>>"I actually pulled one over on my family with the pork rind crusted fried chicken. Only after they were done did I tell them what they had actually eaten! <evil laugh>"

I made pork rind French Toast and didn't tell my b/f what was in it. *L* He loved it!



It's a totally different situation. You're not entertaining friends or guests - you're cooking for the people who leave their dirty laundry all over the place and never change the toilet paper roll. The rule is, "if I cook it, you eat it or starve." Tricking your family into eating their vegetables and whole foods is different from deliberately sabotaging a diet restriction.

I also disagree that it has to be incompatible with higher carb meals earlier in the day: salad, green beans and meat is still a superior meal, IMHO, to more high carb crap.