Blog and Recipes
Do you see the gleaming, shiny cakes in the pastry shop and want to try one, even though you are committed to eating low carb? How about hearing the crunch of your teenage child eating their toast, or the smell of pizza wafting by as you walk past the pizzeria, or seeing the icy beer loaded esky...
Cooking, Coaching & Conversations with Dr Lucy Burns is live on Facebook at 5.30pm Tuesday nights. In this weeks episode, Dr Lucy showed how to use up some avocados and make an easy low carb chocolate semifreddo.
Ingredients
- 800g avocado flesh
- 1.5 cups cacao powder
- 3/4...
Halloween has slipped into Australian culture in the past 20 years. Every year there is more and more paraphernalia in the shops related to Halloween.
Halloween is a marketing juggernaut.
In 2019 Australians spent $159 million on chocolate and lollies for Halloween
On top of...
So we need sun exposure for vitamin D, but isn’t sun exposure dangerous?
We have all been told that sun exposure is dangerous, that it causes skin cancer, and that it should be avoided. However, we have also been told that sun exposure allows vitamin D production, and that is very...
Cooking, Coaching & Conversations with Dr Lucy Burns is live on Facebook at 5.30pm Tuesday nights. In this weeks episode, Dr Lucy showed how to make an easy low carb meal - lamb and salad!
Ingredients
- lamb backstrap
- oil
- Mingle Seasoning 'All Purpose' seasoning mix
- baby spinach or mixed...
Cooking, Coaching & Conversations with Dr Lucy Burns is live on Facebook at 5.30pm Tuesday nights. In this weeks episode, Dr Lucy showed how to make low carb salmon patties.
Ingredients
- 1 large tin of salmon, drained
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1 avocado, flesh only
- salt
- Mingle Seasoning 'Dill &...
We receive lots of emails with this question or ones like it including these
Is there a vitamin to me lose weight faster?
Can supplements boost metabolism?
What vitamins are good for losing belly fat?
Which vitamins help with weight loss for females?
Which is the best multivitamin for...
Even in low carb world, there is no shortage of dietary options out there. Ketogenic diet, lazy keto, clean keto, dirty keto, low carb, low carb high fat, zero carb, Atkins, modified-Akins, eco-Atkins, carb-cycling, South Beach…. the list goes on.
Knowing what diet is best can be...
Cooking, Coaching & Conversations with Dr Lucy Burns is live on Facebook at 5.30pm Tuesday nights. In this weeks episode, Dr Lucy showed how to make a low carb lasagne.
Ingredients
- onions, chopped (we used frozen)
- 1 kg minced beef
- salt
- 1 bag of frozen mixed chopped veggies - zucchini,...
This week in Cooking, Coaching & Conversations Dr Lucy Burns cooks a delicious week night meal, barramundi with a lemon butter sauce.
Ingredients
- barramundi fillets
- lemon, sliced
- salt flakes
- green veggies - beans, broccoli etc
- cauliflower
- butter
- lemon
- pinch of guar gum
Instructions
- Preheat...
So, this blog aims to answer a question we often get asked. Doctor, what about my cholesterol?
Now a disclaimer, this is not individual medical advice. Please discuss anything you hear or read from Real Life Medicine with your treating medical practitioner.
Let’s start with the...
This week on Cooking, Coaching & Conversations Dr Lucy made low carb stuffed capsicums. A delicious and easy low carb family dinner.
Ingredients
- beef mince
- onions, chopped
- mushrooms, chopped
- frozen peas
- Mingle Seasonings 'Spag Bol' spice mix sachet
- passata
- capsicums
- cream cheese, cubed
- ...