Atkins and Paleo Challenge Box Set (10 in 1): Over 400 Atkins and Paleo Recipes With Pressure, Slow Cooker and Cast Iron for Busy People (Atkins Diet & Paleo Recipes) (41 page)

Apple Crisps

Ingredients

• 4 lbs. apples
  
• 1/8 cup shredded coconut
  
• ¼ cup almonds
  
• ¼ cup almond flour
  
• 1 tbsp cinnamon
  
• 2 tbsp butter, honey
  

Let’s Cook:

1. Peel and cube the apples.
   
2. Put into the slow cooker.
   
3. Add cinnamon, coconut, cinnamon and almonds.
   
4. Mix until well combined.
   
5. Add butter and mix again.
   
6. Cover and cook for 3 hours on low. 
   
7. Remove from slow cooker and crumble on serving plate.
   
8. Serve
   

Lemon Cake

Ingredients

• 2 lemons
  
• 4 tbsp lemon juice
  
• 2 eggs
  
• ½ cup coconut flour
  
• ½ cup almond flour
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• ½ cup whipping cream
  
• ½ cup and 2 tbsp butter melted butter
  
• 6 tbsp all purpose sweetener
  
• ½ cup boiling water
  

Let’s Cook:

1. Put into a bowl coconut flour, almond flour, baking powder and sweetener.
   
2. Grate the lemons to get the zest and squeeze to get the juice.
   
3. Add zest, juice, whipping cream, 2 tbsp of butter and egg.
   
4. Mix until well combined.
   
5. Put lining into the slow cooker pot.
   
6. Pour the batter into the slow cooker pot.
   
7. Put into bowl 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsu butter, 3 tbsp sweetener and water.
   
8. Mix until well combined.
   
9. Pour over the batter.
   
10. Cover and cook for 3 hours on high.
    
11. Serve.
    

It is essential to understand how this diet works before deciding that this is what you need. As it was said before: a diet – of any kind – cannot function if it does not have what your body needs to stay healthy and lose pounds. Everybody is different, and there is no diet to function the same for everyone.

This does not mean that you should eat constantly, but try to snack at least 2 or 3 times a day. Of course, you must choose low-carb snacks that won’t interfere with the diet. In this way, you diminish the chance to crave for the forbidden fruit (literally and metaphorically).

As in any eating program that has the purpose of helping you lose weight or maintain your normal weight, the number of calories ingested is important. But now, there is no need to calculate and add constantly; you just need to stay in the established healthy range (1500-1800 for women and 1800-2200 for men). Atkins asks you to count the grams of net carbs instead, and this is nevertheless important.

Although it is not essential, it is highly recommended to eat fats and oils at least in Phase I of the diet. As mentioned earlier, the quantity does not need to be exaggerated; it just needs to be higher than usual, and it can decrease once you move towards the following phases.

This is the first mistake that most of us make when first using this pot. Put as much as necessary to cover the ingredients; the pot should be only half or two-thirds full. Otherwise, the content could leak out, and the taste will be lost.

I am sure you know the promises of the kind “If I do my best to lose a number of pounds until next week, I will congratulate myself with – something unhealthy”. While this is nonetheless helpful for the diets that look for temporary results, when you try to adapt a new lifestyle, this is unacceptable. This type of thinking will only make you perceive this diet as a burden that needs to end soon, or you won’t resist anymore.

If you have found what your body needs in order to lose weight in a healthy, safe and steady way, you can consider yourself a lucky person. As we have seen in the beginning, most people fail in their attempts to drop pounds because they do not study enough before choosing a diet. Thus, they discover the hard way that an old neighbor’s advice is not enough when choosing a new diet program. But, if a dietician or physician recommended you the Atkins diet for your medical condition, half of your problem is already solved.

However, now comes the difficult part for you. You need to research, acknowledge and accept the diet rules from the very beginning. Otherwise, you will be tempted to perceive them as a burden. Get familiar with the foods that you are allowed to eat, the correct ingredient combinations and, definitely the most important, the types of recipes that you will be eating more often. Having a list of appetizing diet recipes is essential to keep your interest and motivation alive as you move from phase to phase.

This is exactly what the book
The Atkins Slow Cooker Cookbook: 36 Atkins Diet-Approved Recipes to Try in Your Slow Cooker
intended to help you with. Divided into two separate parts, the book provided you with what is essential to know about the controversial Atkins Diet. Obviously, there are many other important details about this diet that should have been presented, but Part I had the purpose of introducing you to this diet before actually moving to the recipes. The second part listed the 36 Atkins-friendly recipes that will become the greatest companion during the possibly difficult diet days.

To maintain variety and to help people with completely different tastes, this art was further divided into four chapters, each dealing with a specific aspect: recipes for the first phase, for the other three phases, for vegans and vegetarians, and dessert recipes for those who cannot resist without a sweet delight. Of course, these 36 recipes will only help you in the first stage of this diet (or, according to the number of net carbs, in the beginning of each phase) and should serve as guidance in the formation and development of your own cooking skills. Use what you have learned here, combine it with your own creative power and invent new similar recipes according to your own taste.

There is no need to make things harder when such a simple tool like the slow cooker is there for you, in your kitchen.