Berries?

(Wendy Peterson) #1

Does anyone eat berries? Not everyday I mean but my naturopath eats Keto and he recommended berries and whipped cream. How much and how often?

(jim schafer) #2

maybe one cup every other week…if i’ve had a small meal and plan to fast

(jketoscribe) #3

Berries have carbs so they take up a lot of your precious daily allowance. But they are a wonderful treat.

A cup is far too much.

I allow myself 5 small strawberries or 3 medium size, about 20 blueberries, 1/3 cup worth of blackberries or raspberries which are lowest in carbs. This is a once or twice a week treat, in season, and yes to whipped (unsweetened) dairy or coconut cream.

During the winter I buy Trader Joe’s freeze dried raspberries. They crumble very easily–5 berries is about 1 g of carbs. So crumbled and sprinkled over something like my coconut yogurt it packs a whallop of flavor for very little carb expenditure.

(Michelle) #4

I haven’t eaten any fruit since starting Keto. But, I do plan to work in berries at some point. I like @janknitz’s approach.

(Siobhan) #5

I have a few (like blackberries, blueberries, raspberries NOT strawberries) in a souffle, or with some whipped cream, or just by themselves. By a few I mean like 5 or 10 max at a time, and that’s once every 2 or 3 weeks. I just don’t want them very often.

(Alex Dipego) #6

You’ll find berries to be very sweet and the desire won’t be huge. I rarely do them anymore and if I do they are in the salad I’m eating with olive oil

#7

I did in the early days of Keto while I was adapting to foods and missed sweet-tasting foods. I would have a few berries (eg. couple of strawberries cut up into itty bitty pieces or 5 raspberries or blackberries or 8-10 blueberries) with chantilly cream most nights for dessert in the first few weeks…I adjusted well and consistently lost weight and felt better, regardless. These days though, I really only have them on occasion if I want to dress up a serve of Carl’s Chcolate Mousse recipe for a Keto treat. Yum!! Going Keto certainly cured my sweet tooth.

(Jacquie) #8

I include berries but only in season and then just a few with the dinner meal, now and then. I never have them on their own as a snack as I don’t snack and eating berries alone could raise my BG. We grow our own strawberries (organic) and have wild blueberries and raspberries on the property. They are smaller and not as sweet as the store bought varieties which works for me. :wink:

(Barbara Greenwood) #9

Ummm… shuffle… I have some pretty much daily - a mix of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, 80-100g in total, with cream.

I am in ketosis, so they’re not preventing it for me. They are the only fruit I eat.

(Jacquie) #10

That’s great! The cream would probably help, too. I pretty much ‘eat to the meter’, so I find amounts vary.

(Jaidann) #11

Yep! I eat them. Maybe a couple times a month.

(jketoscribe) #12

One of my “treats” is to melt a tablespoon or two of coconut butter, and sprinkle with a small handful of FROZEN blueberries. Stir fast, because the frozen berries solidify and harden up the coconut butter around each blueberry and make it sort of “crunchy”. Really nice on a hot day!