliss is a biggie. It’s that moment when things just can’t get any better. Bliss is so big that people have written books about it, amongst them Sean Meshorer’s inspirational The Bliss Experiment, which is filled with fundamental truths. So, how does Meshorer – author, yogi, philosopher and meditation instructor – sum up bliss?
Bliss is an innate state of inner joy. We all have the capacity for it. External circumstances, whether positive or negative, happy or sad, do not affect it.
Bliss is a state of unity, completeness and knowingness; it is a feeling of oneness and connection with all of creation. When bliss appears, you instantly recognise it as the most central of all truths.
Bliss is where happiness, meaning and truth converge. Everything boils down to our pursuit of bliss. We pursue money or relationships because we think they’ll make us happy. We pursue our life’s passions because we feel they are deeply meaningful to us. Bliss is the universal place where all questions are answered and fulfillment is reached.
With bliss comes an unshakeable joy, interconnectedness and a practical wisdom.
Bliss is like white light. Just as pure light is the totality of all colour, bliss is the sum of all positive qualities. The components of bliss are joy, unconditional love, inner peace, power, connectedness, awe and wisdom.
Sam Meshorer, you are making me feel all blissed out. Doesn’t just reading this makes you feel like you’re peacefully bathing in beautiful white light? Or at least, like you finally know how to get there? Totally worked for me. Inner joy, here I come!
I’d like to add just one more thing.
I had the inspiration for this recipe when I felt like baking something. But. No eggs in the house! I rummaged around in my cupboards and found shredded coconut and ground almonds. The fridge? Desperately empty, only the door stuffed with condiments. And there it was. Tahini! A big, half-forgotten jar that had not seen the kitchen counter since we’d run out of chickpeas and beans (my kids had a big hummus phase last autumn – check out my Awesome Black-eyed Bean Hummus, which is, like the name suggests, awesome).
You all know I am a big lover of EASY. Friends, the stars aligned. Inspiration struck big time. This was not the time to bake. This was the time to make … Coconut Tahini Bliss Balls! No bake, no sugar, no gluten, no wheat, no regrets. Just blissfully simple clean eating.
These little wonders take only minutes to assemble and are like a mini burst of sunshine on a rainy day. The delicate roasted sesame taste of the tahini, the sweetness of the coconut, the mellow nuances of vanilla and the warm flavour of cinnamon put together are simply sensational.
You want bliss happening in your kitchen, right now?
You are 5 minutes away from it. Just open your cupboard and get started.
For another bite-sized morsel, try my Sugar Free Pistachio Chocolates!
An incredibly moist and healthy almond flour cake with creamy mascarpone frosting and berries. Gluten free, sugar free, low carb and so nutritious you could eat it for breakfast.
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English breakfast 2.0! (Almost) all wonderful ingredients of a true English breakfast rolled into one easy-to-eat dish. Say hello to this healthy low carb English Breakfast Frittata.
I am deeply impressed by the ingenuity of the British. English inventions range from the blindingly brilliant to the ever-so slightly bonkers. Among them are useful solutions to problems that have tested mankind for generations and answers to issues that didn’t yet exist. Here’s my top 10 list:…
So simple. So creamy. So extremely delicious. This cashew vanilla sauce takes just a minute to whizz together and will make you happy for hours. Paleo, vegan, low carb and sugar free.
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us” (Ashley Montagu, anthropologist). This is exactly how I felt when tasting this cashew vanilla sauce for the first time. It was just the easiest thing to put together. How could something so simple be so incredible? You should have seen my face. I was smiling from ear to ear, standing there all alone in my kitchen, spoon in hand….
What’s better than home made, sugar free nut-ella? No bake nut-ella bars, naturally. Packed with hazelnuts, seeds and a generous helping of happiness-inducing dark chocolate.
I am all for no bake recipes. Simply, less can go wrong. You can’t burn it. You can’t undercook it. You just do your mixing magic, and the fridge or freezer does the rest. Matcha Pistachio Yoghurt Bark? Check. No Bake Coconutty Pies? Check. Those are amongst my most popular recipes on Instagram (check me out over there at @sugarfree_londoner!), because sensible people like an easy life. …
This simple dessert is not only light, sugar free and utterly delicious, it will also give you a serious antioxidant boost: Matcha Pistachio Yoghurt Bark.
There. I am saying it straight up. I am a matcha convert. Ever since I found out that 1 cup of matcha tea delivers the same amount of antioxidants as 10 cups of regular tea, I have started ordering the stuff in bulk. Friends, from a certain age onwards we need all the help we can get.
Conveniently, matcha also happens to be delicious. Have you tried it? Once you embrace that steamy, grassy taste – smelling my cup of matcha tea always makes me think of the Amazon rainforest (I do know it is from Japan, just being honest here), there just isn’t anything better to wake up to. Well, maybe coffee.
Truth is, now I have both. And since believing you are being healthier and actually being healthier is virtually the same thing, I can only say that I am feeling pretty great. Thank you, matcha-san!…
Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins. Sensationally moist, light and simply mouthwatering! They are 100 % grain free, refined sugar free and packed with carrots.
You should not believe everything you read online.
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The holy grail of foodie goodness: Vegetables for breakfast! These Spinach and Chive Mini Quiches are easy to make and almost too good to share.
How handsome are these little guys? Don’t they look sooo yummy?
If you want to wow yourself with a breakfast that does not only taste good and sets you up for the day but is also easy on the eye, try these Spinach and Chive Mini Quiches. In fact, I am not going to be humble at all here: This is a breakfast perfectly formed you could imagine eating at The Wolseley – the one place that can make scrambled eggs with sliced avocado look so beautiful you want to flick your freshly blow-dried hair back with your bejewelled hand, do your best Blue Steel pout and then just stroke it gently….
