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Looking for a Low-Carb Holiday? June is closest to my heart because it is National Beef Steak Month! A low carber's dream in one sort-of-fake holiday.
Read More »National Beef Steak Month: When’s The Beef?
Have a Low-Carb Mother’s Day with Zack! Mama Mia!
It's May. Whether or not we frolicked around a May Pole with flowers and long ribbons, we had better start thinking about Mother's Day. Zack Grady talks about Mother's Day and the Low-Carb Lifestyle. People who know about these things say that the first celebrations in honor of mothers were held in ancient Greece.
Read More »Low Carb Thanksgiving Articles
A variety of Holiday articles presented by CarbSmart.com.
Read More »Great St. Patrick’s Day Options for Low-Carb Dieters. Top O’ The Morning!
Top O' the Morning to ye, boys and girls! Aren't we all Irish on and near St. Patrick's Day? Isn't it a law of our fair land? Doesn't everyone have to wear some article of green clothing, or suffer the pinching consequences? Anticipating that you have been hunting four-leaf clovers and practicing to do a proper Irish jig, I will now ask you this burning question: What's Irish and spends the summer outside the back door? It's Paddy O'Furniture, don't you know!
Read More »The Peeps Are Coming! The Peeps Are Coming!
Are you prepared for it? Are you ready to face the armies of jelly beans, marshmallow peeps, and chocolate bunnies that are about to be marching down your street and are in the aisles of every supermarket from coast to coast? Are you prepared to face the horror of the Ultimate Rational Cheat Day!?!?!
Read More »My Little Low-Carb & Keto Valentine
I'm going to share a well-kept secret with you: the real truth about why the Cecil Hotel in San Francisco closed down. It's been many years now, and a very popular restaurant currently occupies those premises, so it's safe to tell the true story without fear that the Men in Black will show up at our door in the dead of night.
Read More »No One Ever Makes A New Year’s Resolution Like This
No one ever makes a new year's resolution like this: "This year I resolve to find a product which will magically turn me thin, and I resolve to buy it." No one ever makes a new year's resolution like this, either: "This year I will find a magic expert to take over my life and by following them exactly I will lose weight."
Read More »New Year’s Resolutions: A Challenge For All Of Us
New Year's Resolutions are promises that we make to ourselves. Some of us believe in making New Year's resolutions; some don't. I happen to believe in them. I believe that it is our obligation to strive to better ourselves, and that making promises to ourselves to do certain things (or not do certain things, as the case may be) will help us to accomplish our goals is one tool we can use to improve ourselves. The trouble is that most of us don't know squat about making effective promises - to ourselves or to anybody else.
Read More »Delilah’s Mirror: Sour Notes and New Year’s Resolutions
I thought at great length about my new year's resolutions for 2002. All the old goals are in full swing and working, so repeating them was redundant. But my personality demands a new year's resolution, and so I thought and thought.
Read More »Looking For Luck In All The Right Places
Happy New Year, 2002. It's a palindrome, you know, 2002. A palindrome is a word that reads the same backwards and forwards, like mom or dad or gag. The last time we had a palindromic year was 1991, and the one before that was clear back in 1881. And, there won't be another one for 110 years, not until the year 2112. These are rare years, indeed! It's a gas to be living in one.
Read More »Make-Ahead Low-Carb Holiday Recipes, Part III: Holiday Desserts
All of these Low-Carb Holiday Dessert recipes are simple, and yet they will add the final touch to your holiday meal that most of us crave. They can all be made ahead of time, and several of them can be made in individual portions. If you are the lone low carber and are traveling to a family dinner, you can take just one portion of your dessert and won't have to lug the entire dessert along with you.
Read More »Make-Ahead Low-Carb Holiday Recipes Part II: Main & Side Dishes
The best tip I can give you for make-ahead main dishes is to buy ahead. My stepmother routinely serves beef tenderloins and veggies at Christmas. Turkey and sometimes ham are on sale around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Beef isn't. Every year she finds beef tenderloins on sale during the summer. She buys them, wraps them well, freezes them until the day before Christmas, and saves a bundle. It's too late for this year, I suppose, but don't forget this tip next summer.
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