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Keto Green Bean & Mushroom Casserole

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and in my family, the traditional side dishes are green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, and mashed potatoes. In other words, nothing Keto friendly. I want to be able to have a big Thanksgiving dinner that is Keto friendly, but that others will also enjoy so I browsed through recipe after recipe until I found something that sounded like it would fit the bill – and this green bean and mushroom casserole certainly does.

It’s a pretty simple recipe and I usually have just about everything on hand.

Start by steaming your green beans. Use a Vegetable Steamer Basket set over 1 inch of water in a large saucepan.  Steam about 10 minutes or until tender.

When beans are done, transfer to buttered 8-Inch Casserole Dish.

Start melting butter in a 12 inch frying pan. Once melted, add in mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cook until mushrooms begin to brown.

Remove from heat and put on top of green beans. In a Glass Mixing Bowl , beat cream cheese with Hand Mixer. Add in vinegar, garlic, and onion powder, mixing well. Slowly add 1/2 cup stock, mixing as you add. It will get runny, so be cautious or you’ll be covered in it. Once mixed, stir in 1/2 of the parmesan cheese.

Pour mixture over green beans and mushrooms, then top with remainder of cheese.

Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes, until bubbly and browned.
Casserole out of the oven

These cheesy green beans are so filling and so good!!

PRINTABLE RECIPE

Keto Green Bean and Mushroom Casserole

1 lb cut green beans, frozen
2 tbsp butter (use more if necessary)
8 – 12 oz sliced fresh mushrooms
8 oz softened cream cheese
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
2 cloves crushed garlic or 1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 cup chicken stock
1 cup grated parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350.

Start by steaming your green beans. Use a Vegetable Steamer Basket set over 1 inch of water in a large saucepan. Steam about 10 minutes or until tender.

When beans are done, transfer to buttered 8-Inch Casserole Dish.

Start melting butter in a 12 inch frying pan. Once melted, add in mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Cook until mushrooms begin to brown.

Remove from heat and put on top of green beans. In a Glass Mixing Bowl , beat cream cheese with Hand Mixer. Add in vinegar, garlic, and onion powder, mixing well. Slowly add 1/2 cup stock, mixing as you add. It will get runny, so be cautious or you’ll be covered in it. Once mixed, stir in 1/2 of the parmesan cheese.

Pour mixture over green beans and mushrooms, then top with remainder of cheese.

Bake for 35-40 minutes, until bubbly and browned.

 

Nutrition green bean casserole.jpg


*Disclaimer: I am NOT a certified nutritionist and your nutritional information may vary depending on exact ingredients you use. I highly recommend you calculate your own and just use this as a guideline. The links for products are affiliate links so I may earn a very small commission if you purchase through them – but it doesn’t cost you anything additional!

Keto Butter Chicken Dinner

I don’t know about everyone else, but I get tired of eating the same things over and over again. I like to mix it up a little. So putting a spin on an Indian dish fit that bill. AND it’s Keto friendly. If you ask me, that’s a win-win!

This recipe is heavy on the spices, so if you don’t care for a lot, you may want to take it back a little.

For this recipe, you’ll need a Deep Frying Pan to cook in the meal in.

To start, heat up 2 tbsp butter in the frying pan on medium heat. Season your chicken thighs with salt and pepper, then add into the butter. Fry on both sides until browned.  Remove the chicken. Add in the onion and all the spices, garlic, and ginger. Cook for about 3-4 minutes.

Add in tomatoes, butter, chicken stock, and coconut milk. Mix well, then add chicken back to pot. Cover and simmer for about 10-15 minutes, or until chicken is cooked.

Add  in the hearts of palm and continue cooking until noodles are warmed.

Serve and enjoy!

Butter chicken nutrition

PRINTABLE RECIPE

Butter Chicken

2 lbs chicken thighs with bone and skin
1 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp turmeric
4-5 tbsp butter
1/2 onion, diced
3 tsp Garam Masala
1 tsp cumin
1 tbsp grated ginger
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup crushed tomatoes
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup coconut milk
1 package Natural Heaven Pasta  (hearts of palm)

Heat up 2 tbsp butter in a Deep Frying Panon medium heat. Season your chicken thighs with salt and pepper, then add into the butter. Fry on both sides until browned.  Remove the chicken. Add in the onion and all the spices, garlic, and ginger. Cook for about 3-4 minutes.

