Food Chit Chat 🥩

[Bokchoi]

I’d love to know what your daily meals/snacks look like! (I know you’re supposed to cut down on snacking, but I’ll get there eventually )

Just to see how elaborate or how simple people are with their keto meals.

[kandescent]

This is a good thread for that.

What did you Keto today? Part Deux!

aww thank you soo much!

[Bokchoi]

Oooh awesome — thank you kindly!

[kandescent]

yw

[x-Dena-x]

I’ve been doing OMAD so I dont really snack. But my favorite meal (right now at least) is Tuna Melt, sans the bread obviously lol. With American cheese!!! Not the best cheese choice, as it’s technically not even cheese, but I get a good quality American cheese at least. Very hard for me to get tired of this!

[MommyJill2005]

I dont really snack anymore, but what I eat for lunch a lot of days is 2 TB of peanut butter mixed with 1 TB coconut oil and eat it with celery sticks. If I am still hungry I eat 2 oz of cheese. It keeps me full until dinner!

[Bokchoi]

That’s good to hear! I used to just drink veggie smoothies before but I got so hungry out of nowhere (prob purely habit) so I always ate out, brought leftovers from dinner, snack all day long sitting at work.

I had a small 1/2 cup of cabbage and maybe 2 cups of pork, man, I am STUFFED!

[kimyeah]

I’ve found that keeping a jar of salted macadamia nuts at my desk has proven to be of great help if I get snacky. Depending on how hungry I am, I’ll have 5-10 of them and be good to go.

[Bokchoi]

Sounds delightful! I love macadamia nuts - my favorite Costs an arm and a leg up here in Alaska though. Maybe I can get it on amazon… not costco here either T___T

[David_Stilley]

@x-Dena-x Probably has some seed oil like soy. Check the ingredients. You want to eliminate all seed oils. Why not cheddar cheese?

Seed oils are a big cause of inflammation that’s why we avoid it whenever possible. My real reason for avoiding restaurants;

You can limit carbs with food choices but they don’t have and use quality healthy oil in restaurants generally.

I make an exception for the occasional bit of toasted sesame oil but I have it in an aerosol bottle and just mist some things like a stir fry.

[David_Stilley]

I have just after 5 months dropped snacking and started TMAD. I gave me a jump ketosis wise and I have started burning fat again. And I am thinking it’s hitting the macros more naturally with two good meals.

But before my snacks were a little cheese, nuts, ham, pepperoni, sauerkraut, a few olives, pork rinds, a dill pickle, homemade jalapeño poppers, a can of sardines or half an avocado. Usually if you’re actually feeling a bit low energy a fatty snack is recommended in the starting period especially.

Sometimes it’s actually your body just craving salt. We loose salt quickly compared to when we eat carbs. So it’s always a good idea when you think you need a snack to take some salt and a big drink of water and wait about 15 minutes to reassess your need to eat between meals. Especially if you’re trying to correct metabolic derangement or if weight loss is a goal. Don’t go hungry but don’t eat at your first impulse either.

[PetaMarie]

Today went like this:

Breakfast: coffee with heavy whipping cream, splenda and cinnamon. Three sausages (the big hot dog sized ones, I’m hungry when I wake up)

Lunch: Tuna with mayo and salt wrapped in lettuce. Can of diet Mt. Dew.

Dinner: Roast beef topped with melted cheese, sour cream with chives, a tomato chopped and jalapeno slices.

Later Probably: Some 100% dark chocolate licked and dipped into splenda and salt. Most days I don’t have bedtime snacks. Today is not one of those days.

Lots of water when I’m thirsty throughout the day.

[Brewster]

When you say seed oils like soy, you would be referring to the (so called) ‘Vegetable’ oils Canola, Safflower, Corn, Cottonseed, Grapeseed and Rapeseed (?) that Ansel Keys made almost mandatory.
Margarine, Shortening and ‘other’ fake Butter ‘like’ spreads must be added to the list.

These concoctions involve chemical extraction, de-gumming, refining, bleaching, deodorizing and hydrogenation, and IMO one of the most significant reasons for today’s health problems.

My understanding is Sesame oil, if ‘cold pressed’ is good, but we must be cautious of hydrogenation and ‘mixed’ versions… “in aerosol bottle” sounds suspicious.

[Bokchoi]

Thanks!

My meals are kinda similar to yours. I think I can work on simplifing my lunches though. Maybe instead of bringing leftovers, just keep dinner leftovers as just that and make a smaller meal for lunch.

I have a bowl of Hersey kisses at work for customers, and it’s SO TEMPTING. But not too badly. I’m not that big on sweets, but it’s just so readily available. Bought some carbonated water to leave here.

[Bokchoi]

I found some low carb salad dressing at the store today, but I immediately put them back as I thought I remembered seeing somewhere to avoid soybean oil, canola, etc. I’ll just make some at home! Prob better anyways.

[PetaMarie]

I never did like too cook, unless it can go on top of the stove and be done in under 5 minutes. If it has to go into the stove and it expects me to walk away and come back later then I usually can’t handle it. Good thing I don’t mind eating cold things!

I often take dinner left overs for lunch but I had run out of all fridge food and luckily had a crappy head of lettuce left and two cans of tuna. It’s been one of those weeks.

[Bokchoi]

My thing is, I LOVE cooking. So I’m really into making super big, carby, elaborate meals. But I’m beginning to learn that simple is OK too. Don’t need to stuff myself with super rich foods 3X a day.

[PetaMarie]

Dude, if I loved to cook I think I would spend hours reducing low carb sauces into delicious condiments or cook breakfast casseroles for freezing or grind my own meat. I always envy people who do awesome keto cooking. I think you could still do some amazing cooking, just a different kind.

[Bokchoi]

Well I made some yummy stuff recently but the creamed cabbage was more carby than I thought Tough balance.

[x-Dena-x]

My mind loves to cook, but my body says meh, lets sit on the couch and watch other people cook on Netflix.

I did see a recipie for Cloud Bread. 3 ingredients. That, I can get down with. I made nearly zero carb cheesy breadsticks which were absolutely slammin. I made a sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich out of it.