I’m headed out on another fun Low Carb Road Trip, so I’ve been busy getting packed- and deciding which low carb foods to take along with me.
This time I did some fun & easy baking to “food prep” for the trip.
Actually, Aaron did the baking while I packed – and took photos and wrote this update for you. 🙂
You can follow along live on both Facebook and Instagram for road trip updates. We’re planning to make some stops for a little hiking in and around the Smokies along the way… and the way back. 😉
I looked around the kitchen to see what I already had on hand, and found enough fun stuff to create some LCHF cookies and bars that are compact yet calorie dense – making them perfect for traveling, and hiking too!
The “low carb thumbprint cookies” turned out fabulous:
For those cookies, we used the Adapt Meal Recipe that came in the last Keto Krate box. The Adapt Meal is a product you can use to make low carb shakes or hot cereal, but the recipe seemed much more appealing to me. 😉
I opted for no sweetener, because I like more of a shortbread style cookie. But we did add some Sugar Free Honey to the actual recipe, and then Sugar Free Preserves on top – plus a little peanut butter & plenty of pecans!
Here’s the list of the ingredients I put into the MyFitnessPal Recipe Calculator for these “thumbprint cookies”:
You can read more about the Adapt Meal here.
I get the Sugar Free Honey and Sugar Free Preserves on Netrition.
The Nature’s Hollow Sugar Free Preserves are GREAT!
The Mountain Berry is my personal favorite. 🙂
I was impressed with how these turned out.
They taste great too!
We made 11 pretty large cookies out of the batch.
I also had another bag of Good Dee’s Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix, and plenty of pecans left, so we combined those to make Snickerdoodle Pecan Bars. 🙂
Good Dee’s low carb mixes are gluten free, keto friendly, low carb and very versatile! You can get them on her website, on Netrition and also on Amazon. These are my referral links:
- Browse Good Dee’s Website
$11.99 + $6 shipping (use code LOWCARBTRAVEL15 for 15% off) - Order it at Netrition.com
$11.99 + low flat rate shipping - Get it on Amazon
$12.99 + free shipping w/Amazon Prime
Above are the ingredients we used to make the Snickerdoodle Pecan Bars, sticking to the basic cookie recipe and just adding LOTS of big pecan chunks. 🙂
It was baked on parchment paper in a cake pan just like I made the low carb pie crust, then cut into squares.
Here are the macros for both of the cookies / bars when I logged the recipes in MyFitnessPal. As you can see they are very high calorie, low carb and high fat:
This, along with other things I’m packing up to enjoy on the go, should make for an tasty road trip! Our goal is stop LESS for meals, and MORE for fun. Especially if there are waterfalls along the way. 😉
Stay tuned on Facebook or Instagram for fun road trip updates! 🙂 I’m traveling for work again, but with plenty of fun planned in too.;)
I love getting creative with products and recipes, and turning them into more of a meal. Especially the Adapt Meal, because I doubt I would have eaten that otherwise. If you got it in the May Keto Krate… have you tried it? If so, how did YOU make it?
Here are my Netrition links for everything I used today:
Good Dee’s Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix
And you can find the Adapt Meal on their website here:
Adapt Your Life, Adapt Meal
That sugar free, low carb Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix made a fabulous pie crust! 😉
I’ll write again as soon as I can, but I’ll post updates as I go on both Facebook and Instagram so you can see what I’m eating on the road and throughout the trip – along with the fun fitness & nature stops we make. 🙂 It’s only about an 8 hour drive, but we’re going to make the absolute MOST of it!
Best,
Lynn Terry,
aka @LowCarbTraveler
p.s. They’ll be shipping the next Keto Krate box soon! You’ll want to sign up now if you haven’t already – because they sell out FAST. 😉
Discount Code: LOWCARBTRAVELER
Looks tasty and sounds like it will be a fun road trip. Can’t wait to hear all about it.
Thank you, Angie! It’s been a great trip so far with a few fun stops in the Smoky Mountains. The weather in Raleigh, NC is fabulous this weekend too. π *cheers*
I live about an hour from Raleigh! NC is beautiful right now. Cookies look awesome!
Hi DJ! I hate I miss the chance to meet up and share a low carb meal while I was in Raleigh. It was such a QUICK and FULL trip! Next time for sure. π
Sounds like lots of fun and good eating Lynn! I am so happy for you! And he even does the cooking! π Someone is going to have an awesome summer!
Maybe I skimmed the recipes too quickly, but I did not see a temp or baking times…
The recipe card from Keto Krate says 390 for 15 – 20 minutes. The Good Dees Snickerdoodle box says 350 for 11-13 minutes. If you use those you’ll probably be close enough, just keep an eye on them π
Right, I went by the recipes on both packages, and they were done separately – not baked at the same time – so we just went by the directions. π
Apologies for not mentioning that, but you’d need the packages anyway to make them. π As an alternative, I make cookies and biscuits and garlic cheese sticks and all sorts of other “baking stuffs” with the same base recipe that is very easy (and extremely versatile!):
Spinach Biscuits: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/17148/low-carb-vegetable-meal-recipe/
Low Carb Biscuit Recipe: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/4275/low-carb-biscuit-recipe/ (I often use this recipe to enjoy leftovers of any kind!)
Low Carb Sausage Biscuits: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/5068/low-carb-sausage-biscuit-recipe/
Low Carb Cookie Recipe: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/1712/low-carb-cookie-recipe/
That same base would work great for a nutty pie crust like I made here too:
http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/17189/low-carb-pie-crust/
Thank you so much for that Adapt meal cookie recipe…yours look so much yummier then the ones on the card that came with the krate. Wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it otherwise!
Great, Dawn π I knew I wanted to add pecans and honey and basically just something to “dress up the recipe” and also add some hearty nuts. Pecans are so low carb and high fat, and a great real food to add to so many things. π
They are a little chalky compared to my almond meal cookies, but very high calorie and dense (for a small cookie) AND they stay together – which has made them great to have on the road and on the go this week. π
Hmm, chalky wasn’t the right word. Maybe just dry. But the plus side is that it forces me to get my morning water in. π lol