Add in tomatoes, butter, chicken stock, and coconut milk. Mix well, then add chicken back to pot. Cover and simmer for about 10-15 minutes, or until chicken is cooked.

Add  in the hearts of palm and continue cooking until noodles are warmed.

Serve and enjoy!


*Disclaimer: I am NOT a certified nutritionist and your nutritional information may vary depending on exact ingredients you use. I highly recommend you calculate your own and just use this as a guideline. The links for products are affiliate links so I may earn a very small commission if you purchase through them – but it doesn’t cost you anything additional!

Week 5 Check In

Well, I survived a girls night out and still made progress this week! I didn’t get my weekly check in up on Sunday like I normally do since I wasn’t home, but here it is now!!

This week flew by as they all seem to do and I was a little nervous about going out to dinner and a movie with a friend and then having a vendor event all day the next day. One thing that really helped is I prepared ahead of time. I knew where we were going to go to eat, so I looked up the menu online to figure out what my Keto friendly options were so it made it easier to pick something to eat that night.

For the vendor event, I again prepared ahead of time and took some keto friendly snacks with me from my Keto Krate. Being prepared saved me from a lot of temptations (like the double chocolate brownies) at the event. Instead, to curb a sweet tooth, I ate some sugar free Hemp Brittle from Curly Girlz Candy. You’d never know it’s sugar free!

So after all that, here was my results:

Starting Weight: 308.8 lbs
Last week check-in: 292.8 lbs
This week check-in: 291.0 lbs
Loss for the week: 1.8 lbs
Overall loss since 9/21: 17.8 lbs

Starting overall inches: 489.7 inches
Last week check-in: 468.7 inches
This week check in: 466.4 inches
Loss for the week: 2.3 inches
Overall loss since 9/21: 23.3 inches

That’s pretty impressive for only 5 weeks!! I wouldn’t be able to do it without the help of truVISION. It’s such a simple program. Just two pills, twice a day! Can’t wait to see what next week brings! The 280’s are so close I can almost taste it!

 

Keto Krate – October 2018

I’ve signed up for so many subscription boxes over the years. Some for clothes, some for kids toys, some different food items – some were good, some were bad. So when I heard of Keto Krate I was a bit hesitant to give it a try. I haven’t had the best of luck with previous subscription boxes so I was a bit skeptical this would be much better. Especially with how some Keto foods are – not exactly ‘great’ by any means.

But wow. Was I PLEASANTLY surprised!!

The stuff tasted amazing AND it was KETO friendly!!! Do you know how hard that can be to find? Very!

So I bet you are dying to know what was inside, aren’t you??

Here’s the breakdown of what was in the Keto Krate, how many net carbs it has, and a quick review of it.

Bhu Fit bar – Salted Caramel Pecan flavor: This tasty bar only has 1 net carb and is full of nutty goodness. It’s slight sweet, slightly salty and is almost like a KETO version of a candy bar. Get your own box of these BHU Fit Salted Caramel Pecan bars here.

Pywiack Krackers – Savory Parmesan: Crackers are one thing I have been missing. I love to have a slice of cheese and piece of summer sausage on a cracker. It’s just not the same eating it without. So when I saw crackers, I immediately had to try them. They are great on their own and so good with meat and cheese! They almost taste like a rye cracker but are made with almonds, flax seed, chia seeds, and seasonings. You can get some of those direct from their website here. At only 2 net carbs per serving, I’m back to having crackers with my meat and cheese!

Curly Girlz Candy – Sugar Free Hemp Brittle: Oh my god. This is by FAR my favorite item from this box. The name was a little off-putting. I mean who EATS hemp? Certainly not something I’d ever done and didn’t think I ever would. I find it so hard to believe that this is sugar free. It’s amazingly delicious and I want to know what else Curly Girlz Candy makes and buy ALL OF IT. There are ZERO net carbs in this candy! It’s as close to toffee as you’ll probably get and I could eat the entire pouch in less than 5 minutes. There is no after taste. Seriously, go to Curly Girlz Candy website. NOW. Their candy is hand crafted and made with locally sourced ingredients in Owatonna, Minnesota. Best part? They have KETO candy AND traditional candy for the non-KETO’er in your family.

