Meal Ideas

Cheeseburger & Egg Salad

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This is another ‘recipe’ that really comes under the Meal Ideas category, because there’s just so many ways you can play with it to customise to your preferences/macros and whatever you have in the cupboard to chuck in with it.

I’d bought some lovely burgers from the supermarket, but as I’ve never really been a fan of having them served in a bun or similar, I thought I’d just add the components of a burger to a salad bowl. Again, another really simple idea that takes literally 10-15 minutes to prepare!

I chucked my burgers onto the George Foreman grill (of course you can fry, grill or BBQ yours) and whilst they were cooking, I layered up a bowl with lettuce, sauerkraut (in the absence of cucumber pickles), olives, mustard and sugar-free ketchup.

When the burgers were just about done, I broke them into bite-sized pices in an ovenproof dish, topped with cheddar and stuck under the grill until the cheese had melted, whilst also quickly frying an egg to go on top.

After sticking the burger, cheese and egg on top of the leaves, just finish with salt and pepper, and you’re done!

Simple Salmon and Scrambled Eggs

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I’m hesitant to put this down as a ‘recipe’, because I feel it’s more of a meal assembly, so I’ve created a new category of posts for ‘Meal Ideas’, which for my lifestyle, tend to be meals I can throw together relatively quickly and/or with minimal cooking of convenience ingredients.

Salmon and scrambled eggs comes under that category; there’s so many variations, combinations and permutations that you can come up with that one single set of instructions can’t cover it. Suffice to say that they are an awesome combination – scramble your eggs with a ton of butter, serve with a good helping of smoked salmon and whatever sides you want. Personally I love raw watercress and spinach but go with what you feel!

I’ve included a couple of examples in this post – the first is topped with sunflower seeds, capers, olive oil and lemon juice.

The second is with a quick sauce made from full-fat creme fraiche, lemon juice, salt and black pepper.

Remember to weigh and track your ingredients to check the carb content, but overall this should be a pretty low count meal – mine will generally come in at around 5-6g.