What did you Keto today? Part Deux!

[ClareBear]

Keto chilli and avocado, with a keto bun smothered with butter on the side.

[MarkGossage]

woo Finex pan… do they work as well as is claimed… trying to justify the cost!

[Acnickel]

Been working crazy hours at work for a couple weeks now, making intermittent fasting hard for me due to the weird times I’m actually home, awake, and able to cook. So I’ve decided during this time to eat whatever time of day I’m hungry, and not stress about having 16-24 hours of insulin droppage. So here’s my 9am meal lol. Probably will eat again at 8 or 9 pm. Tuna melt patties with avocado, probably my favorite food right now. So filling. I love how now when I’m done with a meal I can’t even fathom eating another bite whereas before I’d eat a meal and keep snacking on bits of leftovers or eat lots of crackers and the like between meals.

[Ruina]

Are the tuna patties pure tuna, of did you mix something in them?

[Acnickel]

I make them with one can of drained tuna, about a 1/4 cup or more of finely shredded sharp cheddar (I feel like any cheese would work, helps bind them together while they cook) and and one egg. You don’t have to top them with cheese too… but I love cheese. I use whatever seasonings I feel like, today was just salt, pepper, and old bay seasoning. Then you just fry them in a little butter over medium heat for a few minutes on each side. They are sooooo easy. At first I made them with a little almond flour to help bind them but found later that if I don’t make them too flat at first, cook then a minute or so then smoosh them flat with the spatula they hold together just fine.

[Ernest]

Oh there’s nothing like it. But you have to be a cast iron junkie to understand and justify the cost.
I have 4 pans of Finex. Over 30 cast iron pieces of cast iron cookware.

[BeStill]

Lol before going Keto I tried Chic Fil A’s gluten free bun on their chicken sandwich…had to send out a warning to family and friends to make sure they order an XL drink if they ever tried it - SO DRY

[David_Stilley]

What? No Bacon?

My boy is here for a couple of days, doing well on the Keto WOE. I love these spicy Louisiana Hot Links, 0 carb. Scramble with Pepper Jack and Avocado.

Have a great day!

[OgreZed]

[SmartCakes] are AMAZING!

Yes. Although both the SmartBuns and SmartCakes are expensive, I’m sometimes willing to pay the cost for the SmartCakes. Both low in carbs and calories.

[David_Stilley]

But you have to be a cast iron junkie to understand and justify the cost.

@MarkGossage I’m kind of a cast iron junky but I don’t get this. I think I’d buy a Lodge skillet and 30 lbs. of quality rib eyes instead!

[KBG]

I decided a while back that as our non-stick skillets age and turn into stick skillets I’m replacing them with cast iron which actually improves with age. My only reservation are eggs and we also like to do a lot of tossing as a means to “stir” veggies or whatever. Eggs stick even though we have a pretty well seasoned Lodge and tossing a cast iron pan is pretty much out, so I guess our habits will have to change. The Finex site says they work great for eggs, so I’m curious. I may have just found my S.O.’s b-day gift (and I get to play with it too ).

[Ernest]

LOL!! Cast iron pretty much outlives everyone. So cost only hurts right now, I’m sure my kids will use them and hand them over to someone who in turn will hand them over to…you get the idea.
Look at it this way, do you get why people buy Mercedes instead of just sticking with a Toyota?

[monsterjuice]

I need to find a store that sells these! It’s hard to find 0 carb sausages!

[Ernest]

I cook all my eggs in Finex. I actually bought the small Finex specifically for eggs.
I had to sand down my lodge skillets to get them to cooperate with eggs.

[DiMo]

I had to sand down my lodge skillets to get them to cooperate with eggs.

You are definitely hard core!

[KBG]

Ah, interesting. Never thought to sand it down, we’ve worked so long on that season. Makes sense though. I saw on the Finex site that theirs are CNC machined. Yes! The 8” is the one I’m eyeballing. I’ve wanted to replace our egg pan for a while. I’m glad I ran across this convo. Breakfast will be so happy… bacon frying in the 12” and eggs frying in the little 8”.

And you’re right about cost. A good non-stick skillet costs at least 75% of the cost of good cast iron, but in my experience that skillet only lasts a few years (granted, I have not tried stainless steel). Also, who knows what that coating is doing to us as it wears off into our food. I actually dug the cast iron out of the camping gear a few years back because I wanted the added iron in my food. With some things I think, Ma and Pa Ingalls had it right.

[Ernest]

You will buy 20 replacement non stick skillets vs one Finex. Do the math

[Ruina]

Thank you!!! I’ll post when I get around to making this. It will happen, probably next week.

[David_Stilley]

My cast iron collection is a dozen or more. I have a treasured one, my first. It was handed down from my grandma to my mom and she was young it the age of “modern cookware” so I ended up with it when I moved out. I don’t know if my grandma bought it or inherited it.

I have a Lodge that a neighbor sat on top of the recycling bin never used, probably an unwanted gift. Great skillet, I’ve cooked tons of eggs in it. I find the textured surface holds oil underneath whatever you’re cooking and is less sticky. And it gives the seasoning area more surface and the grooves build up giving it a really solid seasoned surface.

Key is preheating for any cast iron. I bought a $13 laser thermometer from Amazon and it’s really great for cast iron, a game changer.

Those are beautiful heirlooms @Ernest

[x-Dena-x]

#lazyketo

Left the hospital to go back to work after no sleep at all. Sometimes ya just gotta eat some nasty old Dunkin Donuts sausage and egg patty.