Macalat Chocolate Wizardry Organic Sugar-Free Dark Chocolate: Ok – this is CHOCOLATE. Do I really need to say more? Oh yeah. It’s organic. It’s sugar free. And it’s only 3 net carbs per serving. Now – this is why it’s important to read your labels. This bar is not very big and there are 4 servings in it. So if you eat the entire bar, you just set yourself back 12 carbs. Granted that is much better than a sugar loaded Hersey’s bar, but you still wouldn’t want to do that. If you are a choc-o-holic like me and want to get some bars to keep on hand, get a box of the Macalat Chocolate Wizardry.

Gorilly Goods – Hillside Pumpkin Seed and Kale: So I call this the KETO trail mix. It’s got pumpkin seeds, kale, and seasonings. Perfect savory snack. It’s only got 3 net carbs in the whole packet and it’s got 17 g of fat and 12 g of protein. Perfect to help fill your macros!! You can get a box of GORILLY GOODS, HILLSIDE or try the Gorilly Goods Variety Pack.

Burn Butter – Hazelnut (Grass Fed Butter with MCT and Avocado Oils): Oh my. I love Hazelnut ANYTHING. And this can be used 2 ways. You can refrigerate it and use it as a butter, or leave it at room temp and use as an oil. One thing a lot of KETO’ers use is bullet proof coffee. This is perfect to put in it and give it that nutty flavor! Best part – ZERO net carbs! Or put it in the fridge and top some toasted 90 second microwave bread with it. Either way, it’s delicious! Get your Burn Butter Hazelnut or try a Burn Butter Sampler .

Landcrafted Food – Original Smoked Beef Stick: Well, you can’t really go wrong with a good ole’ beef stick when you are on KETO. These have 1 g of carbs, but not sure if that is net carbs since it does not say if there is any fiber. These are made from 100% grassfed beef and a perfect snack! Grab a pack of Landcrafted Food 100% Grass-Fed Beef Sticks (Original Smoked) and keep them on hand for when hunger strikes! These are so easy to grab and go.

Mission Meats – Graze Beef Bites: Similarly to the original smoked beef stick, you can’t go wrong with these! These ones are not smoked, but are perfect poppable bites. They come in a resealable bag, which is perfect  so you can grab a few when you need a quick snack! Unfortunately, there is no nutritional information on these ones. According to Amazon, there is 1 net carb per oz, so 4 for the entire pouch. Get your own Keto Sugar Free Grass-Fed Beef Snacks to much on 🙂

Intakt Cheese Lover Original: This is probably my second favorite item in this box. It’s basically a KETO’ers popcorn and has 1 ingredient – CHEESE! In the entire pack, there are only 2g net carbs. Cheesy and crunchy, this is an awesome replacement to cheese popcorn! Make sure you grab a few bags of Intakt Snacks Low Carb Crunchy Cheese Bites for your next movie night!

Natural Heaven – Veggie Pasta Noodles, Spaghetti Shape: These are probably the most impressive item contained in the box. These are noodles made from Hearts of Palm. That’s it, just that one ingredient! And at only 2 g net carbs per serving, you can have your favorite pasta dish again!! AND these require virtually NO cooking. Just heat with your favorite sauce, and eat!! It’s amazing to be able to eat ‘pasta’ again!! Be sure to grab some Natural Heaven Pasta Spaghetti so you’ll be prepared for Italian night and NOT have to skip the noodles anymore!!

This is seriously the best thing I have ever ordered in regards to my KETO diet. Keto Krate really knocks it out of the park. I can’t wait for next months! I don’t usually snack much since changing to a KETO diet, but it’s so awesome to have food you CAN snack on (or make a meal out of!) Thank you Keto Krate!!!

So seriously – what are you waiting for?! Go order your Keto Krate now!


Keto Krate contents

Quick & Filling 3 Carb Dinner

There are some days when I just don’t know what to eat. Those are the days that I stand in front of the refrigerator with the door open, browsing through what’s in there. Be it cheese that got shoved into the back of the drawer and was now starting to mold, my husbands Hamburger Helper leftovers that I can’t eat anyways, or a multitude of other things that I just don’t know what to do with and have of which I can’t even have.

So what do I do? Find some low carb foods and put them together! When it happened this weekend, this is what I ended up with:
burger.jpg

We will just call it the Breakfast Bacon Avocado Cheeseburger (BBAC for short – because that name is a bigger mouthful than the burger was). Compliments of my fridge and freezer and only 3 net carbs! Plus, it was SO filling, I could only eat 3/4 of it. Sometimes the mish-mash of things you throw together end up being the best and this was no exception.

