Sunday is Easter. For my family that means ham. Ham purchased and prepared with no regard to carbohydrate content.
Should I eat it? If I stay away from the glazed edges, is that enough to avoid the carbs? Or should I assume the carbs are deeply embedded in the ham?
I really want to eat the ham. But I want to stay in ketosis more.
Thoughts?
I made some ham at christmas with brown sugar and mustard glaze…I ate it including the little bit of glaze on the exterior of the slice with no problems… unless they have had it soaking in a bath of sugar for months you should be fine… enjoy the ham!
I agree with everyone, enjoy the ham. Bring a keto side dish too! Maybe you will convert someone 
I am still pretty early on in my Keto journey and family is getting together, because I could definitely see our family soaking stuff in carb laden sauces/glazes, I am going to bring my own meal…
It is a family holiday tradition for your family, so enjoy a serve of it, just make sure you fill up on salad or some other keto side dishes. Take something you know is very low carb for yourself so you don’t have to worry about the carbs in the ham. If the glaze concerns you then avoid that part. I did a quick search on the usda food comp. dbase, Ham, honey, smoked, cooked per 100 grams is 7.27 g carb. That should be pretty close. You should check and see if any of the glazes in the dbase are similar to what your family will have.
Remember, if you are fat adapted, you’ll go right back into ketosis even if you fall out of it for a few hours.
Enjoy the holiday.
Ham is ok… just make sure you get enough fat to blunt any carb effects.
Personally, I fast for a day or two before a family feast so I can completely deplete my liver and muscle glycogen. That way, any incidental glucose or fructose goes in to replenish that first before it hits blood glucose and causes an insulin spike.
It is an interesting question, and it might apply to other things besides ham.
I made a batch of pickled red beet eggs a few days ago. The recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup of water and 1 cup of vinegar. I added a little salt. That, along with two cans of red beets, covers about 20 hard boiled eggs in a jar. They’ll sit in there for several days and the red will be soaked into the yolks of the eggs when we’ll begin to eat them.
I cheaped out. I just used regular sugar. A cup of sugar is cents. A cup of artificial sweetener or equivalent can be several dollars.
I don’t drink the liquid. I generally don’t eat the beets, and if so, not many of them. So how much sugar actually gets into the eggs, I don’t know for sure. I can’t think it’s that much but I don’t know. I’m sure a little does but not enough to worry me.
I’m looking forward to some good red beet eggs. 
not exactly… pickling is a method of preservation and may have some degree of fermentation, but it’s not always fermentation
fermentation actually changes the makeup of the food and introduces new biochemical products.
I’m thinking the kind of bacteria that eats sugar happens when fermenting. I wasn’t planning on letting these go anywhere near that long.
ETA: Oops… just saw the post just above. Thanks, Karim!
But I could be wrong. (??)
The ham I am not worried about but a friend is bringing creme brulee and my wife is saying “you will eat it and say it is wonderful”
@Pete_A I can’t find this in California, I had it in Kentucky when I lived there.
Hams vary quite a bit in carb content. But it’s just one dinner, avoid the other carbs and you’ll be fine. Make sure to bring a keto friendly side dish you can fill up on without resorting to potatoes or buns. 
If the serving looks too big you could always “share” with your wife but really only have a small taste while she gets most of it. We do that here and it works pretty well.
I personally think one of the hardest parts of keto is changing other aspects of your life. I never knew how much food controlled my actions until I went on keto. I would have a birthday party coming up and I’d be clueless as to how I’m gonna have any fun without eating cake and ice cream. I eventually for over the whole thing in time, and I found other ways of enjoying myself at such events that doesn’t revolve around food. My first Thanksgiving on keto I had the turkey and substitutes the mashed potatoes with mashed cauliflower and had keto friendly veggies and buttery coconut flour biscuits. For my birthday I made my own crustless cheesecake with artificial sweetener, which was a treat for me. It’s not what I wanted but I wanted weight loss more. This easter I’m having pot roast with some veggies. Summer is coming and I’m not stalling myself in the slightest. Ham is cured with sugar so you’re still going to get a dose of it even if you avoid the glaze. How that sugar affects you personally is another story.
I made a big pot of ham and cauliflower soup today. Started base with coconut oil and grass fed butter and built it from there. Cheese to finish it off. Turned out very good, didnt look that great but tasted good.
