Woke up to a winter wonderland this morning and my boys loved seeing all the snow. The freezing weather is definitely ramping up my appetite
If you have any festive keto breakfast favourites, please do sharešFestive keto breakfasts
Fangs
#2
Smile face. Love it 
I donāt do snacky like that. First meal for me of the day is a honkinā big steak or heavy on the hoof meat. I canāt quite get it to smile HAHA
I bet your boys are loving smiley plates! 
and with snow you are gonna be knee deep in wet gloves and jackets and pants My mom was like horrified when we kids wanted to hit the snow and she knew her laundry to dry would be crazy increased LOL and get those boots off before the wet snow was tracked all thru the house. Ahhh such great memories for us kids, mom not so much 
never2late
#3
Hi Fangs, the cold for me with my cold intolerance makes winter less enjoyable than they couldāve been. But my boys will have plenty magical memories of winter, the festive season and snow and thatās all that matters. Later weāll go for a lovely walk in that powdery snow. My youngest loves hearing that crunch. But now itās time to cook dinner for the family, Iāve already had mine and am absolutely stuffed. I also went way too mad on the whipping cream, as had some in my coffee and the rest in a bowl as a treat. Itās just so deliciously rich. Thatās what the cold and the festive season does to you.
Fangs
#4
oh yea festive and cold combined means eat to warm the cockles of our hearts, mind body and soul so feel ya on that one LOL
you having youngers you are lucky to get all that ānew experienceā they love to see and take in all innocent like. great times.
I loved my kid, cause we are in the South, and that little snow that does come, we had to go out and buy a sled for a few times around the pasture with the atv and then we dragged the sled up and down the dead end road on the ice too with the atv and kiddo still talks about āour almost no South Snow all the timeā We knew also we had to react fast cause in a few hrs any snow would be gonzo 
So yea, any snow we hustled our butts to enjoy it.
funny thing is down here ANY mention of possible snow and schools shut down immediatley LOL Up North where I grew up it took about 4 ft of snow to cancel school
never2late
#5
That sounds lovely Fangs, sledging together with your child in the snow. Lovely memories. They are really for us parents those memories as our children grow up perhaps not remembering all that much, though I hope they take a good portion of their memories and experiences with them into adulthood.
Well my little ones ate well of their dinner, and Iām so pleased, as they ate all their greens, they are becoming less picky. And in the festive spirit, after their greens itās sausages and chips. For dessert they will have chocolate chip cookies and chocolate cake for my youngest who hilariously donāt like cookies. Myself I couldnāt eat another morsel, not after that bowl of whipping cream I indulged in, and the plate of bacon to warm me this morning, and that large plate of cooked gammon joint, cheese blocks and egg slices I had for lunch. Fat really does satiate the body.
PaulL
(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?)
#6
We lived in Buffalo, New York, until I was nine, and the schools never closed for snow. I remember walking to school between drifts that were taller than I was. The only school closure I can remember was the result of trouble with the water system, not snow. Then we moved to Connecticut, where they close the schools for a couple of inches. But we stopped laughing about it when we saw how people drive in snow around here. Because weāre on the coast, people just donāt get enough practice dealing with heavy snow to get good at it!
As for the topic of the thread, I think bacon, eggs, and sausage makes for a really festive meal, regardless of the time of day or the time of year! 
never2late
#7
Eggs, bacon and sausage certainly is a good combination, almost like an english breakfast. Though a typical english breakfast includes bacon, fried, poached or scrambled eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or buttered toast, and sausages. Now if I was assured a cafe would fry all those foods with wholesome butter rather than dubious vegetable seed oils I would certainly indulge in such a festive platter, minus the bread, as you only live once.
islandlight
(Laurie)
#8
I donāt eat breakfast, but my noon meal is always eggs. Iām trying to simplify things, down to the point where itās usually just cold boiled eggs. But sometimes itās a bit more interesting ā¦ I might post a nice photo soon.
Thanks for the thread!
never2late
#9
Hi Laurie, eggs are great, and so versatile. I boiled four today for breakfast with my cooked ham, and then left two in the fridge for tomorrow to have with my bacon. I donāt know if itās the cold but I just cannot fast on keto, as soon as Iām up Iām hungry. And with my increased appetite I find myself looking for festive meal ideas lol, though I too like to keep my cooking very simple. I have decided instead of crustless sugar and sweetener free cheesecake Iām just going to enjoy some nice ricotta with fresh berries and nuts as a festive christmas dessert.
islandlight
(Laurie)
#10
Yes, eating the ingredients themselves is much easier, and often just as delicious!
Shinita
#11
Thatās not my thread, my breakfast is always a big nice nothing 
Well, some nice drink, without a noticeable amount of caloriesā¦
But of course it canāt stop me.
I am fine with ābreakfast for dinnerā though, I already got used to the term ābreakfast foodā, it was so super weird to me some years agoā¦ Food is food, what does it matter what time is it? (Except that okay, sometimes one canāt do it fresh.)
