http://www.superlowcarb.com/low-carb/diet/foods/ Low carb diet foods typically don't offer much variety, but they are getting better. Get creative! Find recipes for low carb diet foods and make some up of your own. en-us Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:43:23 EST Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:43:23 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Finding low carb diet foods isn't easy, but we can give you the low carb lowdown. Sticking with Low Carb Foods When you first start a low carb diet, you're probably focusing on meats (hopefully lean meats), dark green leafy lettuce (think Romaine) cheese and eggs. Meat, cheese and eggs alone are the key ingredients for a great quiche or omelette. And for snacks, well, there's string cheese, beef jerky, a can of tuna, deli-sliced turkey and swiss cheese rolled up together, even sugar-free Jello with a dollop of Cool Whip. And you can even find pre-cooked chicken bites intended to go on top of salads. You can buy them pre-seasoned and snack on them throughout the day. Or shaved turkey. But eventually, all this stuff will get old because it's all you can have. Sure, at first it sounds like you have unlimited options, but you will run out of options and get tired of the same old stuff. Let's say you've made it through the first two weeks of your low carb diet plan, and now instead of 20 grams of carbs a day, you get 60. (That's still less than half of what your body needs, but that's a story for another page.) But, with all of the new low carb diet foods on the market today, you get more choices than ever. The South Beach diet and the Atkins diet have a whole line of low carb diet foods ready for low carb dieters to buy. There's low carb bread, low carb cereal, low carb frozen entrees....even low carb pizza! Who ever thought that pizza would be considered a low carb diet food? Some low carb diet foods serve two purposes at once: to be convenient and to be low carb. What exactly are we talking about? High protein, low carb meal replacement bars and shakes. Now don't get your hopes up--these low carb diet foods don't exactly taste like their full-carb counterparts. They are definitely an acquired taste. The bars typically taste like cardboard, but reviews on Atkins bars are actually pretty good. And low carb shakes aren't exactly the thick and frothy things you would get from McDonald's or Steak and Shake. They're more like flavored water in a can at room temperature (unless you refrigerate them first, which we highly recommend.) Or, you can buy protein powder and make your own with low carb milk and ice. Those are typically much better and turn out to be quite filling. So when it comes to food low in carbs, you do have options. Just get a bunch of low carb recipes, read labels and use your imagination. Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:43:23 EST