It’s surprising how easy it is to switch out high-carb foods in recipes and replace them with low-carb alternatives that even taste better. I’m showing you 5 easy-to-switch low-carb alternatives that you’ll love using in these tasty recipes. Once you try these, you’ll see how easy it is to cook low-carb meals that are as yummy as yummy can be!
Make Spaghetti with Squash vs. Pasta
You’re in for a surprise when you make your spaghetti dish with a slightly nutty and sweet flavored spaghetti squash instead of the carb-heavy pasta spaghetti you usually use. Squash is considered highly nutritious, jam-packed with vitamin B and C as well as omega-3 fatty acids. You can count on getting a good energy boost from spaghetti squash.
Try these recipes:
Baked Four Cheese Garlic Spaghetti Squash
Replace a Pizza Crust with Cauliflower Crust
There’s no need to give up eating pizza just to avoid a crust heavy with carbs. Pizza can be very healthy when topped with nutritious foods and replace the standard crust with one made from cauliflower. You won’t believe how amazing this tastes until you try it. It gives you another portion of vegetables, in addition to the vegetables in your toppings including the tomato sauce. Meats and cheese are relatively low in carbs, so it’s easy to keep this pizza low in carbs.
Try these recipes:
Cauliflower & Pesto Crust Pizza
Lasagna with Eggplant
Delicious Eggplant Lasagna: For those who already love eggplant, this is perfect for you. If you don’t already love eggplant, you certainly will after tasting this delicious pasta-free lasagna. This is a quick and easy recipe, with all the tasty flavors of lasagna but without all the carbs. You can decide whether to peel or not peel the eggplant and how thick or thin you want your slices. To make it even, just use your favorite pre-made pasta sauce in a jar.
Try these recipes:
Low-carb South Beach Eggplant Lasagna
Switch Sandwich Bread for Romaine Lettuce Instead
You don’t have to give up sandwiches just because you’re cutting down on carbs. It’s just that your sandwiches are going to have a different look now. Try holding your sandwich together with a couple of romaine lettuce leaves instead of the usual sandwich bread. You’ll not only cut down on carbs and save yourself the carb crash afterwards. Lettuce leaves gives you far fewer carbs than if you switched sandwich bread for whole wheat. With lettuce you’ll get a lot more vitamin A.
Try these recipes:
Lettuce Wraps, the Underrated Sandwich
Use Almond Flour Instead of All-Purpose Flour
You may need to tinker with your recipe a bit to get the measurements just right, but almond flour can work in many different recipes as an alternative to all-purpose flour. This will save you a ton of carbs along the way. For an added bonus, almond flour contains more fiber than other wheat-based flours and it even makes certain foods taste better than if white flour was used in the recipe. By using almond flour in recipes for baked goods, you’ll get surprisingly yummy results.
Try these recipes:
Zucchini Instead of Noodles
The pasta noodles will not be missed in this delicious meat-filled cheesy lasagna layered with fresh zucchini slices. You’ll need to thinly slice up only two or three zucchinis to replace the pasta noodles in your lasagna. It’s now summertime so local farmers’ markets will be filled with fresh vegetables so you should have no trouble finding exactly what you want.
Try these recipes:
Recipe Runner Zucchini Lasagna Rolls
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