Looking to get started

#1

Hello everyone looking to get started am trying to understand what to eat I love meats and vegetables and looking to try and keep this easy so if I was to eat any meat with veg every day is that me doing keto I find the recipes a bit hard to do so I like to keep it easy and drink water have eggs for breakfast does it go something like this lol just need put on the right track with foods

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #2

There’s plenty of advice here in the Newbies category. Basically, the idea is to keep our insulin low by eating minimal carbohydrate (we recommend under 20 g/day), a reasonable amount of protein (we recommend 1.0-1.5 grams a day per kilo of lean body mass), and add fat to satiety. There are plenty of ways to tweak things, but this is the essence of this way of eating. It’s as simple as that.

#3

Yopu don’t need to overcomplicate it. Meat, vegs, that sounds good. The simploest for me is a roast (pot, meat, salt, time. I do it like that). I eat it alone or with eggs, normally but tomorrow I grab a little red radish too I think.
Well that’s the very simple, even I don’t do that every time (and I have multiple courses anyway). But you can do various things with vegs and spices. I learned about eggs in purgatory on this forum and my family enjoys it since. I can put meat into it too, not just eggs.
On my original vegetarian keto I fried vegetables a lot. And usually added eggs but I am into eggs very much. Vegs and meat, there are zillions of options, it may be easy to come up with your own too I guess. I surely would make nice soups too. And curry… And I don’t mention all the dishes I can come up with. There are huge possibilities if you want to eat meat and vegs.

#4

You don’t need to be limited. There are lots of menu options.

My boilerplate on foods and recipes:

There are so many low-carb options…

There are lots of low-carb veggies – mushrooms, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, green beans, peppers, snow peas, asparagus, radishes, celery, artichokes, onions, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes, spinach, bok choy, …

There are lots of proteins – eggs, chicken, pork, beef, lamb, fish, seafood, …

There are lots of fats – olive oil, butter, avocado oil, heavy cream, coconut oil, mayo, cheese, …

There are lots of nuts and seeds – walnuts, pecans, macadamia, almonds, chia, pumpkin, sunflower, …

There are lots of spices – Salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, ginger, curry powder, …

There are all kinds of sauces and condiments – tomato sauce/paste, mustard, SF ketchup, SF BBQ sauce, salsa, guacamole, horseradish, SF jams/jellies, tartar sauce, …

There are lots of baking supplies – coconut flour, almond flour, flax meal, psyllium husk, Xanthan gum, extracts and SF syrups, unsweetened coconut or almond milks, artificial sweeteners, …

And so many I left out. Almost an infinite number of combinations.

I do cheap and easy keto meal preps based on the proteins that are on sale in a given week.

My meal preps are a variation on sheet pan meals, with a nod to slow cooking via crockpots.

Otherwise, my pantry list is mostly geared around lazy microwave recipes.

Favorite meals:

  • Joseph’s Lavash Bread or Chaffles can be the start of a lot of tasty items.
  • Cheesewiches
  • “Everything” omelets
  • Pizza
  • Meat and veggie “dump” soups (includes chili and curries)
  • Smoked salmon + capers + Jalapeno cream cheese + chopped hard-boiled eggs + diced onions

Favorite side dishes:

Favorite snacks:

I subscribe to these YouTube channels for all kinds of recipe ideas:

You can even eat low-carb junk food and fast food. You just need to make different choices. A few restaurant references I’ve saved:

(Alec) #5

You’ve got a head start here. Eat lots of meat, preferably fatty meat, but keep veg intake low ie don’t think the veg is a freebie: it isn’t. If in doubt, eat some more meat.

(Marianne) #6

Welcome!

From the beginning, I never wanted to cook “recipes” and kept my plan very simple. Breakfast was always the same - in the beginning, that was 2-3 scrambled eggs, 2 pieces of bacon and sometimes a butter coffee (sound disgusting, but very delicious and will hold you for hours). Lunch was whatever I could pull out of the fridge - egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad (use a little mayo as you can because it has seed oil in it, even the olive oil may), leftover meat, cream cheese wrapped in ham slices, etc. Dinner was always a pan seared piece of beef, pork or hamburger with a steamed vegetable with salt and bacon grease. I made my own blue cheese dressing with heavy cream, blue cheese crumbles, lemon juice, salt and some spices. Throw it in a bowl and mix with a hand mixer and save. Easy and you know exactly what is in it. I loved it and never felt guilty eating it because everything used was clean keto.

To keep the carbs low, I confined my salad and vegetable consumption to dinner time only and enhanced the with added fat - butter or bacon grease. “Recipes” were what I created and easy - 73/27 hamburger mixed with a bag of shredded cabbage. Don’t drain the grease; mix the cabbage in it - delicious, at least to me as I love rich food.

Keto doesn’t have to be difficult at all. It was very easy for me to maintain. I enjoyed putting our meals together and used minimal effort. They were still delicious and I looked forward to every meal. After several weeks of eating three meals a day, I naturally switched to two meals a day with no problem whatsoever. Your body will give you the appropriate signals when ready. Don’t force yourself to do something you aren’t feeling. Best to you!

(Rebecca ) #7

This is a wealth of knowledge! Thank you!

(Butter Withaspoon) #8

You sound like me! I just choose my meat and eat it with vegetables. You don’t need to measure or track to get started. My cooking is so boring, but I love it. And yes I often have eggs for breakfast too.

Just avoid the starchy vegetables like potatoes.

If you get great results from this, wonderful. And if you get to a point where you would like to add another lever you can.

Start simple and off you go!

#9

I call that simple. If I like my food, it can’t be ever boring! Maybe to others but they don’t count.
Simplicity is cool, I only complicate things because I need variety, sadly. And I like cooking to some extent. But it’s really great to eat the same good food zillion times in row, I wish I could do it but I have some super common dishes. For example, I start my day (first course of late lunch or early dinner) with scrambled eggs until I get bored of it and that takes many days… No problem with that if you ask me :wink:

I consider it great when one uses simple good food by default… And IF the need emerges, other things can come into play. But there is no need to think and cook a lot for each and every meal. I had that in the past, it got tiresome.

(Bob M) #10

That is a lot of You Tube channels. Does that work well?

#11

They don’t all publish a lot of new stuff, but many do have an extensive collection of recipes.