Funny thing about low carb/healthier cooking and baking…sometimes I feel like my daily goal is to make things taste as normal as possible. That is, figure out a way to make the dish not taste low carb—even though it is.

I am a picky eater….my mom tells the story of when I was six years old, and I sat at the table for hours rather than eat four peas that she was trying to make me eat. (I understand that I never did eat them, which might be why I hate peas to this day…)

Before I began eating healthier to keep from going from pre-diabetic to full-blown diabetic, I ate like a ten year old. I rarely ate fruits and vegetables (though I did fix them for our family religiously!). I loved Diet Coke, French fries, pizza, cream-filled donuts, and chocolate chip cookies.

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