So here’s what I used for my BBAC –

  • Frozen Ballpark burger
  • Crystal Farms sliced cheddar cheese
  • Hormel Microwave bacon
  • One Fried Egg (Runny yolk of course)
  • Heinz mustard
  • Hellmans Mayo
  • Sliced Avocado
  • Salt and pepper

Not bad considering I stood in front of the fridge for 10 minutes mentally going through every item to see what I can/can’t have and how to make a meal out of it.

Here was my nutrition for this:
burger nutrition

As good as this was, it’s so much easier when I have my meals all planned out! This week I’m hoping to make sausage, peppers, and onion in the crockpot as well as butter chicken and green beans w/ mushrooms, plus avocado brownies for dessert. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

What are you meal plans for this week??

Week 4 Check In

It’s now been 4 weeks since I returned to Keto and started on truVISION and I’m feeling great! I’ve still got a long ways to go, but I feel I’m off to a good start.

With being on a ‘special diet’ you can get burned out on what you’re eating sometimes, or just want to grab something ‘easy’ to eat – but of course that doesn’t fit in the plan and can actually set you back. This week, my only struggle was that I ate corn for dinner one night. Yep, corn. Normally that doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but when you are on Keto, the carbs in corn are NOT a good thing. I think I would have lost more weight this week if I had just skipped that one, but I thought a little wouldn’t hurt – next time, I’ll pick another vegetable!

So that being said, I did still lose this week, just not as much weight as I hoped – but the inches – WOW. I remeasured some areas 4 times because I didn’t believe it. This is why I tell people they should measure as well! I was disappointed with the scale not going down more, but something was still happening, because the inches are falling off!

Here’s the breakdown:

Starting Weight: 308.8 lbs
Last Weeks Weight: 293.8 lbs
Current Weight: 292.8 lbs
Total lost: 16 lbs!

Starting Inches: 489.7 inches
Last Weeks Inches: 478.5 inches
Current Inches: 468.7 inches
Total lost: 21 inches!

I wanted to do my update pictures in the same shirt, but of course I couldn’t find it today, so I had to use another one. I’ll update this post if I can find the shirt soon 🙂

I know I couldn’t do this on my own. truVISION has helped immensely. It doesn’t give me as much energy as it does to others, but it has helped a ton with my cravings and appetite. I haven’t had pop in weeks. I don’t crave snacks like I used to and I’m full after eating one small portion of food instead of taking a large portion and then having seconds! With truVISION and an amazing support group on my side, I know I can do it this time! I’d love to help others achieve their goals as well, so contact me today if you are interested in joining me.

 

KETO Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole with Cajun Onion Rings and Spicy Dipping Sauce

Wow. That is a mouthful to say. And all through dinner, I had a mouthful of it! It was a perfect bacon cheeseburger sans bun. What makes this even better is the whole family will eat it!

I absolutely LOVE recipes where I don’t have to go out and buy 5,001 odd ingredients that I’m going to use for this recipe and this recipe alone. This is not one of those recipes. Everything on this list I have on hand 24/7. It’s stuff I use all the time. It’s my kinda recipe.

This may seem a little daunting because there are 3 components to it, but it’s really actually very simple. Get the sauce made and in the fridge. Put together casserole. Do onion rings while casserole is baking. Eat and enjoy. So simple.

For the dipping sauce, just put all the ingredients in a bowl and stir until mixed. Can’t get much easier than that! You’ll want to set it in the fridge while you prepare everything else so the flavors can really come out.

Then get started on the casserole. You can fry up bacon, use precooked microwave bacon, or use real bacon pieces. Whatever you’ve got will work. You just want some nice crispy bacon. I have a huge bag of bacon pieces I got at Sam’s Club so I threw some of those in a frying pan to get nice and crispy. Once they were done, take them out and put on paper towel to absorb and excess grease. Don’t forget to get your oven preheating to 350 while you’re cooking the meat. If you oven is like mine, you could start it 20 minutes BEFORE you start anything else and maybe it’ll be ready by the time you are.

frying bacon

Put the hamburger in the frying pan and cook until browned. Drain off any excess fat, then add the onion and garlic. Cook until onions are soft and almost translucent, roughly 5 minutes.

