I have this one and it's pretty good. I'm not wild about the rice krispies and keep thinking I'll replace them with something else, but I haven't figured out what to replace them with. It's still OK with them, but I'm leaning toward replacing them with frosted mini-wheat cereal. Homemade Granola POINTS® Value: 3 Servings: 12 Preparation Time: 10 min Cooking Time: 30 min Level of Difficulty: Moderate Each 1/2-cup serving of this healthy, homemade granola is drastically lower in fat than most store-bought varieties.  3 cup uncooked quick oats  2 oz ready-to-eat crisp rice cereal, about 2 cups  6 Tbsp honey  1 tsp canola oil  1/4 cup apple juice  1/2 tsp ground cinnamon  1/2 tsp ground ginger  1/2 tsp vanilla extract  1/4 cup slivered almonds  1/4 cup dried cranberries  1/4 cup raisins Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix uncooked oats and puffed rice cereal together and spread on a non-stick baking sheet with sides; bake for 10 minutes, stirring once. Meanwhile, mix honey, oil, apple juice, spices and vanilla together in a cup. When oats and puffed rice are done, spoon into a large bowl; set pan aside. Add almonds to cereal mixture and stir to combine. Pour honey-spice mixture over cereal mixture and mix thoroughly to distribute and coat completely; spread mixture back over pan. Return pan to oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes more, stirring every few minutes. Remove from oven and spoon back into bowl. (Note: Be careful that granola doesn't burn - especially cereal along sides of pan.) Stir raisins and cranberries into mixture; let cool. Store in an airtight container. Yields about a half cup per serving. Annie

I have been on the "Fat to Skinny" diet which is 20 grams a day of carbs. I started the Monday after Thanksgiving..had no problems making it through Christmas and New Years. I was down 10 lbs. which seems a little slow for such a drastic diet.. but I am also hypothyroid. Last weekend I went to a birthday party dinner in which everything there was high carb.. so I ate that one meal and then went back to my 20 carbs a day diet. Weighed myself that Monday and had gained 5 lbs! Now I remember that low carb doesn't work well for me. I don't know why I thought it would work this time. I'm sticking to the plan this week since it does keep me away from sweets... but starting next week I'll start a higher carb diet that I had good results with in the past (I had to quit that because I had a bad case of systemic candida from antibiotics). The Fat to Skinny website does have some good informative videos and recipes. Good luck! Here is a link that might be useful: Fat to Skinny forum

its funny b/c i thought i could never do "low carb". i loved my pizza, good bread (sarcone's if u live in philly), pasta etc. But since i have been doing THM, i don't crave it nor do i like it, which sounds crazy. ! i still get my carbs from healthy sources- old fashioned oats, green apples (least amount of sugar), clementines, bananas (which are allowed on-plan) wasa rye crips, berries, salads, brown rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes.... i don't eat any white flour, refined foods or sugar. my cheats are ice cream, in the summer, can do w/o in the winter. IPA beer, 2 on the weekends. that's it, i always stay on plan during the week. DH & I go out every Saturday night, so i do the best i can but i am going to indulge also. a really good wrap is Ole wellness extreme. i have to buy from amazon b/c stores don't carry it around here but they are worth it!! also, u can make mini-pizza's from Joseph's low carb pita or the lavash bread, only half for the lavash. those are life-savers for me. !! only 5 carbs. i take the total carbs and minus the fiber. 16 total - 11 fiber=5 they have less carbs than the flat-outs, not great for pizza's since they are thin, but great for sandwiches. if i know i am going to eat say pulled pork, cheesesteak, hoagie etc., i carry one with me and just take the guts of the sandwich and put on the wrap. easy-peasy!! or order it on a plate (no bun/roll) and put on a wrap or over a salad... the joseph's i can get anywhere... i do believe, the less u eat of "bad" carbs, sugar, the less u crave....and if i do a really bad cheat, i feel awful from all the sugar, so i know better than to do it. i do those a lot less often.... if u order fries, at least try to order sweet potato fries. a better carb than white potato...

Yikes, I've been too busy to participate in my own thread! I made another batch of cauliflower rice. No tumeric, less garlic and salt, for a more neutral taste. Roasted it but did not dehydrate. Then I used it in a stir-fry and it was not bad. Again, not really like rice - more like quinoa. But cauliflower is about 4% carb while quinoa is about 21% carb. I'm going to try the way of cooking rice to increase the non digestible starch content. Also, DD made these pancakes today. They were great. They were also low (nearly zero) carb. 1 egg, 1 oz cream cheese, blender, then cook like a standard pancake!