Are there any packaged meals or general meals to start the keto diet? Usually most diets tell you what you can't eat, but I just want to be able to buy certain products that are certified keto. Where should I start if I just want to buy products by name and not have to worry about looking stuff up?
Just eat whole foods, nothing in a package with 10s of ingredients. Just eat meet, eggs, dairy and veggies and seafood. It's not that complicated.
>>21664365Don't buy keto breads, keto bars, keto this - keto that. It's all a marketing scam. If you want to be Keto that is...
>>21664367What should I buy? I don't want to be reading labels and all that stuff or have a list of what to avoid. Other than eggs and meats, I just want other variants of foods I CAN eat.
>>21664372Well I just told you - it's meets, eggs, dairy and seafood and veggies (not so much) - what else is there anyways? Just don't eat breads and pastas/rice/potatoes starchy carbs. You have beef, chicken, pork, lamb, turkey and so many fish and seafood to pick from. I'm not in America so Idk what labels are you asking me for.
>>21664380>what else is there anyways?fruit. nuts. seeds.
>>21664408Yea sure, throw some nuts and fruit if you want.Don't eat and cook with sneed oils tho, especially don't fry with them.
>>21664359You shouldn't start off with or regularly eat ready made meals if you're doing keto. Too many of them lie about their carb content. Plus, its just a bad foundation to build upon.Do "dirty keto" and buy premade stuff only once in a while. Go do some groceries and make your own meals most of the time. Its really not that difficult.Like, for the past week, for lunch I was doing 100g shredded cabbage with 30g Thousand Island dressing, 100g cucumber, 1 boiled egg, and 200g of sauteed chicken with 50g of spinach.Thats 485 calories, 11g of carbs.For dinner I was doing a stir-fry of 200g of pork loin, 2 slices of bacon, 100g of bell peppers, 50g of broccoli, and 1 avocado. Sauced it up with a mix of 10ml of soy sauce, 15g of sriracha, 10g of freshly squeezed orange juice, and 5g of a zero calorie/zero carb sweetner.Thats 935 calories, 14g of carbs.Totals out to 1420calories, 25g of carbs. And it keeps my fat ass full all day. I change up the seasoning of lunch's chicken and the stir fry every day, so it doesn't get boring and samey. Curry powder, chilli powder, miso paste, peanut butter, shit ton of black pepper, whatever.Low effort, filling meals is the key. Go get an app that tracks nutrition, so you can build meals that keep your carb count where you want it. I use cronometer.com. And make some meals for yourself. If you rely on packaged meals and ready made shit, you're basically setting yourself up for failure sooner or later.
>>21664359>Start Keto DietDon't. First of all, what most people call "keto" is actually just low carb. True keto is like 80% fat, animal and/or plant. Second, for weight loss, especially healthy weight loss, fat is not optimal. It lacks nutrients, has a low energy cost of digestion (0-3%) and is not very satiating.What you SHOULD do is a high protein, low carb and fat diet. What's great about protein (e.g. meat and other animal products) is not only does it cover your ass nutrient-wise, but you burn about of a third of it during digestion. It's also extremely satiating with an almost immediate and long lasting effect.Basically concentrate on meat, eggs, cruciferous vegetables, spices. Quark (or equivalent) is also excellent for sauces, or desserts (I mix it with protein powder and sweetener with a dash of konjak for thickening).
>>21664365This. You're never going to make it if you're too lazy to cook. Some videos will tell you to make a go of it with hot dogs and jerky and sliced lunch meat, but that's going to get real old and you'll want to make sandwiches like you're used to. You're going to want to make casseroles with veggies and meat and cheese; stuff you'll really enjoy. And also things that will be like junk you used to eat. Try any of the keto pizza methods; they're all pretty good. If you put pizza sauce and cheese and toppings on there it will totally fool you. Use no-sugar-added spaghetti sauce; it's super easy. And another one is to make a bunch of bolognese and just top it with lots of mozzarella and parmesan. Or put it on zucchini "noodles" if you like squash. You like burgers? Make big ones, like 12 oz burgers. Mix some onion soup mix in with the beef for flavor. Then cook it and top it with bacon and cheese and onions and mushrooms if you like, pickles, more cheese. You get the picture. They make no added sugar ketchup that's really good. You don't want to be super anal about every single carb. Just quit sugar and bread and potatoes and pasta. The big obvious stuff. You will lose weight by eating less than 50g per day. So don't worry about counting carbs in broccoli or condiments or nuts. You want *some* carbs in your diet. Just not very many. And none of the bad ones like bleached white flour products and candy. You'll be surprised how delicious a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and cheese is. Like 3 strips of thick bacon, 3 or 4 eggs cooked in all the grease, with cheese melted in at the end. It will keep you full for 7 hours easily. And it's good every day. Chicken legs are like 99 cents a lb and you can soak them in teriyaki and garlic and roast them, they're so good; eat 5 or 6 of those for dinner and a salad for fiber. There are so many tips and tricks. But don't buy "certified keto" products. You're going to spend so much money and those make it hard to succeed.
