Thanks for all those suggestions, Katharine. Some of them sound pretty high-toned (smoked salmon, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto). I'm afraid a hard-boiled egg might be more my speed. 
My grocery store sells packages of smoked salmon (both the hot-smoked, flaky kind and the cold-smoked kind, like lox). A pack of chunks of hot-smoked, around $13, lasts me about a week. It's about as difficult to serve oneself as a bowl of cereal.
My son went out today and grabbed bagels and lox, so my dinner is going to be a salad with lox, onions, chopped eggs and capers in a vinaigrette. Maybe sprinkled with some pumpkin seeds for crunch. Dessert: fresh raspberries. If I had avocado or chopped bacon, I'd add those, but I don't.
Actually, since I asked my question--and this speaks to what I quoted from your post--I'm not so sure fat isn't a concern for me, because I have a strong family history of heart disease.
Well, journalist Gary Taubes, my low-carb guru, says there's scientific evidence that fat, even saturated fat, does not cause heart disease. But I couldn't really follow the science, so I can't describe it or vouch for it. With a little googling, you could probably find the explanation. Something about making the LDL molecules bigger or ...
I could, however, follow the science of why low-carb diets help you lose weight. I probably can't do it justice writing it here, but at least I understood it as I was reading.
I'm glad to know my scotch passes muster. I'll just switch to water as a mixer--which is how I drink it at home--instead of soda, which is how I ordinarily order it in a bar.
Soda as in sparkling water is fine! No carbs, no calories -- can't go wrong on any diet. But soda as in what we Minnesodans call "pop" -- Coke, 7Up -- has carbs unless it's diet. And if it is, I still think it's bad for you. But I'm assuming you wouldn't wreck good scotch with that.
Scotch with either club soda or water is good for you!
