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How to Plan the Perfect Low-Carb Fourth-of-July Celebration (Photo by Jeffrey Kontur ) If you’re following a low-carb diet, you can still have a fantastic Fourth-of-July celebration without having to worry about popping yourself out of Ketosis. You don’t have to sit on the sidelines or deprive yourself of holiday goodies either. With picnics and barbecue parties the most popular ways of celebrating America’s freedom and independence, it’s easy to surround yourself in colors of red, white, and blue – yet still maintain control over those carbs! All it takes is a little bit of thought and preparation. With that in mind, you don’t want to wait until next Tuesday morning to start figuring out how to stay on plan. If you do, you’ll end up with a plain bun-free burger or hotdog, a boring lettuce salad, a handful of pork rinds, and maybe a few strawberries for color. Eating that way when everyone else around you is chowing down on potato salad, baked beans, corn-on-the-cob, and colorful cupc

Do you have nightshade sensitivity or allergy? How about an autoimmune disease? Arthritis? Fibromyalgia? If so, you might not be able to eat certain vegetables, fruits, and spices without suffering pain, inflammation, and other health complaints. You can even stall in your low-carb diet because inflammation can interfere with weight loss. I didn't realize that nightshades were so common among low-carb recipes and menus until I actually looked at which vegetables and spices are nightshades, and then at what most people eat on a low-carb diet. When I did that, I was literally shocked! Low-carb recipes and menus are chock full of nightshades. For that reason, even if you are not allergic to nightshades, you might want to pay attention to just how many you're eating and cut back on them a little bit -- especially if you're having problems losing weight. BASIC NIGHTSHADE PRIMER This is going to be a basic nightshade primer, which I'm hoping a lot of people will find helpful,

>> hey. thanks for joining in to cnyflavor. we’ve got a great show in store for you today. if you want to learn to cook on a shoestring budget and stretch those dollars in today’s economic times, today’s the show you’re going tolearn it. soup diet breakfast, so stay tuned and we’ll be rightback. [♪] [♪] hey. glad you are here. we have a great, great cooking tip here and a quick and easy economical v-8 beefy soup. i know that sounds a little strange using v8 here. some mixed vegetables. cream of celery. onions. a little bit of margarine. i can’t believe it’s not butter. and a couple of pounds of groundbeef. you’ll be able to feed a family of 6 to 8 with this. nice, wholesome comfort food. now, one of the good things about this and i’ll show you how to do it because first we are going to caramelize the onions and i’m going to show you the proper technique on caramelizing the onions. that’s all it is is sautã©ing them. you have different words that peopl