being from the south there is a ton of foods I miss, like tomatoe gravy and biscuits, homemade FF,ect but I have not broke off yet, I fight it daily and I am not the cook a lot you are, I got 5 days left for my 1st month and lost 14 pds.
Keto is kinda boring
amwassil
(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.)
#2
Sure. Youāll get over it if you hang in there. Eventually, you will realize that all that stuff you miss was not worth missing after all. Keto is not boring once you decide to check it out instead of lamenting the crap you left behind.
David_Stilley
(Full Metal KETO AF)
#3
Itās challenging for sure but you can still have many Southern dishes with a little alteration. Iām a huge fan of Southern cooking, especially Louisiana cuisines. I do a lot of blackened meats, Collards with bacon, gumbo, sausage gravy with KETO biscuits. They arenāt always perfect replications but still Southern flavors. You can eat tomatoes on KETO just not cup fills of tomato sauce. I like to make a batch of Creole sauce now and then. You can make fried chicken with pork rind breading too. Or thereās always BBQ and some fresh cole slaw and cauliflower potato salad. Hash with fried radishes (quite potato like). How about country ham and eggs with red eye gravy? Andouille Sausage? Crawfish or shrimp boil? Youāll get used to the foods without the normal dose of sugar in short time. Smothered pork chops, yum! You will have to learn to cook to be happy most likely. Itās not a skill people are born with, itās practice and learning but itās a basic life skill that many in the modern world never pick up. Good luck moving forward and congratulations on your progress so far. If you want it you can do it. 
kaclp
(Kristen Ann)
#4
My Dad has a keto southern cookbook that he raves about. My Mom (who canāt cook at all) has even been able to follow some of the recipes so it must have some pretty simple recipes. I can find out the name of it if youāre interested.
Here are a few of my favorite dishes that are easy and a little Southern (I live in SW Virginia so I get it). You donāt have to be a chef to make any of them.
If youāre craving fried chicken - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/keto-breaded-chicken-cutlets-5511768.amp
Does it taste like the fried chicken we grew up on? Hell no! But itās delicious!
Deviled eggs - https://realhousemoms.com/mississippi-sin-deviled-eggs/
Roasted chicken leg quarters - https://cravingtasty.com/crispy-chicken-leg-quarters-recipe/
These were so good I left a comment. (Iāve left about six reviews on the internet in 20 years.)
And you can put this on anything and itāll be delicious http://cookprimalgourmet.com/alabama-white-bbq-sauce-whole30
I hope this helps. I love to cook but have to have recipes as Iām not creative at all. If you can follow a recipe, you can cook too and have non-boring meals. 
anon24390425
#6
The book is called Southern Keto by Natasha Newton.
@bp52 depending on where youāre from, you may can get Miloās tea. The yellow label is sweetened with Splenda, I donāt know if it gives you a headache or not. I enjoy it.
charlie3
(charlie3)
#7
I do the Chris Masterjohn robot diet, meaning the same 2 meals every day. A giant non startchy vegetable salad with my own elaborate olive oil dressing, then a meat and fish meal. Then chase both with large mugs of ice coffee with heavy cream and stevia. I do an hour walk prior to both those meals so a healthy appetite is typical. I enjoy those meals far more than what I used to eat. It probably helps that Iām getting at least 100% of the RDAās for everything, no suppliments, and Iāve learned how to mke the food taste great (seasoning). Others besides me would suggest, focus on what you can eat instead of what you canāt.
Rebj
(Rebecca )
#10
Imagine that a crazed murder has held you captive for yearsā¦slowly torturing youā¦then one day you break free and escapeā¦think of those foods like thatā¦and the Ketogenic way of eating as the way you broke free!!
Kismet
(Murphy Kismet)
#11
Iāve found that some people need to āmournā that loss of comfort foods. Canāt turn to them anymore for instant comfort, theyāre ādeadā, or gone from that personās life, so to speak.
But then there are ghosts of the past in terms of the Grocery Store where they see ghosts of the past calling out to them to join them on the Dark Side, cuz theyāve got cookies AND they share!
Shinita
#12
I know nothing about Southern kitchen but I had my higher-carb times with higher-carb dishes and my diet is nothing like that now. Keto is anything but boring to me. True, I donāt use my old recipes or if I do, I need to be careful about amounts but as others wrote, itās often easy to modify a recipe, making it less carbier and the result might be different but just as (sometimes even more) delicious. Your taste probably will change a bit anyway. And we can adapt to new diets to some extent. You can eat great food on keto and it matters me most as a hedonist. If I really want, I can eat some nostalgic carbier food (but not super carby. I hardly can eat potato dishes on low-carb let alone keto) in small amounts. Only a bigger amount of carbier or any decent amount of super carby food is out.
As time passes, it gets easier. Good recipes come, old habits goā¦ I learned to enjoy my most important favs in really small amounts. Little tomato is way better than no tomato. But it doesnāt need to be super little, thankfully. Flour is usually easy to substitute. It will be different but thatās not a bad thing.
Mytmo38
#15
Good day, Dude, My son and I do an excellent B&G type dish, I put my gravy over cauliflower rice as Iām keto, but he uses biscuits, and of course a side of Thick sliced pepper bacon, Mmmmm.
KETO B&G: use your preference of sausage brands, and seasonings are āsuggestedā ammounts.
1 5 lbs Jimmy Dean (hot), cooked, Do Not drain
Pour in 2 cups heavy whipping cream
4 oz cream cheese, (add a bit more if desired)
2 Tbs dried parsley
1 tsp onion powder
Salt and pepper to taste
Once everything is combined simmer on med lo 20 min or until desired thickness
This makes enough dinner for 2 of us, with enough left over for my son in the morning, ( we do breakfast for dinner 1 or 2 times a week).
Hope you try it
ctviggen
(Bob M)
#16
You could also try this one, by our own 2 keto dudes:
I think this is great. I have a fryer and use beef tallow. I heat (say, 130-140F, not too hot) the tallow in jars/cans in my sous vide to get it liquid, then add to the fryer. I let the tallow cool until I can put it through a fine filter and then put it back into the containers. For me, it only lasts about 4 fries or so, as it even with filtering it, it gets too much ācrapā in it.
bottledwater13
#17
Iāve printed that recipe a few weeks ago because it looks so good. I donāt have a deep fryer though so Iāll be pan frying in beef tallow whenever I try it. Hopefully it works out.
KHAN
(Randy)
#18
Keto is boring because itās simple, real food. The underlying problem is that we have been taught, and continue to teach new generations that food is a reward, and food is love.
Fangs
#19
Food can be a reward. Food can be easily be love.
We forgot that love doesnāt have to be a cake at your birthdayā¦for me it is a standing rib roast 
Reward for me after being so healthy and on plan and loving itā¦some darn expensive King Crab legsā¦I require a lot of them to eat and lobster, omgosh the price on that, I need like 10 lobster tails to make me happy LOL
thing is you are so right that reward, love is SO associated with food and almost always the crap ones. I so get that.
Mindset change. Rewards and love is in real simple delish foods.
But of course what I wrote aināt what is happening out there but I wish it would!
bottledwater13
#20
Food is love. I make everything from scratch (including condiments) using real ingredients. I donāt buy packaged or canned stuff. I do it for myself and for the people that I love and care about. I did this pre-keto and I still do it. I didnāt come into keto with a host of health problems or because Iām obese and I refuse to eat the same two boring meals every day.
Southern cooking is a cultural thing and if you didnāt grow up in the south, you wonāt understand it. We cook out of love and we cook with love. Itās ingrained in us and itās not going away. We all just need to figure out how to do it in a more healthy manner.