Budget Low Carb Cooking

Not everyone has a barbecue pit or a smoker, or even a grill. Still, I want you to be able to enjoy a semblance of Labor Day, Texas-style. I’m going to share my low carb quick barbecue sauce that sets my family’s lips to smacking.

Throwing a low carb Labor Day Party on a budget is easier than you think. Summer meat sales and bountiful vegetable harvests provide many opportunities to get perfect low carb foods at a fraction of regular prices. With a little ingenuity and imagination, Susie T. Gibbs helps us stay true to our low carb roots while navigating through a National Meat Holiday such as Labor Day, on a budget and with Texas flare to boot.

Break out the crockpot folks, because comfort is in the air, and who doesn’t love a steaming bowl of meatballs (of any persuasion) cooked low and slow in the family slow cooker? Using the same basic ratio of primary meats and veggies, you can jazz up these meatballs to fit any cuisine. BLC brings you flavors of Italy, Switzerland and China with our classic Italian Mountain of Meatballs in Sauce.

Serve Low-Carb Italian Meatballs as a side dish or over a bed of your favorite veggies and call it a meal. We love sautéed spinach, zoodles, cabboodles (cabbage noodles), and green beans. Simply give these veggies a brief sauté in garlic and olive oil and serve the meatballs and sauce over them with a spoon or two of Parmesan! Yummy!

Low-Carb Swedish Meatballs in Brown Sauce are great meatballs to package and freeze for many different brown-gravy applications. Make, bake, portion, package and freeze on a tray. After frozen, place in a zip-top bag in the freezer and use as many as needed for individual servings. Way cheaper than store-bought meatballs plus you know what goes into them! Score!

Low-Carb Quick Faux Pho tastes like a bowl of freshness, especially in winter during cold-flu season. The optional toppings are partly what elevates this hearty bowl of comfort.

Rich Low-Carb chicken bone broth soup forms the base for many soup recipes, or enjoy as a rich cup all by itself. When you have great bone broth, it's very easy to make delicious soups on the fly. It can be as easy as chopping up a bit of veg, adding leftover meats and poof, twenty minutes later...soup! Or it can be an involved slow-cook process, fortifying the soup with bone broth as the cooking liquid. Perfect for intermittent fasts and ketogenic days.

CarbSmart's Budget Low Carb is pleased to bring you one soup three ways. Join us in learning how to make bone broth soup, a natural gelatin-filled, liquid elixir. We’ll also make Quick Faux Pho made with gorgeous white meat and shirataki noodles, as well as Italian Chicken Vegetable soup jam-packed with fresh veggies and home-style Italian flavor.

3 Course Low-Carb Vegetarian Meal: Farmers' Market Bounty by Susie T. Gibbs from CarbSmart Magazine. Gorgeous Farmer's Market picks. Bringing you the best of summer's vast bounty.