Once that’s done, add in pickles, cream cheese, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire, and seasoned salt. Stir. Once all mixed and cream cheese melts, transfer to greased 8×8 casserole dish. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and the whipping cream together, then add in the hot sauce and cayenne pepper. Pour over the beef then sprinkle on the bacon. Top with a full 8 oz of cheese. That’s right, you heard me. ALL 8 OZ. These is cheese heaven on top.

Bake it for 30 minutes and then cool before eating. You could leave this thing sit for an hour and it’ll still be hot. That yummy cheesy layer holds in all that heat. So just be careful when you dive in for a bite.

While the casserole is baking, get to work on the onion rings. If you are uber talented at cutting perfectly equal size onion rings, go for it. I, on the other hand, prefer a little assistance from a good ole’ mandolin. It just makes them so much more even and I can get them thinner so I don’t have to burn the coating while I’m trying to cook the onion.

Once you’ve got your onions ready to go. Mix up the coating. Once you’ve got it mixed, put about half of it in another bowl and set it to the side. As your dipping bowl gets low, add more to it. If you put it all in at once, it’s going to clump up. Beat 2 eggs in another bowl.

Now you’ve got a couple options for cooking. You can either bake them or fry them in oil. Dip your ring in the eye and then in your dry mixture. If you want to bake them, I recommending lining your cookie sheets with parchment paper or using a silicone mat. My preference is the mat, mainly because you can wash and reuse them. Parchment paper can get pricey if you have to use it often. You’ll cook them at 425 for about 8-10 minutes on each side. If you want to fry them, heat your oil over medium heat – I prefer to fry them using a cast iron skillet. These fry up very quickly, so keep an eye on them! Drain on paper towel when done.

So it sounds like a lot, but it’s actually very simple! And it was SO filling. Now while the onion rings are low carb, you still want to watch how many you enjoy – onions naturally have more carbs than some other vegetables. I had less than half a dozen of these with the casserole and it was more than enough. If you cut a whole onion, it makes a LOT of onion rings. If you don’t think you’ll need that many, half the recipe.

*These are my calculations using the KetoDiet app. Since items can vary from brand to brand, you should make sure to check your own calculations. You can adjust quantities, spices, etc on recipe to your liking.

PRINTABLE RECIPE

Dipping Sauce

1/2 c mayo
1 tbsp reduced sugar ketchup
1 tbsp horseradish
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp sea salt

Stir all ingredients until thoroughly mixed. Refrigerate for at least 1/2 an hour.

Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole

1/2 lb bacon
1 lb ground beef
1/2 sweet onion
1 clove garlic
4 tbsp cream cheese
1/3 c diced dill pickle
2 tbsp reduced sugar ketchup
1 tbsp yellow mustard
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp seasoned salt
4 large eggs
1/4 c heavy cream
1 tsp ground pepper
1 tsp hot sauce
8 oz grated cheddar

Preheat oven to 350

If you start with raw bacon, dice and cook in a large skillet over medium heat until crispy. Remove from pan and drain bacon grease. Alternatively, you can use precooked bacon, heat in microwave and crumble or fry up some bacon pieces until crispy.

Add the ground beef to the skillet and cook until browned. Once done, add in the onion and garlic and cook about 5 min or until soft. Add in cream cheese, pickles, ketchup, mustard, sauce, and salt. Stir until mixed and transfer to greased 8 in casserole dish.

Beat eggs and whipping cream together, then add ground pepper and hot sauce. Pour over hamburger. Top with bacon, then with cheese.

Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.

Spicy Onion Rings

1 large onion
2 large eggs
1/2 c almond flour
1 tbsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dry oregano
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Slice onions into rings. Put all dry ingredients in bowl and mix, then put half in a second bowl. In another bowl, beat 2 eggs.

You can either bake them or fry them in oil. Dip your ring in the eye and then in your dry mixture. If you want to bake them, I recommending lining your cookie sheets with parchment paper or using a silicone mat. My preference is the mat, mainly because you can wash and reuse them. Parchment paper can get pricey if you have to use it often. You’ll cook them at 425 for about 8-10 minutes on each side. If you want to fry them, heat your oil over medium heat – I prefer to fry them using a cast iron skillet. These fry up very quickly, so keep an eye on them! Drain on paper towel when done.

Comment below with your thoughts!


