Stevens - Low Carb Dump Meals: 30 Delicious Low Carb Dumb Meal Recipes For Weight Loss, Energy and Vibrant Health

Gone arethe days of lengthy preparations of your favorite low carb meals that seemedrestrictive in terms of healthy ingredients. Here they are replaced withsimpler versions that highlight fresh and healthy flavors and ingredients. Dump meals is amethod of preparation in which all of the ingredients are added to the cookingvessel at once and then require little to no attention during the cookingprocess. There are essentially dump and go in concept. Dump meals have gainedpopularity in recent years because of their simplicity and the way that you canstill have a healthy, flavorful prepare from scratch meal without spending toomuch time in the kitchen. With todays lifestyles the truth is that no matterhow much you may love to cook, the time to do so is a luxury that many do nothave.

The solution to this in most cases lies with your crockpot or slow cooker. Ten minutes spent earlier in the day can result in abeautiful dish that tastes like it took hours to prepare. This collection ofrecipes is meant to inspire and refresh your interest in preparing healthy, lowcarbohydrate meals at home, even for those with the busiest of schedules. Low Carb and Healthy For years, lowcarbohydrate diets had the reputation of being heavy on meats, including richand fatty red meats and pork products, such as bacon. In the early stages ofits popularity, the low carb lifestyle came with an image of each mealconsisting of half dozen eggs, ample cheese or a triple stacked bun-lesscheeseburger. This type of eatingdid show some immediate benefits such as rapid weight loss and improvement ingeneral health on some levels, at least initially.

As decadent as that type ofstyle of eating may sound, many found it undesirable and eventually unhealthyto maintain that type of diet on a daily basis. Thus, low carbohydrate eatingbegan taking on a transformation towards a diet that also consisted of amplefresh produce and healthy dairy that focused more reducing the badcarbohydrates, rather than eliminating all of them. This brings us towhere we are today and the recipes included in this book. Each dump recipe isan entire meal in itself that consists of fifteen or less grams of netcarbohydrates per serving. Each meal focuses on the flavor of freshingredients, including proteins, vegetables and legumes. Dump Meal Success Preparing dumpmeals is an incredibly easy process. Dump Meal Success Preparing dumpmeals is an incredibly easy process.

However, there are several things that youcan do to make your dump cooking easier, more efficient and more flavorful. Freeze with Ease:For many people, dump cooking goes hand in hand with freezer cooking, where allof the ingredients are prepared in advanced and then frozen for a later dumpand go meal. Instructions for preparing freezer dump meals has not beenincluded with each individual recipe, however, every dish in this book caneasily be frozen ahead of time for future use. To do so, simple prepare all ofthe ingredients and place them all together, including any sauces or broths, ina large freezer bag or other airtight freezer storage container. Remember tolabel and date the contents, along with cooking temperatures and time, and thenuse within two months of preparation. For serving, simply either thaw overnight in the refrigerator or for several minutes using the thaw setting on yourmicrowave and them dump the contents into your crock pot and carry on with yourday.

Think Outside ofthe Crock Pot: For ease of preparation, each recipe in this book uses a crock pot method of cooking. This is because you can dumpthe meal in the morning and come back to a steamy, homemade meal hours laterwith no fuss and minimal clean up. However, you are not limited to the use of a crock pot for any of these recipes. Each recipe can becooked in either a baking dish or skillet depending on thenature of the ingredients, with the same dump and go philosophy, theonly difference being that you may have to check in occasionally to stir ortoss the ingredients. Hold Out On theDairy: You will notice that many recipes that have any type of cream or cheesebase to them require one simple extra step, and that is adding the dairytowards the end of the cooking time. This is because some dairy does not holdup well to long, slow methods of cooking and the result can be either curdledor broken.

To avoid this, add any cream bases or cheeses towards the end of thecooking time. Thirty minutes before you plan to serve is typically a good pointto add these ingredients. Just add and stir a little before covering andletting the slow cooker finish the magic. Do What You CanAhead of Time: If you really want the true dump and go experience, then devotethirty minutes to an hour once a week preparing your ingredients ahead of time.This can be done on a free afternoon or immediately after a grocery store trip.Wash and cut produce, portion meats and precook any ingredients that may needit, such as roasting spaghetti squash and scooping out the insides for lateruse, or baking a whole chicken and then shredding and portioning the meat. Thistime spent doing these things will save you major time later in the week. Keep Quality inMind While Shopping: It is true that many of these recipes could be preparedwith canned ingredients that require even less on your time budget, howeverthere are no words to describe the difference between fresh, qualityingredients and those that have been preserved and sitting on a shelf formonths.