Cheesy Miracle Rice

Ingredients:
2 bags rinsed Miracle Rice
1/2 cup Ragu Double Cheese sauce
1 large egg
6tbsp grated parmesan cheese
3tbsp "I can't believe it's not butter" (yeah yeah I know, i haven't used this stuff in 3 years, but I'm trying to reduce calories for a bit)
2tsp yellow mustard
2tsp franks hot sauce
1tsp garlic powder
1tsp salt
1tsp pepper

Put the rinsed rice in a dry hot pan and let the liquid cook out. Add garlic powder to rice and mix well. While the rice is drying out, in a bowl mix cheese sauce, mustard, hot sauce, egg, salt & pepper, and half the parmesan cheese. I used a small loaf pan to bake it in. Add half the rice in the baking dish, then half the cheese, then the rest of the rice and rest of the cheese. Mix everything very well. Add the "i can't believe it's not butter" in dabs across the top, and cover with the remaining parmesan cheese. Bake @350* for about 20 minutes.

Makes 4 pretty good size servings@
136 calories/11.76g fat/2.74g carbs/.2g fiber/2.55g net carbs

Or if you are hungry and want to use it as a main dish, you could get 2 huge servings@
272 calories/23.52g fat/5.48g carbs/.4g fiber/5.1g net carbs

This was an experiment, so I think I could leave out the egg and "I can't believe it's not butter" and it would come out the same. Reducing the calories to 84 per 4 servings and the carbs to 2.65g.

Italian Shrimp Shiritake

Ingredients:
2 small bags prepared shiritake noodles
1tbsp butter
1tbsp grated parmesan cheese
6 Kalamata olives, sliced
1/2 portobello mushroom, diced
20 medium shrimp, peeled and deviened
2tbsp kraft light sour cream
1/2 medium tomato, diced
1tbsp chopped white onion
salt, pepper, and red chili flakes

Cook everything together except sour cream, and add sour cream at the end to make a sauce. Garnish with salt, pepper, and chili flakes.

Counts for whole recipe:
401 calories/21.5g fat/13.87g carbs/3.8g fiber/10.07g net carbs

I know that seems like a high carb count for one meal, but I had plenty to spare yesterday. You could omit the onion/tomato/sour cream and the carbs would be 7.46g total. I just added them because I had plenty to spare.

Fish Tacos

The ricotta shells are about 1/2 cup ricotta cheese and 4 eggs. Mix it all very well, I put a little garlic powder in them, and it makes about 8 shells. Don't grease the pan, put the batter in a very hot non stick pan and coat the bottom, like you would a crepe. Let it cook and get very brown so it doesn't tear when you try to flip it.

I would say it's about 2-3 tbsp of batter per "shell".

I used 1 Gortons garlic butter tilapia filet for both, a little shredded romaine (I didn't have cabbage), some sliced green onions, and the sirracha mayo (4tbsp light mayo, 1tbsp sirracha hot sauce for the base sauce, I didn't use that much obviously.)

Greek Shiritake w/Lemon Pepper Tilapia

1 bag shiritake noodles
6 sliced Kalamata olives
1tbsp parmesan cheese
1tbsp butter
1/2 portobello mushroom cap, diced
1tbsp chopped onion
salt & pepper
1 Gorton's lemon pepper tilapia filet

The whole meal had:
269 calories/18.51g fat/7.21g carbs/2.1g fiber/5.11g net carbs

Lemon Custard "tart" on WPP/Almond Flour Crust

Lemon Custard "tart" on whey protein/almond flour crust:


Ingredients:
2 servings almond flour (1/2 cup)
2 servings syntrax vanilla whey protein powder (2/3 cup)
2 servings great value butter (2tbsp)
2 servings silk almond milk (2 cups)
2 serving Lemon kool aid packets
1 large egg
2 large egg yolk
3 tbsps lemon juice
1.5tbsp glucomannan powder
1-drop EZ sweets for the crust
About 10 drops EZ Sweets for the filling (I just kept tasting until it was as sweet as I like)

Mix protein powder and almond flour well, add 1 drop EZ Sweets, and add 2tbsp melted butter. Mix well. It will be dry. Add a few tbsp of water until it is mixed and workable. Put in an 8" pie pan and spread out over bottom and up the sides. Bake in a 350 oven for about 8-10 minutes.

Put all other ingredients in a bowl, except glucomannan powder, mix well. With an electric mixer, hand mixer, or whisk, slowly add the glucc powder and mix for 2-3 minutes until it starts to thicken up. Pour in the crust and bake at 350 until center is set (about 25 minutes). (You will have left over filling, I baked those in cupcake tins without a crust)

Counts for 1/8th serving:
Serving Size 1 Serving

Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat 73
Calories 119

% Daily Values*
Total Fat 8.14g 13%
Saturated Fat 2.602g 13%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.394g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.113g
Cholesterol 88mg 29%
Sodium 718mg 30%
Potassium 130mg
Total Carbohydrate 2.06g 1%
Dietary Fiber 1.3g 5%
Sugars 0.46g
Protein 8.73g

Linda Sue's Stuffing Pie

This is Linda Sue's Stuffing Pie recipe, that I tweaked just a bit, not much though.
It is one of my all time favorite recipes from her site, so far anyways. I make it all the time and freeze the portions and have it a few times a week. It's one of the recipes that actually help me lose because a lot of days my calories are too low and it's one of my higher calorie meals. It's delicious as well! I think it taste better after it's been frozen and microwaved. For sure 5 stars. It is induction friendly as well.

Here are the tweaks I made:


With my tweaks, per 1/10th serving, the counts are:

LC No Bean Chili