Holiday Strategy

While it's not actually working very well (I'm eating everything in sight), my food strategy for the holidays is to make sure I have plenty of happy low-carb snacks on hand, to counter the temptation of all the high carb snacks that seem to ooze out of the woodwork this time of year. To that end, I've been making:
*low carb eggnog,
*sugar-free hot chocolate (1 1/2 T cocoa powder, 1 1/2 T splenda, hot milk),
*low carb crackers (I use almond flour instead of flax meal b/c flax meal tastes like shit.)

My own creation is the Low Carb Almond Joy. This would also be good to make at Halloween, when all those nasty candies invade your home.

Start with a sugar-free macaroon recipe, make the macaroons into little oblong shapes:

Add a raw almond to the center of the macaroon; reshape if necessary.

Bake as directed for the macaroons, until wonderfully golden brown.

Now for the fabulous part. Melt a bag and a half of dark (semi-sweet) chocolate chips. Get the good ones, not the crap ones. Once the baked macaroons are completely cooled, dip them in the chocolate. Set on waxed paper to cool.

Wait until completely cooled to eat them. Heh. Riiiight.

Now, if you try this and aren't successful, it could be that you need a Constant Kitchen Companion, like I have. Sheila is my little Helpy-Helperton.