Low Carb Menus

Breakfast

Hot Peanut Butter Flax Cereal

1/4 cup fresh or thawed frozen blueberries on cereal

Lunch

Salad made with 4 cups chopped romaine or other dark green lettuce (i.e. not iceberg), half an avocado, and 4 oz cooked chicken meat, with Vinaigrette dressing such as Sweet and Sour Lime Dressing

Snack

1/4 cup whole almonds

Dinner

Grilled or Pan-fried Steak (5 oz raw)

1 cup green beans, prepared as you like them

1 cup Mushroom and Peppers with Wine and Herbs

Nutritional Analysis: Total 26 grams effective carbohydrate plus 32 grams fiber. Menu also contains 95 grams of protein and about 1500 calories.

Note: Calories can be varied by adding and subtracting protein and fat, or, if your particular carbohydrate needs vary from this, by changing amounts of carbohydrate foods. All menus have essentially all essential vitamins and minerals except for calcium and Vitamin D.