Keto Confessions
Violet_Flux
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Just wondering if there's anything about keto or low carb WOE that folks have never quite been able to do, eat, or grasp.
For example, there's a few things that I see come up numerous times, that I realize I'm a bit of an oddball about.
I don't like butter. I cook with it sometimes, but I've never put it on sandwiches; I prefer my corn-on-the-cob plain and dry. (Not that I eat sandwiches or corn these days.) I've been LCHF since last August and I have yet to get through the pound of butter I bought at the time.
And I don't particularily like bacon. I can eat it when it's on or in something, eg. a slice or two of bacon on a burger patty, or bacon bits on a salad, but I don't like it when it's the main attraction. I've only bought bacon once since I went LCHF, and ended up throwing half of it away.
Please don't take away my LCHF membership card or kick me out of the clubhouse!
For example, there's a few things that I see come up numerous times, that I realize I'm a bit of an oddball about.
I don't like butter. I cook with it sometimes, but I've never put it on sandwiches; I prefer my corn-on-the-cob plain and dry. (Not that I eat sandwiches or corn these days.) I've been LCHF since last August and I have yet to get through the pound of butter I bought at the time.
And I don't particularily like bacon. I can eat it when it's on or in something, eg. a slice or two of bacon on a burger patty, or bacon bits on a salad, but I don't like it when it's the main attraction. I've only bought bacon once since I went LCHF, and ended up throwing half of it away.
Please don't take away my LCHF membership card or kick me out of the clubhouse!
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Haha, you don't have to like bacon or butter to do LCHF. Avocado, nuts, coconut oils, etc, there are lots of other ways to get your fat fix. I actually don't like butter much except during Shark Week when it is all I can do not to eat 5 pieces of GF toast slathered with LOTS of butter (eaten hot before the slightly crisp toast gets soggy - yeah, I'm picky even at that time of the month). Mainly I think it's about the toast though, because I have always eaten my toast dry (must be crispy on the outside, but soft and warm on the inside) and never used mayo or butter on my sandwiches because of sogginess.
Also not a fan of most pork and my bacon MUST have no trace of bendy flabbiness. Firmly crisp only (baked in the oven).
So I know where you are coming from...
It's a pretty forgiving bunch on here
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I don't like butter unless I am cooking with it either, never have!
My confession - I haven't tried BPC because it sounds incredibly nauseating lol
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I hate true BPC because I cannot stand coconut oil. It tastes like sweet fat to me and it's horrid. I can't cook with it either. Lots of people talk,about "keto coffee" with hwc or other fats and I do like HWC in coffee. Delish.2
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I love bacon but I only eat it maybe on a Saturday morning when my OH makes brunch. Too many calories for too small a serving for me. I do use a lot of butter though. I have it mainly blended in my coffee, maybe go through 250g a week. Sometimes if I'm under my calories I'll eat a cube like cheese :P1
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I'm fine with butter, bacon and coffee with coconut oil in it. My thing is I still remove chicken skin. I have not eaten it for so long, I just don't enjoy it. Instead, I put it in with the bones for chicken bone broth.
Does it really matter what we eat as long as it is LCHF/Keto (or anything else for that matter)? I like that is group is a safe haven for people who eat the way we do.2 -
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I could deal with butter melted, but cold, BLECH. I finally can tolerate it blended with cream cheese, which I also used to hate, but by itself, unflavored? No, thanks.1
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I don't think your an oddball! What makes this way of eating so great is you can easily tailor it to your specific likes. I'll confess I can not stand meat fat. I don't like the feel of it in my mouth. To me it's gristly, greasy, slimy and it will make me gag! I still cut it off my meat *shrugs* ... I get my fat through other ways.4
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Pickles and pickle juice - I know it's heresy but no can do. Yuck!!3
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I don't think I want to do BPC either. Cream is all I need in coffee.2
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Catawampous wrote: »I don't think your an oddball! What makes this way of eating so great is you can easily tailor it to your specific likes. I'll confess I can not stand meat fat. I don't like the feel of it in my mouth. To me it's gristly, greasy, slimy and it will make me gag! I still cut it off my meat *shrugs* ... I get my fat through other ways.
Haha, me too. Never liked meat fat due to mouthfeel. Never touched chicken skin either, even the battered kind like KFC, lol, pre-celiac or LCHF.
I could totally live off avocados and cheese, and my coconut oil must be the unflavoured kind although I love the fattiest coconut milk in my Thai curries.4 -
I eat peanuts, and I know they are legumes and not nuts. This is significant to some, and it is a non-issue to me.
I also take a certain satisfaction in getting my macros "right" even if caloric intake for the day is low. I know that will have my protein under target, but I still want to do a fist pump when I see it.
The big one really is that I have never tested for ketones, and I am unlikely to. I know this is a part of the experience for some, but I am losing weight and controlling BG numbers. Ketones can be up/down/whatever, and I am only interested in the scale and the glucometer.8 -
I tried BPC for a week and hated it! Now I just use heavy cream.
I also don't like avacados. I keep buying and trying them in different variations but I just can't seem to like them, I really want to though!1 -
tinachris14 wrote: »
I also don't like avacados.
How could I have forgotten avocados? I really want to like them because they are so healthy and versatile, but no, nope, no! Not plain, not in a dip, not in Mexican food. I can't disguise enough to be able to eat it.
