Arrrrgh -- Need some safe "binge" foods!

Okay friends -- I'm under record levels of stress right now, and I'd rather not binge, but if it turns out that I'm going to -- What's safe?


I was thinking, something that doesn't just "slide" through (eg nothing remotely like crackers, or related to crackers, or that has ever been near, seen or sounded like crackers).

I'm looking into the salty/sweet chocolatey kinds of things.  Maybe low-carb PB cookies with cocoa powder? 

What are your recvommendations for someone who wants food-related stress relief, but isn't suicidal (with food, or any other medium for that matter).

Perfect timing on this one.  I too am under extra ordinary stress right now and today I just caved in to it.  Late afternoon, before pilates class I ate an Atkins bar. I haven't had a protein bar since I started low carb on January 10th.  I had ordered those three free bars and had the peanut butter one in my desk drawer.  It had 22 carbs, 10 fiber, 10 sugar alcohol.  Truth is, it's 7pm and I'm not hungry at all.  I'll probably have some cucumber slices and asparagus for dinner at this point.  It wasn't the worst damage.  I didn't go across the street from the office to buy nuts or anything else.  I'm pretty good about not going out in search of things because I really try to stick to what I wrote down as my plan for the day.  I was supposed to have a protein pudding last afternoon but sub'd the bar instead.

I want to keep some cucumber slices at work as well as maybe some organic turkey jerky.  I know that nuts are NOT my answer for stress eating.  In a perfect world I'd go outside to walk, breathe and meditate, but my world isn't perfect... YET!

I'm so sorry you're feeling stressed out Lisa.  Anything I can do to help?

Well, I can confirm that the low-carb peanut butter cookies did the trick for me -- WHEW!!! 

I want to find out how people are going about making their own meat jerkies -- Any tips?

My favorite low carb, high flavor treat is pepperoni.  I put it between 2 pieces of paper towel and nuke it for about 45 sec and yum.  All the flavor, most of the fat melts away. 

I haven't tried those peanut butter cookies yet but I have some peanut butter chocolate protein powder that I need to find some more uses for and I think that would work.

They have an almond that has cocoa powder baked into it!  It's delicious!

My favourite sweet and and salty treat is:

Bacon puffs/rinds
Add melted butter on top, sprinkle with sugar substitute.  (sometimes I use Splenda, some times Stevia)
Add cinnamon and shake all the ingreds together. 

So yummy!  It's high fat but very low carb and I find a few fill me up. 

My kids and I love this recipe for Chocolate Mousse:

1 pint heavy whipping cream
4 Tbls Cocoa powder
2/3 c splenda (you could also use the equivalent liquid concentrate sucralose - no carbs)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

combine all ingredients and whip at high speed until whip cream is formed.
it's great if you're craving something sweet and chocolatey.
You could also mix in some PB2 or use chocolate PB2 instead of cocoa.

I make protein balls and keep them in the freezer...

Peanut butter
Chocolate protein powder

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Whey crisps, chocolate flavor
or
Chopped nuts
or
unsweetened coconut

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sweetener to taste (I often don't use any at all)\

Mix it all thoroughly, add some water if it is too dry to form into balls.

I make walnut sized balls and these are filling and totally scratch that cookie/candy itch. I like them best when the beanut butter is a bit salty - yummy salty sweet flavor.