Favorite All-time Keto Cookbook?

jfmp

If you had to choose one cookbook with the healthiest, SIMPLEST, and most keto-friendly recipes that you go to over and over what would it be? Some of the cookbooks I've seen have complicated recipes and/or borderline keto-friendly recipes. I really want to keep the carbs low and food keto-friendly. Thanks in advance.

nvmomketo

I found this one book called Bacon and Butter. https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/bacon-butter-the-ultimate-ketogenic/9781623155209-item.html Some of those recipes were magical.

I like meat cook books. My meals are meat centered with a side of veggies so the meat has to be the star.

jfmp

Thanks! I've seen the Bacon and Butter book but the title was a turn off (unhealthy sounding). I think I'll give it a chance. I've found I've repeatedly returned to some cookbooks that I was barely interested in to start with.

Sunny_Bunny_

Maria Emmerich has a few cookbooks and lots of recipes on her website for free.

They seem simple enough. I really haven't made any of them because I just don't cook from recipes. Don't need one when all you cook is meat and a simple veg. Lol

http://mariamindbodyhealth.com

kpk54

At 63 years of age I have far too many cookbook but my favorite now is the big black binder I have created in recent years. I'll find a new recipe on line or in a magazine and try it. If it is a "keeper", it goes in my big black binder of favorite recipes.

I love cookbooks but now see them like record albums that I bought "back in the day". 1 book for 3 good recipes. 1 record album for 1 or 2 great songs. Though I won't part with either!

RalfLott

Just got a copy of Terry Wahls' new cookbook,
The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399184775

Lots of positive reviews on Amazon (even better than for SF Gummi bears!).

bjwoodzy

I have seen Maria Emmerich's website and one of her Kindle books, and they are great.

As for me, I can safely say since I'm still a newb (started May 31 2016), I'd done all my keto research online and had gotten nearly every recipe I didn't already know that way (aside from word of mouth), I have never bought a keto cookbook. I'm a reformed cookbook-aholic since about age 18 (I used to spend half my paycheck on books--most of them cookbooks) so there's also that. For years, people knew I was into them, so I got them as gifts a lot. I'm down to just a couple of books, now, none of them keto-oriented. With the cookbooks I had been gifted over the past year or so, I politely browsed through each, thanked the gift sender profusely, then donated to charity when no one was looking.

Also...I'm actually working on one Yep. Since about October. It's still in the works, but the online collection it's based on is here.

Not a ton of originality, but I started getting a lot of folks asking what I eat, what do I use in X soup or some other dish, what is typically for breakfast? How can you enjoy quiche without a crust? don't you miss PIZZA and tacos? Things like that. So I started the collection (pre-keto, mind you) and used it to answer folks. Sure, I make taco salad almost every week, and low carb pizza, and started to share those things there.

mandycat223

Here's one book to AVOID. Periodically I browse amazon's "Free Kindle Book" section, usually to find that there's a good reason why they're free. My most recent download was "Ketogenic Diet Air Fryer Cookbook" by Jeanine Bryson, since I've been eyeing this gadget. This lady must have stumbled across the term "ketogenic" and thought she'd randomly throw it into a book title. Here are some of the ingredients I found: breadcrumbs, pita bread, sliced bread, corn tortilla chips, macaroni, rice, pastry sheets. Oh, but many of these items were specified as "gluten free" so that's apparently okay.

I reviewed this book accordingly on amazon and on Goodreads.

RalfLott

mandycat223 wrote: »

Here's one book to AVOID. Periodically I browse amazon's "Free Kindle Book" section, usually to find that there's a good reason why they're free. My most recent download was "Ketogenic Diet Air Fryer Cookbook" by Jeanine Bryson, since I've been eyeing this gadget. This lady must have stumbled across the term "ketogenic" and thought she'd randomly throw it into a book title. Here are some of the ingredients I found: breadcrumbs, pita bread, sliced bread, corn tortilla chips, macaroni, rice, pastry sheets. Oh, but many of these items were specified as "gluten free" so that's apparently okay.

I reviewed this book accordingly on amazon and on Goodreads.

Yep, some of those cheap Kindle keto ebooks seem to be reprints of "The___ Cookbook," with a new cover and title.

Often the scathing Amazon reviews are better written than the books.

PaulaJSchiller

I wouldn't say these are my fav cookbooks. When I first came across getting grains and sugar out of my diet, it was through the "Wheat Belly" books. I was gifted both of the cookbooks that are part of WB. Then I ordered one of Maria Emmerich's books. I think I have a couple Kindle books as well. I have used a few recipes from them, but I mostly just pick recipes online or tweak things I already make to be LCHF.

bjwoodzy

mandycat223 wrote: »

I reviewed this book accordingly on amazon and on Goodreads.

Thank you for doing your reviews because some people are just wanting to trust what they read, people who write things like that lady did are going to find themselves in trouble if they are giving dietary advice like that.

bjwoodzy

PaulaJSchiller wrote: »

I mostly just pick recipes online or tweak things I already make to be LCHF.

Me, too. I also love trying to make things more low-carb friendly. In fact, I have an open thread at that page I linked to where I'm asking folks what kinds of non low-carb dishes they would like to try to have made low-carb friendly.

My mom used to make a simple beef and tomato casserole with macaroni or egg noodles (here in Minnesota, we call things like that "hotdish"). Anyway, that wasn't a fancy meal by any stretch, it was one of the things I missed on keto, to just be able to throw a pot of comfort food like that together without a lot of fuss - I decided to make it using cauliflower cut into small pieces, and just add more liquid & let the cauliflower braise in the juices from the meat and tomatoes.