healthy living: 4 simple low-carb meals for the whole family!

My super easy meal idea posts are one of the most popular here on the blog... you can see all of them here. We are a busy family and we like to eat healthy and delicious meals, but I rarely have the time to compile a bunch of ingredients or read recipes with 6 or more steps. I need SUPER easy and SUPER delicious meals in my repertoire to feed everyone's taste.  One of the questions I've been getting the most since talking about my husband and I's journey on the Faster Way to Fat Loss program is about dinner. What to make for dinner? Will my kids eat what we eat?  There are only a few low-carb days for dinner and we have a few dinner formulas we use to make the low-carb days delicious and easy.  Today I am pulling together 4 of our favorites - our kids loved these too, so they are kid approved!

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Here are 4 low-carb meals that our family has really been loving lately...

Chicken Sausages with Buffalo Cauliflower

Cook the sausages and roast the cauliflower (I use frozen, but you can use fresh too) according to the package instructions.  When the cauliflower is done roasting mix it with the Frank's Red Hot sauce. Then serve the cauliflower over arugula with carrots and blue cheese sauce on the side.  We LOVE this meal and gobble it up without missing the carbs at all.

Asian Chicken Salad

I use a simple asian salad kit as the starter for this meal.  Grill or roast the chicken and then serve chopped in strips over the salad with extra veggies on the side like sugar snap peas, avocado or red peppers. 

Shrimp Stir Fry

This meal is one that we are OBSESSED with... if you don't have a Trader Joe's nearby you can simply make your own cauliflower rice and add in frozen stir fry veggies.  If you do live near a Trader Joe's this cauliflower rice is a game changer, it's so delicious and healthy.  I simply saute the shrimp in one pan with a little cayenne pepper for flavor.  Then I saute the cauliflower fried rice with 3 or 4 eggs mixed in.  Then you serve the shrimp over the cauliflower fried rice.  This makes for great leftovers too!

Zoodles with Meatballs

Zoodles (noodles made from zucchini) are a new popular food that tastes great and are perfect for low-carb days. Saute the zoodles while baking the pre-made meatballs and serve with tomato sauce and some goat cheese and oh my goodness you will be licking the bowl.  For this meal I would likely serve my kids regular noodles and reserve the zoodles for just my husband and I.

This program isn't ALL low-carb meals... so when you do go low carb you want to do it well.  I will hopefully post soon about more meal ideas for the days that aren't low-carb.  You can get more information about the FWTFL program here - it's been SO life changing for my husband and I.