Craving Salt

[barbnbrian]

OK, I'm trying so hard, but I craved salty, crunchy foods, and . . . chocolate, all the time. I feel like I'll never be able to give up carbs and follow a diet like South Beach. I did make Lifetime on WW about six years ago, but I'm now way over the 2 lb. allowance they give you and haven't gone back to WW in a about a year. I know you can have some salty things on WW like pretzles and crackers if you count your points, but I really wanted to try to cut out the carbs and try South Beach. Any suggestions?

[lizdotcom99]

Believe it or not, to me celery cures that salt and crunch thing. Does anybody else find celery to be salty? Anyway, if you want something a little more that just plain celery and want to stay lc...add a little peantbutter or cheese....I prefer cream cheese or laughing cow cheese wedges. They come in low fat or not and both are great!!!

Hope that helps!! I love a good crunchy piece of celery.....especially stuffed with cheese!!

[got2lovedisney]

nuts...I'm partial to cashews.

[lizdotcom99]

Oh, another salty crunchy thing that SO loves.....take parmaeasan cheese....the powdered stuff....but stick to a brand name like Kraft......preheat your oven to 350....put about a tablespoon of cheese on a piece of parchment paper covered cookie sheet and spread out in a circle shape. Make however many you want. Pop them in the oven for about 7-8 minutes until they start to get nice and lightly brown. Take off cookie sheet cool. These "cookies" stay good for several days in a tupperware container. I am not a big fan of them, but SO loves them. They have some salt and some crunch too!! He can eat them plain, like a cookie....I need to eat them with like chicken salad or something.....but that does work. Also another big fave of the SO....Pork Rinds. Not a favorite here....but definatlely crunchy....and the flavored ones can be quite salty..Just make sure that that flavored ones don't have carbs.

[barbnbrian]

I can't eat celery - allergic to it!

[wiskband]

SUNFLOWER SEEDS!
1/4 of a cup has 5 carbs! Not too too bad! I have become addicted now that I am not smoking! I know, it has alot of salt, perhaps you can find them with out salt or little salt.Plus.......
it kind makes you mouth tired ( of all the work you need to do to get the seed out) that I find it curbs my appetite!
as far as your chocolate craving I like hershey LC one gram sugar chocolate bars or, Kemps LC ice cream. Both can be found at sams club.

good luck

renee
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