When someone considers going on a low carb diet, they tend to ask, "If I'm not eating bread, potatoes and cereal, what's left to eat?" It's shocking that starch and sugar makes up so much of a typical diet that people ask this. Naughty foods are bread and potatoes and Kool-Aid. These are nice foods: Left to right: bacon, baking cocoa, butter, oxtail, broth (note they've kindly provided a low-fat and low-sodium warning), chocolate (note the very high cacao, and therefore low-sugar, content), red wine (go easy on this), and diet soda (full disclosure: I'm a shareholder in the company that makes Hansen's). Don't even think about trimming the fat--fat, not carbs, is your fuel on a low carb diet. Some staples at my house: Left to right: sardines, hamburger, beef liver, pork rinds, frozen vegetables, free-range eggs, Splenda, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Who says Atkins is an all-meat diet? I've read that low-carbers eat
Do-it-yourself health. Low-carb, mostly evolutionary.