Atkins Diet Recipes

My husband lost over fifty pounds using the Atkins Diet, a low carbohydrate meal plan. Along the way, he got fairly desperate for some different and creative ideas for foods. We had typical Atkins cookbooks but many of the recipes didn't suit his needs.

He wanted:
1. Foods that would be different from others he'd tried.

2. Snacks and treats he could make quickly and eat while in the car (at stop lights) or while at work.

3. Recipes that were versatile and could be fixed many different ways.

The recipes below meet his needs and all are ones he either created or adapted to fit his own taste. I want to stress the fact that most of these can be modified without harm. If you don't like olives, for examples, feel free to leave them out of the chicken salad recipe. If you aren't crazy about chicken, try substituting tuna. Just be sure that you keep your additions low-carb or adjust the per portion carbohydrate number accordingly.

The Recipes

Atkins Diet Recipe One: Chicken, Turkey or Tuna Salad

My husband started out making a tuna salad but eventually modified the original recipe to create a chicken or turkey salad that the whole family loves. It still works quite well with tuna, too.

Ingredients

30-40 ounces of cooked, diced chicken or turkey (3 pounds or more). It is less expensive to use fresh, cooked chicken which is simply baked in the oven (sprinkled with garlic power) but you can use canned chicken if you like. We don't. Leftover chicken is fine too.

3 hard-boiled eggs, diced. Egg slicers make this a quick job.

12 pieces turkey bacon, cooked until super crispy and crumbled.

Mayonnaise to taste

Brown, grainy mustard of choice (or smooth, if preferred,) He uses nearly as much as the mayonnaise

1 large can (15 ounces) of large olives, pitted, which he crumbles.

Chopped celery to taste, at least a cup, for crunchiness.

Green onions, to taste. He uses at least six or more, chopped very small, snipped with scissors, tiny pieces.
Spices, as desired - he uses Lawry's salt, but carefully, not too much, freshly ground black pepper and mustard powder.