My family members are very good at eating whatever for every meal of the day. Whatever we eat for others, I mean. We donāt do snacks, I always eat eggs and meat but at least one of themā¦ And lunch is a serious meal. But otherwiseā¦ If itās a nice meal, it is a nice meal any time!
By the way I bought ham! You folks mention it a lot and despite itās not so easy to get some nice (and not super expensive) ham here, I just had enough. I used to love ham, I remember my Aunt had a whole big smoked hard thing in her pantryā¦ Just smelling it was a joy.
Well the watery things with sugar, sweetener, MSG and other things I just donāt want in my food if possible, they donāt really tempt me. I got some nicer stuff, expensive but a small pieceā¦
If something screams (Easter but itās good any time) breakfast to me, itās boiled eggs with ham and mustard. Optionally cheese too. A lovely start of an eating window. Even if itās in the afternoon Other condiments and maybe some pickles may be included as wellā¦ I consider that pretty festive, itās colorful, flavorful and very near perfect.
(I would need a decent pork roast soon after unless I mean business with my ham and manage to eat a ton. I usually donāt eat so much processed meat.)
We have frost and rain but no snow yet. We had a tiny bit but it melted immediately without even making my impressive pines really cool. (Okay, they are always cool but you know, properly snowed pines, thatās something else!)
Itās protein for me but I need more calories so yep, fat too But that comes just fine with my protein except when I just eat a bunch of leaner meat but my body tells me to get some cream or sour cream then or something thenā¦
never2late
#12
Hi Shinita, just to say, breakfast only really means break of fast so it can be any time, say even around noon. Admittedly though, due to this freezing cold, I find myself hungry as soon as I get up now. I imagine Dr Fungās recommended IF, which I practised at the start of my WOE, will be easier to carry off in the warmer months. Anyways, for me bacon is what should start the day lol, well that and coffee with cream. Hmm, it may be because the ham was so lean I ended up overdoing the cream earlier, even eating a small bowl of it. And after that I wasnāt hungry till the evening when I cooked a couple of beef burgers as my body wanted the protein. Iām glad you got some decent ham and not the overprocessed thing, hope you enjoy it, I blissfully gorged on my great ham piece for about three days and now, alas, it is gone.
Shinita
#13
Oh about the snow vs school. I donāt remember anything but my SO said that their school got closed once. Snow was about 50cm but multiple times as much where the wind was active, the school fence was fully covered here and there! We had such a winter time several years ago here, it was impressive. I live in a very windy area.
In Englishā¦ Our word has the āmorningā word in it and our morning lasts until about 9am onlyā¦ Just because I use English, my meal names are used as mere translations, I canāt break free from our ways!
Noon is way too early for my breakfast, I did a lot of 6pm first meals lately It was interesting and I keep trying to do OMAD (thatās tricky).
If I ate at noon, I probably would overeat all day! Itās too easy when I start at 5pmā¦ But not typical. At least on/near carnivoreā¦ I hope you can handle earlier meals LOADS better. Fortunately I am quite satiated until mid-afternoon or later, I think winter just helpsā¦ I definitely donāt want more food or more fat in winter.
I like fatty ham. Mine is like that. Big meat layer, smaller but still impressive fat layer. Maybe this kind is unusual in countries where the average person doesnāt eat quite high-fat? Or where leaner pigs are raised? Okay, the two may be correlated
But lean ham is nice too. Just fatty ham is nicer to me. Yum.
Bacon is way too fatty and salty for me. And just because itās sliced and a bit more tempting, it costs twice as much 
Itās not a good deal for me, I donāt prefer the sliced kind THAT much! So I bought tiny cubes, itās nice in scrambled eggs and I couldnāt eat the slices without many eggs due to the saltiness anywayā¦
But you have those memoriesā¦ IDK where it is for you but it matters to me a lot. I never really understood when people talked about getting just a minute joy from some nice treat (treat used in a wide sense, whatever we enjoy a lot). Nope, I easily feel pretty satisfied for weeks or months regarding that item. Then I may start to miss it again. Of course some things are needed more regularly but ham is okay once a year (and a few smoked hocks during the year they are pretty similar. I think I went without ham for years and it only bothered me mentally here and there as that was such a big fav of mine when I was a child).
Of course itās a bit sad if you ate a lot of some loveliness and actually could eat more without problemā¦ I had that with smoked mackerel but it was fine. Not ideal but I wasnāt sad, I was happy I had what I had (it wasnāt so much but it was flavorful)ā¦ And seriously planned to get it again not in the very distant futureā¦ And I did, I have a lovely smoked mackerel in my fridge now. Thatās no festive breakfast, thatās a very very festive Christmas lunch or dinner for me! Along with plenty of other food.
We had a big shopping today (my SO spent 83% of his salary in a few supermarkets and we just bought some necessities, mostly food minus enough pork and seafood. but I bought food with a Christmas holiday attitude. still nothing wild, no ruminant except some beef liver but mackerel is one of the best things :D)ā¦ So I am very into this topic, good and festive food
By the way, organ meat is nice festive breakfast to me. Tongue, heart, beef liverā¦ With eggs, of course but I eat eggs all the time.
never2late
#14
I prefer the fatty cuts more too Shinita, which is why I swear by bacon.
