Budget Low Carb – Beefy Comfort Food Perfect for Low-Carb St. Patrick’s Day or Any Day

One-Pot-Low-Carb-Wonders, We Salute You! Slainté!

Budget Low Carb is all about staying warm! Winter still lurks and stout March breezes push insistently from the sidelines. Because of this, the months leading into spring are jam-packed with one-pot-low-carb-wonders such as low carb pot roast, low carb soups, low carb stews, and low carb hash. It’s easy to low carb these one-pot phenoms by simply substituting a high fiber, low carb veg in place of carby nonsense like pasta, potatoes, and rice. Great low carb, high fiber veggie substitutes include turnips, cauliflower, green beans, broccoli, cabbage, radishes, even a tiny bit of rutabaga–even though rutabaga is a higher carb choice.

It sure doesn’t hurt that one-pot-low-carb-wonders make king’s bounty out of beggar’s purses. It’s easy to use cheaper cuts of meat and capitalize on long, slow braising times to deliver hearty, rich and flavorful bowls of pure-d-comfort. And of course, nothing says comfort food better than beef. So in honor of our deep need for a warm and cozy bowl of satisfying, nourishing, comfort food, we give you—beef. It’s what’s for dinner. Cook up a big pot of Easy Beef Stroganoff and serve it over Buttery Cabbage Noodles–you’ll never miss the high carbage pasta noodles and you’ll thank me for not demanding you use your knife-skills slicing mounds of beef. The 80/20 ground chuck, while certainly providing a textural difference to traditional beef stroganoff, is a rich substitution in our low carb, Easy Beef Stroganoff recipe.

Oh and don’t forget, you’ll need a bit of the ol’ “Luck-o-the-Irish” in the next week as St. Patrick’s Day looms. Time for a bit of tom-foolery as we bypass the need to plan weeks in advance to home cure your corned beef. Just use our TNT (Tried-n-True) recipe for Un-Corned Beef. You could literally use this recipe on any cut of beef you choose. Choose the cut that’s on sale! This year, since I made the score on pot roast for $1.88/lb, it looks like it’s Un-corned Beef Pot Roast on the menu.

You can have this satisfying comfort meal on the table in 50 minutes from start to finish. Although ground beef isn’t a traditional cut of beef for stroganoff, the ground chuck is not only budget friendly, but cook-friendly—no meat-slicing skills needed.

Slainté me little “derlins”!

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Low-Carb Buttery Cabbage Noodles

This quick and easy side dish makes a great replacement for high carb pasta noodles. It’s a great SDS, “sauce delivery system”.

Total Cost of Recipe: $0.76
Cost per 1/4 of Recipe: $0.19

Serving Size: About 1 cup        Yield: 4 Servings
Preparation Time:    15 Minutes
Sauté Time: 15 Minutes
Start to Finish Time: 30 Minutes

Easy Low-Carb Beef Stroganoff with Buttery Cabbage Noodles

You can have this satisfying comfort meal on the table in 50 minutes from start to finish. Although ground beef isn’t a traditional cut of beef for stroganoff, the ground chuck is not only budget friendly, but cook-friendly—no meat-slicing skills needed.

Total Cost of Recipe: $8.52
Cost per ¼ of Recipe: $2.13

Serving Size: About 1½ cups

Preparation Time: 20 Minutes
Simmer Time: 30 Minutes
Start to Finish Time: 50 Minutes

Low-Carb Un-Corned Beef with Pan-Browned Winter Vegetables

A quick method for making un-cured beef in the style of corned beef.

Cost of Full Recipe for 8 People: $9.96
Cost per serving: $2.49

Serving Size: 4 servings

Preparation Time: 15 Minutes
Baking Time: 6 Hours

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