*Disclaimer: I am NOT a certified nutritionist and your nutritional information may vary depending on exact ingredients you use. I highly recommend you calculate your own and just use this as a guideline. The links for products are affiliate links so I may earn a very small commission if you purchase through them – but it doesn’t cost you anything additional!

KETO Eggs Benedict Casserole w/ Hollandaise Sauce

When you get tired of making chicken, steak, hamburger, pork, etc etc, for supper, what do you do? My favorite thing is to make breakfast food! Now pre-Keto that would have most likely meant pancakes or hashbrowns; those evil carb loaded foods. But now that I’m doing keto, those items are a no fly zone.

Eggs benedict was (is) one of my favorite foods, but obviously you can’t have the english muffin on Keto. So when I found this recipe for an eggs benedict casserole, I just knew I had to make it.

There aren’t many ingredients to it either. The most difficult part for people will be the hollandaise sauce and even that isn’t that hard. After having made it, I would make a few adjustments on the recipe due to personal preference, but I’ll give you the recipe as I found it and made it and tell you what I personally thought of it and would have done differently.

For the casserole, start by preheating the oven to 350. Set aside enough of the canadian bacon/ham to line the bottom of at 9×13 casserole dish and chop the rest. Heat up 1 tbsp butter or olive oil in a Frying Pan and cook until browned. Place on paper towel so it absorbs any excess liquid. Lay the reserved ham slices in the bottom of the 9 x 13 casserole dish.

Put the eggs (no shells please!) in a large mixing bowl and whisk. Add in the remaining ingredients and whisk until thoroughly mixed. Pour over the ham and sprinkle 3/4 of the cooked ham into the egg mixture. Bake for 20 minutes then add the rest of the ham and bake another 10 minutes until egg is set.

Now, onto the hollandaise sauce. Start by separating the egg yolk from the white and put the egg yolks into either a stainless steel or glass bowl. The easiest way to do that is to use an Egg Separator . Heat about an inch of water in a small saucepan over medium heat until it is simmering. While it is heating, whisk the yolks and lemon juice together until it thickens. Then set the bowl on top of the simmering pan and lower heat. Be sure the bowl does not touch the water or it’s too hot and will scramble your eggs. Continue to whisk the mixture, then slowly put the butter in, whisking continuously. The sauce will thicken. Remove from heat. Add in seasonings, mix well, and serve.

There are six servings in this recipe. Cut a slice of casserole and top it with hollandaise. Voila! Eggs Benedict Casserole

Finished eggs benedict and hollandaise

It was such an easy recipe, but I would leave the mustard and the onion powder out of the eggs and omit the majority of the lemon juice in the hollandaise. It made it way too sour and I love a good hollandaise. Let me know what your thoughts on when you make it!

PRINTABLE RECIPE

Keto Eggs Benedict

12 oz Canadian bacon or thinly sliced ham, diced
1 tbsp butter or olive oil
10 large eggs
1/2 c heavy cream
2 tbsp dijon mustard
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

Preheat the oven to 350. Set aside enough of the canadian bacon/ham to line the bottom of at 9×13 casserole dish and chop the rest. Heat up 1 tbsp butter or olive oil in a Frying Pan and cook until browned. Place on paper towel so it absorbs any excess liquid. Lay the reserved ham slices in the bottom of the 9 x 13 casserole dish.

Put the eggs (no shells please!) in a large mixing bowl and whisk. Add in the remaining ingredients and whisk until thoroughly mixed. Pour over the ham and sprinkle 3/4 of the cooked ham into the egg mixture. Bake for 20 minutes then add the rest of the ham and bake another 10 minutes until egg is set.

Hollandaise Sauce

4 egg yolks
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 c (1 stick) butter, melted
Dash hot sauce
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Pinch of salt

Start by separating the egg yolk from the white and put the egg yolks into either a stainless steel or glass bowl. The easiest way to do that is to use an Egg Separator . Heat about an inch of water in a small saucepan over medium heat until it is simmering. While it is heating, whisk the yolks and lemon juice together until it thickens. Then set the bowl on top of the simmering pan and lower heat. Be sure the bowl does not touch the water or it’s too hot and will scramble your eggs. Continue to whisk the mixture, then slowly put the butter in, whisking continuously. The sauce will thicken. Remove from heat. Add in seasonings, mix well, and serve.


