For those of you who have a waffle iron gathering dust in the cupboard, here's a recipe for EXTREMELY low carb waffles that will make you jump for joy!

I started with the recipe for the French "toast" and changed it ever so slightly.

Wonder Waffles (all carb counts are from Fitday.com)

4 large eggs (2 carbs)
2 Tbls. heavy cream (1 carb)
2 Tbls. water (0 carbs)
1 Tsp. vanilla extract (1 carb)
2 Pkt. Splenda (or 2 tsp. powdered Splenda) (2 carbs)
2 or 3 ounces of crushed pork rinds (0 carbs)
1/4 Tsp. ground cinnamon (.5 carbs)
3 Tbls. melted butter (0 carbs)

I used my food processor to get the pork rinds down to a fine, almost powdery consistency.

Beat the eggs then add the cream, water, and vanilla extract and beat some more. Mix the Splenda with the cinnamon and then add that to the eggs. (Mixing the cinnamon with the Splenda before adding helps to keep the cinnamon from clumping up as much.) When well blended mix in the ground pork rinds.
Let the mixture sit for a couple of minutes until it thickens. Then stir and check the consistency. It should be quite thick, but not to thick to spoon easily. If too thick, add a little water. If too thin, add a little bit more pork rinds. Just before you're ready to put into waffle iron, stir in about 2/3 of the melted butter.

I have a "Belgian Waffle" baker and it makes two waffles at a time -- each about 4X4 inches. I brushed the top and bottom of the waffle baker with about half of the remaining melted butter, then I spooned about 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup of batter on each side of the bottom half of the baker and used a spoon to spread the batter out a little. Then I closed the top of the waffle baker. It took about 5 or 6 minutes to bake the two waffles. I had enough batter to make a total of four waffles, each about 4X4 inches.

If you have a "big" waffles iron, you will probably make just two with this amount of batter.

These waffles firmed up and browned just like "real" waffles.

I served them with sugar free maple syrup and more butter (of course!)

With a couple of strips of bacon, this is an awesome breakfast -- at about 2-1/2 carbs per waffle - including the syrup! Without the syrup (mine has about 4 carbs per 1/4 cup), the carb count would be about 1-1/2 carbs per waffle.

I could only eat 1 and half of another one. My DH ate 2-1/2 and declared them "just as good" as any other waffles he's ever eaten.

If any of you live in the south and have ever eaten at the Waffle House restaurant, they have a specialty pecan waffle. I think this recipe would be absolutely incredible with 1/2 cup of chopped pecans added to the batter. And the pecans would only add about 1-1/2 effective carbs to each waffle. Still quite a carb bargain!

If anyone out there tries this, I'd be interested in hearing your comments.