Holidays are right around the corner and are notorious for throwing people off their diets. With proper planning, there is no reason you can’t stay on your Zero Carb Carnivore diet throughout the holiday season.
Holiday dinners typically involve a main dish of meat so that part is easy, but what about side dishes, appetizers and desserts?! If you are hosting a holiday party you can easily make Carnivore diet dishes with a few low carb sides for guests and they wouldn’t miss the high carb stuff.
If you are attending a holiday party be sure to stuff yourself with as much meat as you can eat before you go to the party. That should prevent you from wanting to snack on high carb foods. You can always bring a Carnivore friendly appetizer to snack on so you don’t feel left out.
Even after 18 years on a Zero Carb Carnivore Diet, I am not immune to cravings triggered by carbs and or not eating enough. My favorite craving buster snack is The Carnivore Bar. I have them everywhere, just in case I need food right now.
Yes, they are expensive but well worth it for the convenience of having an instant healthy carnivore craving satisfier that will keep my focus and energy up in situations where I can’t get good meat.
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APPETIZERS:
Our Zero Carb Health Pinterest page is full of fun recipes that are Zero Carb Carnivore or easily converted to Zero Carb by eliminating the veggie or carby ingredients. One of my Go-To appetizers is a plate of bacon. How can you go wrong with that? It’s always a hit. 🙂
Other appetizer favorites:
Cute Holiday Meat and Cheese Platter
SIDE DISHES:
Again, our pinterest page has lots of ideas.
Stuffing, what about stuffing?! Here is a recipe I came up with for Zero Carb stuffing:
1 Package (about 8 links) Breakfast Sausage (not maple)
1lb Ground Chicken (not turkey)
Chopped up cooked turkey giblets
2 eggs
1Tbs Butter
1/4 Tsp Rosemary
1/4 tsp oregano
1/4 Tsp Sage
1/4 Tsp Marjoram
1/4 Tsp Thyme
1/4 Tsp Pepper
1/2 Tsp Sea Salt
-Scramble the eggs with butter and 1/2 the spices then set aside.
-Fry the breakfast sausages and set aside.
-In the same pan, with the breakfast sausage grease, cook the ground chicken, chopped giblets, and the other 1/2 of the spices.
-Combine all cooked ingredients.
You can either keep this warm, stove top method, in a pan, to get a crumbly stuffing, or you can put it into a baking dish and bake at 350 for an hour.
Gravy:
Gravy can be tricky. I have an Alfredo sauce type gravy recipe here.
Or, I recently found this method for a basic thick creamy gravy or sauce:
1/4 cup butter
4oz cream cheese
1/4 cup of cream
1/4 cup of favorite broth
Melt butter and cubed up cream cheese and whisk until smooth. Whisk in cream and broth. Add more broth if you want it thinner.
This is a basic sauce, you can add any seasonings to add more flavor or to complement the meat you are putting it on.
For example; saute a teaspoon of rosemary in the butter prior to adding the cream cheese for a rosemary cream sauce.
I add a tablespoon of Dijon mustard to this sauce for Carnivore Chicken Croquette gravy.
One of my favorite side dishes is Seafood Salad, it’s always a hit.
Caitlin’s Fish Chowder is a great first course or lunch.
More favorites; Pan Seared Scallops
Zero Carb Desserts:
For tips on Handling Social Situations and Holiday Gatherings on a zero carb carnivore diet click here.
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