It's Not Delivery. It's Low Carb.

Sundays remind me of church, big afternoon meals, and pizza at night. Yes, pizza. I loved going home after evening service and having pizza and orange julius's. Ahhhh, the memories. 

Pizza has not been a part of my life for the last 2 and 1/2 months since I've been doing low carb. I mean, come on, pizza is basically one giant carb. I would feel incredibly guilty for eating it, and I would basically be back at square one. (b/c I would definitely want more if I had some).

 I decided it was time to find a low carb pizza recipe that would satisfy my craving and bring me back to the 90's. I did it. So...it's not exactly like the pizza you order from Papa Johns or Pizza Hut, but it's a great substitute. The "crust" is made out of cheese, cream, cream cheese and eggs. (I feel like there is a theme there). You can put whatever toppings you want on it. I love bacon so, of course, that goes on there. It's more of a fork and knife kind of pizza, but it definitely satisfies the craving. So next time you find yourself picking up the phone to order a pizza, put the phone down and follow the recipe below. 

Low Carb Pizza Recipe

 

Well Butter My Biscuit

Tonight I made breakfast for dinner. I love breakfast for dinner. Actually, I love breakfast any time of day. I was a little sad, because I really love to take biscuits and put egg, cheese, and bacon in between for a yummy homemade breakfast sandwich. Unfortunately on low carb, you can't have biscuits...or can you? Turns out, you can! 

I made biscuits tonight. Biscuits that only have roughly 1 net carb each!!!!! Introducing, Carbquick. Carbquick is a low carb substitute for flour. I made their drop biscuits recipe that has two ingredients: Carbquick and water. I hate to bake so this recipe was perfect for me. They turned out great and breakfast (dinner) was yummy! If you are on a low carb diet, you really need to get some Carbquick. I haven't seen it in the store. I ordered mine through Amazon. Link below.

http://www.amazon.com/Carbquik-Baking-Mix-Now-lb/dp/B005YVU6FY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439694297&sr=8-1&keywords=carbquick

You Pay When You Don't Plan

I have been taking care of my sister, Sharyn, for the last 2 weeks, while she is recovering from knee surgery. Her husband is home on the weekends, so I get a little reprieve.

Inservice for work starts on Monday. Now, I'm one of those teachers who likes to be in their classroom from the middle of July until the first day of school. This year is even worse since I'm starting a brand new position, in a brand new school, in a brand new district. Unfortunately, since I have been taking care of my sister, I have only had one opportunity to work in my classroom until today. (I know I sound like my sister ruined my life. This is not the case, just setting the scene).

All that to say that today I finally had the chance to work in my classroom all day. I got home around 9:30 last night, went upstairs, got ready for bed, set my alarm for 5am, and got into bed. This means that I did not prepare anything for breakfast. I figured I would have time to make an omelet before I left. You should know that I'm the queen of the snooze bar, so of course you can guess what happened. 

My alarm started going off at 5am, and I hit snooze until 6am. Yep, one whole hour of hitting snooze. I'm pretty sure it's just natural now, and I don't even think about it. This hour of snoozing put me an hour behind so, of course, no time to make an omelet. Most of you are probably wondering why I didnt' just take the time to make one since technically I didn't have to be at work at any specific time. The answer is that I know myself, and if I would have taken time to make an omelet, I would have found tons of other things to do and would have been way late getting started. (School is only open from 7am-5pm, and I wanted every moment I could have). I figured I would just skip breakfast b/c I wasn't hungry anyway and just wait until lunch. I forgot I didn't eat dinner the night before. 

So, since I didn't eat dinner last night and didn't make anything the night before that I could just heat up or lay out snacks to take with me, I ended up stopping at Hardee's. Oh, Hardee's, how I love your breakfast sandwiches. Your frisco breakfast sandwich is amazing. Anyway, I basically ate all my carbs this morning, which in turn meant I skipped lunch b/c I was feeling guilty. Now it's time for a sensible, low carb dinner. Tomorrow is another day. Just remember planning helps you not cheat. With that said, I'm headed to plan my meal schedule for next week.