I've been living low carb for over a year now, and I love it. Occasionally I'll get into the sugar, but the reward is transient and my body never does feel quite right until I go back to it. I won't go into a big thing on how it works, basically you get your body in a state of ketosis and keep it there.
Lots of people who low carb think calories and fat aren't important, and to some extent they aren't. It's just so counter-intuitive to me though, to eat so much meat and fat and expect to be healthy. So, I sought out other ways of low carb living without being such a greasy carnivore and I found Shirataki noodles. They were NASTY. They smelled like fish and had the texture of bubble gum and were just unpalatable.
Then the other day I found some with Tofu blended in. This was intriguing, so I decided to give them a try and wow, am I glad I did. Before you try these things, expect that they will be different because they are not pasta no matter how much they look like it. They are made out of an asian yam root and the tofu makes them less nasty. The thing about these noodles is they absorb the flavor of whatever you cook them with. Expecting them to be gummy, I cut them up into one inch segments, and sauteed them with a bullion cube. Once they were nice and softened up I threw in some mushrooms and soy sauce, and they just drank that soy sauce right up.
I topped it off with some ground beef, but I ended up picking most of that out because the noodles and mushrooms were SO delicious. All in all tonights dinner was a huge bowl of noodles, leaving me feeling very satisfied, consisting of no more than 3 grams of carbohydrates and just under 300 calories, prolly less because my dog got most of the meat.
The texture of the noodles improves if you cook them long enough, at least the tofu variety. Adding something chewy like mushrooms or maybe a green pepper tricks your palate into not noticing that the noodles are chewier than regular pasta, and since they are all fiber they fill you right up with no calorie/fat cost.
It was excellent, and at $1.30 per bag a very reasonable addition to the pantry.