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Avocado makes me gag! And butter and cheese that's not melted.1
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tinachris14 wrote: »
I also don't like avacados.
How could I have forgotten avocados? I really want to like them because they are so healthy and versatile, but no, nope, no! Not plain, not in a dip, not in Mexican food. I can't disguise enough to be able to eat it.
Not the biggest fan of avocados but they are ok with enough Cholula sauce on them.3 -
Ditto the avocados, can only stand them if they're in guac.2
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I haven't ever had amy type of the forbidden fats in my house. It was so weird for me to start using butter and eating bacon. Still have a hard time with all the fat (healthy or not) but I have to say...I really enjoy my food now! I never new the creamy deliciousness of butter added to my coffee or my chicken soup!2
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I don't like plain avocado at all and won't eat it that way because to me it has no flavor. I don't understand how people can eat it plain this way. If it's mixed up together with something, then yeah, I'll tolerate it like guacamole, or avocado mixed with some kind of mayo and spread on a piece of LC friendly bread as an open-faced sandwich topped with bacon, or worked into bacon cheddar deviled eggs (the recipe calls for some avocado).
I don't like plain dried/shredded coconut at all and won't eat it that way. I don't like the flavor of coconut oil by itself but I will and do use it in my cooking (I choose NOT to use the refined version). I'll tolerate dried coconut in recipes unless there's so much coconut in the recipe that it becomes coconut overkill to the point where all you can taste is coconut...that I cannot do. I will and do use coconut milk in my cooking, but I will not drink it plain...I usually choose to flavor coconut milk with some capella drops combined with a couple drops of liquid sucralose to sweeten it up a bit a cover the awful coconut flavor. I tolerate coconut more now than I ever did before simply because so many LCHF friendly recipes call for it.
Growing up, I couldn't stand white chocolate either. I have since learned to tolerate it. I also will and do use cacao butter (i.e. the basis of white chocolate) in some LCHF recipes. I do not like the way it tastes plain melted by itself (blergh)! Actually, I don't like the flavor of most oils melted by themselves, not even olive oil or lard. lol Butter is probably the one exception to that because I do like butter though my favorite kind of straight pure fat still remains HWC.
The funny thing is, I've never cared for any of these foods even as a child, even when I could eat anything I wanted.3 -
If anyone can recommend a coconut oil that doesn't make every single food item it touches taste like coconut, please let me in on the secret. The flavor of coconut is okay for some things like certain chicken recipes. But wrecking havoc in my tomato sauce or my coffee, eee-yuck!!! My first (and last) jar of coconut oil wound up doing duty as hair masque and cuticle oil and even then I didn't care for the scent.3
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mandycat223 wrote: »If anyone can recommend a coconut oil that doesn't make every single food item it touches taste like coconut, please let me in on the secret. The flavor of coconut is okay for some things like certain chicken recipes. But wrecking havoc in my tomato sauce or my coffee, eee-yuck!!! My first (and last) jar of coconut oil wound up doing duty as hair masque and cuticle oil and even then I didn't care for the scent.
Refined coconut oil is flavorless or you could use MCT oil4 -
I tried avocados a couple weeks ago. Yuck lol. I could eat it if it was blended into something, but then I thought, what's the point?
Just about the only 'added fat' change I've done for the HF side of LCHF was switching from half-n-half (10%) in my coffee to full fat (35%) cream. I think my diet was already kind of 'HF' even before I went 'LC'...0 -
I'm not a big avocado fan either....I love it in guacamole, but that's about it.
There was a time when I would eat it on an everything bagel...that was actually pretty delicious too, but I haven't found a low carb equivalent.
My son can cut one in half, sprinkle it with salt, and eat it like that. I wish I could....
Conversely, I'm one of those people that thinks cilantro tastes like soap. However, I love it with lime. LOL2 -
y'all are making me crave an avocado5 -
I LOVE avocados. Probably too much.6
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Confession, I eat Natural Peanut butter with a TBSP measure right from the JAR. Also Coconut Manna too. I also Love the saltiness of melted butter.2
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I love eggs but can't stand the egginess of keto mug bread, I love veggies but hate veggie tacos or stuff bell peppers. I hate fake sugar and would rather just not have sweets than use stevia.1
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Cryren8972 wrote: »Conversely, I'm one of those people that thinks cilantro tastes like soap.
Me and one of my sisters, too! It tastes absolutely horrible. I love Mexican food and it can be hard to go out for Mexican without encountering it.
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Momma_Raucks wrote: »Confession, I eat Natural Peanut butter with a TBSP measure right from the JAR. Also Coconut Manna too. I also Love the saltiness of melted butter.
Heck yes! this is my after dinner dessert haha0 -
I hate cream cheese, avocados and macadamia nuts. Fortunately, I never have to eat these. I also can't eat eggs. I like the flavor but they upset my stomach. So if they are part of a recipe, they won't bother me, but by themselves...bleeeccchhhh.
But I can eat butter, coconut oil (refined), high fat meats, several cheeses. My current favorite is to make an Alfredo sauce and put it on almost anything (but haven't tried it on spaghetti squash yet).
There are lots of ways to get in the fat we need without eating anything we dislike. I love bacon but there is only so much I can eat. Anytime I eat the same thing too often, I get sick of it. So I have bacon maybe 3 times a week. And I never eat more than 2 pieces.0
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