Going low-carb? Here are 19 recipes

If you’ve been advised that a low-carb diet is good for whatever heart issues you’re dealing with, here are 19 recipes for low-carb dinners from Eatingwell.com.

The One-Pot Garlicky Shrimp & Spinach recipe I checked out.

As always, though, check the nutrition information thoroughly before making any of these. Thankfully, you can click through for a full nutrition read-out on these, unlike on some other recipe sites.

So look for the salt and fat contents before making these. I checked a shrimp recipe, for example, and found 444 msg of sodium in one serving. Not bad is you stick to the one-cup serving but I would likely eat twice that much.

No longer available since the start of the Pandemic — A low-sodium seafood cocktail sauce at Trader Joe’s

Note: This product has been dropped by Trader Joe’s during the Pandemic. This post was written long before Covid hit us. #ShameonTraderJoes

Shrimp is one great food I can still eat. The days of telling people with heart problems to avoid shell fish seem to be past, at least among the nutritionists I’ve seen.

But normally shrimp gets dipped in cocktail sauce to add some flavor. Cocktail sauce is, you guessed it, high in sodium, however.

Trader Joe's sells a seafood cocktail sauce that's low in sodium.
Trader Joe’s sells a seafood cocktail sauce that’s low in sodium.

A tablespoon of traditional Trader Joe’s Shrimp Cocktail Sauce has 155 mgs of sodium, for example. Others I’ve seen are much higher, too high for me to eat them. Continue reading “No longer available since the start of the Pandemic — A low-sodium seafood cocktail sauce at Trader Joe’s”

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