Meals, Sides, and Veggies
Substitute Meals That Always Work
- Eggs (any style) and meat (any kind) e. g. fried eggs and bacon, scrambled eggs and ham, boiled eggs and sausage, etc.
- Hamburger patty and salad (use low-carb dressing) or low carb vegetable e. g. chef salad, Cobb salad, green beans, broccoli (with or w/o cheese), cauliflower (with or w/o cheese), spinach, cooked greens, etc.
- Steak or Pork Steak with salad or low carb vegetable (as in #2)
- Basically: ANY MEAT AND ANY LOW CARB VEGETABLE, if the meat does not have a bread coating.
Additional "Sides" if Your Main Meal does not Fill You
- Celery sticks filled with cream cheese or no-sugar peanut butter.
- Boiled eggs
- Handful of nuts (but don't pig out) Brazil, Macadamia, and Pecans are best and lowest in carbs, Cashews are the worst – avoid these. Cashews have five times as many carbs as pecans and Brazil nuts, and almost three times as many carbs as peanuts.
- Slice or two of cheese from a cheese block
- Chaffle with cream cheese liberally spread on it (try the bagel seasoning)
- Sausages of various kinds
- Large mug of bulletproof coffee (coffee with cream and butter, or MCT oil and butter, or coconut oil and butter). If you don't like coffee, try "bulletproof tea."
- Cauliflower rice (you can buy it in the store frozen or make it yourself).
- Go to Google or YouTube and type in the words "Keto Sides" and you will find all kinds of choices and recipes.
Basic List of Common Low-carb vegetables/fruits
- Green beans
- Cauliflower
- Broccoli
- Bell Peppers
- Mushrooms
- Asparagus
- Zucchini
- Spinach
- Avocados
- Strawberries / Raspberries / blackberries
- Lettuce
- Kale
- Cucumbers
- Brussels sprouts
- Celery
- Radishes
- Eggplant
- Cabbage
- Artichokes
- Tomatoes
If you are vegetarian
- Lean heavily upon eggs and cheese, and search for keto vegetarian meals on YouTube.
If You Plan to do Vegan Keto
- The Complete Vegan Keto Diet and Food List, written by ANDREW HEFFERNAN Link: https://www.onnit.com/academy/vegan-keto-diet/
An Important Key to Your Diet
Lose the idea that every meal must have multiple foods. To keep your diet low-carb and avoid iffy foods, it is better if most meals consist of only two or three foods, that are so low-carb you don't have any worries. If those foods do not fill you up, increase the portion size rather than increasing the number of foods on your plate. The more you increase the foods in your meal, the more the likelihood of a "Trojan horse" slipping onto your plate and ruining your otherwise gloriously low glucose peak.
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