Easy Dinner Side Salad

This is a cheap and easy side salad. when i say salad i dont mean that useless head of lettuce you can get for 99cents, i mean vegetables.

- one cup of raw broccoli floweretts (that 3lb bag from Sams is $3.86 and lasts us a week)
- one tomato, chopped (.39 a pound)
- fistfull of raw carrots (this bag is $1.00)
- dressing of choice. remember to read the label, should be 1-2 carbs per serving.. should not be the "fat free" or "low fat" type

Optional ingredients: shredded cheese, cauliflower, chopped onions, sliced hard boiled eggs, chopped bacon. If you use Caesar dressing, adding Parmesan cheese makes it just like the restaurants.

you can also eat as a main meal by heating up a half cup of the Spicy Chicken Recipe and mixing it all together. Its just too easy. I will usually eat a bowl like this and then have whatever meat recipe i have going after that.

Low Carb Cheeseburger Casserole

Man this stuff is so good i could sell it. Its similar to Lasagna without the high carb pasta.

Ingredients:
- 5lb log of ground beef (manager markdown to $2.95 for whole thing)
- one onion chopped
- 2 green peppers (.68cents each)
- 3 cans tomato sauce (.25cents each)
- 1/3rd cup low carb ketchup
- one package sliced cheese (16slices) ($1.50 with price match and coupon)
- tablespoon pepper
- teaspoon salt
- tablespoon Italian seasoning
Optional ingredients: can of mushrooms, can of green chilies, can of chopped olives, hot sauce

1. will have to cook meat in 2 batches, so separate the meat and chopped onion and peppers into 2 even amounts. In large wok, cook beef, drain liquid as it accumulates. when beef has almost not pink add the peppers and onion.

2. cook for additional 5 minutes or so until no pink left in beef.
3. Pour the cooked meat mixture into a larger pot.
4. Repeat with other half of meat / onions / pepper.
5. Add the cans of tomato sauce, ketchup, salt,pepper, Italian seasoning and stir. no need to turn stove on for this larger pot, its just to hold all the meat.. do a taste test of the meat mixture.. add more salt/pepper/hot sauce to your tastes

6. Preheat oven to 400.
7. in large casserole dish, spoon about 1/4 of the meat mixture so it covers the bottom of dish.

8. take 8 of the cheese slices and cover the meat.

9. now spoon in a layer of the meat mixture to cover the cheese, then another layer with the remaining cheese, and then finish up the meat mixture on top.. that 5pound log is the perfect amount..just had 2 spoonfuls left over.
10. Bake at 400 for about 20 min. Remove and let cool.. depending on what type of ground beef you use, you will still get some liquid accumulate. This is one of those recipes that tastes better after it cools and you reheat it like lasagna.
11. After refrigerating for few hours, with spatula i divide this pan into 12 servings.  damn thats tasty..you can see mrs.lexus already jumping all over it to put in her tupperware for lunch.

Per serving with the type of meat i use comes out to about:
Protein: 30grams
Fat : 54grams
carb : 5grams

Remember, eating fat is good for you, carbs are bad. Simple thing to consider.. if you want to be thin, watch what fat people eat and eat the opposite. Dont be a slave anymore.

this recipe in a google docs document Low Carb Cheeseburger Casserole

Breakfast Meat for low carb eating

This is a breakfast recipe along the lines of what you would get if you went to a fast food joint to get a breakfast burrito. Also could be called taco meat i guess. I eat half a cup of this along with 3-4 eggs in bowl for breakfast.. so does mrs. lexus.

Ingredients:

- 3lb log of ground beef (remember all those logs of markdown beef i got the other day... this 3lb log cost $1.99 total)
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 taco seasoning packets (.33cents each)
- 3/4 cup water

1. in large wok, crumble the ground beef and cook medium high heat. Drain liquid as it accumulates.

2. when there is only a little pink left i add the chopped onions.. stir fry until meat is no longer pink.. Drain again any liquid. reduce heat to low
3. add the 2 packets taco seasoning mix and the water and stir well

 Let cool and then tupperware. This wok will last us for a week and will yield 12 half cup servings. So for breakfast measure out a half cup and put in bowl and microwave, i cook 3-4 eggs overeasy. dump the eggs into the bowl, grind it all up, add some hot sauce, pepper.. boom bam done. No carb breakfast. You can use this meat for tacos, eat it by itself. you can use hard boiled eggs and tupperware and eat it at work.. wife adds cheese. Optional ingredients: green peppers, jalapenos, cheese. Now for about $2.75 i have made meat for breakfast for the whole week. Just too easy. what do you have to lose except that huge fat gut.

Half cup serving of this meat is about:
Protein:  18grams
Fat :30 grams
Carb: 1

Remember, fat is good for you..fat LOWERS cholesterol .. watch Fathead movie if you still dont believe me.