*Disclaimer: I am NOT a certified nutritionist and your nutritional information may vary depending on exact ingredients you use. I highly recommend you calculate your own and just use this as a guideline. The links for products are affiliate links so I may earn a very small commission if you purchase through them – but it doesn’t cost you anything additional!

No Bake KETO Cheesecake

Cheese. Cake. Two of my favorite things. So when you put those two words together, it’s just magical. There’s a reason those Golden Girls sat around the table eating cheesecake. Cheesecake solves everything. Ok, not really. But it’s so delicious you might forget all your worries for a bit.

Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts and this recipe can’t get much easier. Plus, you only have to bake the crust. Not bake the cheesecake for 50 minutes and let it cool for 2 hours then have to refrigerate a day before you can even think about eating it. Nope, not this one.
Partially eaten cheesecake
This one you can be eating in just a few short hours after you make it. Or you can just spoon the filling out of the bowl after you whip it together. You decide. But if you like the beaters after you mix it, the filling might not make it on top of the crust. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

First thing to do is prepare the crust. Mix all the ingredients, press in a pie plate, and bake.

While that cools, make your filling. I let the crust cool for probably a good hour. Partially because I was doing other things and partially because I didn’t want the filing to sit on a warm crust and trap the heat in. Would have made for a very soggy crust!

Top the filling on the crust and refrigerate. I suggest leaving it for at least 4 hours or overnight. I would like to think that if the Golden Girls were on Keto, this would be the cheesecake they sit around the table and eat. #goldengirlapproved

**UPDATE TO RECIPE!! While the cheesecake is absolutely delicious with the recipe below, my husband found it a little too ‘tangy’ from the sour cream – so the next time I made it, I only put about 1/4 c sour cream in it and I upped the vanilla to 2 tsp. It was PERFECT. I’ve had so many compliments on this cheesecake, it’s definitely a crowd pleaser.**

PRINTABLE RECIPE

No Bake KETO Cheesecake

Crust:
2 cups Almond Flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp powdered Swerve Sweetener
1/3 cup butter, melted

Filling:
16 oz cream cheese at room temp
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered Swerve Sweetener
1/2 cup sour cream
3/4 cup heavy cream

For the crust:
Preheat the oven to 350. Stir all ingredients together until well mixed. Press into bottom of pie plate. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool

For the filling:
With your hand mixer or standing mixer, blend together the cream cheese, swerve, and vanilla until fluffy. Mix in sour cream. Slowly pour in heavy cream and mix until thickened. Pour on crust and smooth top of filling. Chill for minimum 4 hours and enjoy!

I found this recipe on Pinterest but next time I think I will double the vanilla in the filling and cut back on the sour cream. It was a little too tangy for my taste and I like a little more vanilla flavor. But it was definitely good and I’ll make it again.

If you make it, comment below!

*Nutritional values are based on items I used. You should always check your own.

Keto Cheesecake Nutrition


*Disclaimer: I am NOT a certified nutritionist and your nutritional information may vary depending on exact ingredients you use. I highly recommend you calculate your own and just use this as a guideline. The links for products are affiliate links so I may earn a very small commission if you purchase through them – but it doesn’t cost you anything additional!

Week 3 Check In

I’ve now been on TruVision for 3 weeks. It has been one of the easiest weight loss programs I’ve ever been on and the weight just falls off. I’m still recovering from surgery, so I haven’t been able to work out AT ALL yet. It’s pretty impressive when you can lose weight while being laid up.

This week was not as difficult since there weren’t any special events to have to prepare for or attend. You don’t realize how non diet friendly food is at get-togethers until you are watching what you eat. If I’m lucky, most of them only have some veggies or fruit tray. And most fruit is not low carb, it’s not an ideal choice for me – so that basically leaves just veggies. Not exactly a big variety!

And how for the results:

Starting Weight: 308.8 lbs
Current Weight: 293.8 lbs
Loss to date: 15 lbs!

Starting overall inches: 489.7 inches
Current overall inches: 478.5 inches
Loss to date: 11.2 inches!

Not to shabby for starting on 9/21 with TruVision. I’ve had way less cravings (hardly any actually) and my appetite is very decreased from what it used to be. Sometimes I actually have to remind myself to eat because I’m just not really hungry. Fingers crossed next week will be just as good! Don’t take my word for it, try TruVision for yourself!

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