I’ve been learning a lot by following the Trim Healthy Mama Facebook page, and it is not just about recipes! The ladies on that page come up with wonderful ideas to help make life easier as they try to lose weight and get healthy. My favorite tip so far has to be this creative way to make pouring those half-gallon Mason jars full of wonderful beverages.
Isn’t this a great idea? I just cut around a pour spout from a carton of almond milk and used it as the flat lid with the ring to my Mason jar. Seriously, why didn’t I think of this? I’m telling you, these ladies are absolutely brilliant!
One of the favorite recipes in our home at Christmas is this delicious cherry nut bread. I first discovered this recipe while I was still in college. I baked it for my parents who just loved it. Once I got married, I made it for the hubby and for friends as gifts. You can read the recipe here.
Now that we are trying to eat a low-carb diet, I had to figure out a way to make this recipe without all the carbs, so that we could still enjoy it. While it doesn’t taste the same, it is a good substitute. I followed the basic recipe but made these substitutions:
1. I replaced the 2 c. flour with a combination of almond, coconut, and oat flours. I used 1 c. almond flour and 1/2 cup of each coconut and oat flours. I think when I make this again, I will switch the amounts of oat and almond flours.
2. I used stevia as my sweetener instead of sugar.
3. I used 1 cup of tart pie cherries instead of maraschino cherries.
We liked the flavor of this bread, but it is rather crumbly. I made the recipe into 16 muffins so that I could try to figure out the carbs per serving. If I did my math right, it comes out to 7 carbs per muffin. For those following the THM plan, these would be an S.
The Cookbook Experiment 