If you are going to eat and live the keto lifestyle then you will have to learn to make your own food.
I know this sounds silly but these days we rely too much on processed or pre-cooked food.
If it comes in a box its probably not good for you no matter what diet or lifestyle you are into.
It’s not just all the preservatives and who knows what chemicals are used in the preparation of food in a box.
There is a thing about cooking or baking your own food that gives you a sense of accomplishment joy and meaning to the task.
However, there is something else that isn’t as obvious. It becomes part of your lifestyle. Yes, it consumes more of our precious time, but that time is spent thinking about what we are doing now… in the present.
It can even be meditative, to a degree.
Once you make time for cooking or baking you can feel a difference in your life and that it really matters.
Cooking a Keto Meals
There are various styles of cooking for the keto diet, but it comes down to the availability of ingredients. There are a growing number of good keto recipe books and keto recipes online.
- Meat & vegetable meals -this gives you the most options for ingredients
- Vegetarian (often includes eggs, dairy and sometimes fish)
- Vegan -strictly vegetable/plant-based meals. (requires a lot of educating yourself about what is really in some of these ingredients )
Keto Baking
If you like your sweets or like me can’t live without bread, then the keto lifestyle will be more challenging. There are a ton of good keto baking recipe books and sites available. I will be sharing some of my favourites and even my own baking secrets (I have a killer low carb, high fibre toastable bread I’m still perfecting and will be coming soon…)
In the meantime I have created a great resource on the many great products I have found that we use to cook and bake with.
We have an extra challenge to getting keto ingredients because we will in a remote community and our grocery store supply is gear toward the meat and potatoes general population.