But the lean ham was nice, it was a good quality ham, with no dextrose in it. I do have another gammon joint in the fridge which is to be cooked that has dextrose in it, it was of course cheaper to buy than the dextrose free ham which was greatly reduced and would have cost a lot more at original price. But I canāt see a christmas without pork. I happen to have smoked mackarel in the fridge which I will eat perhaps later today or tomorrow, as well as pork chops and burgers. And of course, several packs of bacon, as thatās my winter comfort food, that and cream.
I understand things have different meanings in different languages. Iām not english by the way though Iāve lived in UK for a long time. Iām norwegian, the norwegian word for breakfast is frokost. I just wouldnāt be able to wait as long as you to eat, Iād go bonkers. My body, and I do blame the winter, is hungry as soon as I get up. But I can still keep to regular meals despite this. As to festive christmas foods I remember some extravagant norwegian dinners growing up, but the english food is really good as well. And with my limited cooking I like to keep things very simple now.
never2late
#16
Hi Allie, it makes me cold and tired too, but also, very very hungry. So my go to winter comfort food is bacon, and several spoons of heavy whipping cream, it tastes sweet enough to have as a dessert. As I have Reynolds winter is something for me to just get through and survive while my body is waiting for the healing rays and warmth of spring. But my boys love winter, itās magical to them and so, even though I wish the snow could go for my part Iām glad theyāre finding so much joy in having a white christmas.
Shinita
#17
It does nothing to me except when I donāt get sunshine. Today is sunny so all is well. Sometimes I am cold in winter but I need a bad mood or lack of sleep or being super tired and especially inactivity for that to happen. Oh and being inside! Itās hard to be cold outside as I am moving. Except when I crack walnuts in near frost wearing 1 layer, that gets cold pretty fast
I drink copious amounts of warm liquids in winter though My throat is a bit sensitive and anyway, I like water but only that is boring to me.
Ouch. I just learned about it a few days ago, it must be awful even in the subtler version (a youtuber has the necrosis, not the worst but still).
I merely have cold feet and hands and nose in winter, thatās bad enough for me. But a little activity and I get so warm, I feel lucky as my SO gets it way, way later. Like, he comes home, freezing (the trip is 35-60minutes, it depends) and some minutes later his hands start to get super warmā¦ He says he is better now, the heating starts during the tripā¦
Itās super crazy for me as I never had this, I need 5 minutes tops and I need to take off my gloves (if I bother with it to begin with), hat, bigger scarf (I have my tiny thin one around my neck all day, inside and outside), even one layer if I forgot I never should wear 3 if I go out in winter as I will be overheatedā¦
We had our 2nd snow attempt. Another failed one, super little and melting.
never2late
#18
Hi Shinita. Itās poor blood circulation that causes Reynolds I believe and I take it from how you deal with the cold your circulation is really good, at least normal. I currently have chilblains on my hands which are taking their time to heal, and the one on my left hand has developed into a wound, despite the sudocrem my pharmacy gave me. I find key is to keep my hands warm at all times, and to keep them dry, I have a pair of excellent fingerless gloves which I wear all day and even sleep in.
I do of course find the winter very beautiful but I imagine itās about as friendly to me as the evil snow queen. But my kids love it and my SO has no issues with the cold luckily.
Fangs
#19
you had me laughing on Buffalo. In NJ we could hit ājust enoughā but it had to be alot to get a snow day off
in PA where I lived there would be high mounds of ice snow encompassing the light poles like at a mall and those would hang til like June sometimes. Crazy
Problem down here is NO ONE owns a snow tire. Up North ya can be prepared for āthat long seasonā down here there is a run at the store if one snowflake falls for people to buy ice melt and a snow shovel LOL
Our last school cancel was because āpossible high wind and possible floodingā from last hurricane that was coming our way. School cancelled. No high wind and no floods, just a rainy day HA
Even my kid said can ya believe they cancelled school? I was like yes and no. they cancel for the craziest reasons down here at the drop of a hat, opps, drop of a tobaggen! gotta say it Southern.
bacon/eggs/sausage, yes that is festive to me, I always will second that one! HA
Shinita
#20
Yes, my circulation is good. I merely need to wear gloves in my room sometimes, my extremities get so cold. I sleep in thick socks too.
I just say a chilly hand is unpleasant already so you must have it quite bad.
Winter isnāt really beautiful at most times here, everything is muddyā¦ And I miss the green though we have tons of pines and other evergreens here.
When itās snowy, itās very pretty though I like ice as well. The non-slippery part. We donāt have smooth roads here, only my terrace is insanely slippery then, even rain is enough for that. Though once I managed to slip on a snowy grass while wearing slippers and strained my ankle (it healed for quite a few months, it took WAAAAY longer than a serious broken bone with surgery but that was my wrist while I am walking on my legā¦) so I should be careful.
I took a walk, finally. Not a long one and my ears almost froze off, it is windy nowā¦