Your non starchy carb meals.

Following on from the fasting thread ,lots of people mention cutting the carbs.
Your favourite evening meals please. Inspire me for tonight.

Anything that involves loads of veg and/or pulses

But there’s nothing wrong with ‘starchy carbs’ especially if they’re wholemeal, so brown rice, wholemeal pasta etc.

Yes – what IHN said. Too many people see veg as containing carbs and mistakenly avoid it.

there’s a difference between carbs and starchy carbs!  Carbohydrates include sugars, fibre and starch.

If you’re looking to avoid starch, then wheat is probably public enemy number 1.  Lentils or beans are good options – not completely free of starch, but basically the lowest you’ll get without removing the ‘substantial’ bit of a meal entirely.   And they have lots of protein and fibre, which potatoes and rice don’t.

TBH my very simple method is to have a regular meal but to replace the pasta/rice/potatoes with green beans (and/or other veg but mostly green beans) regardless of the meal!
Or I just have a salad of some kind (chicken, chorizo, tuna) with egg.  Lat night it was freshly caught mackerel with the salad.

I’m not saying it’s right – probably isn’t – but it works for me!

Lat night it was freshly caught mackerel with the salad.

User name checks out. Actually I love the (much unloved) mackerel. Especially smoked.

Been for a ride this morning

Goy home and just eaten a bowl of stuff I make.

Rough guide

Onion garlic celery peppers tomatoes green beans chorizo chickpeas butter beans cannelloni beans pasata mixed herbs.

1 hour in deep frying pan

Leave overnight

Reheat and eat next day.

Perfect

I thought the best way to eat pasta was to cook it, cool it, fridge it for 24hrs then reheat it for your meal?

That’s the technique I’ve adopted since listening to Dr Moseley, just one thing.

We just tend to substitute for non starchy carb versions e.g. instead of potatoes we use swede (I actually prefer mashed swede with butter to potato nowadays); similar with swede chips, cauliflower rice (instead of rice obviously); roasted fleurets of cauliflower mixed into a creamy sauce instead of pasta etc. I don’t tend to eat bread nowadays unless it’s proper sourdough which doesn’t bloat or give me a gluten hangover!

Cauliflower rice is a good substitute for the real thing, and courgette works well as a replacement for pasta.

Chilli – just make a big bowl of it with an extra tin or two of beans rather than rice.

Curry – make some Roti as the bread or just serve with poppadum

I make a high-protein vegeterian cottage pie with green lentils in the gravy layer and red/yellow lentils mixed with sweet potato for the mash.

Depends on your gut though. I’m vegeterian so eat a lot of pulses anyway, but even for a vergeterian I can tolerate a lot of beans and pulses so swapping more in doesn’t bother me.

But there’s nothing wrong with ‘starchy carbs’ especially if they’re wholemeal, so brown rice, wholemeal pasta etc.

There’s also a massive WHY? If it works for you as a diet then crack on, but I thought the whole carbs are bad thing had been discredited as no better than any other method of restricting calories?

I thought the best way to eat pasta was to cook it, cool it, fridge it for 24hrs then reheat it for your meal?

I’ve heard that, something to do with the carbs crystalizing into an indigestible form?