Thursday, August 20, 2009

Low Carb Vegetables

By Joy Mitchell

Any diet that requires you to go low carbohydrate and use only low carbohydrate vegetables is telling you that you need to search for vegetables that are low in carbohydrates. You need to use these vegetables in stead of your regular vegetables. There are many great tasting things that you can do with low carb vegetables.

They can be used in your different diet recipes or used for salads. They are great by themselves as healthy snacks and you can also blend them for a nutritious smoothie. The many websites that give recipes for low carb cooking and meals could have some recipes that will let you use your low carb vegetables in meals.

How about producing a splendid meal using only low carb foods. You can give a great side dish full of low carbohydrate vegetables that have been transformed into a tasty salad. This salad can be garnished with various interesting foodstuffs that are also low in carbohydrate but taste great by themselves too.

For example, you can make a salad from low carbohydrate vegetables and boneless beef, top sirloin steak, fresh lemon juice, gourmet salad greens, medium plum tomatoes, ranch or blue cheese dressing. You have the choice of making a seasoning for this salad with dried oregano, garlic and pepper.

As you can see, there are many ways that you can combine your low carb vegetables with other foods to make superb meals for you and others to eat. The main thing to remember is not to put foods like a heavy French dressing on your low carb vegetables. This will turn your nutritious low carb vegetables into something heavy.

There are instances in your low carb cooking when you can use only one of the low carb vegetables to give you a magnificent dish that looks mouth-watering. This type of low carb recipe will call for only a low carb vegetable like an eggplant. This vegetable is very versatile and you can use it in very many ways.

When you make up your mind to eat low carb vegetables in this way, you take your cooking experience into another dimension of good food. The many low carb recipes that you can find on the Internet, will let you make great dishes with your low carb vegetables. After all, low carbohydrate just means eating other types of vegetables and showing your taste buds low carb meals.

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