So, I’ve been looking over this entire forum, personally watching it evolve for at least 5 years, looking at my own 10 plus years of keto eating. I’ve seen the forum shift from what was basically a collection of recipes, totally food focused, to a lot more technology, supplements and other hacks for success, or at least for raising ketones and shifting test levels of various blood components, to fasting. Keto, to carnivore, to low carb but dismissing ketones, to optimized eating with medical intervention. People have come and gone, yesterday’s gurus missing entirely, new people continually stepping up with curiosity and enthusiasm. We’ve come a long way, babies.
My own thoughts have evolved in a similar fashion, from fancy reproductions, to whole hog embrace of simple unprocessed foods, to examining hacks and optimization, and back to wanting it simple again.
What has your journey been, and where are you now?
I can make these crunchies (yep, that will be their name. especially for me as I know nothing with its name, I googled and of course there are carby things…) with vital gluten too but I am too much into this thing right now (since several days) and I am not keen on getting a really significant part of my protein intake from gluten. I usually mix the two. I use various oily seeds too, more fat, more flavor… My current version has 15-20g “protein powder” (beef collagen peptid and/or vital gluten) and the same amount of oily seeds (a mix of flax, golden flax, these are the majority of it… sesame seed, walnut, pumpkin seed and the wonderful peanut, I love the taste, I had an addiction problem before carnivore and it never came back but I still love the stuff) per egg. And 5g milk powder as I love it but it’s optional and there are other dairy items to put into it but those aren’t in powder form and my crunchies are better when they are denser. Sodium bicarbonate with vinegar, little salt and my neutral version is done. Sometimes I add cheese or some spice… With more oily seeds especially the flavorful kind it’s pretty taste without that - but the main thing is the texture. Oh yep I start to miss the fat these days so I add like 5g fat (butter, lard, even coconut oil but the former ones add flavor… if I could afford all that fat, I would add more but 5g works enough for me)… I made mixes, it’s simple to make a little portion. First I use the microwave and get soft “bread” then I cut it into sticks and the air fryer makes them all crunchy. And I get my crunchy snack in 10 minutes. I do it 3 times a day as my self restraint is able to go only that far. It’s good it has a decent amount of protein so I need less normal food this way and I won’t mess with my macros.
