Hello! I’m new to Keto. One week today and hopefully I’m not making too many mistakes. Can anyone recommend products and snacks that I can purchase? I see bread options online but I also hear there’s a lot of misinformation out there. I’m also trying recipes but I hate cooking so the easier the better. Help! Thanks!!!
Keto friendly products and snacks
Pepperoni, salami, sugar free beef jerky, hard boiled eggs, pickles, olives, pork rinds, avocados, cheese, good nuts, These are what I suggest, available at your local grocer. Also leftovers from meals.
Some things I buy online and get shipped or delivered:
I also get a number of items from Target and Amazon. My Target and Fry’s Foods (i.e Kroger) carry the Real Good and Quest pizza and other frozen foods. Also, Atkins makes a number of frozen entrees. The commercial products can get quite expensive.
I do cheap and easy keto meal preps based on the proteins that are on sale in a given week.
Otherwise, my pantry list is mostly geared around lazy microwave recipes.
My easiest sandwich is simply a cheesewich – meat between two slices of cheese. My go-to is two slices of Canadian Bacon on a slice of pepper jack cheese. Just fold over and eat.
Otherwise, what I use for bread depends on use and convenience:
- Joseph’s Lavash Bread
- Lettuce leaves and low carb tortillas work as wraps
- I use Ke-Dough for buns.
- Protein powder bread
- Quick microwave bread works for burgers. In rectangular cookware, OK for hot dogs.
- Cheesebuns
- Soy wrappers work well for hot dogs, but also usable for burgers.
- Headbanger’s Kitchen flatbread
I’ve tried both the ThinSlim and Great Low Carb Bread Company baked items. They’re OK, but expensive and filled with a lot of fiber. I always feel bloated and uncomfortable afterwards.
Favorite snacks:
- Cheese crisps
- Easy pecan cookies, although I usually add Lilly’s chocolate chips and unsweetened coconut.
- Chocolate donuts, although I make as cupcakes
- Chocolate Coconut Haystacks or Bark
- Chia pudding
- No-bake cheesecake fluff
- Egg Loaf or Fluffy Coconut Flour Pancake Rounds with sugar-free syrup
- Root beer float (diet root beer + HWC)
- Breyers Carb Smart or Halo Top or Enlightened ice cream.
- SmartCakes are a delicious low carb commercial product, although a little expensive.
This is amazing and perfect timing for me. I will need to make a 7 hour trip to see my daughter and I have been a bit worried on what snacks I should load up for the car ride down and back so this is a great start. Thanks for this.
Thank you! This is very helpful. The scale is moving slooooowly but I’m starting to feel different. Something is happening! : )