Low-carb ideas?

For sweet snacks fruit is the obvious choice. Fructose is sweeter and requires less to sweeten and it is the sweetener in fruit, so if you can't completely shake the sweet tooth, that is the way to go.
It's hard to beat nuts for a snack.

When you just gotta have popcorn:

Ingredients1 head cauliflower or 1 head equal amount of pre-cut commercially prepped cauliflower
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon salt, to taste
Servings: 4


Directions:

1
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2
Trim the head of cauliflower, discarding the core and thick stems; cut florets into pieces about the size of ping-pong balls.
3
In a large bowl, combine the olive oil and salt, whisk, then add the cauliflower pieces and toss thoroughly.
4
Line a baking sheet with parchment for easy cleanup (you can skip that, if you don't have any) then spread the cauliflower pieces on the sheet and roast for 1 hour, turning 3 or 4 times, until most of each piece has turned golden brown.
5
(The browner the cauliflower pieces turn, the more caramelization occurs and the sweeter they'll taste).
6
Serve immediately and enjoy!

When you just gotta have pizza, you can cut the carbs with:

Cauliflower Pizza Crust
Ingredients:
½ head cauliflower, coarsely chopped
½ C. shredded Italian or Mexican cheese blend
¼ C. chopped fresh parsley
1 egg
1 tsp. chopped garlic
Salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Place cauliflower pieces through the feeding tube of the food processor using the grating blade: Pulse until all the cauliflower is shredded.
2. Place a steamer insert into a saucepan and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Bring water to a boil. Add cauliflower, cover, and steam until tender, about 15 minutes. Transfer cauliflower to a large bowl and refrigerate, stirring occasionally, until cooled, about 15 minutes.
3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon mat.
4. Stir cheese blend, parsley, egg, garlic, salt & pepper into cauliflower until evenly incorporated. Pour mixture onto the prepared baking sheet; press and shape into a pizza crust.
5. Bake in preheated oven until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.

Cauliflower with ranch dip or dressing. Celery with Laughing Cow cheese
Sugar free pudding or jello. Handful of grape tomatoes
One square of dark chocolate

Deli meat roll ups:
Roast beef with creamy horseradish. Cracked pepper turkey with Grey Poupon
Sun dried tomato turkey + chipotle mayo. Ham, cream cheese, thin slice of dill pickle

Zucchini, bell peppers and onion -- toss with a bit of olive oil, garlic, salt and either grill or oven roast
Frozen broccoli with cheese sauce
Grill zucchini, sprinkle with Parmesan and chopped walnuts

Frittata, omelette or scramble made with big handful of leftover veggies and bacon bits
Deviled eggs, tuna salad or chicken salad
Treat boiled or sautéed zucchini like pasta, add red or white sauce and meat

Congratulations on trying to eat better. It sounds like you have it surrounded. Just try different spices from different ethnic cuisines would be my suggestion.

We follow a low carb diet, have mentioned on this forum before that I make the cauliflower "mashed potatoes". We really like them and feel like we are having potatoes. The secret is to not over steam the cauliflower and to add the appropriate amount of fat free half and half. I warm this with a little
Smart Balance butter in the microwave, then pour through the feed tube of the food processor. This makes the "potatoes " creamy and fluffy. We also eat the Dannon Light and Fit Yogurt for our dessert. We top it with sugar free cool whip and add various fruits, toasted almonds or pecans, or toasted coconut to the different flavors. I add 1 1/4 tsp cocoa powder to the vanilla. We think it is quite good. Fresh cherries and toasted almonds are a great addition to the cherry flavor. The combinations are endless.

Read the labels (carbs only). Like one slice of white bread is 30 grams of carbs, one slice of flax bread is 12 grams (please note that flax bread is really dry to eat but much better if you toast and lightly butter. Use spaghetti squash with your favourite spaghetti sauce instead of the real pasta. Plan your meals to have no more than 60 grams of carbs per meal (X3 a day) and 20 grams of carbs 2X a day as a snack. Don't miss meals or skip snacks because you'll get very hungry and eat too much. DW and I drink the sodas made with Splenda but some people can't use these sweetners. Add lots of your favourite activity and you can be like me and lose 82 pounds. Best thing I ever did. Good luck!

My husband and I follow a semi-Paleo diet. We eat a lot of fruit, veggies, use a lot of almond flour and coconut flour. We use gluten free Udi brand bread sparingly and wraps for sandwiches using Romaine lettuce leaves and for burgers which is very satisfying. When camping I make oven baked sweet potato fries drizzled with olive oil, sea salt, and rosemary. We grill fish fillets, steak, chicken with veggie Kabobs and salad. We'll have barbecue chicken over gluten free english muffins, topped with bagged coleslaw and dill pickles on the side. There are lots of recipes out there for cookies made solely with almond flour, but I'll throw in chopped dates, chopped pecans, semi-sweet chocolate chips. Almond flour muffins and molten lava cake using coconut flour. We like taco salad too, and will have the tortilla chips, but just a few, instead using salsa, sour cream, and diced avocados with the ground beef and cheese for flavor.

I lost 75 pounds beginning April 2004 doing the South Beach Diet. I am about 25 lbs over my lowest weight right now and still mostly stick to phase II and III foods with an eye on the "Eat This, Not That" strategies. For snacks, I eat nuts (almonds most of the time, lightly salted cashews when I am craving salt), fresh fruit, 2% Cracker Barrel Extra Sharp Cheddar, and Fiber One bars. I eat a lot of grilled chicken salads and play around with romaine lettuce wraps but don't have the luxury of packing lunch most days. Check out the whole wheat sandwich thins, pocket breads, etc. The trick is to have the % of fiber >> % of carbs. Mustard and most other condiments do not have a lot of sugar - Heinz does a reduced sugar ketchup.

Eat This, Not That has been a great resource - http://eatthis.menshealth.com/home

Stir fry vegetable in a sauce that doesn't have the cornstarch is a good change of pace for veggies.