Thanks Leah your a sweetie. Those cauliflower mashed potatoes were so damn good. I added garlic and onion powder and 1/2 and 1/2 and it was yummy. They were mashed so well they were like real potatoes too, creamy ect.
A cool snack too is nachos (but since Im in phase 1 I cant have low carb tortillas yet) Soooo, you can take sliced cheese and break them into squares and put them in microwave till it bubbles and gets brown, then take them out and let them set. They get hard, like a chip. Then you add fat free grated cheese, black beans, jalapenos, tomatoes, lettuce, cilantro or whatever you like.
I also made some brownies with splenda, egg, cocoa, pecans and butter. Those are a great snack, about 3-4 carbs per brownie.
Tonight for dinner I made chicken burgers wrapped in the huge leaf lettuce like a wrap and put tomatoes and hot sauce. Great stuff.
Hmm trying to think of what else,
French fries made from radishes. When you fry them and everything they taste ALOT like french fries.
I know your trying to budget too so you can also get the easy and non expensive things like Hummus. You can buy the powder and make it yourself in the blender and eat it with raw veggies. You can make lettuce wraps (I bought a huge ass bunch of the long leaf romaine lettuce and it was 88 cents, good enough for 10+ wraps) Annnnd, string cheese, and celery and natural peanut butter or cream cheese.
I will share recipes and such if you want them