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Mock Low Carb Recipes: Substitution Is the Name of the Game

If you are considering going on a limited-carbohydrate diet, probably one of your major apprehensions is the perceived limitations in food choices that you’ll have to face. This is quite understandable. After all, if you’ve been on a typical diet for a big part of your life, one that is loaded with flour, sugar, starches, etc., the prospect of life without bread, French fries, pasta, and many others could be daunting. However, with mock low carb recipes available today, you need not totally abandon your favorite foods.

Mock low carb recipes are basically adaptations of popular and traditional recipes, but with ingredient substitutions put into place to make them suitable for the controlled-carbohydrate dieter. For instance, instead of using white flour in baked products, you can use nut flour; instead of mixing sugar in your dishes, you can use an artificial sweetener like Splenda (which does not contain the dubious ingredient aspartame found in other faux sweeteners).

Lauri Ann Randolph, author of the books “The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook,” “Low Carb Creations From Lauri’s Kitchen: Recipes for Your Carb-Conscious Lifestyle” and “Lauri’s Low-Carb Cookbook: Rapid Weight Loss with Satisfying Meals!” uses food substitutes to create dishes suitable for the Atkins, South Beach, or any other low-carb dieter. For example, her mock potato pancakes use cauliflower instead of potatoes, as do her low carb hash browns. Her mock béarnaise sauce is made with sour cream while her almond cookies use almond meal instead of white flour.

Some food substitutes for mock low carb dishes can be quite amusing or disconcerting, depending on how you look at it. For instance, there is a recipe for Mock Apple Crisp that uses zucchini instead of apple. And there’s a recipe for Mock Danish that doesn’t use bread at all! It’s just a mixture of cream cheese, eggs, artificial sweetener, lemon concentrate, and vanilla, softened and cooked in the microwave for the low carb dieter to enjoy.

There are loads of mock low carb recipes available both online and offline, free or for a fee. You can take your pick from dishes such as mock mashed potatoes, mock oatmeal, mock stewed cinnamon apples; beverages such as mock tea sangria, mock Kahula, and many, many others. Many are easy to cook and the ingredients are readily available. These recipes help make dieting easier to stick to and much more enjoyable.