>>21664409Don't be a schizo. How much frying is someone on keto really going to do and how fucking afraid of seed oils are you? That's debunked conspiracy shit anyways. Even if there really was something "deadly" about them, you're not getting that much in fried food. You don't drink oil. You think it's super deadly that trace amounts will hurt you? What do you even think they do? Fucking nutbar.
>>21664359If you want to go Keto, or low-carb, or whatever else you want to call it, or any non-meme diet for that matter, you need to know how to cook, no exceptions, end of discussion.Start off by learning to cook basic dishes which follow the basic rule of meat, vegetable, and starch, optionally augmented with dairy or legumes. Basic examples being pasta and meat sauce, curries, noodles or rice with stir-fry meat and vegetables, chili (add or withhold beans according to your particular brand of autism), soups, etc. Make most of your snacks whole fruit and handfuls of nuts. Have one cheat day every other week where you can indulge yourself to keep willpower up and something to look forward to. Also, take a multivitamin (cheap ones are fine, they're basically all the same), and get some probiotics like yogurt or kefir, ideally once a day.You will start to lose weight by virtue of measuring everything you eat because you are following recipes, and you will become healthier by having more fresh produce (more vitamins) in your diet and eating on a regular schedule instead of just ordering out whenever you feel hungry.Once you get those under your belt, you go keto by making them without the starch (meat sauce with no pasta, stir fry with no rice or noodles, etc), and tossing the whole fruit from your snacks (you can still have it, but treat it like you would candy on your cheat day, because they're both basically just sugar). That's it. Sometimes you have to get creative to make it not feel like its missing something, sometimes you just have to go without.
>>21664367This. OP, keto isn't difficult. Just eliminate bread, rice, potatoes.You can go to Wendy's, get a double Baconator, and throw away the bun. I use a knife and fork to be able to eat it without smearing cheese and mayonnaise all over my hands.>>21664372Eggs and bacon, salmon, steaks, porkchops, frozen cauliflower and broccoli florets, butter, ground beef, ground pork, ground lamb. . . .Almost any "prepared foods" meals that you get from, say, the frozen foods section at the grocery store, are gonna be loaded with carbs because they're dirt-cheap and filling. Same with things like chicken nuggets (heavily coated with breadcrumbs).Costco has ready-to-cook salmon with herbed butter on it, but it's overpriced compared to just buying the bare salmon filets that they sell and throwing your own butter and spices on top.>>21666026High protein diets are bad if OP is diabetic. Any excess protein gets converted to glucose via gluconeogenesis. It's inefficient but it does happen.
>>21664359Meatloaf(replace breadcrumbs with pork rind crumbs)Any asian stir fry without the carbs(rice/corn starch/flour/sugar)Meat and cheese stuffed bell peppersTaco salad(similar to chipotle salads)Any salad with topped with meatAny style of eggs with sausage or baconStuffed chickenAny stew/slow cooker meat without the carbsChicken/Beef skewers Also you "can" drink alcohol on keto, I did and it worked but it was just vodka or whiskey mixed with a zero sugar soda Zero sugar sodas are okay if you only do 1 a day, but they can make you hungry so if you can help it don't drink any
>>21667443>Meatloaf(replace breadcrumbs with pork rind crumbs)Ugh, don't do that.Are breadcrumbs really essential to meatloaf for some reason? Why not just use ground beef by itself? Throw in more mushrooms or something if you really have to stretch it out. A meatloaf which is 20% mushrooms sounds awesome to me.I guess now I have to try making that to see if it works.
>>21664359>>21664359I've done keto off and on for years, so I will give you my advice.Start off with a low carb diet, don't do keto right away. Keto is excellent for loosing a good deal of weight in a low amount of time, but it requires constant dietary strictness that other diets do not have. If you are not the type to record everything you eat, or if you enjoy "cheat" days, or you don't like/know how to cook, or your budget is small you will end up wasting time and money with keto. There is a reason why there is a hard fault between people who are successfully with keto and people who hate it and think it's retarded.As for the package meals and "keto certified foods", there are a few food delivery systems that are keto but they are stupidly expensive. If you want to pay 15$ each for a kid-sized tv dinner, be my guest. There are some "keto-certified" foods and "keto-friendly sugar free" foods, but you have to double check the nutritional label and ingredients list for every one because what is considered "keto friendly" is a hard stretch. Some list themselves as keto-friendly while being filled with maltitol or play that "its a trivial amount of sugar so the FDA says it doesn't count" game when every gram counts in when you are in ketosis.Get one of those carb and calories tracking apps, and try to keep your net carbs under 50 grams for a few weeks. Download a few of those keto guides and keto shopping lists if you are really wanting to do keto. It will allow you to build your pantry and ease into it.t. Ketotard
