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eggs florentine with chicken livers and bacon

This recipe for eggs florentine with chicken livers and bacon is from Rebecca Latham who runs the My Low Carb Road – Fasting Support Facebook group. By using her regular fasting routine and nutrient dense feasting she has been able to lose 37.5 lb (17kg) of body fat during 2016 (which is significant given she […]

garlic prawns, spinach, pine nuts

This “diet” food is so hard to take! And with a great blood glucose response to boot! Fresh prawns from the markets with spinach, pine nuts, shiitake mushrooms, butter and garlic. Super high on the vitamins and minerals as well as aminos with the pine nuts and spinach. Prawns are a nice way to get […]

The most nutrient dense foods for different goals

While a lot of attention is often given to macronutrient balance, quantifying the vitamin and mineral sufficiency of our diet is typically done by guesswork. This article lists the foods that are highest in amino acids, vitamins, minerals or omega 3 refined to suit people with different goals (e.g. diabetes management, weight loss, therapeutic ketosis […]

fine tuning your diet to suit your goals – Wendy

There is no single dietary template that works for everyone. Different individuals have particular needs and goals, and nutrition should be adjusted accordingly. It can be useful to compare how your diet stacks up against other dietary approaches to identify where you might further refine and improve your diet. The insulin load of your diet […]

Five Sisters Cafe halloumi, bacon and eggs

This is my favourite breakfast when do breakfast with my sister at the Five Sisters Cafe in West End, Brisbane. It does very well across the board with only 4g net carbs, a fabulous protein score and a great nutrient score owing to the spinach. So indulgent and delicious! net carbs insulin load carb insulin fat […]

bacon, eggs, avocado and spinach

This is a pretty incredible combination of superfoods and a taste sensation in your mouth. As you can see from the NutrientData plot below the nutrients are spectacular with every nutrient and mineral covered and the amino acid score is also very high. Even though there are 13% carbs most of them (12g out of […]

egg, spinach, cheese and cream

My nine year old son was asking what he could have for breakfast that would be healthy. This is pretty much the simplest and healthiest recipe that I could design that a nine year old can put together unsupervised. I’m teaching him to just put some frozen spinach, eggs, cream and cheese into a microwave […]

spinach and cheddar scrambled eggs

This breakfast idea is spinach and cheddar scrambled eggs from the ketogenic recipe site Ruled Me. Incredibly simple, nutritious and yummy all at the same time! The ingredients are simply spinach, cheddar, eggs, olive oil and cream. I highly recommend this style of meal as a quick and simple, no fuss meal option regardless of whether […]

spinach, onion and goat cheese omelette

This featured meal is the spinach, onion and goat cheese omelette from Craig Clarke of Ruled.Me. Spinach is always amazing from a nutritional density and insulin load perspective. Goat cheese is also one of the lowest cheeses on the insulinogenic scale. Together with some eggs, it has all the makings of a fantastic nutritious low carb meal with […]

low carb breakfast stax

I’ve run the nutritional analysis for nearly two hundred meals and starting to notice a cluster of meals at the top of the list that consist of spinach + egg + something else yummy. This indulgent one is the low carb breakfast stax from the ketogenic recipe site Ruled.Me. As shown below, this combination provides a […]