Low Carb Diets Recipes

Healthy Oat Granola - for that quick low carb diet breakfast. Just grab them and go!

What you will need:

1 2/3 cup quaker oat bran hot cereal, uncooked
1 cup quaker oats (quick or old fashioned, )
1/3 cup instant nonfat dry milk solids
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup hulled sunflower seeds
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp water
1 tsp grated orange peel
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup dried banana chips
1/2 cup raisins

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix the oat bran, oats, dried milk, honey, sunflower seeds, oil, water, orange peel, and vanilla. Stir them up throroughly. Spread the mixture onto a 9 x 13 inch backin tray. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown, stirring once after 10 minutes. Mix in the raisins and banana chips. Leave to cool.

What you will need:

4 english muffins
8 oz pizza sauce
1/2 cup onions, finely chopped
8 green pepper rings, quartered
16 slice pepperoni, cut in half
1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded

Split the muffins in half and toast them in the toaster. Spread the pizza sauce on both pieces of the muffins. Spready the onions on top. Cut each of the muffin halves into four pieces.

Put the eight muffin pieces in a circle around the edge of a paper plate (four plates will be used). Put one-quarter piece of the green pepper on top of each piece of muffin. Put one-half slice of the pepperoni on each piece of muffin. Sprinkle the mozarella cheese over the top.

Put each plate, uncovered, in the microwave, and cook on HIGH for 1 minute; rotate each plate one-half turn after 30 seconds.

What you will need:

2/3 cup crushed corn flakes
1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tbsp liquid honey or corn syrup

Mix 1/2 cup corn flake crumbs, coconut, peanut butter and honey; stir thoroughly. Measure out 2 tsp portions, make into balls. Roll in remaining corn flake crumbs. Chill until firm, keep in covered box in refrigerator.

18 nuggets, each serving 1 nugget 1/2 fruit & veg. choice, 1 fat & oils choice 5 g carbohydrate, 2 g protein, 4 g fat, 64 calories